Project led by Alexis Lombart (UR 7434 IRM, University of Bordeaux) and
Olha Nahorna (UMR 6060 BSE, University of Bordeaux)

Thematic call

Digital humanities (HN) constitute an emerging discipline, bringing renewed perspectives of analysis of traditional SHS objects using a transversal and transdisciplinary methodology open to the contribution of computer sciences and techniques.
The BorHN project aims to bring together Bordeaux researchers interested – or likely to be interested – in HN to promote and encourage transfers of skills and disciplinary and interdisciplinary scientific collaborations, on a local, European and international scale, in a field which already represents a strategic scientific production and influence challenge for the future of SHS. Keywords: digital humanities, evolutionary humanities, quantitative methods, automated natural language processing, network science, transdisciplinarity

Digital humanities (DH) is an emerging discipline, which offers new perspectives for the analysis of traditional SHS objects using a transversal and transdisciplinary methodology open to the contribution of computer sciences and techniques.
The aim of the BorHN project is to federate Bordeaux researchers interested – or likely to be interested – in HN in order to promote and encourage the transfer of skills and scientific collaborations between disciplines, on a local, European and international scale, in a field that already represents a strategic issue of scientific production and influence for the future of SHS. Keywords: digital humanities, evolutionary humanities, quantitative methods, automated natural language processing, network science, transdisciplinarity

This project was initiated in 2022 as part of the IRM and IRDAP and was able to emerge thanks to the support of the DETS department. From the outset, the scientific question of Digital Humanities was considered through the prism of interdisciplinarity. The resulting study day “ Taking advantage of digital humanities in law and political science ” is the subject of a publication project in the “Law” collection of the Presses universitaire de Bordeaux, supported and financed by the MSHBx in as a 2022 AAP winner.

Seminars: Legal Digital Humanities with Python / Natural Language Processing and Network Science
From October 24 to 28, 2022 – Introduction: “Introduction to legal analytics using Python and NLTK”
MSH Bordeaux and University of Bordeaux – Manon Cormier Room / Download the program (pdf)
From November 7 to 10, 2022 – In-depth study: “The legal concept of nature in the Caselaw Access Project (CAP)”
MSH Bordeaux and University of Bordeaux – Salle des Actes / Download the program (pdf)

An international and interdisciplinary conference, focusing on digital humanities in law and political science, is being prepared for the end of June 2023. It will deepen and broaden the avenues opened by the study day of the June 22.

An introductory workshop on network studies (using Tulip software, developed within LaBRI) is being finalized. Information and registration conditions relating to these events, which will take place before the end of 2022, will be released soon.