Digital History Seminar: Mila Oiva (University of Turku)

Seminar

Date: Tuesday 29 April 2025

Time: 13.00 – 15.00

Location: Zoom

"Lenin Lives! Temporal Changes of Visual Leninism in Soviet Newsreels, 1918-1992”. Mila Oiva (University of Turku) presents at the seminar.

This study examines changing visual representation of Leninism – one of the foundational doctrines and cultural phenomena in the Soviet state – in Soviet newsreels between (1918) 1945 and 1992. Exploring digitized collections of the main newsreel series the study detects, typologizes, and quantifies portrayals of Leninism with the help of multimodal Large Language Models. The purpose of the study is to examine the changing intensity and emphasis of Leninism and the underlying reasons for that. Simultaneously the study explores the benefits and limitations of computational study of visual cultural phenomena.

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Theme

History, Archeology and Cultural Heritage

Research subject

Modern History

Last updated: March 6, 2025

Source: Department of History

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