Impresso — Media Monitoring of the Past

📢 Reminder: Call for Papers | Beyond Borders, deadline 30 September 2026 The submission deadline for Beyond Borders: Futures of Digitised Historical Media Collections for Research and Teaching is approaching. The Impresso — Media Monitoring of the Past project, with the support of the History Department at the University of Lausanne, invites submissions exploring historical media across languages, institutions, source types and modalities, as well as the growing role of AI and computational methods in historical research. We welcome contributions on: - Historical media ecosystems - Source heterogeneity and uneven digitisation - Human–machine interpretation, including reliability, reproducibility and evaluation - Connecting heritage collections across technical, institutional, legal and archival boundaries Both computational and non-computational perspectives are welcome, including original research, experimental methods, reusable datasets and models, teaching materials, critical reflections, and approaches that did not work as expected. 📅 Submission deadline: 30 September 2026 📍 EPFL & University of Lausanne + online 🗓️ Conference: 28–29 January 2027 Submission formats: • Long papers: up to 1,500 words • Short papers: up to 750 words • Posters: up to 500 words 👉 Full Call for Papers: https://lnkd.in/dvcXXt3m 👉 Submit via EasyChair: https://lnkd.in/eyPZBtZN #DigitalHumanities #MediaHistory #DigitalHistory #HistoricalNewspapers #RadioHistory #CulturalHeritage #AI #NLP #ComputationalHistory #CallForPapers #Impresso

📢 Reminder: Call for Papers | Beyond Borders, deadline 30 September 2026 The submission deadline for Beyond Borders: Futures of Digitised Historical Media Collections for Research and Teaching is approaching. The Impresso — Media Monitoring of the Past project, with the support of the History Department at the University of Lausanne, invites submissions exploring historical media across languages, institutions, source types and modalities, as well as the growing role of AI and computational methods in historical research. We welcome contributions on: - Historical media ecosystems - Source heterogeneity and uneven digitisation - Human–machine interpretation, including reliability, reproducibility and evaluation - Connecting heritage collections across technical, institutional, legal and archival boundaries Both computational and non-computational perspectives are welcome, including original research, experimental methods, reusable datasets and models, teaching materials, critical reflections, and approaches that did not work as expected. 📅 Submission deadline: 30 September 2026 📍 EPFL & University of Lausanne + online 🗓️ Conference: 28–29 January 2027 Submission formats: • Long papers: up to 1,500 words • Short papers: up to 750 words • Posters: up to 500 words 👉 Full Call for Papers: https://lnkd.in/dvcXXt3m 👉 Submit via EasyChair: https://lnkd.in/eyPZBtZN #DigitalHumanities #MediaHistory #DigitalHistory #HistoricalNewspapers #RadioHistory #CulturalHeritage #AI #NLP #ComputationalHistory #CallForPapers #Impresso

📰 Registrations for the Impresso@BnF Datathon are open until 9 September 2026 ! If you’re interested in working hands-on with historical media collections, multilingual and multimodal data, and Impresso tools, don’t forget to submit your registration before the deadline. 📍 Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris 📅 28–30 October 2026 📝 Registration deadline: 9 September 2026 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/e6cJs6pp We look forward to seeing you in Paris! #Impresso #BnF #DigitalHumanities #DigitalHistory #HistoricalNewspapers #Datathon

📰 Registrations for the Impresso@BnF Datathon are open until 9 September 2026 ! If you’re interested in working hands-on with historical media collections, multilingual and multimodal data, and Impresso tools, don’t forget to submit your registration before the deadline. 📍 Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris 📅 28–30 October 2026 📝 Registration deadline: 9 September 2026 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/e6cJs6pp We look forward to seeing you in Paris! #Impresso #BnF #DigitalHumanities #DigitalHistory #HistoricalNewspapers #Datathon

L'occasion d'échanger avec l'équipe de ce projet pionnier en matière d'analyse historique de grands corpus médiatiques - en attendant une version de la plateforme permettant la fouille dans un corpus INA... coming soon ! ⏳

Today is the last day of the Comité international des sciences historiques centennial conference in Leipzig, where this morning Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz, Arthur Michelet and myself (Université de Lausanne) presented the Impresso — Media Monitoring of the Past Project and discussed the challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration in a large-scale digital history project. You can find our slides online, which include links to additional resources: https://lnkd.in/eVH_yfhy A great session titled “Mind the Gap: Digital History in the 21st Century Between Global Access and (In)visible Limitations” with our lovely colleagues Christiane Sibille, Michael Gasser, Gentiana R. (ETH-Bibliothek), Madeleine Herren (University of Basel), and Blandine Blukacz-Louisfert (United Nations Library & Archives Geneva). And congratulations to our very own Sacha Zala (Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland (Dodis)) on his election as president of CISH! 💐

