ACCESSIBILITY NOTE

We would like to inform participants that not every building in FASoS is fully accessible due to its historical character and age. Please use the guide below to check accessibility requirements for each room. If you have registered and left a note regarding accessibility needs, we will follow-up with you via e-mail to ensure as much access as possible to your session choices, especially if you use a mobility device.

Room Guides

- GG80-82 [elevator access to whole building]
  - 0.001 – ground floor
  - 0.039 – ground floor
  - Spiegelzaal – elevator access
- GG90-92 [elevator access]
  - Turnzaal – ground floor
- GG76
  - 0.07 – ground floor
  - 0.10 The Plant – ground floor
  - 1.02 – upstairs room, no elevator
- GG76s [access stairs and elevator from bike shed for all rooms]
  - 0.024 – elevator access
  - 1.014 – upstairs room, elevator access
  - 1.018 – upstairs room, elevator access

External Locations

School of Business & Economics (keynotes)
- Franz Palmzaal (Tongersestraat 53) – ramp access to ground floor and elevator access to all areas
Centre Ceramique (opening reception)
- Main area – ground floor with ramp access
- Washrooms in basement with elevator access

Accessibility and Support at the Conference

We are committed to ensuring that our conference is accessible and inclusive for all participants. If you have any special accessibility requirements, mobility needs, or other concerns, please know that support is available.

Monika Barget, a historian at FASoS and a member of the university’s Disability Inclusion Group (DIG), will serve as your contact person during the event. You can spot her wearing a sunflower lanyard and the DIG sunflower badge during the event. Moreover, you can obtain her telephone number at the FASoS reception and call her at any time during the event with questions or for assistance navigating FASoS and its accessible amenities. We look forward to welcoming you to Maastricht!

ZENODO COMMUNITY / DOIs

As of the conference start (June 2nd), we are no longer individually updating or adding late DOIs. If you are looking for a DOI that is not linked, you can search via the DHBenelux 2026 Zenodo Community.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

DOWNLOADABLE SCHEDULE PDFs

WORKSHOPS

All Day (9.30-17:00)

Workshop 1: Controlled vocabularies as building blocks of humanities and social science research – Liliana Melgar, Menzo Windhouwer, Kerim Meijer, Angelica Maineri and Andre Valdestilhas. Building 80-82, Spiegelzaal
Workshop 2: Problems and Prospects of Computational Fanfiction Research – Mia Jacobsen, Julia Neugarten, Pascale Feldkamp, Yuri Bizzoni and Ross Kristensen-McLachlan. Building 80-82, Attic
PhD Mentoring: The mentoring session is only open to pre-selected PhDs candidates, organisers, and mentors. Building 80-82, Room 0.001

Coffee Break: 10:30-11:00am (Turnzaal/Registration Area)

Lunch Break: 12:30-14:00pm (Turnzaal/Registration Area)

Morning (9.30-12:30)

Workshop 3: Digital storytelling for urban and rural heritage interpretation – Afroditi Kamara, Angeliki Antoniou, Thespoina Lampada and Vassilis Poulopoulos. Building GG76, The Plant
Workshop 4: Tapestries in Cultural Heritage Research and Collections – James Smith, Jeff Love, Sophie Ham and Celonie Rozema. Building GG76, Room 1.02

Coffee Break: 10:30-11:00am

Lunch Break: 12:30-14:00pm

Afternoon (14:00-17:00)

Workshop 5: From reproducibility to re-enactment, a new life for scientific articles –Frédéric Clavert, Elisabeth Guerard, Marion Salaün and Danièle Guido. Building 76s, Room 1.014
Workshop 6: Introduction to HistText: An Application for Exploring Multilingual Text Corpora – Cécile Armand and Henriot Christian. Building 76s, Room 0.024
Workshop 7: Storytellers by Design: Critical Approaches to Curating Research-Driven Digital Experiences Using Design Methods – Kelly Gillikin Schoueri, Federica Di Biase and Jona Schlegel. Building 76, The Plant
Workshop 8: Impresso Datalab: Embedding Newspapers for multimodal and multilingual data analysis – Caio Mello, Cao Vy, Marten During and Kaspar Beelen. Building 76, Room 1.02

