Melvin Waver’s talk, Using Neural Networks to Study Conceptual Shifts in Text and Image, provided some critical insight on the potential of neural networks in conducting academic research in the field of Humanities. The proliferation of available data and the rapid developments in the processing possibilities, in conjunction with the increasing digitization of archives, has…

In Melvin Wevers’ lecture Using Neural Networks to Study Conceptual Shifts in Text and Image, he explained why humanities researchers should collaborate with computer scientists. He did this by showing a neural network that can analyze and categorize images in advertisements. This network could then recognize certain patterns, which eventually could lead to new insights…

In his talk Using Neural Networks to Study Conceptual Shifts in Text and Image, Melvin Wevers exposed a type of research that, relying on large corpora of data for advertisements, employed computational devices in order to be able to proceed with his analysis. The amount and accessibility of data nowadays, as it has been addressed…

The underlying idea of pedagogy is that parents, teachers and other adults bear responsibility for the upbringing, education and conduct of children. These responsibilities range from the mental life of the child to behavioural manners to legal liability. Ideas of the responsibility in education are not only limited to human-human relations but are equally applicable…

Reflecting on the fascinating research presented by Melvin Wevers on neural networks and the ongoing technical innovations within the field of computer recognition and identification software. Through a complex explanation of the mathematical and algorithmic techniques going into these research, Wevers showed us how computers are not just research tools, they are, as if they…

Please register with NICA Masterclass with Jon McKenzie, Iris van der Tuin, and Maaike Bleeker offered by the Centre for the Humanities and the Transmission in Motion research group (UU), in collaboration with NICA and SPRING Festival. In this masterclass, we take Lyotard’s report on knowledge as a historical point of reference for a closer look at the performance…

We are very happy to share with you that our own TiM Community Member Iris van der Tuin, has been appointed Professor of Theory of Cultural Inquiry at the Faculty of Humanities! The chair is part of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and is part of the Research Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON)…

For as long as humanity existed, people have been occupied with the essence of things around them. Philosophers, mathematicians, astronomers tried to understand the world since the ancient times, looking up at the sky, at nature, at art to find the answers to the most fundamental questions. Later many other scientists studied the air, the…

Frank Kessler’s lecture brought forward several questions about the role of the media in daily life and its potential to transform the way we perceive and describe our daily experiences. For example, I started reflecting on the ways that cinema has reconfigured the senses and shaped our experience of the world, and how it has…

Frank Kessler’s session of Transmission in Motion on the 13th of January, the topic was “Media and the Reconfiguration of the Senses” with a special focus on vision. During the session, we were presented with several philosophers who somehow engaged with the topic such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, Béla Balázs, Vilém Flusser, and most…