ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas
The meeting place for science and exchange - over a delicious cup of tea.
Would you like to network with other humanities scholars and learn more about open science, the reproducibility of data and good scientific practice? Then our event series “ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas” is the right place for you!
Come along, exchange ideas and become part of our growing community!
Overview
- Dates: on selected Mondays from 16:00 - 17:30 CEST
- Target group: Students, researchers at all career levels and anyone interested in humanities research
- Location: Room 4.006 in the University and City Library of Cologne (4th floor, entrance via Kerpener Str.).
- Zoom: You will receive a link if you subscribe to this mailing list: Mailinglist
- Language: English
Structure of the session
- Each session begins with a 20-30 minute presentation.
- This is followed by an exchange and discussion over an aromatic cup of tea and cookies.
- Before each session, you will receive a recommended reading that will serve as a basis for the discussion.
Dates for summer semester 2025
4 April Opening night: Library night/ Games night
05.30 p.m. – 7.00 p.m. – Research Dilemma Game with Bettina Bock, Sebastian Barsch
from 19.00 p.m. – Drinks and Snacks
from 19.30 p.m. – Open Science Games Night
GAMES NIGHT: Complete program
14 April - Accessible research: Fair, diamond, open, free
with Martine Grice (Institute for Linguistics – Phonetics)
Preparation:
Andringa, Sible, Maria Mos, Catherine van Beuningen, Paz González, Jos Hornikx & Rasmus Steinkrauss. 2024. Diamond is a scientist’s best friend: Counteracting systemic inequality in open access publishing. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 13.
https://dujal.nl/article/view/18802
5 May - Open Science at DFG: Position Paper, Funding and Framework Conditions.
with Angela Holzer (Programme Director, DFG)
Preparation:
tba.
12 May - Beyond the gold standard: Transparency in qualitative corpus analysis
with Nathan Dykes (Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Preparation:
Marchi, Anna, and Charlotte Taylor. "If on a winter’s night two researchers…: A challenge to assumptions of soundness of interpretation." Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines 3.1 (2009): 1-20.
26 May - Reproducibility when working with large language models: A hallucination?
with Nils Reiter (Digital Humanities und Sprachliche Informationsverarbeitung, IDH)
Preparation:
Simone Balloccu, Patrícia Schmidtová, Mateusz Lango, and Ondrej Dusek. 2024. Leak, Cheat, Repeat: Data Contamination and Evaluation Malpractices in Closed-Source LLMs. In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 67–93, St. Julian’s, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
https://aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-long.5/
16 June - Let's talk about language - and its role for replicability
with Xenia Schmalz, Anna Yi Leung (both Self Learning Systems Lab, University of Cologne) & Johannes Breuer (GESIS—Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne)
Preparation:
Schmalz, Xenia, Johannes Breuer, Mario Haim, Andrea Hildebrandt, Philipp Knöpfle, Anna Yi Leung & Timo B. Roettger. 2024. Let’s talk about language — and its role for replicability. OSF.
https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/w2gb9_v1
23 June (5.45 p.m.) - Reproducibility in the teaching of digital humanities: Lessons from Programming Historian
with Marie Flesch (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Université Paris Cité)
Preparation:
tba.
Organizers:
- Elen Le Foll (DCH/Department of Romance Studies)
- Denis Arnold (University and City Library & C³RDM)
- Gabriele Schwiertz (University and City Library)
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Dr. Gabriele Schwiertz Benutzung
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schwiertz
ub.uni-koeln.de
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Dr. Denis Arnold Benutzung
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arnold
ub.uni-koeln.de
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Elen Le Foll Romanisches Seminar/Data Center for the Humanities
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elefoll
uni-koeln.de