Coffee Break: 15:00-15:30pm

SPECIAL EVENTS

More than Access: What do researchers and heritage institutions really need from each other? (15:00-16:30)

Special Panel at Tracé – Limburgs Samenlevingsarchief (Sint Pieterstraat 7, 6211 JM Maastricht)

Digital heritage collections are bursting with potential—museums, archives, and cultural organizations are throwing open their digital doors, sharing treasures with the world. Meanwhile, Digital Humanities scholars are armed with cutting-edge tools, ready to dive deep into these riches. But here’s the rub: the conversation between these two worlds isn’t as lively as it could be. What do researchers really need from heritage institutions to make their work fly? And what do heritage organizations wish researchers understood or provided to make collaboration work well?

Tracé – Limburgs Samenlevingsarchief and Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed/Huis voor de Kunsten Limburg are stepping up to change that. At the upcoming DHBenelux 2026 conference, they’re hosting a special spin off session to spark collaboration between researchers and heritage pros. Nico Randeraad, Tracé’s director, will kick things off by showcasing some of their most exciting digital projects.

So, whether you’re a scholar hunting for data or a heritage pro sitting on a goldmine, this is your chance to speak up. Join us on 2 June for a conversation that starts from a seemingly simple question: If you could ask for one thing from the other side to supercharge collaboration, what would it be?

Contributors:

Wouter Daemen (Huis voor de Kunsten Limburg)
Nico Randeraad (Tracé)
Claartje Rasterhoff (Maastricht University)
Melvin Wevers (University of Amsterdam)
Rebecca Henzel (Limburgs Museum)
Weixuan Li (Rijksmuseum & University of Amsterdam)
Arnoud Wils (The Playground and Laboratory for New Technologies)

Moderator:

Joris Roosen (Tracé)

Supported by the Maastricht Centre for Arts & Culture, Conservation & Heritage (MACCH)

You can register for this special panel at DH Benelux via this link. Due to limited availability, please only register if you are certain that you will attend. We look forward to having you join us!

REGISTRATION

8.30-9.30 at the FASoS Reception (Main Entrance of Buidling 90-92)

CONFERENCE OPENING

9.30-9:45 in the Turnzaal

CONFERENCE – DAY 1

9:45 to 11:15 (Oral Presentations)

Session 1A: Texts & Communities (Building 76, Room 0.07)

Session Chair: Erik Tjong Kim Sang

Ruben Ros	Modelling Crisis at Scale: Text Mining the Crisification of Events in Western Societies, 1800-2025
Yann Ryan and Anne Heyer	Using Large Language Models to understand ‘the masses’ in nineteenth-century Dutch newspapers
Mia Jacobsen, Julia Neugarten and Yuri Bizzoni	Blood and gore: The prevalence of violence in fanfiction across gender categories and engagement [DOI]

Session 1B: Virtual Realities (Building 76s, Room 1.018)

Session Chair: Nicole Basaraba

Stefan Bos, Lisa Bruggen, Jonas Heller and Minou van der Werf	How Virtual Reality changes empathic storytelling: A mixed-methods analysis of memory, language, and behavior
Asja Mueller and Martin Kim	The Koan Asklepieion – An Alternative Story: Approaching Healing Rituals by Serious Gaming [DOI]
Juan Aguilar	Walking through 2700 years of history of Tell Nebi Yunus, Mosul, Iraq in a Virtual Reality application: A new way to present a heritage site’s cultural dynamics [DOI]

Session 1C: Digital Heritage (Building 80-82, Room 0.039)

Session Chair: Joëlla van Donkersgoed

Maryam Mazaheri, Maarten Coonen, Odin Essers and Hilde van Wanroij	Open Topstukken: Infrastructured Storytelling with Linked Data for Cross-Institutional Heritage Narratives [DOI]
Lorella Viola	Not One Polyvocality but Many: Digital Heritage Across Unequal Histories [DOI]
Valeria Irene Boano	Pliny’s “Wall of Fame”: A Digital Semantic Approach to Citations and Character Networks in Books 2-6 of the Naturalis Historia [DOI]
Sviatoslav Drach, Benedikte Löbbert and Claes Neuefeind	Presenting research in an engaging way: digital exhibitions as a sustainable publication format [DOI]

