by Martin Grandjean | 14.07.2021 | Humanités
Introduction to Social Network Analysis: Basics and Historical Specificities Martin Grandjean Workshop HNR+ResHist Conference 2021 This video series, intended for a beginner audience, proposes to review the main concepts of social network analysis (terminology, visual...
by Martin Grandjean | 23.12.2020 | Humanités
The four Gospels tell a broadly similar story but have slightly different structures: their constitution has been one of the most studied subjects for centuries. Without revolutionizing a field of research consisting in the careful study of these texts, network...
by Martin Grandjean | 19.11.2020 | Humanités
Using Network Analysis to Question the Concepts of Centrality and Periphery in Complex Historical Structures Keynote lecture “Cultural Organizations: Between the Local and the Global (1880s-1960s)” November 18 2020, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona Martin...
by Martin Grandjean | 4.12.2019 | Humanités
[fivecol_three_first] MAPPING INTERNATIONALISM Data collection In a world today accustomed to multilateralism, where a “world parliament” – the United Nations Assembly – deals with all issues requiring international...
by Martin Grandjean | 19.02.2019 | Featured
Summary Created in 1922, the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) is a committee bringing together leading scientists such as Henri Bergson, Albert Einstein, Marie Sklodowska-Curie and Hendrik Lorentz. First constituted as a consultative body,...
by Martin Grandjean | 30.10.2017 | Humanités
HISTORICAL “NETWORKS” Confronted with the massification of data and embracing ever more global questions, the history of international organizations is concerned with increasingly complex objects. And if the term “network” is widely used in...
by Martin Grandjean | 21.08.2017 | Humanités
[fivecol_three_first] INTRODUCTION In Switzerland, the panorama of scientific research is deemed to be deeply affected by language barriers and strong local academic identities. Is this impression confirmed by data on research projects? What are the factors that best...
by Martin Grandjean | 9.05.2016 | Humanités
[threecol_one_first]ABSTRACT Defining digital humanities might be an endless debate if we stick to the discussion about the boundaries of this concept as an academic “discipline”. In an attempt to concretely identify this field and its actors, this paper shows that it...
by Martin Grandjean | 10.03.2016 | Humanités
As every year since 2012, the Digital Humanities Awards 2015 produced a list of resources published during 2015. 54 resources were nominated by 140 people and the result of the vote (1862 voters) was made public a few days ago. As these awards are intended to be...
by Martin Grandjean | 2.03.2016 | Humanités
CONFERENCE – On analyse pas des milliers de textes comme on en analyse une poignée. L’abondance de données ne change pas seulement notre façon de les étudier, mais change notre objet d’étude lui-même. À l’occasion de sa conférence EPFL Patterns...
by Martin Grandjean | 23.12.2015 | Humanités
Are Shakespeare’s tragedies all structured in the same way? Are the characters rather isolated, grouped, all connected? Narration, even fictional, contains a network of interacting characters. Constituting a well defined corpus, the eleven Shakespearean...
by Martin Grandjean | 14.10.2015 | Featured
Network Analysis and visualization appears to be an interesting tool to give the researcher the ability to see its data from a new angle. Because Gephi is an easy access and powerful network analysis tool, we propose a tutorial designed to allow everyone to make his...
by Martin Grandjean | 9.10.2015 | Humanités
“Je souhaite que cet effort pour les humanités numériques soit non seulement maintenu mais renforcé dans les années qui viennent.” Le discours de François Hollande à l’occasion de l’inauguration des nouveaux locaux de l’École des Chartes...
by Martin Grandjean | 11.09.2015 | Humanités
[fivecol_three_first]ABSTRACT L’utilisation de la visualisation de données en histoire engendre des réactions contradictoires : alors que certains sont fascinés par son potentiel heuristique à en oublier leur sens critique, d’autres rejettent par principe ces...
by Martin Grandjean | 2.07.2015 | Humanités
A journal paper has been published based on this research. Find the online version here: A social network analysis of Twitter: Mapping the digital humanities community (+ PDF + Blogpost) Twitter helps disseminate information and knowledge. This is especially true...
by Martin Grandjean | 22.06.2015 | Humanités
Avant d’être ici un “mouvement” et là une “discipline”, les humanités numériques sont une communauté de pratiques qui rassemble des chercheurs, ingénieurs et enseignants qui font usage des outils numériques dans leurs recherches en...
by Martin Grandjean | 2.06.2015 | Humanités
Since their creation in 2008 in Fairfax, THATCamps (The Humanities and Technology Camp) have multiplied in the United States and Europe. These user-generated unconferences challenge traditional patterns of transmission and sharing of technical and scientific knowledge...
by Martin Grandjean | 18.05.2015 | Humanités
[fivecol_two] Sur le thème “Construire la Paix”, les Rencontres de Genève Histoire et Cité on accueilli du 13 au 16 mai de nombreuses conférences, ateliers et salons dans les murs de l’Université de Genève et d’institutions partenaires. Pendant...
by Martin Grandjean | 8.05.2015 | Humanités
Livres et bibliothèques: quel avenir numérique ? Les technologies de l’information sont-elles cet outil que les bibliothèques attendent depuis les Lumières, un moyen de démocratiser enfin l’accès à des contenus trop souvent rendu inatteignables par les...
by Martin Grandjean | 16.12.2014 | Humanités
La visualisation de données pose problème: on y navigue entre le très petit et le très grand sans intermédiaire susceptible de permettre une lecture critique. Ce billet est le compte-rendu de la conférence Micromégas: the very small, the very large and the object of...
by Martin Grandjean | 15.12.2014 | Humanités
This paper presents an analysis of the work and functioning of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) between 1919 and 1927 by setting up a database containing metadata of thousands of documents contained in the ICIC funds (UN Archives,...
by Martin Grandjean | 10.11.2014 | Humanités
What is the role of historians on Twitter? To share historical content on social media has become common, exacerbated this year by the commemorations of the First World War. But strategy and rigor (and therefore the quality of cultural mediation) are highly variable....
by Martin Grandjean | 4.11.2014 | Humanités
[fivecol_three_first]ABSTRACT L’analyse de réseau ne transforme pas nos objets d’étude, elle transforme le regard que le chercheur porte sur ceux-ci. Organisée en réseau, l’information devient relationnelle. Elle rend possible en puissance la création d’une nouvelle...
by Martin Grandjean | 25.09.2014 | Humanités
1er août 1914: Les nouvelles politiques étant fort mauvaises, j’ai quitté Genève à 2 heures 28, ayant fait mes adieux à ma bien-aimée Hélène sur le quai de la gare… Les premières lignes du “Journal de la Guerre” de l’écrivain suisse Guy...
