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Anders Ravn Sørensen

@ravnsorensen.bsky.social
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Exited and concerned about AI and our understanding of history. Historian / AI / historical methods / experimental dissemination.

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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thoughtful essay on how AI is impacting the history diccplin. I’m on the engage team. activehistory.ca/blog/2026/09...
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How Do We Talk about LLMs?
By Jim Clifford It is never fun to watch friends argue. Generative AI has created multiple fractures across our universities and the community of historians. The stakes are high and we are all deal…
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
AI Co-Historian” is apparently a thing now. Researchers at Oxford and Fraunhofer have developed Chronos, an AI system built specifically for historical research and working with digitised primary sources. But at what point does a research tool become a co-historian? ai-historian.com
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The AI Historian
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
My new open access article is out in Historisk Tidsskrift. I argue that genAI is not just another digital tool for historians—it challenges the relationship between historical knowledge, evidence, didactics and phenomenology. Read it here (in Danish): tidsskrift.dk/historisktid... #AI #history
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
According to Microsoft, genAI will render historians completely useless and irrelevant! Algorithms will take our jobs. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... I really don’t agree. But we need to push back on such ideas that designate historians as accountants of the past. #history #historians #AI
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Historikere er totalt irrelevante..... Er til konference om AI & historie på Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History. https://lnkd.in/dF5dYY-4 Anna Neovesky holdt en spændende - ...
Historikere er totalt irrelevante..... Er til konference om AI & historie på Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History. https://lnkd.in/dF5dYY-4 Anna Neovesky holdt en spændende - men ...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
If you enjoy using NotebookLM - maybe for creating summary podcasts of research articles or books, I would really think twice. Try reading Rettberg (2026) introducing the concepts of ‘synthetic empathy’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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AI-generated podcasts: Synthetic intimacy and cultural mistranslation in audio overviews from Google’s NotebookLM - Jill Walker Rettberg, 2026
This paper analyses AI-generated podcasts produced by Google’s NotebookLM, which generates audio podcasts where two chatty AI hosts discuss whichever documents ...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
At the conference AI in history at Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History I was introduced to the OECDs general framework of AI literacy. Really important, and I would hope history educations to follow the example. www.oecd.org/en/events/pu...
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AILit Framework
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a widely used tool in our everyday life, including for learning, personalised assistance, and entertainment. Therefore, young people must be able to understand ...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Chloe vs. History AI influencers are now “travelling” to Tudor London, Ancient Rome, and even the Titanic through generated video. Part of me loves it. It’s a historian’s dream to step into past worlds, and I can easily imagine huge educational value. m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sd1...
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I time travelled to Tudor London in 1536! (Vlog)
YouTube video by Chloe VS History
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
On genAI image generators an how they risk producing an ‘algorithmic tourist gaze’ of the past contributing, to synthetic collective memory. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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On the Historical Gaze of Generative AI: Visions of Scandinavia in Stable Diffusion
This article critically explores how the AI image model Stable Diffusion generates visual histories of Scandinavia in the 1930s. While the past has always been mediated, this study suggests that ge...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
A great initiative by AHR in an effort historicize genAI and open up for the seemingly radical technology in historical perspective. www.historians.org/news-publica... #history #genAI #Americanhistoricalreview #historians #historyoftechnology #AI
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AHR Call for Proposals: AI in Historical Perspectives
The AHR calls for proposals for essays that frame AI not as a contemporary technology to be used or rejected but instead as a historical and historiographic phenomenon to be contextualized, interrogat...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Looking forward to this one. I have the felling that secondary education teachers engage more with AI-didactics than university professors. AI i historie viden.ai/ai-i-historie/
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AI i historie
AI i historie – praksis og øvelser henvender sig til historielærere og giver et fagligt perspektiv på, hvordan kunstig intelligens kan inddrages i historieundervisningen.
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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +
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How Fast Was the Mail?
Explore mail transit times via railway between major U.S. cities, 1882–1908.
