Lauren Tilton

Talks & Media

Some of my favorite conversations are about how we look at images, and what changes when machines start looking too. Sometimes that's a keynote; often it's a hands-on workshop where we try the tools together. I'm grateful to the universities, libraries, museums, and conferences across North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia that have hosted these conversations, and to journalists at outlets such as NPR, Slate, MIT Technology Review, and Inside Higher Ed who have taken an interest in our work.

Keynote Addresses

Show earlier keynotes (2019–2021)
  • “States of the Field: Digital Humanities and Film Studies.” SIG Film & Video of the German associate organization of The European Association for Digital Humanities (Germany), March 2021.
  • “Visual Turn in DH.” Digital Scholarship on the Front Range Annual Conference, October 2019.

Invited Talks & Workshops

Show earlier talks (2013–2021)
  • “Real Photo Postcards As Data.” Smithsonian Institution, December 2021.
  • “Collections As Data, Images as Data.” University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, August 2021.
  • “Humanities Data in R Workshop.” University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, August 2021.
  • “Open Up The Morgue!” Rijksmuseum (Netherlands), July 2021.
  • “The Possibilities of ‘R’ for Humanities, Within the Context of DH and Computational Humanities.” Lagos Summer School in DH (Nigeria), May 2021.
  • “Distant Viewing.” University of Pennsylvania, April 2021.
  • “The Ethics of Digital Image Analysis.” Northeastern University, February 2021.
  • “Images As Data.” Digital Humanities Forum Leipzig (Germany), February 2021.
  • “Distant Viewing.” University of Groningen (Netherlands), February 2021.
  • “Distant Viewing Toolkit: Software for Analyzing Digital Culture.” The Measurement of Images: Computational Approaches in the History and Theory of the Arts. MESH-Lille (France), November 2020.
  • “Images and DH.” New York University – Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). October 2020.
  • “Distant Viewing Toolkit.” Informal Virtual Audio Visual Summit: Notes from the Field, Library of Congress, September 2020.
  • “Introduction to R Workshop.” University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, July 2020.
  • “Distant Viewing: Analyzing Large Visual Corpora.” University of Luxembourg C2DH (Luxembourg), March 2020.
  • “Visual Cultures/Visual Data.” Collegium de Lyon (France), February 2020.
  • “Distant Viewing and TV.” University of Potsdam (Germany), December 2019.
  • “Distant Viewing and AudioVisual Data.” Utrecht University (Netherlands), November 2019.
  • “Digital Humanities: DH and Text Analysis.” Lumière University Lyon 2 (France), November 2019.
  • “A View from the Digital Humanities.” University of Colorado at Boulder, October 2019.
  • “State of the Field: Digital History.” Center for History and New Media Current Research in Digital History Workshop, March 2019.
  • “Towards a Visual Turn in (Digital) History.” The Fields Institute (Canada). March 2019.
  • “Digital History.” Virginia Tech, February 2019.
  • “Distant Viewing.” Ball State University, February 2019.
  • “Seeing the Nation: Digital Humanities, Documentary, and the Construction of Social History.” Ball State University, February 2019.
  • “Data Analysis and Documentary.” Rice University, January 2019.
  • “Workshop on History and Practice of Data Visualization.” American Historical Association, January 2019.
  • “Digital Public Humanities: Giving New Arguments and New Way to Argue.” Middlebury College, October 2018.
  • “Voice of a Nation.” University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, August 2018.
  • “Network Analysis Workshop.” Workshop. Virginia Social Science Librarians Boot Camp, August 2018.
  • “Distant Viewing with Deep Learning: An Introduction to Analyzing Large Corpora of Images.” Workshop. Carnegie Mellon University, July 2018.
  • “Mapping in the Classroom.” Workshop. University of Miami, April 2018.
  • “Archival Collections, Digital Humanities, and The Possibilities.” University of Miami, April 2018.
  • “Doing Digital History.” George Mason University, October 2017.
  • “Recommender Systems.” Proquest, October 2017.
  • “The Photogrammar Project.” University of Paris Diderot (France), May 2017.
  • “Photography, Data Analysis, and Its Possibilities.” Ohio State University, March 2017.
  • “Photography, Data Analysis, and Its Possibilities.” Stanford University, March 2017.
  • “Digital Humanities, Data Analysis and Its Possibilities.” Washington & Lee, January 2017.
  • “Digital Toolkit.” Digital History Workshop. American Historical Association, January 2017.
  • “Participatory Media.” Hollins University, October 2016.
  • “What to Do with Messy Data: Four Case Studies.” American Statistical Association, July 2016.
  • “Computational Approaches to Visual Culture.” Rutgers University, April 2016.
  • “Mapping.” Rice University, March 2016.
  • “Image, Archive, Event: Tracking the Archive’s Odyssey.” Pitzer College, September 2015.
  • “Changing Lens: Seeing America Go To War.” National World War II Museum, May 2015.
  • “An Introduction to Black Faces (1971).” The Real Indies: A Close Look at Orphan Films. Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, November 2014.
  • “Virtual Vision: Digital Humanities Approaches to Researching Objects, History, and Collections.” Museum of Modern Art, December 2014.
  • “Photogrammar.” Smithsonian Archives of American Art, November 2013.
  • “Crossing Domains: Digital Collection Sharing Among Museums and Libraries.” International Center for Photography, April 2013.