11:15-11:45 Break with Tea & Coffee (Turnzaal & FASoS Garden)

11:45-13:15 (Oral Presentations)

Session 2A: Dutch Language & History (Building 76, Room 0.07)

Session Chair: Marijn Koolen

Caroline Vandyck, Mike Kestemont and Godfried Croenen	The Hand of Antwerp: A Dataset of Middle Dutch Deeds (1300-1355) connected to Jan van Boendale [DOI]
Arjan van Dalfsen	Functional Diversity as a Metric for Animal Diversity in Early Modern Dutch Texts: First Insights [DOI]
Rik Hoekstra	Beyond Numerical Dominance: Presence, Influence and Strategic Behaviour in the Dutch States-General (1626–1630) [DOI]
Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Bram Oostveen, Joris J. van Zundert, Henny Brandhorst, Menno Metselaar and Marco Streefkerk	Stylistic Influences in Anne Frank’s Writings [DOI]

Session 2B: 3D & Multimodal Storytelling (Building 76s, Room 1.018)

Session Chair: Susan Schreibman

Charles van Den Heuvel, Sofia Baroncini and Veruska Zamborlini	Creating Authentic Stories in a Cultural Heritage Knowledge Architecture: Modeling 3D reconstructions, replicas and restorations of the Chest of Distress of Maastricht [DOI]
Costas Papadopoulos, Carsten Schnober, Kelly Gillikin Schoueri, Chiara Piccoli, Susan Schreibman, Jesus Garcia González and Tim van der Heijden	Dynamic3D: Interactive Narratives through 3D Simulation and Analysis [DOI]
Tim van der Heijden	Thinkering in 3D: Towards a Digital Experimental Media Archaeology [DOI]
Georgia Sivri	From Memory to Multimodal Storytelling: Digitally Narrating Asia Minor Urban Culture at ESTIA Neas Smyrnis

Session 2C: Media & Entertainment (Building 80-82, Room 0.039)

Session Chair: Alie Lassche

Mehrdad Almasi and Tugce Karatas	Rewriting the Past for the Present: A Computational Study of Sitcom Presentism using Fine-Tuned Language Models [DOI]
Miguel Arrais Pacheco	The Queer Art of Interpellation: Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Gabriel Massan’s Digital Video Games [DOI]
Aida Gholami	Scene-Anchored Analysis of Affective “Stickiness” in Nordic Political-Thriller Television with Large Language Models
Jelmer Datema, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, Kiete Schmitt, Annabel Simons, Thomas Smits, Loren Verreyen and Melvin Wevers	The playlist pipeline: Reconstructing the historical music programming of the Indonesian programme of Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep [DOI]

13:15-14:30 Lunch & Group Walk to SBE for the Keynote

14:30-15:30 Keynote

Prof. Shawn Graham’s Once Upon a Time: The Behaviour Space(s) of Stories

15:30-16:00 Group Walk back to FASoS and Break with Coffee & Tea (Turnzaal & FASoS Garden)

16:00-17:15 (Lightning Talks)

Lightning A (Building 76, Room 0.07)

Session Chair: Tim van der Heijden

Adélaïde Couplet, Benoît Frénay and Laurence Meurant	Sign Languages and Gesture Recognition
Weixuan Li	Visual storytelling with GIS: 3D perspective Analysis of in the View of Fuzhou [DOI]
Kushang Agarwal and Rajorshi Ray	Safe Spaces and Unsafe Designs : A Mixed-Methods Study of Queer User Experiences on Grindr in India [DOI]
Susan Hogervorst	From Interview to Archive (or Not): Dilemmas in Participatory Oral History
Blise Orr	From specimen to Dataset: Digitalising the more than human through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and collections of natural history.
Federico Filippi Prévost de Bord	From Notes to Nodes: Interactive Modeling and Visualization of Bertini’s Dictionary of Musicians (1814) [DOI]

