Talks

Organisation & hosting

• Co-organization (with Joris van Eijnatten) of ‘Using Computational Techniques to Account for Cultural Change over Time’ Panel at ESSHC 2018, Belfast, (05.04.2018)
• Co-organization (with Jaap Verheul) of ‘Data Driven Conceptual History: New Methods and Approaches’ Panel at Genealogies of Knowlegde I, Manchester University (08.12.2017)
• Co-organization (with Lisanne Walma and Peter van Hooff) and host of national text mining workshop, Utrecht University (07-08.11.2017)
• Co-organization (with Lisanne Walma) and host of text mining in education workshop at Historicidagen, Utrecht (26.08.2017)
• Host of the ‘Geschiedenis in een digitale wereld’ discussion panel at Historicidagen (25.08.2017)
• Co-organization (with Prof. Joris van Eijnatten) and host of the session ‘Visualizing Modernity: using digital techniques to trace the rise of Modernity in Europe’ at ESSHC 2016, Valencia  (01.04.2016)
• Organization and host of expert meeting Digital Humanities at Utrecht University (10.06.2015)
• Co-organization (with Melvin Wevers and Ilja Nieuwland) and host of THATCamp Utrecht (28-29.01.2015)
• Co-organization (with Jaap Verheul) of the international conference Reference Cultures and Imagined Empires from a Western Perspective, 1850-2000, Utrecht University (11-13.06.2014)
• Co-host (with Bram Mellink) session ‘Bedolven onder bronnen’ at THATCampDH14, The Hague (14-15.01.2014)
• Organization and co-host of the ‘Genetics, eugenics and culture: transatlantic perspectives, 1900-2000’ Symposium at the International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine 2013, Manchester (27.07.2013)
• Chair of the ‘Vernetzung in Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Technik’ panel at the conference ‘Mittler, Verflechtung, Netzwerke: Deutschland und die Niederlande im 20. Jahrhundert’, Amsterdam (26-27.09.2013) (an account of the conference can be found here at H-Soz-u-Kult)

Presentations (texts and slides available on request):

2018

• ‘Introduction to text mining’, break-out session for the Utrecht University Data Science Day, Utrecht (20.04.2018)
• ‘Using word embeddings for digital conceptual history’, DHd: Digital Humanities Germany conference, Cologne (27.02.2018)

2017

• ‘Using word embeddings to study conceptual change in historical newspapers’, Data Driven Conceptual History: New Methods and Approaches Panel at Genealogies of Knowlegde I, Manchester University (08.12.2017) (with Jaap Verheul)
• ‘Distributional modelling and conceptual change. Tracing concepts in Dutch newspapers using word2vec’, Lorentz Workshop ‘The Mental Lexicon’, Leiden University (15.06.2017)
• ‘Keyword generator & dictionary viewer’, lightning talk at the presentation of the renewed KB Lab website, National Library, The Hague, 11 April 2017
• ‘Applying distributional semantics on Dutch historical newspapers to trace conceptual change‘, talk at the AIUCD 2017 conference, Rome, 26 January 2017
• ‘De evolutie van concepten in kranten‘, talk at the Historische kranten als ‘big data’ II: Concepten op drift’ conference at the National Library, The Hague, 20 January 2017

2016

• ‘Texcavator, a Tool for Cultural Text Mining in Historical Newspaper Repositories’, talk at the What is Digital Humanities? panel at Historikertag 2016, Hamburg, 22 September 2016 (with Jaap Verheul)
• ‘From Keyword Searching to Discourse Mining‘, talk at DH2016, Krakow, 15 July 2016 (with Juliette Lonij)
• ‘Design and Implementation of ShiCo: Visualizing Shifting Concepts over Time‘, talk at Histoinformatics2016 – the 3rd International Workshop on Computational History, Krakow, 12 July 2016 (with Melvin Wevers)
• ‘How the Big World enters a Small Country. The USA and Germany in Dutch Historical Newspapers’, talk at the Remapping Centre and Periphery Conference at UCL, London, 23 June 2016
• ‘Conceptual text mining‘, talk at the Utrecht University & University of Sheffield Digital Humanities Workshop, Utrecht, 12 May 2016
• ‘From keyword searching to discourse mining‘, talk for the Encounters between the Humanities and Computing Colloquium series, Utrecht, 18 February 2016

2015

• ‘Digitaal historisch onderzoek: Kwantitatieve geschiedschrijving revisited?’, talk for the Werkgroep Lichaamsgeschiedenis, Utrecht, 16 December 2015
• ‘Texcavator: a distant reading tool for historical news media’, presentation at the NLeScience Center Lorentz eHumanities Day, Leiden, 14 December 2015
• Workshop ‘Cultural Text Mining’ at the DH Autumn School at Trier University, 1 October 2015
• ‘Concepts over time. Tracing concepts in Dutch Newspapers using Sequential Word Vector Spaces’, in the First DiscourseNet Conference at Bremen University, 24 September 2015
• ‘Big Data for historical research: Limits, challenges, and opportunities’, in the conference Making ‘Big Data’ human: doing history in the digital age at Cambridge University, 9 September 2015
• ‘De belofte van vitamines’, talk for Medisch-Historische Club D. de Moulin, Nijmegen, 16 June 2015
• ‘Big Data in historical research’, talk at NWO Bessensap, 12 June 2015
• ‘From keyword searching to concept mining’, talk at the National Library,  The Hague, 28 May 2015

