On May 2nd, WSD Talks will host Patricia Murrieta-Flores, co-director of the Digital Humanities Hub at Lancaster University and principal investigator of the project 'The Future of the Past: Harnessing AI for Early Modern Spanish American Collections,' who will share her experience in implementing artificial intelligence and other computational methods in the study of colonial historical sources. The session will take place via Zoom at the following link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/92004570649?pwd=TWRHd3VCR2lMNy9WejdoZUxUS1BJdz09
Abstract: This talk will walk you through the latest technological developments in computer science and how these are being applied in the field of historical archaeology. Looking to develop new datasets, techniques, and software that allow the study of Latin American colonial sources at a large scale, the talk will introduce the work of the Digital Humanities projects “Digging into Early Colonial Mexico” and “Unlocking the Colonial Archive”, showcasing how these approaches can revolutionize historical research. The creation of computational methods, however, is not neutral. Artificial Intelligence techniques and commonly used software introduces particular ways of thinking and visions of the world that researchers need to be actively and constantly aware about. Hence, the paper offers also a deconstruction of the technologies used and a decolonial critique to the ways in which AI technologies are currently developed.
Organization
CHAM / NOVA FCSH