Lightning B (Building 76s, Room 1.018)

Session Chair: Monika Barget

Carmen Carrasco	Reading the Illegible: Developing an HTR Model for Henri Pirenne’s Archive [DOI]
Febe Thonissen	Detecting floating stanzas in premodern Dutch songs [DOI]
Gabriele Torcoletti	Feeling the Ancient Pulse: An AI-Assisted Interactive Platform for Experiencing Galenic Pulse Theory [DOI]
Maria Ionita	From Missionary Records to Data Narratives: Reconstructing the Histories of Tamil Religious Objects (1706–1741) [DOI]
Bram Bakker and Iris Hendrickx	Explainable entity matching for library metadata [DOI]
Gideon Manelis	Digital Echoes: Narrating Galen’s Theory of Voice in a Digital Interface [DOI]

OPENING RECEPTION

18:00-20:00 at Centre Ceramique, Avenue Ceramique 50, 6221 KV Maastricht

Join us for the conference reception on 3 June from 18:00 to 20:00 at the Centre Céramique, home to the Maastricht Museum!

Centre Céramique is Maastricht’s modern cultural centre and public library, located in the vibrant Céramique district near the River Maas. Designed by architect Jo Coenen, the striking building serves as a hub for culture, knowledge, history, and community events in the city. Centre Céramique brings together a large public library, exhibition spaces, reading rooms, educational activities, and cultural programmes under one roof.

The venue is also home to the Maastricht Museum, where visitors can explore the history and identity of Maastricht through art, archaeology, historical objects, and interactive exhibitions. Throughout the year, Centre Céramique hosts lectures, concerts, exhibitions, workshops, and international events, making it one of Maastricht’s most important cultural meeting places.

Guests are warmly invited to the DHBenelux evening reception in one of Maastricht’s leading cultural venues. During the event, participants can also enjoy a special visit to Maastricht Museum, where the city’s rich heritage and contemporary stories come together through engaging exhibitions and interactive displays.

CONFERENCE – DAY 2

9:00 to 10:30 (Oral Presentations)

Session 3A: Critical Data Practices (Building 76s, Room 1.018)

Session Chair: Tom Gheldof

Ellen Charlesworth and Ludovica Schaerf	Evidence of what exactly? Questioning the use of neural networks to create evidence within research narratives [DOI]
Francisca Pessanha, Heysem Kaya, Almila Akdag and Judith Masthoff	Emotion Through Breath in the ACT UP Oral History Project [DOI]
Shuai Wang, Costas Papadopoulos and Pedro Hernández Serrano	Applying Data Infrastructure Maturity Profile to Digital Humanities [DOI]
C. Annemieke Romein, Jos Mooijweer and Andreas Weber	Unlocking Provincial Voices: How ML/AI Enables New Narratives of Citizenship in the Early Modern Dutch Republic. The Case of Overijssel’s Resolutions (1578-1795). [DOI]

Session 3B: Visual Analysis (Building 76, Room 0.07)

Session Chair: Sofia Baroncini

Alie Lassche, Marta Kipke, Rie Schmidt Eriksen, Katrine Baunvig and Kristoffer Nielbo	Corsaren: Multimodal Storytelling in Nineteenth Century Danish Satire [DOI]
Fien Messens, Julie M. Birkholz and Christophe Verbruggen	Tracing Connections: The Ego-Network of the Painter François-Joseph Navez
Marta Kipke, Rie Schmidt Eriksen, Kristoffer Nielbo and Katrine Baunvig	The Narrative of National Romanticism in 19th Century Painting: The Danish Golden Age and Beyond [DOI]

Session 3C: Medieval History (Building 80-82, Room 0.039)

Session Chair: Amanda Robin

Friederike Voit, Gleb Schmidt and Sven Meeder	“Blessed are the Poor”: Modelling Christian Values in Early Medieval Canon Law (400-1100) [DOI]
Hannah Busch	(Re-)telling 12th century papal history [DOI]
Robert L. J. Shaw, Tomáš Hampejs and David Zbíral	Narratives of religious dissidence in medieval inquisition records: computing the representation and sequencing of crimes in Peter Seila’s register of sentences (1241–2) [DOI]
David Zbíral, Zoltan Brys, Robert L. J. Shaw and Gideon Kotzé	Using LLMs to uncover hidden patterns in the contestation of religious authorities across a corpus of medieval inquisition records, 1243–1522

