News & Events
March 18: Digital China: Big Tech and the State
March 18, 12:00pm - 1:15pm CT Join the Stigler Center for a conversation with Ling Chen (Johns Hopkins University) and Matt Sheehan (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), moderated by Lingling Wei (The Wall Street Journal). This event is part of the Stigler...
Feb. 18: DH Forum, Dhanashree Thorat
Infrastructure ColonialismDhanashree Thorat, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Mississippi State UniversityFebruary 18, 12-2pm CST Global Internet connectivity today relies on a network of fiber optic cable lines traveling underwater between continents....
RCC Series: Dynamic and Interactive Plotting in Python
February 16 and February 23, 12-1:30pmThis will be a virtual event; register hereVisit the Social Sciences Research Center for more information Plotting data in Python can be a beautiful, interactive experience! Modern plots include hover points, or info boxes that...
November 12: Digital Technologies for Humanists
November 12, 3-5:30pmLogan Center Performance Penthouse Join faculty, students, and University staff in discussing the tools and support resources for scholars working at the nexus of the humanities, the social sciences, and technology, as well as presentations...
November 1: 20th/21st Century Workshop, “Anemoia Listening: Nostalgia, Fantasy, and Despair”
Joseph Maurer, Humanities Teaching Fellow in Music5-6:30pm, Rosenwald 405 This paper theorizes present-day youth listening practices through the concept of “anemoia listening”—characterized by fantasy and pseudo-nostalgic longing for something the listeners have...
October 29: DH Forum, Allyson Ettinger
“Understanding” and prediction in artificial intelligence modelsAllyson Ettinger, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of ChicagoOctober 29, 11:30am-1pm, JRL 122 In recent years, the field of natural language processing (NLP) in artificial...
May 28: DH Forum, Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla
Landscapes of U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Digital HumanitiesSylvia Fernández Quintanilla, Public and Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Researcher, University of KansasMay 28, 12-2pm CST This presentation explores the emerging subfield of Borderlands digital humanities...
May 17: Digital Media Workshop with Robert Twomey
"Machine Imagination: Text to Image Generation with Neural Networks" With recent advancements in machine learning techniques, researchers have demonstrated remarkable achievements in image synthesis (BigGAN, StyleGAN), textual understanding (GPT-3), and other areas...
Aug 19: Library Services for Remote and Hybrid Teaching
There are many ways the Library can help support your teaching online. In this program, you will learn about the Library’s e-reserves service, student access to the Library’s online books and journals for assigned readings, help guides and modules to integrate...
Jul 16: Can a Neural Network write poetry? Leveraging next sentence prediction
This workshop provides a basic introduction to two current cutting-edge deep learning frameworks for generating custom text based on a custom source. Attendees will learn 1) how to set up and use pre-existing deep learning models on the university’s...
Digital Humanities Forum
A forum on the past, present, and future of digital humanities research at the University of Chicago and around the world.
Digital Media Workshop
A forum for students and faculty who work on issues related to digital media.
Neubauer Collegium
Fostering an environment in which new forms of thinking emerge and thrive.
Franke Institute
Space and events crossing traditional disciplinary lines in the humanities.
Mass Culture Workshop
Dedicated to ongoing research that considers the aesthetic, historical, and political dimensions of mass media.
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