The Future of the Past conference was organized by Prof. Omri Abend, Prof. Amit Pinchevski and Prof. Renana Keydar from the Hebrew University, and presented the work of the “The Future of the Past" group under their leadership.

The conference was supported by a research grant from Israel Ministry of Science and Technology and by the Alfred Landecker Lab for the Computational Analysis of Holocaust Testimonies.

Prof. Renana Keydar, together with Prof. Amit Pinchevski deliver the talk"The Testimony of the Multitude: Towards a computational model of listening to Holocaust testimony", which presented a novel computational method for Holocaust narrative analysis.

Dr. Renana Keydar volunteers and is part of the board of Edut 710 (Testimony 710) initiative which was established immediately following the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. Edut 710 is a voluntary organization with no political or media affiliation. It was established by volunteers, men and women of documentary film, historical research, and mental health professionals, who joined together with the vision of documenting and preserving the testimony of survivors of the October 7 events with the highest professional and ethical standards. Edut 710 is the largest documentation organization in Israel which has set itself the goal of establishing a national video testimony archive of October 7 that will be preserved for generations to come. 

For more about Edut 710 initiative: https://www.edut710en.org
 

Dr. Renana Keydar, on one-to-one debate: can AI help with our most pressing challenges or are the dangers to democracy real and present? 

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Dr. Renana Keydar, delivered the opening lecture "Researching Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Towards Qualitative Research with Computational Tools"

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