Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) workshop
Dr. Bastien Dubuisson is a historian and cultural heritage specialist with expertise in digital humanities. As General Coordinator of the Centre des Monuments du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (CML), he oversees the management and promotion of the country’s cultural heritage sites. Before taking on this role, he worked as a research engineer and data analyst at the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (CNRS) in Paris, then as a consultant at Historical Consulting in Luxembourg, leading cross-disciplinary projects at the intersection of history, cultural heritage, and technology. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Luxembourg and the University of Namur, as well as advanced degrees in Digital Humanities (KU Leuven) and History (UCLouvain).
Dr. Thomas Constum is a postdoctoral researcher at the LITIS laboratory, University of Rouen Normandie. His work focuses on handwritten text recognition, information extraction from historical documents, and more broadly deep learning applied to computer vision and natural language processing. He earned his PhD in 2024 with a dissertation on multimodal AI models for historical document analysis. In addition to his academic research, he has contributed to large-scale projects such as POPP (Project for the Oceration of the Paris Population census) and Exo-POPP (Optical Extraction of named entities from the Population of Paris), which applied AI to historical census and marriage records respectively to build structured databases for historical research.
The speakers
Dr. Bastien Dubuisson and Dr. Thomas Constum
Dr. Bastien Dubuisson is General Coordinator of the Centre des Monuments in Luxembourg, and Dr. Thomas Constum is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Rouen, France.
Programme
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13.30 – 14.00
Welcome coffee
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14.00 – 14.10
Introduction by Prof. Claus Vögele, Head of IAS
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14.10 – 15.30
“AI-Powered Transcription of Historical Cadastral Records” followed by Q&A
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15.30 – 17.00
Coffee break and networking