Cindarella Petz gives next Tuesday, 20th of January 16:15 CET, an open lecture on Augmented historical research in the age of AI. For this event, only in-person attendance is possible. To attend please email to emidani.estrella@outlook.com. Location: TU Darmstadt, Marktplatz 15, S313/112 Date & Time: 20.01 16:15 CET

Willkommen Dr. Danica Trifunjagić

Im 15. Newsletter laden wir herzlich zur 34. Coffee Lecture Geschichtsdidaktik mit Dr. Markus Henkel (Hessische Lehrkräfteakademie) ein, stellen die historischen Sammlungen der ULB/TU Darmstadt sowie das neue Heft der unterrichtspraktischen Zeitschrift Geschichte lernen zum Thema „Weihnachten in der Geschichte“ vor. Schauen Sie doch mal rein!

– an Open Lecture by Houda Lamqaddam on 16th of December

Next Tuesday, 16th of December 16:15 CET, Houda Lamqaddam (Media Studies Department; Institute of Logic, Language and Computation; University of Amsterdam) gives a presentation on “Could AI Solve the Humanities’ “Messy Data” Problem? A Case Study on the Extraction and Structuring of Dutch Exhibition Catalogues”.

Angebot der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Studierende des Instituts für Geschichte haben die Möglichkeit, an einem lateinischen Lektürekurs an der Universität Frankfurt teilzunehmen.

Die Technische Universität Darmstadt und die Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main starten im Sommersemester 2026 den gemeinsamen Masterstudiengang „Stadtforschung – Urban Studies“.

– an open lecture by Anna Fora on 9th December

HDSM Team is excited to announce that on 9th of December, 16:15 CET Anna Foka (Uppsala University, Sweden) will present on AI and Heritage Collections: Challenges and Opportunities as a part of the Oberseminar series. This event accommodates a hybrid format, offering an opportunity to join online via the Zoom platform.

An open lecture byAlan Colin-Arce (University of Victoria)

About the speaker: Alan Colin-Arce is a researcher at the University of Victoria’s Electronic Textual Culture Lab. He recently completed a master’s in sociology at the University of Victoria. He researches the influence of language and geography in knowledge production, especially in web archives and scholarly communication. He was part of one of the teams of the Archives Unleashed cohorts, working as a researcher on the project Latin American Women’s Rights Movements: Tracing Online Presence through Language, Time and Space.

On 9th July, Prof. Julianne Nyhan gave a lecture on “Mixed-methods Digital Oral History: Reflections on Limits, Horizons and Emerging Findings” as a part of the „Digital History“-Forschungskolloquiums.

It explores the possibilities and issues that attend the take-up of digital methods in oral history with particular focus on AI-based approaches. The first project, Mixed-Methods Digital Oral History, funded by the DFG-AHRC bilateral initiative, integrates Semantic Web and AI technologies with historical-interpretative analysis to better understand narratives of formation, disruption, and change in the history of computing in the humanities. The second, Multimodal Digital Oral History (Smyth, Nyhan, and Flinn 2023), develops methodologies and technical workflows for engaging with the full range of oral history modalities—transcripts, sound, waveforms, and metadata—across both retro-digitised and born-digital collections.

HDSM is delighted to announce that the registration for the workshop “History of Digital History between East and West” is now open.

In histories of digital history, as in digital humanities in general, much emphasis has been placed on the two commonly recognized centers of the development of historical computing since the 1950s: the United States and Western Europe. As a result, crucial developments elsewhere have been overlooked, including in the Nordic countries as well as the Soviet Union and the various states of the Eastern bloc. This workshop will address blind spots by focusing attention on the question of how the local and the transnational intersected in the technology-inflected reshaping of historical research practices and how political backgrounds, contexts and constraints fed into this process.

HDSM is thrilled to announce the new session of the Oberseminar during the upcoming winter semester 2025/26.

