CHR2025 Programme
Programme for the pre-conference workshops on Tuesday, 9th December 2025, and the main conference days on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 10th-12th December 2025.
All accepted papers can be found in the proceedings, published in the Anthology of Computers and the Humanities.
If you are presenters, please consult the instructions here.
The main venue of CHR2025 is the Maison du Savoir (MSA), University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus, 2 place de l’Université, L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. See Finding the Venue.
Overview of the rooms here
Programm in pdf available also here
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 (Pre-conference workshops)
| 09:00 - 16:00 |
Registration - Coffee
catering area
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| 09:30 - 13:00 |
Workshop sessions
Workshop 1 (morning session): 3.330
Workshop 2 (morning session): 3.010 Workshop 3 (morning-only session): 3.390 |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break: catering area |
| 14:30 - 17:00 | Workshop sessions |
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 (Day 1)
| 08:30 - 16:00 |
Registration
catering area
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| 08:30 - 09:30 |
Coffee & croissants
catering area
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| 09:30 - 10:30 |
Welcome by Andreas Fickers, director C2DH -
Opening by the President of the Board of CHR -
Address by the Program Committee and the Local Organization Committee
3.500
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break / Early Career Researcher Mixer
catering area / opposite catering area
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| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Session 1A: Narrative, Perception, and Readership / Session 1B: Networks of Knowledge
3.530 / 3.330
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| 12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch Break
catering area
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| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Session 2A: Stylometry and Philology / Session 2B: Audio, Video and Visual Data
3.530 / 3.330
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break
catering area
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| 15:30 - 16:45 |
Keynote 1: Miguel Escobar Varela
3.500
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| 16:45 |
Cocktail reception
catering area + A-A
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Detailed View
Keynote (15:30-16:45)
“A watch by Kran Kamu”: Exploratory finetuning for cultural reliability
Session 1
Session 1A: narrative, perception, and readership (11:00-12:30)
"Crying like a Baby": Survival Analysis and the Multimodal Memory of Holocaust Survivors(long)
Causal Effect of Character Gender on Readers' Preferences(short)
Session 1B: Networks of knowledge (11:00-12:30)
Patterns of Canon: A Multilingual Network Study(long)
Reading Beyond the Center. Modeling Book Encounters in the Danish Periphery (1800-1850)(long)
Cluster ambiguity in networks as substantive knowledge(short)
Bridging Semantics and Structure: A Typed Prosopographical Network \of Maximilian I's Court(short)
“Works on My Machine”: A Case Study of Replicability Challenges in Computational Humanities Research(short)
Session 2
Session 2A: stylometry and philology (13:30-15:00)
Wauchier, Is That You? A multi-manuscript authorship analysis of Saint Lambert's life(long)
The One and Only? Authorship Verification on Jan van Boendale and the Middle Dutch Antwerp School(long)
Biblicality of Early Medieval Canon Law through the Lens of Language Modeling(long)
Session 2B: audio, video and visual data (13:30-15:00)
Podcasts as Data: Building a Dataset for Large-Scale Audio Content Analysis(long)
Sitcom Form and Function: Pacing and Production in a Collection of Thirty U.S. Series(long)
Quantifying Archival Silences: Phylogenetic Diversity Analysis of Controlled Vocabulary Utilization(long)
Heritage Weaver: Classifying, Searching, and Linking Museum Data with Multimodal AI(long)
Thursday, December 11, 2025 (Day 2)
| 08:30 - 16:00 |
Registration
catering area
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| 08:00 - 09:00 |
Coffee & croissants
catering area
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| 09:00 - 10:30 |
Lightning Talks
3.530
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee break
catering area
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| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Session 3A: Images / Session 3B: LLMs and Content Mining
