Dr. T.P. (Thomas) Smits MA
Faculty of Humanities
Geschiedenis
Visiting address
- Kloveniersburgwal 48
Postal address
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Postbus 1610
1000 BP Amsterdam
Contact details
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Publications
2025
Smits, T. (2025). Revisiting the Kahn collection: multimodal artificial intelligence and visual patterns of presence and absence in the Archives de la Planète, 1909–1931. Visual Studies, 40(1), 126-142. https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2380859 [details]- Smits, T., Warner, B., Fyfe, P., & Lee, B. C. G. (2025). A Fully-Searchable Multimodal Dataset of the Illustrated London News, 1842–1890. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 11, Article 10. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.284 [details]
2024
- Buelens-Terryn, M., & Smits, T. (2024). Projecting the world: The mediated geography of the projection lantern in Belgium c.1900-c.1920. Journal of Historical Geography, 86, 403-421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.10.007 [details]
- Smit, R., Smits, T., & Merill, S. (2024). Stochastic Remembering and Distributed Mnemonic Agency: Recalling Twentieth Century Activists with ChatGPT . Memory Studies Review, 1(2), 209–230. https://doi.org/10.1163/29498902-202400015 [details]
- Smits, T. (2024). Visual Memory of Protest in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence. In A. Erll, S. Knittel, & J. Wüstenberg (Eds.), Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization: Doing Memory Studies With Ann Rigney (pp. 369-375). (Media and Cultural Memory; Vol. 41). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111439273-052 [details]
- Smits, T., & Wevers, M. (2024). Coloring in the world of others: color use in visual orientalism, 1890–1920. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11, Article 1374. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03895-5 [details]
2023
- Smits, T., & Wevers, M. (2023). A multimodal turn in Digital Humanities. Using contrastive machine learning models to explore, enrich, and analyze digital visual historical collections. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 38(3), 1267-1280. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad008 [details]
2022
- Smits, T., & Wevers, M. (2022). The agency of computer vision models as optical instruments. Visual Communication, 21(2), 329-349. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470357221992097 [details]
2020
- Wevers, M., & Smits, T. (2020). Detecting Faces, Visual Medium Types, and Gender in Historical Advertisements, 1950–1995. In A. Bartoli, & A. Fusiello (Eds.), Computer Vision – ECCV 2020 Workshops: Glasgow, UK, August 23–28, 2020 : proceedings (Vol. II, pp. 77-91). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12536). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66096-3_7 [details]
- Wevers, M., & Smits, T. (2020). The visual digital turn: Using neural networks to study historical images. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 35(1), 194-207. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqy085
2022
- Smits, T., Wevers, M., & Paklons, E. (2022). A Clash of Colorful Worlds: Distant Viewing Color in Visual Representations of the Orient and Occident, 1890-1920. Paper presented at DH Benelux 2022, Belval, Luxembourg. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6530402
Prize / grant
- Waasdorp, S., Kattenberg, L. F., Zijlstra, S., Stutje, K., Mathijssen, N. J. A., Barthe, D. G. & Smits, T. P. (2018). ASH Valorisation Award for historical weblog Over de Muur. http://aihr.uva.nl/content/news/2018/07/ash-valorisation-award-2017-2018.html
Talk / presentation
- Smits, T. (speaker) (19-9-2025). A multimodal turn in digital SSH research, Visual politics: political communication, visual culture and digital media., Rome.
- Smits, T. (speaker) & Warner, B. (speaker) (16-7-2025). Mapping Empire: A Distant Viewing Approach to News Maps in Victorian Illustrated Periodicals, 1842-1890, DH2025, Lisboa.
- Smits, T. (speaker) (4-7-2025). Multimodale AI en visuele geschiedenis, KB Summerschool Digitale Collecties.
- Smits, T. (speaker) (21-3-2025). Multimodale AI en visuele geschiedenis, Congres Historische kranten in het AI-tijdperk, Den Haag.
- Smits, T. (speaker) (7-3-2025). Seeing the bigger picture: AI-powered multimodal analysis of large image collections, RMES Trending Topics in Media Studies 24-25, Utrecht.
- Smits, T. (speaker), Smit, R. (speaker) & Merill, S. (speaker) (28-2-2025). Stochastic Remembering and Distributed Mnemonic Agency, TAIGA – Centre for Transdisciplinary AI . https://www.umu.se/en/events/stochastic-remembering-and-distributed-mnemonic-agency_12037126/
- Smits, T. (speaker) (15-1-2025). Making Victorian News Images Searchable: A Computational Approach to the Illustrated London News, 1842-1890, Digital Horizons in English Studies, Leeds.
- Smits, T. (speaker) (16-12-2024). A Multimodal Turn in Computational Humanities?, Huizinga Winterschool, Rotterdam.
- Smits, T. (speaker) (4-12-2024). A Multimodal Turn in Computational SSH Research?, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication. https://www.eur.nl/en/eshcc/events/visual-data-digital-world-exploring-innovative-methods-2024-12-04
- Smits, T. (speaker) (25-11-2024). Machine Learning Meets Victorian Media: Tracking Transnational News Images, Periodicals and the Law 6 . https://www.espr-it.eu/news/events
- Smits, T. (speaker) & Wevers, M. (speaker) (14-11-2024). Are we at a Multimodal Turn? Navigating AI Developments for Historical Research, Intermediality and Computational Humanities Hackathon, Vienna.
- Wevers, M. (speaker) & Smits, T. (speaker) (7-10-2021). Shaping the Neoliberal Consumer, or how computational methods can help in analyzing Dutch historical advertisements for financial products., European History Reloaded, Utrecht.
2024
- Smits, T. (15-11-2024). llustrated London News Illustration Dataset (1842-1890). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14169699
2020
- Wevers, M. & Smits, T. (31-8-2020). Data belonging to paper 'Detecting Faces, Medium Types, Gender in Historical Advertisments'. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4008991
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Smits, T. (2025). Revisiting the Kahn collection: multimodal artificial intelligence and visual patterns of presence and absence in the Archives de la Planète, 1909–1931. Visual Studies, 40(1), 126-142.