2014

• ‘Finding Reference Cultures in Big Data’, Europeana Newspapers Information Day, National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague, 28 October 2014
• ‘Finding Reference Cultures after the “Digital Turn”‘ in the international conference Reference Cultures and Imagined Empires from a Western Perspective, 1850-2000, Utrecht University, 11-13 June 2014
• Introduction to the Tranlantis research project, meeting with the Postdemokratie und Neoliberalismus Project team, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, 22-23 April 2014
• Workshop presentation on BILAND and Translantis, Mining Digital Repositories Conference, The Hague, 10-11 April 2014
• ‘Digitale Zeitungsarchive als Quellen (digitaler) Geschichtsforschung’, Europeana Newspapers Information Day, Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Berlin, 28 February 2014

2013

• ‘Biland: Digital approaches to eugenic thinking in the Netherlands, 1860-1945’, 1st International Workshop on Histoinformatics at the 5th International Conference on Social Informatics, Kyoto, 25 November 2013
• ‘Translantis: Het Amerikaanse bedrijfsmodel als referentie voor de Nederlandse economie, 1890-1990’, talk at the Studiedag Stichting bedrijfsgeschiedenis, Utrecht, 21 November 2013
• ‘Biland: Digital approaches to eugenic thinking in the Netherlands, 1860-1945’, Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Utrecht, 19 November 2013
• ‘Biland: Digital approaches to eugenic thinking in the Netherlands, 1860-1945’ at the ‘Genetics, eugenics and culture: transatlantic perspectives, 1900-2000’ Symposium at the International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine 2013, Manchester, 27 July 2013
• ‘Biland: eine Webapplikation für historisch-komparatives Text Mining in öffentlichen Medien aus unterschiedlichen Ländern’, Textgrid Workshop, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, 18 April 2013
• ‘Biland: eine Webapplikation für historisch-komparatives Text Mining in öffentlichen Medien aus unterschiedlichen Ländern’, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, 15 January 2013

2012

• ‘Biland: eine Webapplikation für historisch-komparatives Text Mining in öffentlichen Medien aus unterschiedlichen Ländern’, Trier Center for Digital Humanities DH Kolloquium, Trier, 28 November 2012
• ‘Biland: developing a web-application for comparative historical data-mining in public media from different countries’, NeDiMAH Using Large-Scale Text Collections for Research Workshop, The Hague, 21 November 2012
• ‘Biland: developing a web-application for comparative historical data-mining in public media from different countries’, Digital Humanities Congress, Sheffield, 6-8 September 2012
• ‘Genetic and eugenic thinking in public discourse in the Netherlands and Germany, 1860-1945’, The Biological Future of Man – Continuities and Breaks in the History of Human Genetics before and after 1945, Nuremberg, 21-23 June 2012

2011

• ‘De belofte van vitamines’, Farmaceutisch Historische Dag, Arnhem, 27 October 2011
• ‘De belofte van vitamines’, Salon Boerhaave, Leiden ,19 October 2011
• Referent at a colloquium on the public discussions about the contested past of the Netherlands and Germany, NIOD, Amsterdam, 1 April 2011

2010

• ‘The Science of measuring Vitamins’, Drugs, living things and the Problems of Standardization, Braunschweig, 25-27 March 2010

2009

• ‘L.K. Wolff en de professionalisering van het voedingsonderzoek in de jaren twintig en dertig’, Het universitaire bedrijf in Nederland, Utrecht, 27 November 2009
• ‘Der Wissenschaftler als Vitaminexperte’, Graduiertenkolleg Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 9 October 2009
• ‘De belofte van vitamines’, Promovendicongres Huizinga Instituut, Barchem, 17 April 2009
• ‘Wetenschap en propaganda’, Tweede promovendicongres wetenschapsgeschiedenis, Kerkrade, 22 January 2009

2008

• ‘Voedselcontrole als taak van de wetenschap, 1918-1945’, Eten en drinken: steeds gezonder? Historische aspecten van voedselveiligheid en -kwaliteit en hun gevolgen, Eindhoven, 28 November 2008
• ‘Collaborations between university and industry’, Artificial Cold and International Cooperation in Science, 1870-1920, Leiden, 4 August 2008
• ‘Science, industry and government in nutrition research in the Netherlands, 1918-1945’, 17. Studientag Wissenschaftsgeschichte Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, 16 May 2008

2007

• ‘Universiteit en industrie, 1914-1940’, Promovendicongres wetenschapsgeschiedenis, Barchem, 11-12 January 2007