LINA RUTH HARDER

AI | Narratives | History | Digital Culture
I am a PhD Research Fellow at the Center for Digital Narrative🔗 at the University of Bergen. I am researching and developing AI chatbots that reenact historical figures through interactive, simulated conversations.

Lectures, Presentations & Workshops

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University:Future Festival,
May 2025

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Goethe-Institut Lisbon,
March 2025

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AI and Digital Media Aesthetics,
April 2024

  • Center for Digital Narrative Research Presentations

    Lake Forest College, Illinois, USA🔗
    14 May 2025
    "Histobots in Conversation: Ontologies and Typologies"
    Presentation

  • University:Future Festival /imagine🔗

    Hochschulforum Digitalisierung, Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre, Stifterverband
    14 May 2025
    "Histobots: Rewriting History, One Chat at a Time"
    Presentation

  • Weird Stories & Wicked Communities, Workshop🔗

    Center for Digital Narrative🔗 & University of Stuttgart, Bergen, Norway
    14 March 2025
    "Haunted Algorithms: Techno-Necromancy and Ghosts in the Machine"
    Presentation

  • Art meets Tech: Web3Expressão, Creative Workshops for Artists and Cultural Professionals🔗

    Goethe Institute Lisbon
    11 March 2025
    "AI Meets History"
    Online Workshop (Concept & Realisation)

  • AI, Politics and Society, Seminar🔗

    Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy
    December 2024
    "Echoes of History? The Impact of AI-Generated Historical Figures on Informal Education"
    Paper Presentation

  • AI Media Research Network🔗

    Department of Art and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
    November 2024
    "Reimagining History: AI-Generated Figures in Informal Education"
    Guest Lecture

  • Digital and Digitized Traces, Conference🔗

    Annual Conference of the Norwegian Network for Digital Humanities and Culture Organization (DHKO) 🔗 Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
    October 2024
    "Echoes of History? The Impact of AI-generated Historical Figures on Informal Education"
    Presentation

  • AI and Narrative, Seminar

    Center for Digital Narrative🔗, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
    October 2024
    "Histobots. Echoes of History or AI Storytime?"
    Presentation

  • Gode KI-historier, Lunch Seminar

    Kommunikasjonsavdelingen, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
    September 2024
    "In Conversation with Hedy Lamarr. 'Reanimating' Historical Figures with Artificial Intelligence"
    Presentation

  • AI and Digital Media Aesthetics, Seminar🔗

    Center for Digital Narrative🔗, University of Bergen, Bergen
    April 2024
    "Building the Nethersphere: Artificial Intelligence and the Reanimation of Historical Minds"
    Presentation on Aesthetics of AI-driven Historical Figure Bots

  • Futures of Digital Narrative, Seminar

    Center for Digital Narrative🔗, Centre Universitaire de Norvège à Paris (CUNP), Paris, France
    April 2024
    "Building the Nethersphere: Artificial Intelligence and the Reanimation of Historical Minds"
    Presentation of PhD Project

Exhibitions

New Realities 🔗
21 March 2025 - 11 January 2026
"Post-Human Couture" in
the New Realities Fashion Magazin
More Than Meets AI 🔗
20 September - 24 October 2024
Hedy Lamarr Chatbot 🔗

Museum Publications

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Orte der Einheit
2023-2024
Dong Xuan Centre 🔗
Karlshorst Theatre 🔗
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Museumsmagazin
No. 1, 2020
#mauerfall30. Ein Hashtag für den Mauerfall, p. 18 🔗
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Das Radio in der Nussschale
Hirmer Verlag, 2017
‘Dem Paket auf der Spur’,
pp. 280–81.
‘Walkmania - Mobile Freiheit’,
pp. 256–59.
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Das Buch der Nächte
Hermann Schmidt, 2017
‘Durch die Nacht mit Domian’,
pp. 20–23.
‘Kleider machen Leute’,
pp. 113–14.

Affiliations

  • Norsk nettverk for digital humaniora og kulturorganisasjon (DHKO) 🔗

    Norway
    Working Group Member since February 2025
    The Norwegian network for Digital Humanities and Culture Organization is an informal network of academics who work in digital humanities in either a broad or narrow sense.

  • STIP-HF Ph.d.-kandidatutvallet ved Det humanistiske fakultet 🔗

    Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway
    Co-Chair since January 2025
    STIP-HF is an interest committee for Ph.D. candidates at the Faculty of Humanities in both academic politics and social matters.

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