Mapping Culture. Entangling Science and Humanities (in Spanish)

New Paths of Science

Participant

Gustavo Ariel Schwartz
CSIC, DIPC

When

2024/11/26
19:00

Place

Ernest LLuch K.E. (Pº de Anoeta 13, Donostia / San Sebastián)

Organizers

DIPC, Ernest Lluch K.E.

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Within the program New Paths of Science, Gustavo Arien Schwartz will talk about science and humanities.

Can we analyse culture with equations, and is it possible to convert ideas, theories or people into vectors? Complex networks have brought about a paradigm shift in the way we understand the structure and evolution of knowledge. Today we know that ideas do not exist in isolation, that each new concept develops in a given environment which in turn is nourished by different areas of culture. This is what is called the "collective imagination" of each era. The sciences and the humanities develop interdependently within this imaginary, and what happens in one field necessarily affects the others.

We will observe in this talk that, based on the mathematical formalism of complex networks, and using the Wikipedia corpus, it is possible to generate cultural maps that allow us to visualise and understand the reciprocal influences between art, science and the humanities. This new methodology drives the analysis of cultural networks around iconic individuals and revolutionary ideas to understand the structure and dynamics that enable their emergence. In this way, data science and cultural analytics combine to entangle the sciences and the humanities.

The talk will be in Spanish (simultaneous translation service is not available). Free admission until full capacity is reached.