Events at UC Berkeley

💡 Seminars, meetups and workshops on #Connected #DataProducts, #CulturalAnalytics and #OpenScience.

events.berkeley.edu/BIDS

ImageSpace — Visual Explorer

Check out my new software ImageSpace, a modern replacement for PixPlot for exploring image collections using AI. The output is a static site you can host anywhere: tinyurl.com/2zj4szkd

#DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics #MachineLearning #ComputerVision #DHMakes #OpenSource #AcademicSky

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🎟️ March 17-20: BIDS is co-hosting a week talks and discussions on multimodal models for the study of culture with the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social and UCB Dept of Scandinavian.

Join us either in person or at the online talks!

www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/cultu...

#CulturalAnalytics

I am Troubled Mar 6, 2026, 12:15 pm - Bob L. T. Sturm is an associate professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and the PI of the MUSAiC project.

Join us THIS FRIDAY online or in person: @bobltsturm.bsky.social presents "I am Troubled"

Talk & discussion are part of the #CulturalAnalytics speaker series, co-hosted by BIDS and the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social

Register now 🍿🥤!
www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2026/...

Michaela Mahlberg and Svenja Guhr in front of UC Berkeley Campanile

Her stay concluded with a workshop at the AI Futures Lab as part of the #CulturalAnalytics series, where she introduced the new add-on #Flexicon for the concordance web application #CLiC.

Dear Michaela, thank you so much for traveling to the I School and for […]

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CARL

The visit also provided a good opportunity to involve students. At CARL, the Cultural Analytics Research Lab I have been leading since its founding in January. We did a trial run of the talk and discussed current approaches to using language models for […]

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Michaela Mahlberg and Svenja Guhr in front of the Campanile at UC Berkeley.

@michamahlberg.bsky.social’s stay concluded with a workshop at the AI Futures Lab as part of the #CulturalAnalytics series, where she introduced the new add-on #Flexicon for the concordance web application #CLiC.

Dear Michaela, thank you for these productive and collegial days of exchange. 💻✍️📚

CARL stands for Cultural Analytics Research Lab

The visit also provided a good opportunity to involve students. At CARL, the #CulturalAnalytics Research Lab I have been leading since its founding in January. We did a trial run of the talk and discussed current approaches to using language models for classification tasks in #CLS.

From Readers to Data - JCLS 2025 data (EXCEL) and code (Matlab 2024b) for JCLS submission Data 240813 - Key Novel Dataset - 9 - removed pilot entries.xlsx This file has been manually pre-processed to remove pilot questionnaires (that...

As always: #OpenData and #OpenCode
Dekel, Y., Marienberg-Milikowsky, I., & Jacobson, G. A. (2025). "From Readers to Data." #JCLS 2025. Data set. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno....
#CCLS2025 #CLS #CitizenScience #Hebrew #LiteraryComputing #CulturalAnalytics

(2/4) Analyzing >3,000 Chinese fictional works from the Tang dynasty to today, Zhong et al. show that themes of love, friendship & self-development rose with economic growth centuries before Western contact—evidence of early modernization independent of the West.
#CulturalAnalytics

julianeugarten/CCLS2025: Finalized CCLS paper code Code and derived data for a paper submitted to CCLS2025.

Open Data & Code can be found archived on doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CCLS2025 #CLS #JCLS

Next in the Cultural Analytics seminar: Ying Zhong (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris), “Literary Fiction Indicates Early Modernization in China Prior to Western Influence”
Oct 23, 12:00–13:00 CET · Online
Details & registration 👉 philevents.org/event/show/1...
#DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics

Seeing Formalism or Formal Viewing: Computational Formalism for the Analysis of Visual Media Forms and Contexts | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics By Lauren Tilton, Justin Wigard. In this article, the authors revisit published work and explore forthcoming research to demonstrate computational formalist studies of history, culture, and context in...

Grateful that an article by @wilkinsp.bsky.social & I in @comicsgrid.com is cited in this new article by Lauren Tilton and Justin Wigard in the Journal of Cultural Analytics: doi.org/10.22148/001...

#ComicsStudies #CulturalAnalytics

#DH2025: Today (07/17), two more LitLab talks take on 19th & 20th century #English fiction through transformers & #LLMs. Stay tuned! 🔍📚💻
#CLS #CulturalAnalytics #Narratology #LiteraryComputing

#DH2025 (07/16, 4pm - 4/4):
In Room Aud B2, our Lab alum @fredner.org dives into literary references in #Jeopardy! 🧠 What texts appear, how hard are they to guess, and what does it tell us? 40 years of quiz show data will be explored! #CulturalAnalytics

a large bronze sculpture of a dragon, wings up and mouth open, sitting on a rectangular stone base

He remarked: “An important challenge going forward in AI is how we can leverage these technologies to foster understanding across languages, across time and across cultures.”