What? The Oberseminar is a forum for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art research at the crossroads of digital methods and data in the fields of Digital History and Digital Humanities. When? It is a weekly event from mid-October 2025 to mid-February 2026 and it is scheduled on Tuesdays from 4:15 to 5:55 pm. Where? Oberseminar will accommodate hybrid format. Presentations will be recorded and published on the media channels of the HDSM to ensure a permanent record of the symposium. Registration is required to attend the seminar online. Registration link will be provided closer to the day of the first lecture.

Im 14. Newsletter verweisen wir auf verschiedene Workshops und Vorträge, Sie lernen das die Plattform Ariadne der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek kennen und wir stellen den 2024 erschienenen Sammelband „Historisches Erzählen in Digitalien“ vor. Schauen Sie doch direkt einmal hinein!

Book launch and panel discussion

On Friday, 4 July 2025, Prof. Dr Gerrit Jasper Schenk and Dr Stephan F. Ebert from TU Darmstadt, Institute of History, Section Medieval History presented their new anthology “Vom Buch aufs Feld – Vom Feld ins Buch. Verflechtungen von Theorie und Praxis in Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (ca. 1300-1600)” to the public at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Lorsch Monastery as part of a panel discussion. The evening was chaired by biologist Bettina Walter from the Heimat- und Kulturverein e. V. Lorsch and the AG Kräutergarten.

ein Vortrag von Marco Zivkovic, M.A.

In seinem Vortrag beleuchtet Marco Zivkovic M.A., Projektmitarbeiter im Forschungsprojekt „Die Darmstädter und Darmstadt im Ersten Weltkrieg“ am Institut für Geschichte der @tudarmstadt (gefördert von der Sparkasse Darmstadt), die Herausforderungen und Reaktionen der Darmstädter Stadtgesellschaft auf den Ersten Weltkrieg.

Im Interview mit Lisa Warkus (studentische Hilfskraft für Social Media am Institut) gibt sie spannende Einblicke in ihre Dissertation, spricht offen über die größten Herausforderungen beim Schreiben, erzählt von ihrer Auszeichnung – und verrät, was bei ihr als Nächstes ansteht.

Call for Papers, International Conference, 04.-06.03.2026 / Darmstadt

Deadline: 18th July 2025

Open access: Fluvial Landscapes in Transition. A Concise Multidisciplinary Guide to the Study of Sources on the Fluvial Anthroposphere

Edited by Gerrit Jasper Schenk and Nicolai Hillmus (section Middle Ages, Institute of History, TU Darmstadt), this brief source guide intends a critical introduction to different ways of researching the fluvial anthroposphere, i.e. the floodplain landscape under the increasing influence of humans over the course of time. In addition to the use of typical historiographical sources such as urbaria and chronicles, the individual articles also analyze material sources such as the remains of river bank reinforcements, flood marks, sediment profiles, terrain models as well as plant and animal fossils.

Now available as a citable preprint on a repository of the Deutsche Archäologische Institut

The publication „Fluvio-sozialer Metabolismus als Brückenkonzept mittlerer Reichweite. Ein Vorschlag zur Untersuchung der Fluvialen Anthroposphäre" by Iris Nießen, Gerrit J. Schenk, Marcel Schön treats a bridging concept that was developed as a proposal for interdisciplinary studies of human impact on floodplain landscapes.

Paolo Santonino as an Informant of Culinary Knowledge and Practice in the Alps-Adriatic Region in the 1480s

New Open Access publication by our colleague Stephan Ebert from the Middle Ages Section. Dr Ebert's article examines the travel diary of the Italian lawyer Paolo Santonino (ca. 1440-1507) focusing on the history of food and consumption at the end of the Middle Ages and shows, among other things, how new culinary trends from Italy are tangible in the south-east of the German-speaking world. There, for example, early forms of spaghetti were already being served in the 1480s.

Gezeigt wurde der Stummfilmklassiker „Das Cabinet des Dr. Galigari“ aus dem Jahr 1920 – ein echtes Highlight, das nicht nur Filmfans begeisterte.