Glenn Roe
@glennroe.bsky.social
Professor of Digital Scholarship & French Literature, University of Oxford; Co-director of the Voltaire Lab.
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"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes."
The universities of Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/latest-threat-uk-modern-languages-yet-another-faux-pas
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/latest-threat-uk-modern-languages-yet-another-faux-pas
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes."
So pleased to have officially joined the Fellowship of @jesusoxford.bsky.social today - a vibrant academic community at the @ox.ac.uk since 1571.
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
So pleased to have officially joined the Fellowship of @jesusoxford.bsky.social today - a vibrant academic community at the @ox.ac.uk since 1571.
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Ce livre est une merveille
Pour les masteurant-es, doctorant-es mais aussi pour les chercheureuses, même blanchi.es sous le harnais
Une réflexion passionnante sur les nouvelles pratiques et écritures historiennes
Merci @ccarolinemuller.bsky.social
Pour les masteurant-es, doctorant-es mais aussi pour les chercheureuses, même blanchi.es sous le harnais
Une réflexion passionnante sur les nouvelles pratiques et écritures historiennes
Merci @ccarolinemuller.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Ce livre est une merveille
Pour les masteurant-es, doctorant-es mais aussi pour les chercheureuses, même blanchi.es sous le harnais
Une réflexion passionnante sur les nouvelles pratiques et écritures historiennes
Merci @ccarolinemuller.bsky.social
Pour les masteurant-es, doctorant-es mais aussi pour les chercheureuses, même blanchi.es sous le harnais
Une réflexion passionnante sur les nouvelles pratiques et écritures historiennes
Merci @ccarolinemuller.bsky.social
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📢 Call for Proposals: DH2026
📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷
📅 July 27-31, 2026
🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025
Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support
More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
#DH2026 #ADHO #KADH
📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷
📅 July 27-31, 2026
🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025
Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support
More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
#DH2026 #ADHO #KADH
CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2026, to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, from July 27 to 31, 2026.
dh2026.adho.org
September 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
📢 Call for Proposals: DH2026
📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷
📅 July 27-31, 2026
🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025
Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support
More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
#DH2026 #ADHO #KADH
📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷
📅 July 27-31, 2026
🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025
Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support
More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
#DH2026 #ADHO #KADH
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Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Great paper showing how far text embedding models have to go in capturing the semantics of phrases arxiv.org/abs/2506.08354
Text Embeddings Should Capture Implicit Semantics, Not Just Surface Meaning
This position paper argues that the text embedding research community should move beyond surface meaning and embrace implicit semantics as a central modeling goal. Text embedding models have become fo...
arxiv.org
June 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Great paper showing how far text embedding models have to go in capturing the semantics of phrases arxiv.org/abs/2506.08354
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Hey, the dataset is out now. A million books: huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
H/t @naitian.org for the link
H/t @naitian.org for the link
June 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Hey, the dataset is out now. A million books: huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
H/t @naitian.org for the link
H/t @naitian.org for the link
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Fancy Edinburgh Uni as a visiting fellow? Global Majority Fellowships in NLP 2025-2026, for early careers researchers. For this 1st year, we welcome applications on “Responsible NLP and Digital Cultural Heritage”, working with me! 2-3 months in duration, Visa fees, stipend &travel. Please share!
Global Majority Fellowships 2025-2026
www.responsiblenlp.org
June 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Fancy Edinburgh Uni as a visiting fellow? Global Majority Fellowships in NLP 2025-2026, for early careers researchers. For this 1st year, we welcome applications on “Responsible NLP and Digital Cultural Heritage”, working with me! 2-3 months in duration, Visa fees, stipend &travel. Please share!
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#CCLS2025 #conference is only a few weeks away, and registration will close soon! 😱
🔜 Register by Thursday, June 12, at 11:59 p.m. GMT+1 to join on site in #Krakow or #online. 💻
You can register directly here: www.konferencje-uj.pl?lang=en&go2r...
#JCLS #CLS #LiteraryComputing #CulturalAnalytics
🔜 Register by Thursday, June 12, at 11:59 p.m. GMT+1 to join on site in #Krakow or #online. 💻
You can register directly here: www.konferencje-uj.pl?lang=en&go2r...
#JCLS #CLS #LiteraryComputing #CulturalAnalytics
4th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, Krakow 2025
jcls.io
June 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
#CCLS2025 #conference is only a few weeks away, and registration will close soon! 😱
🔜 Register by Thursday, June 12, at 11:59 p.m. GMT+1 to join on site in #Krakow or #online. 💻
You can register directly here: www.konferencje-uj.pl?lang=en&go2r...