10:30-11:00 Break with Coffee & Tea (Turnzaal & FASoS Garden)

11:00-12:30 (Oral Presentations & Panel)

Session 4A: Large Language Models (Building 76, Room 0.07)

Session Chair: Arjan van Dalfsen

Louis Escouflaire	Unsmurfed: How an LLM Interprets the Smurfs’ Distributional Language [DOI]
Tess Dejaeghere, Els Lefever, Pranaydeep Singh, Elke Evrard and Cira Palli Aspero	The Case of RedressHub: An LLM-Assisted Pipeline for Mapping Colonial Redress Initiatives in Belgium [DOI]
Sara Budts, Rik Vosters and Yoshi Malaise	Using transformer models to analyze orthographic variation in Late Modern Dutch witness depositions
Ruhi Mahadeshwar, Tommaso Caselli, Malvina Nissim and Andreas van Cranenburgh	Evaluating the Impact of Source Diversity for RAG in Historical Research [DOI]

Session 4B (Panel) : Lost in digitalization? Using data as a source for quantitative art history – Sofia Baroncini and Thorsten Wübbena. Building 76s, 1.018 [DOI]
- Panelists:
  - Angela Dreßen
  - Weixuan Li
  - Folgert Karsdorp
  - Bárbara Romero Ferrón

Session 4C: Connecting Data & Users (Building 80-82, Room 0.039)

Session Chair: Elli Bleeker

Evelien de Graaf	Reconstructing Ancient Networks: Integrating Corpus Analysis with Wikidata [DOI]
Juliette Huygen, Maria Eskevich, Bente Frissen, Lotte Belice Baltussen	Building a Shared Data Catalogue: User Research and Conceptual Considerations [DOI]
Nicolò Cantoni, Cornelis J. Schilt, Jeffrey C. Wolf, Demetrios Paraschos and Eszter Kovács	The Stories it Tells: VERITRACE’s Interactive Metadata Explorer and New Narratives in the Reception of Ancient Wisdom
Mateusz Kielan, Xander Wilcke, Richard Zijdeman and Rick Mourtis	Bridging the Gap Between Tabular and Linked Data: Designing an Intelligent Conversion Tool for Digital Humanities

12:30-13:45 Lunch & Walk to SBE for Keynote

13:45-14:45 Keynote

Dr. Sandra Camarda The Shape of the Playable Past: Narrative Systems and the Practice of History

14:45-15:15 Walk back to FASoS & Coffee Break

15:15-16:45 (Oral Presentations & Panel)

Session 5A: Religious Texts & Communities (Building 76, Room 0.07)

Session Chair: Ortal-Paz Saar

Magdalena Hürten, Thomas Schmidt, Ute Leimgruber and Christian Wolff	Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: Annotation and Machine Learning of Hidden Patterns in Abuse Reports [DOI]
Valentina Modolo	Quantitative Stemmatology and Open Recensio: A Test Case on the Bible historiale’s Book of Exodus [DOI]
Andrea Peverelli and Barbara McGillivray	Tracing Semantic Narratives of Gratia and Fides in Neo-Latin Poetry Digital Storytelling Across Confessional Divides [DOI]

Session 5B (Panel) : Telling the story of a dataset – Mari Wigham and Maria Eskevich. Building 76s, 1.018
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19918333
Panelists
Merel Geerlings
Jörg Lehmann
Marijke van Faassen
Andre Valdestilhas
Sarah Oberbichler

Session 5C: Knowledge Creation & Sharing (Building 80-82, Room 0.039)

