Publications DH

2024

Beyond Boris Hessen

A. Dmitriev 

2024-01-31

Цена автономии^ Университет, «украинский вопрос», (не)академическая память в долгом двадцатом веке [The Price of Autonomy: University, the “Ukrainian question,” (un)academic memory In the long twentieth century]

A. Dmitriev 

Peter Lang Verlag, 2024.

2023

Things that Talk: On a new perspective for engaging with scientific instruments

I-G. Mihailescu; J. Baudry 

XLII Scientific Instrument Symposium, Palermo, Italy, September 18-22, 2023.

From inside the archive: modeling the history of the reaction key

A. Volynskaya 

XLII Scientific Instrument Symposium, Palermo, Italy, September 18-22, 2023.

Matérialiser la raison computationnelle au XVIIe siècle. Du papier au laiton, les nombreuses matérialités de la machine à calculer de Leibniz

S. Dumas Primbault 

La digitalisation du Monde. Continuités et ruptures, Marseille, France, September 7-8, 2023.

Die Anfänge des Schweizer Patentsystems

N. Chachereau 

Sommeranlass Verband Schweizerischer Patent- und Markenanwälte, Ascona, Switzerland, September 1-2, 2023.

Infrastructuring bureaucracy: Putting AI to (net)work in public administration

S. Sidorenko 

STS-CH 2023 Conference, Basel, Switzerland, 31.08.2023-01.09.2023.

Ideal chronicler and digital leftovers: interrogating the archive of Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

A. Volynskaya 

Science, Expertise and other Modes of Knowledge: Trends, Patterns, and Prospects (STS-CH 2023), Basel, Switzerland, August 31-September 1, 2023.

Refineries in plains and valleys. Debating the environmental problems of oil infrastructure in Switzerland (1958-1966)

N. Chachereau 

European Society for Environmental History (ESEH), Berne, Switzerland, August 22-26, 2023.

Review of: Les Réparations dans l’Histoire: Cultures techniques et savoir-faire dans la longue durée ed. by Gianenrico Bernasconi et al.

J. Baudry 

Technology and Culture. 2023-08-24. Vol. 64, num. 3, p. 934-935. DOI : 10.1353/tech.2023.a903982.

Gasping for air. Mountain railway tunnels and the smoke problem

A. Emile 

ESEH Conference 2023, Universität Bern, 22 août 2023.

Where Did the News Come From? Detection of News Agency Releases in Historical Newspapers

L. Marxen 

2023-08-18.

Yevgeny Polivanov: Beyond Formalism?

A. Dmitriev 

Linguistic Frontiers. 2023-07-08. Vol. Volume 6 (2023) , num. Issue 1 (June 2023), p. 18-22. DOI : 10.2478/lf-2023-0009.

Understanding Digital Libraries as Open Spaces

S. Dumas Primbault 

LIBER 2023 Annual Conference, Budapest, Hungary, July 5-7, 2023.

Writing/Drawing/Modeling Inventions: Regimes of Description and the ‘Intellectual’ in IP, France-United States ca. 1790-1850

J. Baudry 

Workshop ‘Patent documents as sources and data: Quantitative and qualitative methodologies’, EPFL Lausanne, June 29-30, 2023.

Drawing in Court: their use in patent cases and their impact on the creation of case law (1780-1850)

Y. M. F. Guffroy 

2023-06-29. Patent documents as sources and data: Quantitative and qualitative methodologies, Lausanne, June 28-29, 2023.

Traces of responsibility: Digital analysis of safety discourses and the language of a million patents

N. Chachereau; P. Gupta; B. Srinivasa Desikan 

workshop Patent documents as sources and data: Quantitative and qualitative methodologies, EPFL, Lausanne, June 29-30, 2023.

Experimenting with History

S. Dumas Primbault; I-G. Mihailescu 

Artefact. 2023-06-22. num. 18, p. 361-367. DOI : 10.4000/artefact.14146.

Writing and Drawing Inventions: Patents and Technology in France and the United States (18th-19th centuries)

J. Baudry 

Artefact. Techniques, histoire et sciences humaines. 2023-06-21. num. 18, p. 197-221. DOI : 10.4000/artefact.13971.

Who was afraid of Yuri Mikhailovich and why? (peculiarities of the reception of the Tartu version of structuralism after the 1960s)

A. Dmitriev 

13th Annual Lotman Conference at Tallinn University, “Fear in Culture and Culture of Fear”, Tallinn, Estonia, 14-16 June 2023.