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
My Danish colleague @benjamin-asmussen.bsky.social is in the historians laboratory at @nationalmuseet.dk eagerly feeding his LLMs large bodies of Danish sources that were previously underused by scholars. Now the material is springing to life 🤖 www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...
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Jeg hygger mig med at skabe robotter. Eller egentligt er det sprogmodeller, hvor jeg styrer deres vidensrum, men det føles som nyttige robotter, der hjælper mig med min historiske forskning og… | Benj...
Jeg hygger mig med at skabe robotter. Eller egentligt er det sprogmodeller, hvor jeg styrer deres vidensrum, men det føles som nyttige robotter, der hjælper mig med min historiske forskning og museums...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
We need to very carefull if using AI for references and litteratur searches. That for sure. I had my own creepy wake-up call recently when I asked ChatGPT to take REAL existing references and edit them for a specific journal standard. www.historica.org/blog/ai-in-h...
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AI in Historical Research: 2025 Trends & Insights
How AI transforms historical research while keeping human expertise central.
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Looking forward to this one from Cambridge. #history #historians #genAI www.cambridge.org/dk/universit...
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Using Generative AI in Historical Practice | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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#talkabouthumanities | American Historical Association
We need historians because evidence doesn’t explain itself. Historians analyze sources, challenge assumptions, and piece together complex stories from the past. Their work turns fragments into knowle...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
A sharp piece in The Guardian draws on Marc Bloch and WWII to make a point about AI, that societies often misunderstand transformative technologies. Worth a read if you think history has anything to teach us about AI (it does). #AI #History #Tech www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Don’t make Marshal Foch’s mistake on AI | Letters
Letter: Peregrine Rand reflects on Marc Bloch’s Strange Defeat and the future threat of artificial intelligence
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Interesting anthology by Todd Presner on algorithmic ethics and holocaust remembering. For good and for worse approaching an algorithmic phenomenology? #skyhistorians #history #genai #holocaust press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Ethics of the Algorithm
How computational methods can expand how we see, read, and listen to Holocaust testimony
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Really interesting new initiative by @benjamin-asmussen.bsky.social: using language models to reconstruct and communicate 18th-century Copenhagen month by month, grounded in historical newspapers and sources. #history #genAI gamlenyheder.wordpress.com/2026/04/04/1...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Historians may need to rethink ethics in the age of AI. If artificial historians can produce meaningful histories without intentions, then “practical ethics” might not be a human trait at all, but a feature of historiographical logic itself. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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ETHICS FOR ARTIFICIAL HISTORIANS
Artificial historians do not need to have intentions to complete actions or to solve problems. Consequently, a revised approach to the ethics of history is needed. An approach to ethics for artificia...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Want to recommend Marnie Hughes-Warrington’s Artificial Historians. Loved her talk at a conference last week, where she asked the audience if they wanted to publish a research article written by AI? The scary answer: we are doing it already without knowing it. www.routledge.com/Artificial-H...
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Artificial Historians
This book offers readers an introduction to the world of artificial histories and historians. It looks behind the interfaces of AI and explores everyday platforms and prize-winning history books to id...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Hello History! This app offers user to chat with an array of historical figures with RAG technology m. From Napoleon, Tupac and Jesus. Moving experience of the past closer to an algorithmic epistemology.
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
A historian tested AI on a clean, structured Tudor dataset. The result wasn’t random but coherent, plausible interpretation that simply wasn’t true. Still some way from completely trusting gAI 😳 www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-his...
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Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
“We want AI to read sources the way historians do” A new Stanford project is trying to build AI that doesn’t just write history — but actually thinks like a historian. Shifting AI in the humanities from text generation to transparent knowledge production? news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...
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AI project aims to advance research into the past
A new approach could accelerate historical analysis by teaching AI to read documents like scholars do.
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The real challenge of AI may not be intelligence, but whether we can still deliberate together. 🙏 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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German philosopher and social critic Jürgen Habermas dies at 96
One the most influential thinkers in post-war Germany, he linked philosophy and political action throughout his life.