3.530 / 3.330
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| 12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch Break
catering area
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| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Session 4A: Ancient World / Session 4B: Modelling Culture
3.530 / 3.330
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee break
catering area
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| 15:30 - 17:00 |
Session 5A: Modelling Culture / Session 5B: Rhetoric, Representation, and Interpretation
3.530 / 3.330
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| 17:00 - 18:00 |
Poster Session
catering area
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| 20:00 | Social event |
Detailed View
Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks (9:00-10:30)
Bringing together close reading questions and distant reading methods in the analysis of archived web
Einstein AI: Contextual Retrieval from the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Using RAG and GraphRAG Architectures
Modeling Intertextuality: An Ontological Framework for Literary Studies
Automating the Study of Digital Literary Memory: A Multilingual LLM Pipeline for Wikipedia-Based Cultural Analysis
Measuring the Synchronicity of Historical European Parliamentary Discourse, 1949-2018
Disorder or (self-)murder? Making sense of suicide in 19th-century British newspapers
Mapping Literary Networks through Epigraphs
Low-Cost Synthetic Data Generation for HTR Training: Evaluating a Multimodal Strategy for Historical Manuscript Processing
Beyond the Statistics: Migration to a Kyiv Suburb through the Lens of the 1897 Census
Speculative Reconstruction and the Ethics of the Fragment: Early Experiments with Generative AI in Art History
When Larger LLMs Aren’t Enough: Word Segmentation in Historical Chinese Texts
Towards animal-centric affective analysis in poetry
Neighbourhood Walks: A New Semantic Topology for Historical Map Text
"Where Empires End: Tracing the Geography of a “Soaring Spirit” in Poetry
Rapid cultural analytics using LLMs: a case of dreams
A Diachronic Analysis of Cinematic Trends and Their Reception
Quill2Vec: A Tool for Vector Manipulation of Medieval Latin Script
Session 3
Session 3A: images (11:00-12:30)
Castles, Battlefields, and Continents: A Dataset of Maps from Literature(long)
The Illustrated Page: Analyzing Illustrations of Historical Childrens Books Using Citizen Science(long)
Vision Language Models for Novel Art Therapy Evaluation in Schizophrenia(short)
Framing the Canon: A Computational Study of Canonicity in Danish Golden Age Paintings (1750-1870)(short)
Classification of Script Types and Modes for Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts(short)
Session 3B: LLMs and content mining (11:00-12:30)
The Learnability Hierarchy of News Values: What Makes Some Journalistic Concepts Harder to Classify?(long)
Identifying stance-bearing keywords in public debates with instruction-tuned language models(short)
Scalable Verb-Based Literary Semantics(short)
Continuous sentiment scores for literary and multilingual contexts(short)
Session 4
Session 4A: Ancient World (13:30-15:00)
Semantic Search for Ancient Inscriptions(long)
Towards a Computational Study of Ancient Greek Rhyme(long)
Automatic Named Entity Linking for Ancient Greek with a Domain-Specific Knowledge Base(long)
Session 4B: modelling culture (13:30-15:00)
The Rest is Silence: Leveraging Unseen Species Models for Computational Musicology(long)
Cultural Collapse: Toward a generative formalism for AI cultural production(long)
Transmission and Survival of Iberian Patristic Texts (3rd–5th Centuries)(long)
Robust Modelling of Ordinal Survey Data Using Probabilistic Programming(long)
Session 5
Session 5A: modelling culture (15:30-17:00)
Global Beats, Local Tongue: Studying Code Switching in K-pop Hits on Billboard Charts(long)
Linguistic tools in musical stylometry(long)
Estranged Predictions: Measuring Semantic Category Disruption with Masked Language Modelling(long)
Session 5B: rhetoric, representation, and interpretation (15:30-17:00)
Characterizing Religious Rhetoric in the U.S. Congressional Record(long)
Interrogating Racism in the Medical Literature Using Word Embeddings(long)
Says Who? Effective Zero-Shot Annotation of Focalization(long)
Poster Session
Poster Session (17:00 - 18:00)
Latent topic and tempo differences between East and West Coast Hip-Hop(short)
Poems Set to Music: A Multimodal Analysis of Schubert's Song Cycle Winterreise(short)
