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13 January 2025, 1:25 pm–2:45 pm

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We are pleased to welcome Professor Todd Presner (UCLA) for this 'Voices Unbound?' seminar.

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All

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Yes

Organiser

Marco Humbel, UCLDH Associate Director (ECR)

Abstract pending.

All welcome to join this online seminar. Please register to receive the joining details: https://voices-unbound.eventbrite.co.uk


Voices unbound? Exploring new and/or possible directions in digital and experimental oral history

A lecture series co-organised by TU Darmstadt, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. The series is convened by Julianne Nyhan (TU Darmstadt), Andrew Flinn, Andreas Vlachidis, and Marco Humbel (UCL), Shih-Pei Chen (Max Planck Institute), and Gerben Zaagsma (C²DH), offering an important way of keeping up to date with the methodological and theoretical state of the art in digital oral history. We invited speakers to present work on recent technological developments that may hold promise for digital oral history. In this way, the seminar series appeals to (digital) oral historians, digital humanists and scholars of the history of information, memory and knowledge systems.

About the Speaker

Professor Todd Presner

Chair of the Dept of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at UCLA

His research focuses on European intellectual and cultural history, Holocaust studies, visual culture, and digital humanities. Presner’s newest book is forthcoming with Princeton University Press: Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory  ( Fall 2024). How can computational tools from the digital humanities expand how we see, read, and listen to Holocaust testimonies? To answer this question, Presner proposes an “ethics of the algorithm” to mediate between the ethical demands of listening to individual testimonies and the interpretative possibilities unleashed by large-scale, computational approaches.

More about Professor Todd Presner