Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue the Global DH Symposium into its historic tenth year, and its third year as a combination of virtual and in-person events. Digital humanities scholarship continues to be driven by work at the intersections of a range of distinct disciplines and an ethical commitment to preserve and broaden access to cultural materials.
The Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) is an annual digital scholarship training institute that is organized for its community by the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) and takes place at the Université de Montréal campus. DHSI was previously run by the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria.
Dr. Gallon is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the early twentieth century.
The European Summer University in Digital Humanities was created in 2009 and has been running ever since. It seeks to offer a space for the discussion and acquisition of new knowledge, skills and competences in those computer technologies which play a central role in Humanities Computing and where these activities are integrated into the broader context of the Digital Humanities, where questions about the consequences and implications of the application of computational methods and tools to cultural artefacts of all kinds are asked.
This work-in-progress takes as its provocation the ways that image-generating AI systems struggle with typographical forms. Systems like DALL-E 3 generate images of letters--shapes in text-appropriate contexts--but some of them are shaped a good bit less like letters than others. How should we understand these typographical hallucinations? Is there something that DALL-E 3 "knows" about typography that we don't? Today's AI operates on data at Internet scale, and I approach these questions in part by invoking the universe of printed matter as a nineteenth-century analog.
This talk explores how machine learning, specifically transformer-based large language models (LLMs), can analyze an extensive collection of Russian historical diaries (1800-2018). LLMs enable computational methods like semantic text similarity and clustering by creating numerical representations of the texts. These methods can reveal significant topics and subjects within the diaries, such as prices and weather, offering new possibilities for digital scholarship.
Chatbots like ChatGPT have challenged human exceptionalism: we are no longer the only beings capable of generating language and ideas fluently. But is ChatGPT conscious? Or is it merely engaging in sophisticated mimicry? And what happens in the future if the claims to consciousness are more credible?
In The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood, James Boyle explores what these changes might do to our concept of personhood, to “the line” we believe separates our species from the rest of the world but that also separates “persons” with legal rights from objects.
Swimming, snorkling, massages and dancing!
Quick online information session for students enrolled in the DH Certificate
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Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud and thrilled to celebrate the 10th Global DH Symposium with a combination of virtual and in-person events over the course of April 2-8, 2025.