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!

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.

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

Deadline: 18th July 2025

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.

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.

HDSM Team is excited to announce the release of our May newsletter issue.

This newsletter provides updates about the current projects of HDSM, new publications as well as upcoming events. If you are interested in the more updates, please subscribe to our newsletter!

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.