This year's DH Benelux Conference takes place in Amsterdam at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam! Former Researcher-in-Residence Lucas van der Deijl wil present Performing Gender on the Early Modern Stage: a Computational and Cross-lingual Approach to Male and Female Speech in European Drama together with Alie Lassche. Multiple KB colleagues will also attend the congres to present a poster. Find more information about this below.
What: DH Benelux 2025. A three-day conference that serves as a platform for the community of interdisciplinary Digital Humanities researchers to meet, present and discuss their latest research findings and to demonstrate tools and projects.
When: 4 - 6 June 2025 with pre-conference workshops at 3 June.
Poster presentation:
When: 4 June. Coffee Break and Poster Session: 15:00-16:30
- Twi-XL & SANE: a new way of exploring the KB web collection – Michel de Gruijter, Sophie Ham and Fedor Wiedenhof
- A Decade of Excellence: Reflecting on 10 years of Researchers-in-Residence at the KB, National Library of the Netherlands – Celonie Rozema, Steven Claeyssens and Rosemarie van der Veen-Oei
- Building DutchDraCor: A new corpus for computational approaches to Dutch drama (1500-1800) – Lucas van der Deijl and Willem Jan Faber
- Unpacking the weight of spices: a preliminary exploration of long-tail contexts in the VOC trade – Gauri Bhagwat, Teresa Paccosi and Marieke van Erp
Session presentation
Session 1C: Performing Gender on the Early Modern Stage: a Computational and Cross-lingual Approach to Male and Female Speech in European Drama – Alie Lassche and Lucas van der Deijl
When: 4 June 11.00 - 12.30
Panel Session
When: 6 June 11:00-12:30
Panel Session 6a: Pursuing a PhD in DH: Challenges, Opportunities, and Best Practices – Lucas van der Deijl, Milan van Lange, Alie Lassche, Ruben Ros and Kim Smeenk
The complete conference programme is available on the DH Benelux website.