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Really a lot of exiting projects! chc.au.dk
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Center for Humanities Computing | Aarhus University
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
It might not be as pedagogically sound as one might have hope to chat with Cleopatra or Churchill as ChatGPT RAG-personas. Students tend to ask factual questions rather than questions that could cultivate historical consciousness. www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
AI is not just changing what humanists study. It is changing how they produce knowledge. This review article maps how AI is already being used across the Hunanities. What happens to interpretation and evidence and authority? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A review of AI applications in Human Sciences research
This paper compiles the most relevant contributions of AI technology in the field of Human Sciences. It reveals the development of different applicati…
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Topic-RAG allows historians (and humanities scholars broadly) to search, say, old newspaper, not only for keywords, but for abstract concepts like ‘greed’ or ‘fear’ by organisering sources in thematic clusters. @benjamin-asmussen.bsky.social #skyehistorians www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Topic-RAG for historical newspapers: Enhancing information retrieval in humanities research through topic-based retrieval-augmented generation | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core
Topic-RAG for historical newspapers: Enhancing information retrieval in humanities research through topic-based retrieval-augmented generation - Volume 1
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The historian’s digital doping? I know this is a couple of years old, but I just found it. It’s excellent- and it’s open source #history #skyhistorians onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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DIGITAL DOPING FOR HISTORIANS: CAN HISTORY, MEMORY, AND HISTORICAL THEORY BE RENDERED ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT?
Artificial intelligence is making history, literally. Machine learning tools are playing a key role in crafting images and stories about the past in popular culture. AI has probably also already inva...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Historians and other academics being used by Grammerly as digital ghosts to review other people’s papers 😱
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
AHA’s Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education #AI&history www.historians.org/wp-content/u...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
AI beginning to be treated as a topic for history students’ master theses. Here an interesting MA-thesis on AI-literacy (or, rather, the lack thereof) in Danish secondary education by Andreas Winkler Bønnelykke. projekter.aau.dk/generativ-ai...
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Generativ AI i historiefaget: Et mixed methods studie af generativ AI's påvirkning og integration i historiefaget: Et mixed methods studie af generativ AI's påvirkning og integration i historiefaget
Abstract This project explores the relationship between artificial intelligence and the Danish educations system. This study is rooted in a personal desire to understand the effect that arti-ficial in...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
On AI, responsible Holocaust-education and the generational gap in trust towards AI-generated content. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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“Can AI make Hitler cry?” exploring the use of AI in Holocaust education across four generations - AI and Ethics
As the number of Holocaust survivors declines, preserving their narratives becomes critical. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a significant tool in Holocaust education, enabling immersive e...
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Søren Torbjørn Svendsen @sorentsvendsen.eurosky.social · 28/02/2026
I har vel set dette projekt? Også et fint eksempel i brugen af ML og NLP (altså AI-værktøjer) til at klassificere en stor bunke tekster og hjælpe med at få et overblik på en mikro-del af tiden uden værktøjerne. bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Sure hope Princeton succeeds in letting humanities shape the trajectory of AI - and not only engages reactively by using it to collect, sort and analyze historical sources. www.princeton.edu/news/2026/02...
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AI and the humanities: Across the Princeton campus, an era of collaboration is underway.
Princeton has firmly established its presence at the forefront of AI research — including transformative work in humanities scholarship.
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Professor Johan Heinsen wins prize for tracing escape attempts in Denmark in the period 1750-1850, using artificial intelligence. www.en.ssh.aau.dk/aau-history-...
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AAU history professor receives award for 'Original Idea of the Year'
AAU history professor receives award for 'Original Idea of the Year'
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
My friend and colleague @benjamin-asmussen.bsky.social is using the latest AI-tools to organize vast amounts of historical data. The next step is to deploy an army of AI-agents — small assistant bots — to crawl global sources and archives, blindly obeying the historian’s command. Will it backfire?
