Project CV

Project History¶

The Combatting Bias project grew directly out of Mrinalini’s work at the University of Amsterdam on “unsilencing” VOC testaments using digital methods and the Globalise project – leading to publications on Data Envelopes for data contextualisation, centralising social justice in archival studies, and gender representation in multilingual archives. The research, while dealing with many aspects of bias, did not focus on explaining or mapping these biases. The Combatting Bias is a first step to fill this gap.

The Combatting Bias project (file number ICT.TDCC.001.001) is a TDCC-SSH Bottleneck Project, financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) via the Thematic Digital Competence Centre Social Sciences & Humanities (TDCC-SSH).

Impressions of conference presentations.
From L-R: AIUCD 2025, DH Benelux 2025, DH Lisbon 2025

Funding¶

TDCC-SSH Bottleneck Projects Grant, €150.000, 2024-2025

Publications¶

Combatting Bias. (September 2025). Bias Vocabulary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17078016.
Combatting Bias. (September 2025). Bias in the Research Lifecycle: Model and Guidelines. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17122517
Combatting Bias. (September 2025). On Bias. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17122595
Combatting Bias. (September 2025). About the Combatting Bias Project. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17084239.
Combatting Bias. (September 2025). Combatting Bias Project Mission Statement. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17078580.
Combatting Bias. (August 2025). Bias(ed) Maps. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16943470.
Combatting Bias. (August 2025). Combatting Bias Resources List. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16919549.
- Zotero Group Library: https://www.zotero.org/groups/5670390/combatting_bias/library.

Extended Abstracts

Mrinalini Luthra and Amber Zijlma. (2025, 7 June). So Everything is Biased… Now What?! DH Benelux 2025, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15614858.
Mrinalini Luthra and Amber Zijlma (2025, 2 June). Everything is biased … now what?! Introducing the Bias-Aware Framework. SemDH workshop, Portorož, Slovenia. https://semdh.github.io/accepted-papers#paper20.
Mrinalini Luthra and Amber Zijlma. (2025, 12 June). From Bias Paralysis to Bias as a Category of Analysis. Introducing the Bias-Aware Framework. Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture (AIUCD), Verona, Italy. https://aiucd2025.dlls.univr.it/assets/pdf/papers/85.pdf.

Events Organised¶

Manjusha Kuruppath, Mrinalini Luthra, Lodewijk Petram, Amber Zijlma. (2025, 13 May). Combatting Bias Workshop [Workshop]. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Manjusha Kuruppath, Mrinalini Luthra, Lodewijk Petram, Amber Zijlma. (2025, 12 May). Uncovering Shared Yet Troubled Pasts [Panel presentation]. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Matthias van Rossum, Manjusha Kuruppath, Amber Zijlma, Melinda Susanto, Mrinalini Luthra, Lodewijk Petram (2024, 24 January). Colonial Archives and Meaningful Digital Infrastructures Symposium [Symposium]. Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Manjusha Kuruppath, Mrinalini Luthra, Lodewijk Petram, Amber Zijlma. (2025, 8 October). Combatting Bias Project Kick-Off [Workshop]. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Conferences and Talks¶

Mrinalini Luthra and Amber Zijlma. (2025, 14-18 July). From Bias Paralysis to Bias as a Category of Analysis [Short paper presentation]. Digital Humanities Conference 2025, Lisbon, Portugal.
Mrinalini Luthra and Amber Zijlma. (2025, 11-13 June). From Bias Paralysis to Bias as a Category of Analysis. Introducing the Bias-Aware Framework [Paper presentation]. Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture (AIUCD), Verona, Italy.
Mrinalini Luthra and Amber Zijlma. (2025, 3-6 June). So everything is biased … now what?! [Workshop]. Digital Humanities Benelux, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Mrinalini Luthra and Amber Zijlma. (2025, 2 June). Everything is biased … now what?! Introducing the Bias-Aware Framework [Short paper presentation]. SemDH Workshop, Portorož, Slovenia.
Laura Hollink, Rossana Damiano, Torsten Schrade, Harald Sack, Mrinalini Luthra, and Amber Zijlma. (2025, 2 June). Cultural Bias [Panel discussion]. SemDH Workshop, Portorož, Slovenia.
Mrinalini Luthra. (2025, 26 March). So everything is biased … now what?! [Presentation]. Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) Hands-on-History Lecture, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
Mrinalini Luthra and Amber Zijlma. (2025, 18 March). Everything is biased… Now what?! Introducing the Combatting Bias Project [Presentation]. COGLOSS x Globalise Webinar, online.
Mrinalini Luthra and Amber Zijlma. (2025, 14 March). Everything is biased… Now what?! Introducing the Bias-Aware Dataset Lifecycle [Presentation]. Bias in Erfgoedcollecties Sector Event, Leuven, Belgium.
Mrinalini Luthra and Amber Zijlma. (2025, 24 January). What’s the Buzz about Bias? About Bias and the Combatting Bias project [Presentation]. Colonial Archives and Meaningful Digital Infrastructures Symposium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.