Modeling Culture Seminar: New Humanities Practices in the Age of AI
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This is a year-long seminar for accepted faculty and grads, culminating in a comprehensive and accessible curriculum for advanced humanities researchers. Seminar sessions are closed to the public; however, the talk series is open to all. Please see further down for more details.
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February 3 |
What is Critical (to Know) about “Critical Literacy” and AI? |
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March 3 |
Making Data Work: What Can AI Actually Do for Humanities Research & Cultural Heritage Infrastructure? |
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March 31 |
Literary Style in the Age of AI |
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April 28 |
Princeton Research Software Engineering and AI |
Using Language Models to Advance Humanities Research at Princeton |
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September 29 |
AI and LLMs as Tools for the Humanities |
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October 27 |
Meaning in a Void: Exploring Latent Spaces |
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November 17 |
Can LLMs Read and Write Poetry? |
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December 1 |
Decisions, decisions, decisions |
The Modeling Culture seminar will meet monthly over eight sessions (four per semester) during the 2024–25 academic year. Led by CDH-affiliated and guest instructors, the seminar will explore diverse humanities engagements with generative AI—ranging from probing interpretive limits to experimenting with creative and pedagogical uses, and from developing data curation workflows to examining broader social and ethical implications. Each session will introduce key technical terms and concepts, highlighting areas where humanities scholars can bring distinct insight.
By combining methodological transparency, iterative experimentation, and ethical reflection, the series will address challenges such as the opacity of LLM architectures, biases in their outputs, and the complexities of integrating AI into humanities research and teaching. Together, these sessions will provide both concrete examples and critical frameworks for situating AI within the humanities.
Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print
Viral Authors: Postwar American Literature in the Age of Social Media and AI
Publishing Empire: Modeling Early 20th-Century British Book Culture
Liberating Information: Exploring Computational Methods to Study Histories of Information, from Decolonization to Digital Humanities
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Modeling Culture: New Humanities Practices in the Age of AI
A year-long seminar for faculty and grads with a public lecture series, culminating in a comprehensive and accessible curriculum for advanced humanities researchers.
