Closing workshop of the SNSF project “Towards Computational Historiographical Modeling: Corpora and Concepts”.
The 2026 Workshop on Structure and Interpretation in the Humanities brings together a panel of invited international experts, local researchers, and early-career researchers to discuss the epistemology of digital and computational humanities, with a focus on structure and interpretation.
We are especially interested in the challenges of historiographical modeling with regard to conceptual reasoning, causality, and uncertainty in formal systems; the ways in which models reflect historiographical concepts; and the epistemology of digital and computational humanities in light of infrastructural and formal constraints more broadly.
Following a keynote by Manfred Thaller, the workshop will be organized as a World Café, based on position statements prepared by the interdisciplinary panel of invited scholars. The workshop explicitly takes a dialogic approach, centering discussion as a method of research and knowledge production. Participants should therefore be prepared to take an active role in the discussions.
The workshop concludes the SNSF-funded project “Towards Computational Historiographical Modeling: Corpora and Concepts” (PI: Michael Piotrowski, SLI).
Invited Speakers
Sébastien de Valeriola (ULB) Moritz Feichtinger (University of Basel) Tessa Gengnagel (University of Cologne) Julianne Nyhan (TU Darmstadt) Sébastien Poublanc (CNRS/University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès) Manfred Thaller (emeritus, University of Cologne) Christian Wachter (University of Münster)
Organization
Michael Piotrowski (SLI) Barbara Hof (SLI) Tonia Ramogida (SLI)
Participation
Participation is free, but the number of places is limited. Please contact Tonia Ramogida (tonia.ramogida@unil.ch) if you would like to take part.