Session Chair: Mike Kestemont

Bas Vercruysse, Vincent Ducatteeuw, Julie Birkholz, Christophe Verbruggen, Johan Poukens, Heike Bekaert and Jahid Chetti	Narrating Belgian Business History [DOI]
Michael Piotrowski and Tonia Ramogida	Arguing with Corpora: The Epistemic Status of Corpora in Computational Humanities [DOI]
Costas Papadopoulos, Felix Bui and Anna Villarica	Critical Making: Telling Stories through World-Building in Digital Humanities Pedagogy [DOI]
Thomas Kollatz	Read and See: Dual Approaches to Content Representation in the Digital Edition Buber-Korrespondenzen Digital

16:45-17:45 (Demonstrations & Poster Session)

Demonstrations, Turnzaal

Yuka Satori	Ideatecture: A Physical-Digital Ecosystem for Neurodivergent Learners to Structure Their Thoughts
Zomer Zeijlemaker, Leon van Wissen and Ingeborg Verheul	The Amsterdam Protest Dataset: Linking Visual Archives for Future Research
Daniele Guido and Kirill Mitsurov	A renaissance of 3D for Cultural Heritage: scrolly-telling websites with our 3D Stories Framework [DOI]
Martin Berger, Ishak Riali, Elizabeth Rodriguez Estrada and Gabriel Spautz Vieira	Demonstration: Digital tools for large-scale provenance research in museum databases [DOI]
Orly Lewis and Premshay Hermon	Digital Ancient Medicine: A Suite of Digital Platforms [DOI]
Monika Barget and Rutger Schurgers	Academic storytelling with enriched hypertext [DOI]

Posters, Turnzaal

Annemieke Romein, Melissa Terras, Andy Stauder, Florian Stauder and Michaela Prien	“As Open as Possible, as Closed as Necessary”: Balancing Openness, Sustainability, and Data Protection in Cooperative AI Infrastructure [DOI]
Jaap Geraerts, Henry Keazor, Demival Vasques Filho, Rebecca Welkens and Thorsten Wübbena	Forgeries and Networks (ForNet). The Mittheilungen des Museen-Verbandes and forgery networks in the 20th century [DOI]
Amanda Robin Hemmons, Julie Birkholz and Gunther Martens	From vellum to virtual: manuscripts keep telling stories
Julie Birkholz, Christophe Verbruggen and Rein Debrulle	CLARIAH-VL+: paving the way for a SSH Open Science Cloud for Flanders
Feruza Bakhtiyorova and Lorella Viola	Workforce Imbalance and Structural Decline: A Data-Driven Analysis of the Dutch East India Company (1700-1780)
Xiaoyu Zhou, Federico Pianzola and Janina Wildfeuer	Narrative Flow on the Infinite Canvas
Christian Nababan and Victor de Boer	An Ontology for Traditional Knowledge Labels [DOI]
Yahui Zhao and Laura Hollink	Beyond Keywords: Identifying Colonial Perspectives in Controlled Vocabulary Descriptions Using Large Language Models — A Case Study of the Getty AAT
Lea Krause, Eva Heemskerk, Wai Shang Cheah and Victor de Boer	Towards Polyvocal Metadata Collection for Colonial Collections: a Pilot Study in Kuching, Malaysia [DOI]
Michel de Gruijter, Rana Klein, Harry Romijn, Anne Schulp, Marcel Broersma, Martha Larson, Roeland Ordelman, Eric Postma, Annemieke Romein, Eva Teuling, Remco Veltkamp, Deborah Bozzato and Andreas Weber	HAICu’s Innovation Labs: Bridging Technology and Heritage through Collaborative Problem-Solving [DOI]
Maximilian Hindermann and Sorin Marti	The Anonymous Humanities Data Benchmark: Evaluation as Epistemic Practice
Fabian Cremer, Moritz Schepp and Thorsten Wübbena	Carbonite Coffin for ConedaKOR: A database software with a built-in self-degradable static mode as a sustainable Digital Humanities research infrastructure [DOI]
Jona Schlegel and Thunnis van Oort	Linking Surinamese Heritage Data: Building a Community-Focused Platform
Elli Bleeker, Beatrice Nava, Elena Spadini, Marcus Pockelmann, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco and Chiara Martignano	Developing a Taxonomy for Textual Variation: the VIDIT Research Initiative
Xuemin Duan, Ruben Peeters and Anastasia Dimou	Knowledge-Graph-Driven Personalised Recommendation for Cultural Heritage Artefacts [DOI]
Federico Pianzola	The GOLEM Annotated Corpus for Computational Literary Studies
Ruben Peeters, Xuemin Duan and Anastasia Dimou	From Silos to Semantics: A Multimodal, Rights-Aware Ecosystem for Cultural Heritage [DOI]
Anna Mihlic	A cross-cultural computational analysis of the linguistic description of witches in children’s literature
Noah Chapman and Lisa Randisi	Addressing Concerns in Mongolian Public Archaeology through Educational Game Design [DOI]
Jeroen Salman, Julian Gonggrijp and Tijmen Baarda	A virtual research environment for collaborative querying, collecting and annotating works of European popular print [DOI]
Sytze Van Herck, Lise Foket, Frederic Lamsens, Marie Auger, Nina Uelpenich and Orphea Vanden Broeke	Semantic Storytelling using Omeka S [DOI]
Fiammetta Comelli, Heike Bekaert, Bas Vercruysse, Julie Birkholz, Steven Vanderputten and Anne Breitbarth	Untangling hagiographic entanglements: from Textual Annotation, Named Entity Recognition to Database [DOI]
Cécile Armand	Turning Lists into Narratives: A Data-Driven History of the Press in Modern China (1931-1937)
Nicole Basaraba and Roeland Goorts	Narrative mapping of the Legendary 18th Century Bokkenrijders in Limburg [DOI]
Annerose Tartler-Ostrizek, Marie-Sophie Bercegeay, Judith Biernaux, Anna Miglio and Francis Strobbe	Engaging the GLAM Sector in a Federal Open Science Ecosystem: The Belgian FedOSC Approach