📢 Call for Papers for researchers working at the intersection of media history, memory studies, and computational methods. The special issue of TMG – Journal for Media History invites contributions exploring how large-scale, data-driven approaches can support the study of how people, events, and developments have been remembered across media over time. 📅 Abstract deadline: 15 October 2026

📢 Call for Papers | Beyond Borders: Futures of Digitised Historical Media Collections for Research and Teaching How can we study historical media across languages, institutions, source types and modalities? What happens when newspapers, radio, images, audio and other collections are brought into the same analytical space? And how should we evaluate the growing role of AI and computational methods in historical research? The Impresso — Media Monitoring of the Past project, with the support of the History Department at the University of Lausanne, invites submissions for Beyond Borders, a hybrid conference taking place in Lausanne and online on 28–29 January 2027. The conference will bring together researchers, teachers, cultural heritage professionals, developers and collection holders to discuss four broad areas: 🌐 Historical media ecosystems — studying relations across media, institutions and infrastructures 🗂️ Source heterogeneity — working across languages, collections, modalities and uneven digitisation 🤝 Human–machine interpretation — AI-assisted annotation, classification and interpretation, including questions of reliability, reproducibility and evaluation 🔗 Connecting heritage collections — addressing technical, institutional, legal and archival barriers to cross-collection research We welcome both computational and non-computational perspectives, including original research, experimental methods, reusable datasets and models, teaching materials, critical reflections, and accounts of approaches that did not work as expected. Submission formats • Long papers: abstracts up to 1,500 words • Short papers: abstracts up to 750 words • Posters: abstracts up to 500 words 📅 Submission deadline: 30 September 2026 📍 EPFL & University of Lausanne + online 🗓️ Conference: 28–29 January 2027 This will be the third and final conference organised within Impresso — Media Monitoring of the Past II: Beyond Borders: Connecting Historical Newspapers and Radio, and we hope it will provide a space to take stock of what cross-collection and AI-assisted historical research can currently do, where its limits remain, and what researchers need next. 👉 Read the full Call for Papers: https://lnkd.in/dvcXXt3m 👉 Submit via EasyChair: https://lnkd.in/eyPZBtZN #DigitalHumanities #MediaHistory #DigitalHistory #HistoricalNewspapers #RadioHistory #CulturalHeritage #AI #NLP #ComputationalHistory #CallForPapers #Impresso

As the DH2026 Conference comes to a close, Impresso looks back on a full week of workshops, presentations and exchanges in Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷 🔎 On 27 July, Caio Mello, Vy C. and Ferdaous Affan led the full-day workshop “Impresso Datalab: Embedding Newspapers and Radio Archives for Multimodal and Multilingual Data Analysis.” Participants explored the Impresso Web App and Datalab through hands-on experiments with cross-lingual and multimodal retrieval, the connection of external research data to historical media collections, and discussions about the possibilities and limitations of embedding-based search. 💻 On 29 July, Vy C. and Caio Mello presented the long paper “Meaning, Similarity, and Relevance: Reflections on the Integration of Multilingual and Multimodal Embeddings in Historical Media Research.” The paper examined how semantic similarity and relevance are operationalised in historical research, as well as the methodological questions raised by integrating embeddings into research workflows. 🔤 Vy C. also presented on 30 July, “Tracing Vietnamese Modernity through Neologisms in Colonial Print (1895–1945): A Computational Experiment in Translingual Analysis.” The study explored how computational methods can support the analysis of lexical innovation, translation and linguistic exchange in Vietnamese colonial print. 📰 Finally, on 31 July, Ferdaous Affan presented “A Hierarchical LLM Workflow for Detecting Colonial Propaganda in Historical Newspapers: The Case of the Perdicaris Affair (1904).” The paper introduced a structured workflow in which LLM-assisted detection supports targeted close reading, with verbatim evidence spans and model outputs manually checked against the original newspaper articles, sourced from Impresso — Media Monitoring of the Past. 🙏🏻 Thank you to the #DH2026 organisers and to everyone who joined the workshop and presentations, engaged with us, asked questions and shared feedback. We leave Daejeon with new perspectives on multilingual and multimodal retrieval, historical language analysis, and the critical use of computational methods in media history. Check the DH2026 book of abstracts here: https://lnkd.in/eQNbyf_b #DH2026 #DigitalHumanities #Impresso #MediaHistory #HistoricalNewspapers #MultilingualNLP #Embeddings #LLMs #ComputationalHistory