Am Dienstaag, 20.05.2025 von 09:00 Uhr bis 13:00 Uhr

Auch in diesem Jahr präsentiert sich das Institut für Geschichte der TU Darmstadt bei der Hobit Contact

The workshop provided participants with a platform for further networking. It is important that as many TU members as possible commit to meeting the climate targets and work together to reduce the university's ecological footprint.

Our colleague Anita Schilz (Department of Medieval Studies) took part in the Secretariat Workshop on Sustainability at TU Darmstadt at the beginning of April. The event was organised and led by the Office for Sustainability. It has been a permanent contact point at the TU since 2020. The sustainability strategy is developed here together with the Vice President for Digitalisation, Sustainability and Infrastructure.

We are delighted to invite you to the 2025 Susan Hockey Lecture – Oral History as Data? Critically approaching the digital turn in method, meaning and recollection – to be delivered by the HDSM chair Professor Julianne Nyhan as in 2025 UCLDH centre celebrates its 15th anniversary. This centre is a part of the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies. UCLDH draws on UCL’s world-class research strength especially in information studies, computing science, and the arts and humanities.

Im elften Newsletter laden wir Interessierte herzlich zur nächsten Coffee Lecture mit Martin Cremer am 6. Juni 2025 ein, berichten über den ersten Durchgang des Praxissemesters und stellen „Obsidian“ als „zweites Gehirn“ vor! Unser Lektürehinweis in diesem Newsletter: Lukas Greven über die Entwicklungen forschend-historischen Lernens mit Oral History im Rahmen des Geschichtswettbewerbs des Bundespräsidenten.

Dramaturgen des Wandels. Die unternehmerische Marktforschung und ihre Rezeption sozioökonomischer Umbrüche der 1970er Jahre

On 2-4 April 2025 in Senate House, University of London DigiCAM25: Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory Conference took place. At the conference Prof. Julianne Nyhan gave a presentation titled “On the born-digital turn in oral history: recharting and reimagining the cultural circuit?” together with Andrew Flinn. The focus of this international conference was to further an interdisciplinary discussion on how the born-digital transforms what and how is researched in the humanities, with the help of practitioners shared their valuable insights gained from working with born-digital materials.

We are delighted to share the news that our colleague, Dr. Nadezhda Povroznik, has been appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study (University of London). The fellowship continues from March to July 2025.

We are delighted to share that HDSM, TU Darmstadt and UCL, Centre for Digital Humanities are collaborating on a text mining workshop. Registration is required for attendance.

The Journal of Digital History has just published a call for papers around AI & History for a special issue that will be co-edited by Amanda Regan, Sean Takats and Frédéric Clavert.

Abstract submissions may address any implementation of AI in studies of the human past while maintaining historical and hermeneutical perspectives to appropriately situate contemporary generative AI developments within their historical context. Additionally, submissions should examine these practices within the broader evolution of computational methods (including antecedent mechanographic systems) in humanities and social sciences research since the post-war period (for instance: François Furet, Adeline Daumard 1959). Submissions must adhere to the journal’s established multilayered article format (narrative/hermeneutic/code and data). The submission process comprises two distinct phases: initial abstract submission via the journal’s digital platform, followed by complete manuscript submission. Issue coordinators will subsequently contact authors of selected abstracts to discuss manuscript feasibility and requisite writing environment parameters.

Workshop of the DFG Priority Programme 2361 on 11.4.25 in Reutlingen

The workshop is aimed for the interested public: immerse yourself in the history of the Echaz, gain exclusive insights into exciting research and discuss with experts. Prof Schenk will be representing the environmental history aspect on behalf of TU Darmstadt.

anus perspectives on basic historical studies Conference to mark the 10th anniversary of the Network for Basic Historical Studies (NHG)

The ‘Netzwerk Historische Grundwissenschaften’ (NHG) – founded in 2015 by a group of doctoral students from all over Germany and which has since grown to over 120 members – is celebrating its 10th anniversary with an anniversary conference from 30 September to 2 October 2025 in Darmstadt. On this occasion, we would like to invite a broad academic audience to take a look back at the past decade and look ahead to the future of Historical Sciences (HGW) – in other words, to look backwards and forwards like the two-faced Roman god Janus, and at the same time to consider the potential ambiguities of current developments, especially the advance of digitalisation.

Im zehnten Newsletter berichten wir von den spannenden Coffee Lectures mit Dr. Franziska Conrad. Und: Nach der Lecture ist vor der Lecture! Im Juni ist Martin Cremer bei uns zu Gast, Ausbilder im Studienseminar Darmstadt! Außerdem stellen wir das Serious Game „Mission 1929“ und das 2024 erschienene Heft “Comics im Geschichtsunterricht" vor.

“Oral History and the digital transformation. Some historical, ethical and methodological remarks” by Prof. Dr. Linde Apel

Bewerbungsfrist: 28.01.2025

On 20th Janury 14:25 (CET) Chris Pandza will give an open lecture on Curating large oral history archives with artificial intelligence as a part of the Voices Unbound: Lecture Series on Digital Oral History.

The abstract of the talk is as follows: Artificial intelligence (AI) presents new opportunities for assisted oral history curation—but also new pitfalls. What could the role(s) of AI be in the process of curation? Does AI necessarily reinforce its own biases on a collection, or can it help curators measure and mitigate their own biases? How does AI interact with the ethical and epistemological frameworks that shape oral history? Using real-world examples from the Ellis Island Oral History (National Park Service), Obama Presidency Oral History (Incite at Columbia University), and The Elders Project (Incite), I will demonstrate a number of innovative AI techniques that practitioners can use to prepare oral history collections for public use. In addition, I will demonstrate how AI can be used to make a project’s curation process more rigorous and inclusive.