Florian Keßler goes to DH 2024

DH 2024 is the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. This year, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at their Arlington, VA campus, in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., hosts the DH 2024 conference from August 6-9, 2024, .

Florian Keßler will present a paper with the title: A Clash of Cultures and Topics: A Critical Perspective on Topic Modelling in the Case of Western Mathematics in Pre-modern China on August 8, 2024 (thus exactly 16 years after the opening of the Beijing Summer Olympics !). In this study, he uses topic models to investigate the influence of Western mathematics in pre-modern China. He also critically examines how the instability of popular topic modelling approaches can undermine their reliability in acting as evidence for historical narratives.