A seminar will take place titled “Quantitative Approaches to Historical Visual Culture – an Example of Soviet Newsreels”
On November 5 at 15:00 (EEST), the fourth seminar in the series organized by digitalhumanities.lv in collaboration with CLARIN-LV and DARIAH-EU will take place online, focusing on digital humanities and historical research. This time, the topic “Quantitative Approaches to Historical Visual Culture – an Example of Soviet Newsreels” will be presented by Adjunct Professor Mila Oiva. She says about the upcoming seminar: “In my talk I will discuss the potentialities and pitfalls of quantitative study of visual culture. Drawing on my and my colleagues' studies on Soviet newsreels from 1918 to 1992, I will exemplify uses of multidimensional vector embedding of images and Multimodal Large Languages Models for detecting long-term continuities and changes in historical audiovisual materials.”