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Jun
Seminars and Conferences
The Archive Is Not Innocent: Digital Narratives through Generative AI and Historical Responsibility
The seminar “The Archive Is Not Innocent: Digital Narratives through Generative AI and Historical Responsibility” by Roger Louis Martinez-Davila (University of Colorado, United States), scheduled for Thursday 4 June 2026 at 2:30 pm, is organized within the framework of Colonial Echoes, Urban Futures: Archives, Memory, and Generative AI in Postcolonial Critique.
Speaker
Roger Louis Martinez-Davila is Professor of History at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, specializing in medieval and early modern Iberia, Sephardic Jews and converso identity. His work integrates archival research with digital humanities, including AI and immersive technologies, to explore memory, power and ethics across the Iberian Atlantic world.
The seminar will be moderated by Pelin Bolca from the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning-DIST at Politecnico di Torino.
Speaker
Roger Louis Martinez-Davila is Professor of History at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, specializing in medieval and early modern Iberia, Sephardic Jews and converso identity. His work integrates archival research with digital humanities, including AI and immersive technologies, to explore memory, power and ethics across the Iberian Atlantic world.
The seminar will be moderated by Pelin Bolca from the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning-DIST at Politecnico di Torino.