Un avenir inévitable ? Les débats autour de la première raffinerie de pétrole en Suisse

N. Chachereau 

Triennale d’art contemporain Bex&Arts, Bex, Suisse,

The slaughterhouse of science: from scientific leftovers to cultural heritage to historical data

A. Volynskaya 

DARIAH Annual Event 2023, Cultural Heritage Data as Humanities Research Data?, Budapest, Hungary, June 6-9, 2023.

De l’électricité dans l’air : la suppression des fumées ferroviaires en ville, une question technique et “sensible” (Paris, années 1880-1930)

A. Emile 

Journée d’étude – Le train, un mode écologique ? L’histoire pour éclairer une évidence contemporaine, Paris, Académie du Climat, 1er juin 2023.

“Moral pressure” or “self-interested balancing of costs and benefits”? International and domestic forces shaping the first Swiss patent system (1873-1908)

N. Chachereau 

Economic and Business History Society Conference, Porto, Portugal, May 24-27, 2023.

La réparation, des pratiques au savoir. Ethnographie de deux Repair Cafés

J. Baudry 

Workshop “Tiers-lieux : enquête sur les arts de faire”, Online, May 12, 2023.

Krot istorii v spyachke

A. Dmitriev 

Neprikosnovenny Zapas. 2023-05-10. Vol. 2023, num. 2(148), p. 28-42.

On the Use of the “Techno-aesthetic” Notion in the Study of Drawings of Invention (England, ca. 1750–1850)

Y. M. F. Guffroy 

HSSuisse 2023, University of Basel, May 5, 2023.

Le dessin d’invention comme espace de rencontre de différentes cultures techniques : le cas des dessins anglais des patents et de la Society of Arts au tournant du XIXe siècle

Y. M. F. Guffroy 

2023-04-21. Congrès de la Société française d’Histoire des sciences et des techniques, Bordeaux, France, Avril 19-21, 2023.

1805-1898 Census Records of Lausanne : a Long Digital Dataset for Demographic History

R. Petitpierre; M. Kramer; L. Rappo; I. di Lenardo 

2023-03-20.

An end-to-end pipeline for historical censuses processing

R. G. Petitpierre; M. Kramer; L. A. A. Rappo 

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR). 2023-03-17. DOI : 10.1007/s10032-023-00428-9.

Effective annotation for the automatic vectorization of cadastral maps

R. Petitpierre; P. Guhennec 

Digital Scholarship In The Humanities. 2023-03-09. DOI : 10.1093/llc/fqad006.

Platform-mediated live musical performance in China: New social practices and urban cultural spaces

M. Zhang; Z. Xiao 

Geoforum. 2023-03-07. Vol. 140, p. 103723. DOI : 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103723.

Strengthening farmers’ seed systems to enhance agricultural resilience

M. Fenzi 

Empowering youth and women in science for a food-secure future, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 21 February 2023.

Digital representations: encountering the past of science through digital collections

A. Volynskaya 

Is Digital Better? Collection Research in the Digital Age = Digital ist besser? Sammlungsforschung im digitalen Zeitalter, Weimar, Germany, February 16-17, 2023.

Fishing for complements with chord, scale, and rhythm nets

R. A. Arranz; D. Harasim; T. Noll 

Journal Of Mathematics And Music. 2023-02-11. DOI : 10.1080/17459737.2022.2164627.

From Archival Sources to Structured Historical Information: Annotating and Exploring the “Accordi dei Garzoni”

M. Ehrmann; O. Topalov; F. Kaplan 

Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice; Abingdon: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-02-10. p. 304.

La Oficina de Estudios Especiales y la Revolución Verde 80 años después

M. Fenzi 

Coloquio. La Oficina de Estudios Especiales y la Revolución Verde 80 años después, El Colegio Mexiquense and online, 1-2 February 2023.

Making a Model for the Green Revolution: A Controversial Beginning

M. Fenzi 

GREEN REVOLUTION(S): CONTESTED PATHS OF AGRARIAN MODERNIZATION IN THE 20TH CENTURY, Lausanne, Switzerland, January 19, 2023.

Мираж непрерывности [Mirages of Continuity (Toward a Critique of the Conventional Framework of Russian History of the Last Century)]

A. Dmitriev 

Перед лицом катастрофы [In the face of catastrophe]; Berlin: LIT-Verlag, 2023-01-18. p. 180.

