B2: Workshop - Practical Uses of AI for World History Research
2025-06-26 , Medallion CD

The large, commercial generative AI tools pose all kinds of challenges and problems for historians and our societies. Beyond these error-prone text generators, however, AI has potential to help historians to provide access and interpretation of historical sources and knowledge. Independent communities and consortia are looking at creating their own independent AI-augmented tools for working with large corpora of data in ethical, useful ways. In this workshop, you will be able to learn about and interact with two of these – The MarCoMo project and History Genie’s African newspaper database.


Artificial intelligence
research
Africa
shipping
France


Title for Additional Participant 1:

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow - Ingénieur de recherche Université d'Angers - TEMOS UMR 9016 & California State University, Sacramento

Abstract for Additional Participant 1:

MarCoMo project: from the Sea to the Clouds

Trevor R. Getz is Professor of African and World History at San Francisco State University and President of the World History Association

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François Drémeaux is MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow - Ingénieur de recherche at Université d'Angers - TEMOS UMR 9016 & California State University, Sacramento. He is also Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Hong Kong