Hear more about the workshop and cultural analytics!
bit.ly/4jUAUyk

#CulturalAnalytics #AIandSociety

You’ve launched a new exhibit. People smile. They linger… or leave quickly. But what does it all mean?
Ethical visitor analytics reveal dwell times, overlooked content, and behaviour patterns to guide exhibit design and programming.
Goodbye guesswork. Hello insight.
#ExhibitDesign #CulturalAnalytics

4th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, Krakow 2025

📢 The #CCLS2025 Conference Reader is out!
It includes #preprints of the 16 papers to be presented in Kraków, July 3–4.

📄 DOIs for individual papers:
jcls.io/site/ccls2025/

📒 Download the full reader:
jcls.io/media/journa...

#CLS #JCLS #LiteraryComputing #CulturalAnalytics #Conference

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An old favourite of mine:
X Degrees of Separation by Google Arts & Culture explores unexpected visual connections between artworks using image similarity algorithms.
Still a fascinating experiment in computational curation.
https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/xdegrees/

#DigitalArtHistory […]

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The countdown is running! ⏰
There are only 22 days left until the 4th annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies begins in Krakow.
Remember to register by Thursday, June 12th (midnight GMT+1).
#CCLS #CLS #JCLS #LiteraryComputing #CulturalAnalytics

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The countdown is running! ⏰
There are only 22 days left until the 4th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies begins in Krakow.
Remember to register by Thursday, June 12th (midnight GMT+1).
#CCLS #CLS #JCLS #LiteraryComputing #CulturalAnalytics
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4th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, Krakow 2025

#CCLS2025 #conference is only a few weeks away, and registration will close soon! 😱

🔜 Register by Thursday, June 12, at 11:59 p.m. GMT+1 to join on site in #Krakow or #online. 💻

You can register directly here: www.konferencje-uj.pl?lang=en&go2r...
#JCLS #CLS #LiteraryComputing #CulturalAnalytics

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Mark your calendars! Exactly one month to go until #CCLS2025 in #Kraków!

Register now to join us on-site or virtually!
More info: jcls.io/site/ccls2025/

We can't wait to welcome you to the 4th Annual #Conference of #ComputationalLiteraryStudies!
#CLS #LiteraryComputing #LLMs #CulturalAnalytics

Want to extend your stay in the spirit of #CLS in #Krakow?

The Closing Event is followed by the 4th Annual #Conference of #ComputationalLiteraryStudies! #CCLS2025

Registration is open: jcls.io/site/ccls2025/

#CLS #LiteraryComputing #LLMs #NetworkStudies #FanFiction #ReaderData #CulturalAnalytics

Cultural Data Science: Bridging Data, Code, and Culture How can data and code help us better understand art, culture, and the humanities? In this talk, Dr. Harald Klinke, joining us via zoom, introduces the principles of Cultural...

Excited to speak at @uoregon.bsky.social’s Coffee & Code!

📊 Cultural Data Science: Bridging Data, Code, and Culture

🗓 May 30 · 12pm PT · Hybrid
📘 Coincides with my book launch via @springernature.com

🔗 uoregon.libcal.com/event/14717214
#DigitalHumanities #RStats #CulturalAnalytics #ArtHistory

‎Cultural Data Science ‎Computer und Internet · 2025

Now available on Apple Books:
Cultural Data Science – An Introduction to R
Discover how coding and cultural research come together. With a foreword by Lev Manovich.
books.apple.com/de/book/cult...
#DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics #RStats #ArtHistory #BookLaunch #AppleBooks

Re-sharing this should anyone who missed it still want to send in a late proposal.

Some great abstracts received, but always room for one more... ;)

Please do share with relevant colleagues, peers, and particularly early-career researchers.

#digitalhumanities #culturalanalytics #nlp #ai

#Digital #ArtHistory aka #DigitalArtHistory
feat. #CulturalDataAnalytics aka #CulturalAnalytics
has a #journal that is now a teenager.

Happy Birthday #DAHJournal!

There is also a new #cfp...

Charting cultural events on Eventbrite Here’s a new paper led by our PhD student Yue Wang, to be presented at GISRUK 2025 in Bristol! 🌎 🎹🎭 Abstract: This study explores the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of cultural life by in…

Here’s a new paper led by our PhD student Yue Wang to be presented at GISRUK 2025 in Bristol! 🌎 🎹🎭 In this study, we explore how over 50,000 Eventbrite listings reveal the patterns of urban cultural events at a very granular level
#UrbanStudies #CulturalAnalytics aballatore.space/2025/04/17/c...

Call for Chapters
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Cultural Analytics

Proposals are invited for chapters to be included in a major new reference work.

Further details and submission guidelines:
jamesosullivan.github.io/culturalanal...

#digitalhumanities #culturalanalytics @bendoyle.bsky.social