CONFERENCE DINNER

18:30-21:30 in the FASoS Garden

Join us for a delicious dinner in our FASoS Garden! Live music from DH data, tasty food, delicious drinks, and great discussions to be enjoyed. Please feel welcome to bring a partner, colleague, or friend, provided you’ve arranged a ticket in advance. We’re looking forward to welcoming you!

The DH Benelux 2026 Conference Dinner will take place on Thursday 4 June in the FASoS garden at Maastricht University. Designed as an informal standing dinner rather than a traditional sit‑down event, it will feature a variety of food trucks, drinks and cocktails, and live music generated from DH data, creating a distinctly digital‑humanities atmosphere. At €45 per person, the dinner offers high‑quality food and a relaxed setting that encourages networking across projects, institutions, and countries, as well as plenty of space to continue conversations from the day’s sessions.

Highlights: A Digital Humanities Benelux themed photo booth and your chance to hear the sound of your own paper!

At the DH Benelux conference dinner, music won’t just be played – it will be generated from research data. Saxophonist and composer Julia Warren will be joined by double bassist Lea Maria Lingen for a live performance in the FASoS garden. Together, they will improvise as “acoustic computers,” transforming data from submitted research papers into music, with input from the audience. Both musicians are experienced improvisers who have performed internationally across a wide range of styles, bringing a unique and experimental approach to this evening.

Curious to hear your data?

CONFERENCE – DAY 3

9:00-10:00 Keynote Panel (SBE)

Invisible Stories: Labour, Infrastructure, Recognition [More Information]
- Keynote Chair: Prof. Dr. Susan Schreibman
- Panelists:
  - Prof. Mike Kestemont
  - Prof. Dr. Julianne Nyhan
  - Dr. Toma Tasovac
  - Dr. Richard Zijdeman

10:00-10:30 Walk back to FASoS and Coffee & Tea in the Turnzaal & FASoS Garden

10:30 to 12:00 (Oral Presentations & Panels)

Session 6A: Spatial Analysis (Building 76s, Room 1.018)