Recartographier l’espace napoléonien : Une lecture computationnelle du cadastre historique de Lausanne

R. Petitpierre; L. Rappo; I. di Lenardo 

2023. Humanistica 2023, Association francophone des humanités numériques, Geneva, Switzerland, June 26-28, 2023.

Mapping Memes in the Napoleonic Cadastre: Expanding Frontiers in Memetics

R. Petitpierre 

2023. Digital Humanities 2023 (DH2023), Graz, Austria, July 10-14, 2023. DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.8107916.

Mario Biagioli, Galilée et ses publics. Instruments, images et culture du secret (Strasbourg : Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2022), tr. fr. Alcime Steiger, révisée par Émilie Dauphiné, préface d’Antonella Romano, 14 × 21,5 cm, 464 p., 19 fig., bibliogr., index nominum, tables

S. Dumas Primbault 

Revue d’Histoire des Sciences. 2023. Vol. 76, num. 1, p. 191-192.

A Stand-Alone Augmented Reality Intervention for Chronic Pain using Embodied Systolic Stimulation

O. A. Kannape; J. Pierret; R. Leeb; S. Cardin; F. Bourban et al. 

2023-01-01. 11th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (IEEE/EMBS NER), Baltimore, MD, Apr 24-27, 2023. DOI : 10.1109/NER52421.2023.10123746.

Louis Baldasseroni, Étienne Faugier et Claire Pelgrims (dir.), Histoire des transports et des mobilités en France, XIXe-XXIe siècle, Paris, Armand Colin, Collection U, 2022

A. Emile 

Artefact. 2023. num. 19, p. 377-381.

From Automated Bootstrapping to Collaborative Editing: A Framework for 4D City Reconstruction

B. Vaienti; P. Guhennec; D. Dupertuis; R. Petitpierre 

2023. Digital Humanities 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity (DH2023), Graz, Austria, July 10-14, 2023. p. 310-313. DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.8107906.

ms3: A parser for MuseScore files, serving as data factory for annotated music corpora

J. Hentschel; M. A. Rohrmeier 

Journal of Open Source Software. 2023. Vol. 8, num. 88, p. 5195. DOI : 10.21105/joss.05195.

Martial Arts MAsters Knowledge Graph (MA2KG) dataset release

Y. Hou 

2023.

The Facets of Intangible Heritage in Southern Chinese Martial Arts: Applying a Knowledge-Driven Cultural Contact Detection Approach

A. Adamou; D. Picca; Y. Hou; P. L. Granados-García 

Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. 2023. DOI : 10.1145/3606702.

Machine-Learning-Enhanced Procedural Modeling for 4D Historical Cities Reconstruction

B. Vaienti; R. G. Petitpierre; I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan 

Remote Sensing. 2023. Vol. 15, num. 13, p. 3352. DOI : 10.3390/rs15133352.

Co-encoding embodied knowledge in Southern Chinese martial arts: a collaboration between computists, experts, and digital models

Y. Hou 

2023. Digital Humanities 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity (DH2023), Graz, Austria, July 10-14, 2023. p. 620. DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.8107443.

Micro-level social interactions in western Switzerland (18th-19th centuries). Marriages in Corsier-sur-Vevey and Lausanne

L. A. A. Rappo 

Sharing Spaces. Cultural and Spatial Interactions Within and Beyond German-Speaking Europe, Tucson, United States of America, 1-2 March 2023.

Frictions et appropriations d’un espace patrimonial : l’Axe central de Pékin

F. Graezer Bideau 

Dynamiques contemporaines en Asie: Patrimoine architectural et urbain dans les villes en Asie, Paris, France, June 23, 2023.

Culture populaire et exercice du pouvoir en Chine. Épisode 2 : Culture populaire, un outil de contrôle social ?

F. Graezer Bideau 

Les Belles Heures, Montreal, Canada, June 1, 2023.

Culture populaire et exercice du pouvoir en Chine. Épisode 1 : Éduquer les masses par la culture

F. Graezer Bideau 

Les Belles Heures, Montreal, Canada, May 25, 2023.

Requestioning heritage narratives and the politics of storytelling

F. Graezer Bideau 

Hidden/(un)told heritage narratives and the politics of storytelling, Swiss Institute in Rome, Italy, May 15-16, 2023.

Introduction : urban regeneration and industrial heritage

F. Graezer Bideau 

Urban Regeneration and Industrial Heritage, EPFL, February 23-24, 2023.

Porter le temps : Mémoires urbaines d’un site horloger

F. Graezer Bideau 

Table ronde, Le Locle, Suisse, February 24, 2023.

The diachronic development of Debussy’s musical style: a corpus study with Discrete Fourier Transform

S. Laneve; L. Schaerf; G. Cecchetti; J. Hentschel; M. Rohrmeier 

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 2023. Vol. 10, num. 289. DOI : 10.1057/s41599-023-01796-7.

