(Upcoming) HUML Launch Event with Hannes Bajohr
January 24th, 2025
Join us on Friday, January 24th from 3:00-5:00 PM in the Henley Board Room in Mosher Alumni House for the inaugural event of the Center for the Humanities and Machine Learning (HUML) at UCSB. Hannes Bajohr, Assistant Professor of German at UC Berkeley, will give a keynote titled, “Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text and its Styles,” followed by a Q&A. Bajohr’s extensive work on artificial intelligence and digital writing technologies includes co-editing a recent special volume of Text+Kritik (“The Subject of Writing: On Large Language Models”) and a 2023 novel, Berlin, Miami, written in cooperation with a self-trained language model. HUML Co-Directors Fabian Offert (Germanic and Slavic Studies/Comparative Literature) and Rita Raley (English) will also discuss their upcoming book projects on image and language models, respectively, followed by a reception with light refreshments. We hope to see you there!