In this talk, Mark Humphries explores how artificial intelligence and Python programming can be used to re-examine old historical problems in new ways that were not feasible in the past. The presentation will look at how generative AI models like GPT-4 and Claude 3 work and how they can be deployed at scale to partially automate the process of analyzing thousands of records simultaneously.
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This conference aims to discuss how religion mobilizes and is mobilized in memory work, and how it affects remembrance processes in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. Even a cursory look at the European ‘memorylands’ shows clearly that the tension between religion and the secular is part of a number of heterogeneous and contradictory memory projects.
Freedom to Harm: Private Violence and the American State, 1860-1895 with Hugh Wood
The Weberian definition of the state is an institution with a monopoly over legitimate violence within a defined territory. Eager to explain the genesis of European nation states, Weber’s model is a poor fit for the history and experience of American statehood. What might explain the marked failure of the United States government to monopolize violence within its territory, and the historical and contemporary prevalence of violence in American civil society?
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