Ce que les machines ont vu et que nous ne savons pas encore

I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan 

Sociétés & Représentations. 2023. num. 1, p. 249-267. DOI : 10.3917/sr.055.0249.

Discovering perceived images of reused industrial heritage from user-generated photos: Three mega-event reinforced industrial heritage transformation cases

H. Deng 

2023. Cities’ Identity Through Architecture and Arts (CITAA) – 6th Edition, Pisa, Italy, December 5-6, 2022.

Unlocking a multimodal archive of Southern Chinese martial arts through embodied cues

Y. Hou; F. M. Seydou; S. I. B. Kenderdine 

Journal of Documentation. 2023. DOI : 10.1108/JD-01-2022-0027.

Lausanne Historical Censuses Dataset HTR 35k

L. Rappo; R. Petitpierre; M. Kramer 

2023.

Liens matrimoniaux, famille et appartenance professionnelle à Corsier-sur-Vevey (Suisse) au XVIIIe siècle: le cas des notaires et des vignerons

L. A. A. Rappo 

Travail et famille en Europe du Nord-Ouest au bas Moyen-Âge et à l’époque moderne; Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2023.

The Structure of Free Polyphony

C. Finkensiep / M. A. Rohrmeier (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. 

Computational Approaches to Digitised Historical Newspapers (Dagstuhl Seminar 22292)

M. Ehrmann; M. Düring; C. Neudecker; A. Doucet 

2023

Quand la gare débordait en ville : la suppression des fumées ferroviaires, une question « d’hygiène, de propreté et d’esthétique » (France, 1830s-1930s)

A. Emile 

La nouvelle nature des gares. Transitions écologiques et métabolismes territoriaux; Vincennes: Presse Universitaires de Vincennes, 2023.

Un imaginaire en voyage. Retour croisé sur quatre expositions associant art et chemin de fer

A. Emile 

Artefact. 2023. num. 18, p. 319-344.

2022

A Posthumous Rivalry: On Borelli and Viviani’s Relationship between the Accademia del Cimento and en Eighteenth-Century Controversy

S. Dumas Primbault 

Physis. 2022-12-31. Vol. LVII, num. 2, p. 449-473.

Digitised Historical Newspapers: A Changing Research Landscape (Introduction)

M. Ehrmann; E. Bunout; F. Clavert 

Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?; Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022-12-31. p. 439.
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Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians? Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology

 

Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022-12-31.

Page Layout Analysis of Text-heavy Historical Documents: a Comparison of Textual and Visual Approaches

S. Najem-Meyer; M. Romanello 

2022-12-12. Third Conference on Computational Humanities Research (CHR 2022), Antwerp, Belgium, December 12-14, 2022. p. 36-54. DOI : 10.48550/arXiv.2212.13924.

L’examen savant des inventions. Claude-Pierre Molard à l’Académie des sciences (1815-1837)

J. Baudry 

Claude Pierre Molard (1759-1837). Un technicien dans la cité; Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2022-12-07.

Towards a history of technological practices. Representing invention in England and France, 18th-19th c.: The case of patents/brevets d’invention

J. Baudry; Y. M. F. Guffroy 

Technik or Technologie? European Circulation of Bélidor’s, Wolff’s and Gessner’s Technological Works, Paris, France, November 30 – December 1, 2022.

Soviet Pause of Russian History ?

A. Dmitriev 

2022-11-23. 100 Year After USSR, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 23-25, 2022.

Graver le savoir technique : le cas du dessin d’invention anglais au sein de la Society of Arts et des patents (1750-1850)

Y. M. F. Guffroy 

Graver la danse, la musique, les sciences et la géographie. Corps de métier et diffusion des savoirs au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, France, November 21-22, 2022.

La Suisse en raffinerie : histoire et enseignements d’une entrée contestée dans la société du pétrole

N. Chachereau 

Quoi de neuf docteur ? Forum de la jeune recherche en durabilité, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 17, 2022.

Le sommet qui cache la montagne

J. Baudry; S. Dumas Primbault 

Conférences du Musée d’histoire des sciences, Genève, Switzerland, November 15.

A data structure for scientific models of historical cities: extending the CityJSON format

B. Vaienti; P. Guhennec; I. di Lenardo 

2022-11-11. 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities, Seattle, Washington, November 1, 2022. p. 20-23. DOI : 10.1145/3557919.3565813.

