Theme III: AI and History

13 March 2024: Deciphering the past with AI (Gerhard de Kok)

Reading: 

20 March 2024: Studying Ideas at Scale with Text Mining and Machine Learning (Ruben Ros) 

Reading: 

  • Peter de Bolla, Ewan Jones, Paul Nulty, Gabriel Recchia, John Regan. The Idea of Liberty, 1600–1800: A Distributional Concept Analysis. (2020). https://muse.jhu.edu/article/761035 
  • Barron, Alexander TJ, et al. “Individuals, institutions, and innovation in the debates of the French Revolution.” _Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences_ 115.18 (2018): 4607-4612. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1717729115.  
  • Wilson, Daniel CS, et al. “The Living Machine: A Computational Approach to the Nineteenth-Century Language of Technology.” _Technology and Culture_ 64.3 (2023): 875-902.