Conferences & Presentations

Show earlier presentations (2006–2021)
  • Chair. “Extending Metadata for Interactive Media for Better Precision and Accessibility.” Association for Computers and the Humanities 2021. July 2021.
  • Participant. “Images as Data.” Learn@DLF / Digital Library Federation. November 2020.
  • Presenter. “Visualizing a Large Spatiotemporal Collection of Historic Photography with a Generous Interface.” IEEE Vis4DH. October 2020.
  • Chair and Panelist. “Analyzing Moving Images at Scale with the Distant Viewing Toolkit.” Digital Humanities 2019. July 2019.
  • Presenter. “Visual Style in Two Network Era Sitcoms.” Visual Semantics Conference (ENS Paris). June 2019.
  • Panelist. “Race and Place: Dialect and the Construction of Southern Identity in the Ex-Slave Narratives.” CHNM Current Research in Digital History. March 2019.
  • Chair and Panelist. “American Quarterly: American Studies, the Digital Humanities, and a Critically Engaged Digital Practice.” American Studies Association, November 2018.
  • Paper. “Cross-Discourse and Multilingual Exploration of Textual Corpora with the DualNeighbors Algorithm.” LaTeCH-CLfL / COLING. August 2018.
  • Poster. “Locating Place Names at Scale: Using NLP to Identify Geographical Information in Text.” Digital Humanities 2018, July 2018.
  • Chair and Panelist. “Computer Vision in DH.” Digital Humanities 2018, July 2018.
  • Workshop. “Distant Viewing with Deep Learning.” Digital Humanities 2018, July 2018.
  • Panelist. “Digital History: Possibilities and Challenges.” Organization of American Historians, April 2018.
  • Panelist. “Placing Digital Humanities in American Studies.” European and British Association for American Studies, April 2018.
  • Panelist. “Emerging Research Paradigms via Digital Tools.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 2018.
  • Panelist. “Distant Viewing Toolkit.” Association of Moving Image Archivist, November 2017.
  • Poster. “Participatory Media.” Imagining America, October 2017.
  • Poster. “Distant Seeing.” Digital Humanities 2017, August 2017.
  • Panelist. “Mapping 20th Century America.” Digital Humanities 2017, August 2017.
  • Panelist. “Media Ecology Project.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 2017.
  • Panelist. “Historical Sources as Data: Opportunities and Challenges.” American Historical Association, January 2017.
  • Organizer and Presenter. “Homing/Redefining Digital Humanities in the Academy from an American Studies Perspective.” American Studies Association, November 2016.
  • Workshop Leader. “Introduction to Natural Language Processing.” Digital Humanities 2016, July 2016.
  • Panelist. “Photogrammar.” Poster. DH2016, July 2016.
  • Chair and Panelist. “Digital Resistance and the Archive.” American Studies Association, October 2015.
  • Chair and Panelist. “Digital Humanities.” New England American Studies Association Fall Colloquium, September 2015.
  • Working Group Convener. “Public History as Digital History and Public History.” National Council on Public History, April 2015.
  • Panelist. “Marginalized in Person and on Film: Young Filmmakers Foundation and the Politics of Representation.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 2015.
  • Panelist. “Looking Past the Written Word: Digital Authorship and the Representation of Knowledge.” American Historical Association, January 2015.
  • Panelist. “Reel Fun: Community Filmmaking in the 1960s and 1970s.” American Studies Association, November 2014.
  • Panelist. “Photogrammar: Organizing Visual Culture through Geography, Text Mining and Spatial Humanities.” Digital Humanities 2014, July 2014.
  • Panelist. “Digital Histories, Public Audiences.” Co-sponsored by the OAH Committee on Public History. Organization of American Historians, April 2014.
  • Chair. “Digital Humanities: Digital Shorts: New Platforms of Knowledge and Decent.” American Studies Association, November 2013.
  • Chair. “Photogrammar in Puerto Rico: Reading the FSA’s 1930s Visual Archive with Twenty-first Century Visualization Tools.” American Studies Association, November 2012.
  • Panelist. “Reinterpreting the Farm Security Administration–Office of War Information’s Vision.” New England American Studies Association, October 2012.
  • Panelist. “Seeing Local: Community Documentary Film and the War on Poverty.” Policy History Conference, June 2012.
  • Panelist. “From Archive to Interdisciplinary Tool: Transforming Our Image of the FSA-OWI Photograph Collection.” American Historical Association Annual Conference, January 2012.
  • Panelist. “Space, Place, and Image: Mapping FSA Photographs and the Photogrammar Project.” Modern Language Association Annual Conference, January 2012.
  • Panelist. “Recreating World War II: Experiencing the National World War II Museum.” New England American Studies Association, November 2011.
  • Panelist. “Farm Security Administration Photographs: The South, Not as a Problem but Constituent of National War Effort.” Southern American Studies Association, February 2011.
  • Panelist. “Commodifying Poverty in 20th Century Southern Folk Music.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference, April 2010.
  • Panelist. “Service Learning and Beyond In New Orleans.” National Symposium on Race and Society. November 2006.
  • Speaker. “Katrina Revisited.” The Forum Series. University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs. February 2006.

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