Workshop on Structure and Interpretion

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Workshop on Structure and Interpretation: Towards Computational Historiographical Modeling

19th-century engravings representing Hermes Trismegistus and Ramon Llull, from the Le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance, tome II

On March 31, 2026, we held the closing workshop of my SNSF project Towards Computational Historiographical Modeling: Corpora and Concepts at the Château de Dorigny.

The workshop brought 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 focused specifically on 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.

Manfred Thaller standing in front of his slides

Manfred Thaller giving the keynote.

Following a keynote by Manfred Thaller, the workshop was 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.

Invited Speakers