Session Chair: Manuela Ritondale

Cian Colgan	Tracking the Ten Thousand: Using GIS to Conceptualize Spatial Narrative in Xenophon’s Anabasis [DOI]
Rein Debrulle, Fien Danniau, Dietlind-Rozekin Craenhals, Jan Trachet, Iason Jongepier, Christophe Verbruggen, Steven Verstockt and Vincent Ducatteeuw	Mapathons – plotting history through collaborative georeferencing.
Aliesia Soloviova	Designing Non-Linear Narrative Infrastructures for Global History: A Methodological Framework for Map-Based Storytelling
Fei Fei, Kenzo Milleville, Vincent Ducatteeuw, Rein Debrulle, Helena Van Hiel, Iason Jongepier, Léa Hermenault, Christophe Verbruggen, Steven Verstockt and Dieter De Witte	Reading the Landscape: Data Extraction Using Computer Vision for the Artemis Project [DOI]

Session 6B: Catalogues-as-data: practice, principles, and prospects – James Baker, Coen Wilders, Rebecca Kahn, Steven Claeyssens and Sven Lieber (Building 76, Room 0.07) [DOI]

Session 6C: Early Modern History (Building 80-82, Room 0.039)

Session Chair: Hannah Busch

Lucas van der Deijl	Detecting multilingualism in early modern drama [DOI]
Demetriow Paraschos	From Corpus to Narrative: Digital Reconstruction of the Early Modern Afterlife of Aratus and Cleomedes
Katalin Suba, Tomáš Hampejs and David Zbíral	Sequential variation in inquisitorial ritual narratives: a computational analysis of the consolament accounts in Register FFF
Pedro Henrique Mette Tauil, Marijn Koolen and Stefan Klut	Segmentation and Linking of Seventeenth-Century States-General Correspondence

12:00-13:00 Lunch (Turnzaal & in the FASoS Garden)

13:00-14:30 (Oral Presentations)

Session 7A: Language and Narration (Building 76, Room 0.07)

Session Chair: Julie M. Birkholz

Milena Belosevic	Narrative construction of “AI” through anthropomorphising language in German public discourse [DOI]
Guillaume Quintin	Computational Modeling of Diachronic Variation in Late and Medieval Latin [DOI]
Manuela Ritondale, Ruhi Mahadeshwar and Malvina Nissim	Narratives of maritime risk: a Natural Language Processing approach to reassess ancient seafaring strategies in the Mediterranean Sea
Martje Wijers	Creativity across Germanic languages: Entropy and surprise in the translation of Nordic Noir [DOI]

Session 7B: Polyvocality (Building 76s, Room 1.018)

Session Chair: Melvin Wevers

Ravini Wimalasuriya, Lea Krause and Gert-Jan Burgers	Exploring the Use of Generative AI for Polyvocal Historical Image Reconstructions
Ortal-Paz Saar, Korshi Dosoo, Raquel Martín Hernández and Panagiota Sarischouli	Untold Stories: The Text that Wasn’t Text [DOI]
Panagiota Sarischouli, Raquel Martín Hernández, Korshi Dosoo and Ortal-Paz Saar	Words that are Not Words: Digital Approaches to Magical Language and Iconography in Antiquity [DOI]

CONFERENCE CLOSING

14:30-15:00 Closing Ceremony in the Turnzaal

Join us for a few closing remarks as we celebrate the end of DH Benelux 2026. Congratulations to the many amazing participants for the great discussions, intriguing presentations, and fantastic panels, demonstrations, and posters.

SPECIAL EVENT

Private Tour of Maastricht University’s Art & Heritage

DHBenelux participants are invited to experience the fascinating Arts & Heritage Tour, a unique cultural walk through the historic heart of Maastricht. This guided tour takes participants behind the elegant façades of Maastricht University’s monumental buildings, revealing impressive collections of murals, sculptures, paintings, reliefs, and other remarkable artworks. Accompanied by an enthusiastic local guide, guests discover how art and history blend seamlessly within the city’s architectural heritage. The tour lasts approximately one and a half hours and offers an inspiring journey through the artistic identity of Maastricht. With its combination of heritage, storytelling, and visual beauty, the Arts & Heritage Tour provides an unforgettable introduction to Maastricht’s rich cultural atmosphere.

Registration is limited to twenty participants, so register now via this link!

Start: Friday 5 June 15.00-16.30 at FASoS, Grote Gracht 90-92.