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Dr. T.P. (Thomas) Smits MA

Faculty of Humanities
Geschiedenis

Visiting address
  • Kloveniersburgwal 48
Postal address
  • Postbus 1610
    1000 BP Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Publications

    2024

    • Buelens-Terryn, M., & Smits, T. P. (2024). Projecting the world. The mediated geography of the projection lantern in Belgium c.1900-c.1920. Journal of Historical Geography, (86), 403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.007
    • Smit, R., Smits, T. P., & Merill, S. (2024). Stochastic Remembering and Distributed Mnemonic Agency: Recalling Twentieth Century Activists with ChatGPT . Memory Studies Review, 1. https://doi.org/10.1163/29498902-202400015
    • Smits, T. P. (2024). Revisiting the Kahn collection: multimodal artificial intelligence and visual patterns of presence and absence in the Archives de la Planète, 1909–1931. Visual Studies, 0. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2380859
    • Smits, T. P., & Wevers, M. J. H. F. (2024). Coloring in the world of others: color use in visual orientalism, 1890–1920. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03895-5

    2023

    • Smits, T., & Wevers, M. (2023). A multimodal turn in Digital Humanities. Using contrastive machine learning models to explore, enrich, and analyze digital visual historical collections. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 38(3), 1267-1280. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad008 [details]

    2022

    2020

    • Wevers, M., & Smits, T. (2020). Detecting Faces, Visual Medium Types, and Gender in Historical Advertisements, 1950–1995. In A. Bartoli, & A. Fusiello (Eds.), Computer Vision – ECCV 2020 Workshops: Glasgow, UK, August 23–28, 2020 : proceedings (Vol. II, pp. 77-91). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12536). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66096-3_7 [details]
    • Wevers, M., & Smits, T. (2020). The visual digital turn: Using neural networks to study historical images. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 35(1), 194-207. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqy085

    2022

    • Smits, T., Wevers, M., & Paklons, E. (2022). A Clash of Colorful Worlds: Distant Viewing Color in Visual Representations of the Orient and Occident, 1890-1920. Paper presented at DH Benelux 2022, Belval, Luxembourg. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6530402

    Prize / grant

    Talk / presentation

    • Smits, T. (speaker) & Wevers, M. (speaker) (14-11-2024). Are we at a Multimodal Turn? Navigating AI Developments for Historical Research, Intermediality and Computational Humanities Hackathon, Vienna.
    • Wevers, M. (speaker) & Smits, T. (speaker) (7-10-2021). Shaping the Neoliberal Consumer, or how computational methods can help in analyzing Dutch historical advertisements for financial products., European History Reloaded, Utrecht.

    2020

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