Upcoming Events
Lecture series: Digital Humanities After Hours
The Digital Humanities After Hours lecture series continues this month with three exciting talks, held on Tuesdays at 16:30 in Edda 209 and livestreamed on our YouTube channel. The lectures are free and open to all. Recordings are made available after the events. 
4 November Martin Roček (Austrian Academy of Sciences & Charles University, Prague): Clicks, Curses and Catalogs: UX Design for Digital Humanities 
11 November Emily Lethbridge (Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies): Feminist DH: Data in the Kvennaspor-Project Database 
25 November Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir (Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts): Drawing the Line (and Knowing Where Not to): Why Good Data Presentation Matters
 
  
Miðaldastofa lecture: Applying Semantic AI to Medieval Dreambooks
6 November, 16:30–17:30, Edda auditorium (E-103) 
As part of the Miðaldastofa lecture series, organized by the University of Iceland Centre for Medieval Studies, Martin Roček (Austrian Academy of Sciences & Charles University, Prague) presents Scribtum, a workspace powered by a custom Sem-BERT model. The tool applies semantic AI to analyse medieval Latin dreambooks, identifying textual similarities that go beyond simple word-level comparisons.
 
  
Workshop: AI, text culture and literary studies
7 November, 14:00–16:00, Edda auditorium (E-103) 
With the arrival of generative artificial intelligence, there is a clear before and after in text culture, which also affects literary studies. In this lecture, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen will address how the technology is and may be changing the conditions for literature and our perception of what text production is. This is followed by an overview of how AI can be used as an analytical tool in literary studies and help to fulfill the ambitions of digital humanities.
 
  
UI Research infrastructure day
12 November, 12:00–15:40, UI Ceremonial Hall 
The UI Research infrastructure day will be focused on e-infrastructure, international collaboration, and data and research security. Sverker Holmgren, director of Chalmers e-commons, will share his experience and views, followed by inputs giving the Icelandic perspectives. The meeting will conclude with a panel discussion. The event will be streamed and is open to everyone. Registration: here.
 
  
Árni Magnússon lecture: Åslaug Ommundsen
13 November, 17:00, Edda auditorium (E-103) 
Åslaug Ommundsen, professor at the University of Bergen, will give a lecture entitled Parchment and Pixels: Re-examining Written Cultural Heritage. In the talk, Ommundsen presents her latest research on medieval manuscripts, combining new technologies from the natural and digital sciences to open up new ways to analyze the content and origin of medieval manuscripts.
 
  
Course on digital art
13, 20 and 27 November, 17:15–19:00, location TBA 
This November, a course will be held on the art of Steina Vasulki, a pioneer in the field of video art. The course will discuss time-related media such as film, video, sound and digital technology, with a special emphasis on the exhibition Steina: Tímaflakk at the National Gallery of Iceland and the Reykjavík Art Museum. The course is a collaborative project between the National Gallery of Iceland, the Reykjavík Art Museum and the Iceland Academy of the Arts and will be taught in Icelandic and English. Registration: here.
 
  
Symposium: A Future for the Past
27 November, 09:00–16:00, IÐNÓ 
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the European Architectural Heritage Year, the Cultural Heritage Agency of Iceland and the Icelandic National Committee of ICOMOS will host the symposium “A Future for the Past”, to be held at IÐNÓ on 27 November, 09:00–16:00. The European Architectural Heritage Year of 1975 and the Amsterdam Declaration mark a turning point in the history of architectural conservation and the movement for the preservation and revitalization of the built heritage in Iceland. The symposium will highlight pioneers in Icelandic heritage conservation, preservation and support for architectural heritage, the younger built heritage, as well as future visions and challenges then and now. Sign-up will be required closer to the event.          |