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Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center

Latest Past Events

Experimental Humanities Workshop: “Machine Learning for Humanities,” William Mattingly

Radical changes in data accessibility and AI are transforming humanities research. When should researchers use machine learning and when should they not? Join the Experimental Humanities Workshop on Wednesday, November 20 for a presentation by William Mattingly (Smithsonian Institution Data Science Lab) on "Machine Learning for Humanities." In person @ DiSH LAB (Stevens 305). 20 […]

Farewell Disco, film screening and talk with Mariana Ivanova

Stewart Commons IMRC Stewart Commons, University of Maine, Orono

The McGillicuddy Humanities Center presents a screening of Rolf Losansky’s 1989 film, Farewell Disco, as part of its 2024-2025 Symposium, “From Talkies to TikTok: 100 Years of Audiovisual Storytelling.” Farewell Disco tells the story of a grieving young man who takes up a solitary practice of climate activism and amateur forestry just before German reunification. […]

Doing Digital Film History, Experimental Humanities Workshop

305 Center Stevens

The Experimental Humanities Workshop welcomes Josephine Diecke (University of Zurich) and Isadora Campregher Paiva (University of Amsterdam) to campus. The title of their talk is "Doing Digital Film History: Combining Sentiment Analysis and Large Language Models." They will be discussing their recent work on using large language models to rethink the history of Weimar-era German […]

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