I am too old for this style! A stylometric benchmark of age effect on authorship attribution(short)
How ‘Pagan’ is my text? Information Extraction from untranscribed data(short)Rachael Griffiths and Marieke Meelen
Stylometric Perspectives on the Composition Debate of Acts of Andrew(short)
How Scalable is Quality Assessment of Text Recognition? A Combination of Ground Truth and Confidence(short)
Tracing Colonial Discourse in Dutch Historical Newspapers(short)
Ground Truth Generation for Multilingual Historical NLP using LLMs(short)
The Latin language evolved over time, masked models disregard that(short)
Classifying Medieval Manuscripts by Pen and Support(short)
Benchmarking Methods for Digitizing Print Bibliographies(short)
Tracing Ecological Metaphors in Discourses on Open Science using LLMs and Knowledge Graphs(short)
Unstable Data and the Unusual Case of the Prosody Excerpt in the Digital Library(short)
Canons in the Shadows: A Critical Catalogue of AI’s Unseen Reading List(short)
Blind Text Image Super-resolution for Enhancing the Readability of Fragments Hidden in Book Bindings(short)
TrochAIc: Metrical Tools for AI Interpretability(short)
Studying co-occurrences of texts in Middle Dutch prayer books(short)
Toward Tracing Knowledge Flows in Martial Arts: Biographical Data and Interpersonal Contacts(short)
Stylistic Analyses of Human Pose in Theatrical Performances: Computational and Historical Frameworks(short)
Automatic detection and classification of literary character properties in German narratives(short)
Digging through garbage: detection of ‘garbage’ words in digitized historical documents(short)
Beyond Accuracy: Investigating Vision Model Perception on 19th-Century Decorative Arts(short)
Friday, December 12, 2025 (DAY 3)
| 08:00 - 09:00 |
Coffee & croissants
catering area
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| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Keynote 2: Els Lefever
3.500
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee break
catering area
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| 10:30 - 12:00 |
Session 6A: Narratology / Session 6B: Mapping Meaning
3.330 / 3.530
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| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch
catering area
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| 13:00 - 14:30 |
Session 7A: NER / Session 7B: Computational Literary Studies
3.330 / 3.530
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Coffee break
catering area
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| 15:00 - 16:30 |
Session 8A: Computational Literary Studies / Session 8B: Information Retrieval
3.330 / 3.530
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| 16:30 - 18:00 |
Best Paper Award Ceremony - Closing session (conclusion & farewell)
3.500
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Detailed View
Keynote (09:00-10:00)
From Manuscripts to Neural Networks: Unlocking the Past with Natural Language Processing
Session 6
Session 6A: narratology (10:30-12:00)
EmoTracker - A New Framework for Modeling and Forecasting Diachronic Emotion Dynamic(long)
Session 6B: mapping meaning (10:30-12:00)
Text, Terrain, and Algorithms: Searching for Al-Idrisi’s Aqranus with Formal Methods(long)
Mind the Language Gap in Digital Humanities: LLM-Aided Translation of SKOS Thesaur(long)
Producing Structured Data from Historical Sources: a Preliminary Application to French Senate Tables(long)
Session 7
Session 7A: NER (13:00-14:30)
QaLLM: An LLM-based NER Dataset Curation, Annotation and Evaluation in Historical Urdu Elegies(long)
Fine-grained Named-Entity Recognition for the East-India Company domain(long)
Session 7B: computational literary studies (13:00-14:30)
Zero-shot Methods for Historical Text Restoration(long)
Are You There God? Lightweight Narrative Annotation of Christian Fiction with LMs(long)
Computing the Formal and Institutional Boundaries of Contemporary Genre and Literary Fiction(long)
Session 8
Session 8A: computational literary studies (15:00-16:30)
Was Poetry Graded Validly?: Text Mining Shipin, a Sixth-Century Chinese Work of Literary Criticism(short)
Detecting "Parasitic Poems": Quantifying Poetic Style in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction(short)
Changing Attitudes Toward Animals in Early Modern Dutch Literature(short)
More Sound, More Soundness? Improving authorship attribution with phonemes(short)
Session 8B: information retrieval (15:00-16:30)
Evaluation of Large Language Models on hierarchical entity matching for cultural heritage data(short)
Classifying Name-Date and Year Figures in Mixtec Codices(short)