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SUMMARY:Quantification in the Humanities: A Guided Introduction to Bridging
  a Disciplinary Gap
DESCRIPTION:Convened under the aegis of the Emmy Noether Junior Research Gr
 oup ‘Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period’. Generously 
 funded by the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg.  In 1970, it seemed that the 
 humanities would be revolutionised by computers: just as in the natural and
  social sciences, teams would work with huge data sets to test falsifiable 
 hypotheses. Yet, only a decade later, the ‘cultural turn’ was testing schol
 ars’ confidence in these new, quantitative methods, and the boundaries betw
 een fields such as History, Sociology and Economics were redrawn and again 
 reinforced. Today, in the context of fast-growing AI and with team-based fu
 nding models playing an important role in the academy, the time has come to
  revisit the question of quantification. This event will provide a guided i
 ntroduction to bridging the disciplinary gap.  Schedule: Wednesday 25 June 
 2025, 17:00–18:30 CEST Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Hauptgebäude Flügelbau Ost, 
 Room 222 and via Zoom Hybrid lecture by Prof. Myles Lavan, “Quantification 
 in the History of Slavery: Why We Need a Demography of Manumission”.  Thurs
 day 26 June 2025, 10:00–16:00 CEST Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Hauptgebäude Flü
 gelbau West, Room 209 and via Zoom Hybrid workshop led by Prof. Myles Lavan
  and Dr Alasdair Grant based on pre-circulated readings and participant-ori
 ented discussion. Participants are encouraged to circulate their own materi
 al and questions for collaborative workshopping.  Organisers: Myles Lavan i
 s Professor in Ancient History at the University of St Andrews. He is curre
 ntly writing a new study of manumission in the Roman world and the Americas
 . His publications include Slaves to Rome: Paradigms of Empire in Roman Cul
 ture (Cambridge, 2013) and ‘The Spread of Roman Citizenship, 14–212 CE: Qua
 ntification in the Face of High Uncertainty’, Past & Present 230 (2016). He
  is also co-editor (with D. Jew and B. Danon) of The Uncertain Past: Probab
 ility in Ancient History (Cambridge, 2022).  Alasdair Grant is a postdoc at
  the universities of Hamburg and Mainz and a Young Academy Fellow of the Ac
 ademy of Sciences in Hamburg. He is currently working on a study of rebels 
 and rebellions in early medieval Armenia under Muslim rule. His publication
 s include Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260–1460 (Edinburgh, 2
 024). He is co-editor (with H.-L. Hagemann) of Between Rebels and Rulers in
  the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity (Edinburgh, 202
 5).  Registration: Register by Monday 23 June 2025 by emailing alasdair.gra
 nt@uni-hamburg.de. Attendance is free and refreshments will be provided at 
 Thursday’s workshop. Places are limited, however, so advanced registration 
 is necessary. The lecture and workshop can be booked separately. The langua
 ge of the event will be English.\n\nWednesday 25 June 2025, 17:00–18:30 CES
 T Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg, Hauptgebäude 
 Flügelbau Ost, Room 222 and via Zoom  Thursday 26 June 2025, 10:00–16:00 CE
 ST Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg, Flügelbau We
 st, Room 209 and via Zoom
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