Publications and presentations
- • Live Discussion: AI and Holocaust Memory. In response to the provocation: “In Search of the North Star for AI and Holocaust Memory” (49:44 – 1:05:43). Editors: Mykola Makhortykh, Maryna Sydorova. Respondents: Evgeny Kalachikhin, Dr. Atay Kozlovski, Todd Presner, Anna Bonazzi, Ulysses Pascal, Aileen Tang, Sophia Toubian, Alex Wasdahl, Dr. Yael Richler-Friedman. 2026.
- • Todd Presner, Anna Bonazzi, Ulysses Pascal, Aileen Tang, Sophia Toubian, Alex Wasdahl. “Uncritical Fabulation and Holocaust Vibe: How AI Constructs the Past.” Digital Memory Dialogues, Landecker Digital Memory Lab, 2026.
- • Todd Presner. Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory. With Anna Bonazzi, Rachel Deblinger, Lizhou Fan, Michelle Lee, Kyle Rosen, and Campbell Yamane, Princeton University press, 2024.
- • Todd Presner. The Algorithm as Witness: Reimagining Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age. Hosted by Deb Donig, October 2024. “Technically Human” Podcast.
- • Todd Presner. “Ethics of the Algorithm” (video). USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, October2024.
- • Keyi Cheng, Stefan Inzer, Adrian Leung, Xiaoxian Shen, Michael Perlmutter, Michael Lindstrom, Joyce Chew, Todd Presner, Deanna Needell. “Multi-scale Hybridized Topic Modeling: A Pipeline for Analyzing Unstructured Text Datasets via Topic Modeling.” arXiv:2211.13496, arXiv, 24 Nov. 2022. arXiv.org.
- • Lizhou Fan and Todd Presner. “Algorithmic Close Reading: Using Semantic Triplets to Index and Analyze Agency in Holocaust Testimonies.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 016, no. 3, June 2022.
- • Anna Bonazzi. “N-Gram-Based Content Indexing: Semiautomated Analysis of Holocaust Testimonies.” Jewish Studies in the Digital Age, eds. Gerben Zaagsma, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Miriam Rürup, Michelle Margolis, and Amalia S. Levi, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 89–104.
- • Todd Presner. “Digitale Geisteswissenschaften und Holocaustzeugnisse: Anmerkungen zu einer globalen Genealogie [Digital Humanities and Holocaust Testimony: Remarks on a Global Geneaology].” Globalgeschichten der deutschen Literatur: Methoden – Ansätze – Probleme, edited by Urs Büttner and David D. Kim, translated by Lena Hein, J.B. Metzler, 2022, pp. 93–117.
- • Todd Presner. “The Ethics of the Algorithm: Close and Distant Listening to the Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive.” Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture, edited by Claudio Fogu, Wulf Kansteiner, and Todd Presner, Harvard University Press, 2017, pp. 167–202.
Related presentations
- • “Generative AI”. 2023 Paul Haaga Program on American Entrepreneurship at the Huntington Museum and Library, with Ramesh Srinivasan and Todd Presner in conversation with President Karen R. Lawrence. The panel addressed issues ranging from algorithmic bias to the question of whether computers can produce original artistic expression, as well as the conditions under which AI technologies can augment human connection, knowledge, and creativity.
- • “Digital Humanities Methods for Analyzing Holocaust and Genocide Testimonies”: panel presentation at DH2020, Association of Digital Humanities Organizations. Featuring: Todd Presner (chair), Anna Bonazzi, Rachel Deblinger, Lizhou Fan, David Shepard, and Gabor Toth (2020).
- • Anna Bonazzi and Lizhou Fan, supervised by Todd Presner, “Language Use and Narrative Structure in Genocide Interviews via Digital Humanities,” UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education poster (2019). Award: Best Poster, IDRE Early Career Research Projects
- • Todd Presner, “Technologies of Testimony: From Wire-recorder to Digital Database,” delivered as the 24th annual Meyerhoff Memorial Lecture, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (October 2018).
- • Rachel Deblinger, “Remix, remember, retweet: meditations on Holocaust memory, social media, and antisemitism online,” Misinformation, Media Manipulation, and Antisemitism Symposium at The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University (February 5, 2020). View video of the full symposium.
- • Rachel Deblinger, “The Holocaust, Walls and Ephemerality” Magnes Museum (March 8, 2017).
UCLA Undergraduate Research week 2025
Aditya Patil and Billy Peir, “Using Large Language Models to Disambiguate Holocaust Interview Testimonies”
UCLA Undergraduate Research week 2021
Michelle Lee, “Developing a Digital Humanities Methodology to Analyze 78,000+ Holocaust Survivor Interview Questions”
Award: Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research (2021)
Wanxin Xie, “Coreference Resolution in the Domain of Holocaust Testimonies”
Keertana Namuduri, “Holocaust Survivors and the Processing of Traumatic Memories”
UCLA Undergraduate Research week 2020
Lizhou Fan, “Using Text Mining and Information Extraction Methods to Analyze Holocaust and Genocide Testimonies”.
Award: Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research (2020)