Publications
- • Presner, Todd, Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory (Princeton University press, 2024), with contributions by Anna Bonazzi, Rachel Deblinger, Lizhou Fan, Michelle Lee, Kyle Rosen, and Campbell Yamane.
- • 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:2211.13496v1 [stat.CO] (2022).
- • Lizhou Fan and Todd Presner, “Algorithmic Close Reading: Using Semantic Triplets to Index and Analyze Agency in Holocaust Testimonies,” in Digital Humanities Quarterly 16.3 (2022).
- • Anna Bonazzi, “N-Gram-Based Content Indexing: Semiautomated Analysis of Holocaust Testimonies,” in Jewish Studies in the Digital Age, eds. Gerben Zaagsma, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Miriam Rürup, Michelle Margolis, and Amalia S. Levi (Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 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], trans. Lena Hein, in: Urs Büttner and David Kim, eds., Globalgeschichten der deutschen Literatur (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2021), pp. 93-117.
- • Todd Presner, “The Ethics of the Algorithm: Close and Distant Listening to the Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive,” in Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture, eds. Claudio Fogu, Wulf Kansteiner, and Todd Presner (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016), pp. 175-202.
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).
Student videos from 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”.
Student video from 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)