– 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”.

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.

Hosts: Julia Seeberger (University of Erfurt) and Stephan F. Ebert (TU Darmstadt)

From November 13th to 14th, researchers in the field of food studies will be gathering in Erfurt to chat about the growth prospects for this discipline. Registration open until November 3rd!

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!

It's great to have you here :-)

Do you have lots of questions about the university structure, your degree programme, orientation at the department, the course of study and other things? No problem, we won't leave you alone and will help you find your way around as best we can. We look forward to meeting you at the orientation event!

On July 14-18, the Digital Humanities Conference 2025 took place at NOVA-FCSH in Lisbon. HDSM member, Prof. Julianne Nyhan, gave a talk at Panel 3: “The global state of digital history: Establishing data culture(s) in uncertain times“. Our colleague Dr. Nadezhda Povroznik co-organised Panel 10 “Openness in GLAM: Analysing, Reflecting, and Discussing Global Case Studies” and also gave a talk on “A Dual Lens on Openness of the Rijksmuseum: Tracing Historical Processes via Web Archives”.

Im 13. Newsletter berichten wir von der Frankfurter Planspieltagung und einem Workshop mit historischen Objekten und Augmented Reality. Sie lernen das Medienportal dekoder.org und ein Scroll-Doku-Projekt kennen, das den deutschen Vernichtungskrieg gegen die Sowjetunion im Zweiten Weltkrieg thematisiert und als Lektüretipp stellen wir den 2020 erschienenen Sammelband „Historisches Lernen und Materielle Kultur“ vor!

Im zwölften Newsletter berichten wir von der zurückliegenden Coffee Lecture, einem Besuch im Studienseminar Darmstadt und einer Weiterbildung zum Thema „Antisemitismus in der Schule“. Außerdem die Einladung zur Tagung „Das lernende Gehirn“ sowie ein Hinweis auf das neue Heft von Geschichte lernen – Die 1980er Jahre. Als Tool der visuellen Art lernen Sie Napkin.ai kennen und vertiefen mit „Geschichtsstundenplanung“ (2023) ihre Unterrichtsvorbereitung.