#JCLS #CLS #LiteraryComputing #CulturalAnalytics
🔜 Register by Thursday, June 12, at 11:59 p.m. GMT+1 to join on site in #Krakow or #online. 💻
You can register directly here: www.konferencje-uj.pl?lang=en&go2r...
#JCLS #CLS #LiteraryComputing #CulturalAnalytics
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I had the honour of delivering this year’s Voltaire Foundation Digital Enlightenment Studies Lecture in Oxford. The talk is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Nf...
Books as Objects, Data and Meaning: A Computational Approach to 18th-C Book and Intellectual History
YouTube video by Voltaire Foundation Oxford
www.youtube.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I had the honour of delivering this year’s Voltaire Foundation Digital Enlightenment Studies Lecture in Oxford. The talk is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Nf...
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Victor Hugo's artwork was amazing. Icymi, I wrote up a blog post about an exhibition in London at the Royal Academy with a ton of pics. ghostweather.com/blog/posts/2... #museums
May 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Victor Hugo's artwork was amazing. Icymi, I wrote up a blog post about an exhibition in London at the Royal Academy with a ton of pics. ghostweather.com/blog/posts/2... #museums
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You can still register for onlince access to Prof Leah Price's 2025 Lyell Lectures @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, 'Victorian Books and their Servants', though we are fully booked in person ... visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lyell-lectur...
The Lyell Lectures 2025
The 2025 Lyell Lectures, hosted by the Bodleian Libraries and delivered by Professor Leah Price
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
April 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
You can still register for onlince access to Prof Leah Price's 2025 Lyell Lectures @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, 'Victorian Books and their Servants', though we are fully booked in person ... visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lyell-lectur...
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📆 Save the date! 📆
Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social (@helsinki.fi) is going to give our Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies!
9 May 2025, Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, 17:00–19:00.
More information:
tinyurl.com/3cjmx4zj
Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social (@helsinki.fi) is going to give our Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies!
9 May 2025, Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, 17:00–19:00.
More information:
tinyurl.com/3cjmx4zj
Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies: Mikko Tolonen on Books as Objects, Data and Meaning: A Computational Approach to Eighteenth-Century Book and Intellectual History
9 May 2025 Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, 17:00–19:00 Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki) Books as Objects, Data and Meaning: A…
www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk
March 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
📆 Save the date! 📆
Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social (@helsinki.fi) is going to give our Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies!
9 May 2025, Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, 17:00–19:00.
More information:
tinyurl.com/3cjmx4zj
Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social (@helsinki.fi) is going to give our Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies!
9 May 2025, Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, 17:00–19:00.
More information:
tinyurl.com/3cjmx4zj
CFP: LLMs and DH, Paris, July 3-4 2025 www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
DH@LLM: Grands modèles de langage et humanités numériques
DH@LLM: Grands modèles de langage et humanités numériquesColloque organisé par Alexandre Gefen (CNRS-Sorbonne Nouvelle), Glenn Roe (Sorbonne-Université), Ayla Rigouts Terryn (Université de Montréal) e...
www.fabula.org
January 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
CFP: LLMs and DH, Paris, July 3-4 2025 www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
CFP conference+journal track of the Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS). The 4rd annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies CCLS2025 will take place from July 3-4, 2025, in Krakow, Poland. Deadline Jan 30! jcls.io/site/cfp/
Call for Papers
jcls.io
January 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
CFP conference+journal track of the Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS). The 4rd annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies CCLS2025 will take place from July 3-4, 2025, in Krakow, Poland. Deadline Jan 30! jcls.io/site/cfp/
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New on the blog!
We are delighted to introduce ‘L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk‘, the latest special collection from Modern Languages Open which is available to read Open Access. #18C #DH
voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/i...
We are delighted to introduce ‘L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk‘, the latest special collection from Modern Languages Open which is available to read Open Access. #18C #DH
voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/i...
Introducing ‘L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk’: The Latest Special Collection from MLO
We are delighted to introduce ‘L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk‘, the latest special collection from Modern Languages Open which is available…
voltairefoundation.wordpress.com
December 12, 2024 at 10:50 AM
New on the blog!
We are delighted to introduce ‘L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk‘, the latest special collection from Modern Languages Open which is available to read Open Access. #18C #DH
voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/i...
We are delighted to introduce ‘L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk‘, the latest special collection from Modern Languages Open which is available to read Open Access. #18C #DH
voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/i...