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Important BBC-investigation into how gAI historical images are potentially distorting collective Holocaust memory culture. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images
The BBC has found an international network of content creators profiting from AI generated posts on Facebook.
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Roman Rules AI simulations used to recreated the rules of an old Roman board game. Really a cool use of technology on archeology. www.newscientist.com/article/2514...
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Is this carved rock an ancient Roman board game?
The lines worn into an engraved limestone object from the Netherlands are consistent with the idea that it was a Roman game board, according to an AI analysis
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 24/02/2026
On 2/27, the AHA will host a Congressional Briefing on AI. Panelists Ekaterina Babintseva, Sarah Igo, Aaron Mendon-Plasek, Rebecca Slayton, & moderator Kathryn Cramer Brownell will provide historical context on privacy & national security issues that have been transformed by technology and now AI. 🗃️
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History of Artificial Intelligence, Privacy, & Security – AHA
The American Historical Association (AHA) will host a Congressional Briefing offering historical perspectives on artificial intelligence. The briefing will take place on Friday, February 27, at 9:00 a...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
AI THROUGH HISTORY conference - this summer in Luxemburg. Deadline for abstracts is approaching fast. Looks really exiting. www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...
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CfP: AI through History, History through AI
The Eighth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History hosted by the C²DH in Belval will revolve around Artificial Intelligence in the historical disciplines.
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I know it’s been a while, but I’m really excited about this forum from AHR. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
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Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of History: A Forum
This AHR History Lab forum brings together scholars and practitioners from within and outside the historical discipline to consider the methodological and
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
History meets AI — thoughtfully. My colleague @benjamin-asmussen.bsky.social has published an important piece in Historisk Tidsskrift on how AI can be used constructively in historical research. Read it here: tidsskrift.dk/historisktid... #History #AI #DigitalHumanities
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Historical AI trash is overflowing SoMe right now. Like this vulgar, commercial exploitation of the Holocaust, devoid of scholarly grounding and historical understanding. It risks distorting our historical consciousness and undermining our culture of remembrance. www.facebook.com/share/r/1CA3...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
My book on Børsen - the old (and now burned down Danish stock exchange from 1624🔥🔥) - is nominated for the prize History Book of the Year Award 2024!! 🎉🎉 It would be great if Børsen could win. But it requires a vote: www.historie-online.dk/aarets-histo... 🙏🙏
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Årets Historiske Bog 2024
Prisen for Årets historiske bog 2024 uddeles på Historiske Dage i Øksnehallen i København den 29. marts 2025. Du kan være med til at bestemme, hvem der skal vinde de 20.000 kr. ved at afgive din stemm...
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Anders Ravn Sørensen @ravnsorensen.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
We had an alliance! We had a deal! International agreements, trust and institutions are all that stands between us and the disintegration of a liberal, democratic world order! #makegreenlandgreatagain #greenland #maga #denmark
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Benny Engelbrecht @bennyengelbrecht.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hold da op - det her #bluesky er jo et rimeligt vildt sted 🦋 På den gode måde! Efter bare fem dage herinde er de første 2.000 følgere allerede tjekket ind og man savner på ingen måde troldene 🧌 Helt sikkert mere 🦋 fremover 😁 #dkpol
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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
One of two important current calls around business history and imperialism. The first for a special issue of @businesshistory.bsky.social on Business History & Imperialism: @kevindtennent.bsky.social, @nkleinoeder.bsky.social
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Benjamin Asmussen @benjamin-asmussen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
For the Danish-speakers here: Still a few spots left for three public lectures in Copenhagen about Danish maritime and colonial history the coming three Mondays: fuau.dk/emdrup/progr... #maritimehistory #danmarkshistorie
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Dansken på de syv have
Da Christian 4. i 1618 sender admiral Ove Gjedde mod Ceylon på Danmarks første kolonieventyr, er det startskuddet til over 400 års dansk handel og søfart i de fjerneste egne af verden. De oversøiske f...
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