July 2024 The DHSS Hub Seminar A Probabilistic-Computational Approach to the Research of Meaning in Context On 17th July, we host Dr. Alon Fishman for a talk on experiments and theories of meaning. On the one side, we have the category based theory, splitting between true & false, single & multiple meanings. On the other, we have experiments that show meaning as probabilities. Fishman will discuss this conundrum and present various approaches for solving it.     Animals in Hebrew Literature  Contribute to a Research in the Making In this new research on animals in Hebrew literature, Prof. Adia Mendelson-Maoz and Dr. Yiftach Ashkenazi aim to create a database of the animal kingdom and analyze it via computational methods. It would be much appreciated if you could take a few moments and share with us prose texts that give a stage to animals. In this project, Dr. Neta Bodner and her research team (Beni Zaks & Mazi Kuzi) focus on spaces designed for ritual action, using 3D architectural and acoustic modelling to look at how architecture was planned for liturgical use and subjective experience. To do this an interdisciplinary team collects primary and secondary sources about the chosen sites (both architecture & ceremonies) to create post-production layers of sound, light, movement, changing water levels and info-graphics onto a 3D photogrammetry model of each building. The models will include written information on ceremonies based on the manuscript descriptions, soundscapes sampled in historic buildings to simulate the auditory experience and interactive variables (such as flame or changing natural lighting) that users can manipulate within the model to see their impact on the space. These models will serve as a dynamic database of information, and a laboratory for testing out ideas about the phenomenology of user experience within it. The changing model is accessed within a Virtual Reality platform (viewed using Oculus headsets) to allow users and the project team to explore the space from an external, “anthropologist's perspective” and an internal, embodied, or subjective perspective of immersion within the model, including meetings in a team forum to discuss questions. Together, architectural historians, sound and VR experience experts and art historians, we set out to ask together which technologies can support the augmentation of static space and historical documentation with interactive and embodied layers for changing spatial research questions. How will the nature of analysis change when we use different modelling methods for 3D immersive representations of historic buildings? What can layers of phenomenological data and human animation add to analysis of building design? (For more...) This DHSS Hub project was born from a collaboration with LVR Archäologische Zone Köln/Jüdisches Museum and our shared Israel Science Foundation project “Digging Deep” (1502/22) with Tanja Potthoff, Michael Wiehen, Ertan Özcan, Christiane Twiehaus, Tzafrir Barzilay, Hallel Baitner. The Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences is organising a Winter School in Digital Humanities in Vienna in November-December 2024. The Winter School will take a hands-on approach to tools for handwritten text recognition in medieval documents.We will have sub-groups for Carolingian Latin, Late Latin, Byzantine Greek, Syriac, Medieval Czech and Medieval German. We have planned three virtual sessions starting in November 2024 and a three-day meeting in Vienna in December. DHSS Hub Summer School 2024 -  The Humanities & Social Sciences Meet Artificial Intelligence Last Date for Submissions 10th July There are only a few days left to submit your application. Join us for three days of hands-on workshops with leading researchers, learn how to use a variety of AI tools, as well as machine learning methods. For information on the program and the submission form.

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