Just in time for the holidays, a new volume of #digitalenlightenmentstudies - text reuse ; revolutionary digital corpora ; Voltaire’s manuscripts, and more! digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/issue/5/info/ #digitizingenlightenment #lumieres #digital18c
Digital Enlightenment Studies |
Issue: Issue: 1(2) (2024)
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digitalenlightenmentstudies.org
December 12, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Just in time for the holidays, a new volume of #digitalenlightenmentstudies - text reuse ; revolutionary digital corpora ; Voltaire’s manuscripts, and more! digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/issue/5/info/ #digitizingenlightenment #lumieres #digital18c
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A pair of interesting and helpful new accounts of studying C18 French text reuse from @glennroe.bsky.social and Dario Maria Nicolosi
digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/article/id/22/
digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/article/id/23/
digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/article/id/22/
digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/article/id/23/
Modelling Enlightenment: reassembling intertextual networks through data-driven research (ModERN)
The European Research Council's ModERN project (Modelling Enlightenment: reassembling networks of modernity through data-driven research) is a pioneering five-year research initiative. This programme ...
digitalenlightenmentstudies.org
December 12, 2024 at 2:49 PM
A pair of interesting and helpful new accounts of studying C18 French text reuse from @glennroe.bsky.social and Dario Maria Nicolosi
digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/article/id/22/
digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/article/id/23/
digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/article/id/22/
digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/article/id/23/
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BookNLP-fr, the French Versant of BookNLP. A Tailored Pipeline for 19th and 20th Century French Literature doi.org/10.48694/jcl... #CHR2024
BookNLP-fr, the French Versant of BookNLP. A Tailored Pipeline for 19th and 20th Century French Literature
This paper presents BookNLP-fr: the adaptation to French of BookNLP, an existing NLP pipeline tailored for literary texts in English. We provide an overview of the challenges involved in the adaptatio...
doi.org
December 4, 2024 at 8:04 AM
BookNLP-fr, the French Versant of BookNLP. A Tailored Pipeline for 19th and 20th Century French Literature doi.org/10.48694/jcl... #CHR2024
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Further articles in 'L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix' include work by Robert Morrissey and @glennroe.bsky.social, ‘Hidden in Plain Sight: The Questions sur l’Encyclopédie in the Nineteenth Century’. Read it #OA on MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Roe-Morrissey. @voltaire.ox.ac.uk @tomofwynnland.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Further articles in 'L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix' include work by Robert Morrissey and @glennroe.bsky.social, ‘Hidden in Plain Sight: The Questions sur l’Encyclopédie in the Nineteenth Century’. Read it #OA on MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Roe-Morrissey. @voltaire.ox.ac.uk @tomofwynnland.bsky.social
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Many thanks to Lea Ypi for a fascinating paper on Kant’s approach to colonialism and to the large, interdisciplinary audience at this term’s Enlightenment Workshop! Next session: Colin Jones on Robespierre, 29 Jan, 5pm. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
November 28, 2024 at 8:31 AM
Many thanks to Lea Ypi for a fascinating paper on Kant’s approach to colonialism and to the large, interdisciplinary audience at this term’s Enlightenment Workshop! Next session: Colin Jones on Robespierre, 29 Jan, 5pm. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
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I'm sure I. A. Richards would interpret this as evidence that we need more and better teaching of poetry. That interpretation remains open!
November 15, 2024 at 9:32 PM
I'm sure I. A. Richards would interpret this as evidence that we need more and better teaching of poetry. That interpretation remains open!
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Releasing two trillion tokens in the open. huggingface.co/blog/Pclangl...
November 13, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Releasing two trillion tokens in the open. huggingface.co/blog/Pclangl...
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Hi new followers. 👋🏼
It's probably my sacred duty to highlight that I published this firey volume recently with @dukepress.bsky.social. I just presented it in Martinique this AM. Big hit. Folks are ready for this more radical Césaire.
It's probably my sacred duty to highlight that I published this firey volume recently with @dukepress.bsky.social. I just presented it in Martinique this AM. Big hit. Folks are ready for this more radical Césaire.
November 13, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Hi new followers. 👋🏼
It's probably my sacred duty to highlight that I published this firey volume recently with @dukepress.bsky.social. I just presented it in Martinique this AM. Big hit. Folks are ready for this more radical Césaire.
It's probably my sacred duty to highlight that I published this firey volume recently with @dukepress.bsky.social. I just presented it in Martinique this AM. Big hit. Folks are ready for this more radical Césaire.
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The best of all possible worlds: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German polymath, mathematician, scientist & philosopher, inspired Voltaire's Dr Pangloss; died #OTD 1716.
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum
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November 14, 2024 at 6:09 AM
The best of all possible worlds: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German polymath, mathematician, scientist & philosopher, inspired Voltaire's Dr Pangloss; died #OTD 1716.
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum