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

Upcoming Art meets Tech: Web3Expressão
Goethe Institute Lissbon
March 2024
"AI Meets History"
Online Workshop (Concept & Realisation)

AI, Politics and Society
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 (Video)

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