Social Roots of Academc (Un)Freedom

A. Dmitriev 

Midterm Conference ESA Political Sociology 2022, Lausanne, Switzerland, 9-11 November 2022.

La réparation, des pratiques au savoir. Ethnographie de deux Repair Cafés

J. Baudry 

Séminaire du STS Lab – Maintenir, réparer, (dés)innover, Lausanne, Suisse, November 9, 2022.

Hearing functional harmony in jazz: A perceptual study on music-theoretical accounts of extended tonality

G. Cecchetti; S. A. Herff; C. Finkensiep; D. Harasim; M. A. Rohrmeier 

Musicae Scientiae. 2022-11-05. DOI : 10.1177/10298649221122245.

Digital Analysis of Historical US Patents: Field Notes From An Interdisciplinary Project

N. Chachereau; B. Srinivasa Desikan 

Social Sciences & Computer Science: A Dialogue around Data and Tools, Tübingen, Germany, November 3-4, 2022.

“Methodological Criss-Crossing”: A Mixed Methods Ethnography of a Digital Library

S. Dumas Primbault 

Social Sciences & Computer Science: A Dialogue around Data and Tools, Tübingen, Germany, November 3-4, 2022.

Une nuisance imaginaire ? Comment les tensions autour de la fumée des locomotives sont devenues « anecdotiques »

A. Emile 

Revue historique. 2022-10-31. Vol. 2022-4, num. 704, p. 915-949.

Science in the Mountains: Reconstructing the Scientific Expeditions of the 1770s to Mont Buet

J. Baudry 

‘Writing Technologies’ Study day, Oxford, UK, October 28, 2022.

Négocier la présence de l’industrie pétrolière en Valais (1958-1990)

N. Chachereau 

Valais en recherches, Sion, Switzerland, October 27, 2022.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) driven categorisation and detection of discourse in historical US patents

B. Srinivasa Desikan; J. Baudry; N. Chachereau; P. Gupta 

DARIAH-CH Study Day, Università della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio, October 20, 2022.

Analysis of Beijing 2022 Big Air Venue through data from WeChat Channel & Weibo

H. Deng 

WeChat Ethnography: New Practices and Limits of an Emerging Research Method. Part 1, Geneva, Switzerland, October 7, 2022.

Information Processing Biases: The Effects of Negative Emotional Symptoms on Sampling Pleasant and Unpleasant Information

S. A. Herff; I. Dorsheimer; B. Dahmen; J. B. Prince 

Journal Of Experimental Psychology-Applied. 2022-10-06. DOI : 10.1037/xap0000450.

Experimental History and the History of Experience: Reconstructing the Scientific Expeditions of the 1770s to Mont Buet

J. Baudry 

Science studies colloquium, ETH Zürich, October 5, 2022.

Science and Technology Studies at EPFL

J. Baudry 

HERUS internal seminar, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 28, 2022.

Le sommet qui cache la montagne. Un projet de reconstruction historique entre recherche et médiation scientifique

J. Baudry; S. Dumas Primbault 

Séminaire “L’expérience des techniques : collections, reconstitutions, savoirs et savoir-faire”, Université Paris Cité, September 23, 2022.

Sur les pas de savants genevois du 18e

S. Iselin; J. Baudry; S. Fischer; S. Dumas Primbault; I-G. Mihailescu 

2022-09-12.

To Forgot Boris Hessen: Ghost of Externalism within Late Soviet History and Philosophy of Science


A. Dmitriev 

The Tenth Conference of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS), Brussels, Belgium, 7-10 September 2022.

Energy, economy, and pollution: oil pipelines and refineries in 1960s Switzerland

N. Chachereau 

XIX World Economic History Congress (WEHC 2022), Paris, France, July 25-29, 2022.

Knowledge organization of the Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive to capture and preserve intangible cultural heritage

D. Picca; A. Adamou; Y. Hou; M. Egloff; S. Kenderdine 

2022-07-25. Digital Humanities 2022, Tokyo, July 25-29, 2022.

Searching for visual patterns in a children’s drawings collection

R. Annapureddy 

2022-07-08.

Facing headwinds. The opposition to Switzerland’s first oil refinery (1958‐1963)

N. Chachereau 

European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference, Bristol, United Kingdom, July 4-8, 2022.

How Leibniz read Pascal’s Geometry: The Practice of Reading as Hybrid Hermeneutics in the Materiality of Leibniz’s Pascaliana

S. Dumas Primbault 

Nuncius. 2022-07-07. Vol. 37, num. 3, p. 1-34. DOI : 10.1163/18253911-bja10031.