Digital Humanities in Israel Studies
About the conference
Methods are shifting in a rapidly growing field, as the recent exponential growth of AI, digital mapping, distant reading, digital visualizations, large language modeling, data scraping, and a myriad of other new technologies are being applied to scholarship in the humanities. How does this affect the tasks of writing history, interpreting literature, mapping, and analyzing culture, as applied to the study of Israeli and Palestinian material?
Project Showcase
This conference was the culmination of the 2024-25 Institute for Advanced Israel Studies (IAIS), and featured a showcase in which the IAIS fellows shared their digital humanities projects with the public. We screened brief (two to three-minute) videos introducing the 11 projects, and guests had the opportunity to talk with the creators and ask questions. Watch the video below, created by IAIS fellow Daniel Stein Kokin, which introduces his project, "All The Points," an online mapping project of Israel-Palestine.
"Tel Aviv Review" Episode Features Yael Dekel's Project, the Literary Laboratory 
The "Tel Aviv Review" podcast interviewed IAIS Lead Fellow Yael Dekel about her project, the Literary Laboratory, which examines how digital methods can be used to study – and redefine – the canon of Hebrew literature. Listen to the episode, The ‘Big Data’ of Hebrew Literature.