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Thursday, May 18: Day 1
8:45 AM (EST) Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:00 Keynote Address: Pieter Francois “Sampling World History. An Overview of Methodological Choices Underpinning the Seshat Global History Databank”
10:00 Break
10:10 Maximilian Noichl “A Computational Complement to Case Studies”
10:40 Brett Buttliere, Veslava Osinska, & Adam Kola “Demonstrating the Value of Wikipedia for Understanding the History of Science”
11:10 Catherine Herfeld “What Empirical Network Analysis can do for &HPS: The Case of Model Transfer”
11:40 Break
11:50 Lucas Gautheron “Probing Socio-Epistemic Dynamics in High-Energy Physics Using the Inspire HEP Database”
12:00 PM Guillermo Restrepo & Jürgen Jost “Computational History of Chemistry: The Expansion of the Chemical Space”
12:10 Joel West “Datasets: A Narratological and Semiotic Perspective”
12:20 Short Session Q/A
12:35 Lunch Break
1:30 Grace Shan “Towards a Database of Intellectual History: Digital Linguistic Strategies for Identifying Theories Accepted in 18th-century England”
2:30 Break
2:40 Christophe Malaterre & Francis Lareau “Mapping the Contours of the Emerging Discipline of Astrobiology with Text-Mining Approaches”
3:10 James A. Overton “History and Philosophy of the Immune Epitope Database”
3:40 Joseph Wilson “Local Contingencies: Modelling ‘Artificial Intelligence’ in Mid-Century America”
4:10 End Day 1
Friday, May 19: Day 2
9:00 AM (EST) Keynote Address: Charles H. Pence “Scientific Disagreement: A Textual Analysis Perspective”
10:00 Break
10:10 Vilius Dranseika & Piotr Bystranowski “Delineating Philosophy of Medicine. A Data-driven Approach”
10:40 Nicola Bertoldi “Integrating Hermeneutic and Digital Analyses of Past Scientific Worldviews through a Kuhnian Lens: The Case of Biometrika”
11:10 Break
11:20 Giovanni Galli & Beatrice Tioli “The Turn of Datacentrism in the Digital Humanities and the Sciences”
11:35 Tomasz Żuradzki “Human Enhancement and Related Topics in Bioethical Discussions: A Computational Approach”
11:50 Short Session Q/A
12:05 PM Lunch Break
1:00 Keynote Address: Rachel Spicer “Big Data in Religious History”
2:00 Break
2:10 Paul Patton & Cyrus Al-Zayadi “Scientific Disciplines and the Scientonomic Ontology”
2:40 Stefan Linquist & Brady Fullerton “Epigenetic This, Epigenetic That: Comparing Two Digital Humanities Methods for Analyzing a Slippery Scientific Term“
3:10 Break
3:20 Marion Blute “Both Qualitative and Quantitative Research on Science are Useful – Especially in a Possible CSHPSSS!”
3:50 Samantha Vilkins “The Oxymoron of Coding Uncertainty in Big Data Out-of-Context: Insights from Mundane Decisions in Professional Statistical Work”
4:20 End Day 2
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