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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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Reconstructing Histories: Analyzing Exhibition Photographs with Computational Methods
Arts, 2018 Displays of art in public or private spaces have long been of interest to curators, gallerists, artists and art historians. The emergence of gallery paintings at the beginning of the seventeenth century and the photographic documentation of (modern ...
Sabine Lang, Björn Ommer
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Ce que le numérique fait à l’historien.ne. Entretien avec Claire Lemercier
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2012 Émilien Ruiz est doctorant en histoire contemporaine à l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Sa thèse Trop de fonctionnaires? La question des effectifs de l’État dans la France du XXe siècle porte sur divers aspects de l’évolution du ...
Elisa Grandi est doctorante en histoire contemporaine et histoire de l’Amérique Latine à l’Université Paris Diderot et membre du laboratoire SEDET. Sa thèse Réseaux Sociaux et changement institutionnel. Experts internationaux, médiation politique et reformes économiques en Colombie (1949-1966), sous la direction de Zacarias Moutoukias, porte sur les réseaux reliant les experts de la Banque Mondiale et le personnel local en Colombie lors des premières missions de la Banque dans le pays. Après avoir été Visiting Student à la Duke University et Visiting Scholar à la New School of Social Research, elle est actuellement boursière du Gouvernement français Eiffel-Excellence à l’Université Paris Diderot. Parmi ses publications: «David Lilienthal, la Banca Mondiale e lo sviluppo di una rete transnazionale di economic advising (1950-1957)», Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea: Storia transnazionale e prospettive transnazionali nell’analisi storica, N. 6, 2|2011 (URL: < http://www.studistorici.com/2011/05/01/grandi_numero_6/ >). +1 more
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The Integration of Building Information Modeling with Traditional Construction Materials in the Preservation of Historical Buildings: A Literature review [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThis article looks at how traditional building materials can be combined with Building Information Modeling (BIM) to support the conservation of historic architecture. Due to its effectiveness, heritage preservation application is on the rise. This study
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Navigare la storia: considerazioni sulla creazione di un portale di storia ambientale
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2012 This article introduces the experience of the Environment & Society Portal (www.environmentandsociety.org), one of the most important projects developed by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich.
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg è uno storico ambientale e dottore di ricerca in geografia (Cambridge) che lavora come Digital Humanities Research Specialist presso il Rachel Carson Center. +1 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
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Digital Studies, 2019 For historians dealing with text, the changeover from paper to digital sources represents a major change. By expanding text archives – turned into hypertexts, un-linear and denaturalised –, the digital increases the navigation capabilities within corpora,
Magali Guaresi
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