News archive for Faculty of Humanities

Uncertainty in Science: The Policy-Maker's Perspective

Uncertainty in Science: The Policy-Maker’s Perspective (27.11.2019)

New dissemination video from the MAGIC project on what happens when there is uncertainty and the science is not complete.

Taina bucher lectures while gesturing at her powerpoint slide displaying two algoritmically created portrait 'photographs'

Recap: talks and workshop “how to do research on algorithms when you’re not a programmer” (12.11.2019)

Last week, we ended our semester with a full-day event on approaches to research algorithms without going into the code. Experts Ysabel Gerrard and Taina Bucher each gave a lecture and, in the workshop afterwards, participants discussed their ideas and obstacles on the ways in which they research algorithms.

Mother Afica welcome home Exhibition from Blombos

Recreating the lives of our ancestors (11.11.2019)

New digital technology makes it possible to recreate the lives led by our ancestors 100,000 years ago.

Lars Johnson with powerpoint showing an N-gram in the background

Recap: Workshop on Mining Nasjonalbiblioteket (05.11.2019)

Last week, special guest Lars Johnsen gave a workshop for the DHNetwork on how to use data the National Library of Norway as a source for computational analysis. The varied groups of participants from the humanities, social sciences and university library learned to use different tools to analyze textual data in Jupyter Notebooks.

Charless Ess lectures while gesturing to his powerpoint on Ethical pluralism and cross-cultural awareness.

Recap: Talks and Workshop on Internet Research Ethics (05.11.2019)

In a well-attended afternoon, Charles Ess and Eva Payne gave talks about the state of the art of research ethics followed by a closed workshop session for students and researchers using social media data in their projects.

MoMM meets TYPOlex to talk about languages, multilingualism and… humour (05.11.2019)

MoMM met the research group TYPOlex from Copenhagen Business School.