Dr. Nadezhda Povroznik, has assumed the role of Communication Officer at The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO)

HDSM is delighted to announce that our colleague, Dr. Nadezhda Povroznik, has assumed the role of Communication Officer at The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). In this position, Dr Povroznik will be instrumental in overseeing the development and enhancing the effectiveness of ADHO’s public presence.

For our colleagues and enthusiasts in the field of digital humanities, we are excited to announce that on December 7th, we will be organizing a workshop to share knowledge on digitizing documents directly from within a library or an archive using a smartphone and a ScanTent.

„Die Mühle in der Kunst des Mittelalters: Von Hostienmühlen und Mühldichtungen“ / “The Mill in the Art of the Middle Ages: of Host Mills and Mill Poems”

We are proud and happy to share that a former team member of ours – Florian Kehm – has published his award-winning Master's thesis in the specialist journal “Mediaevistik” in an article called “The Mill in the Art of the Middle Ages: Of Host Mills and Mill Poems”. Florian: We congratulate you warmly on this special acknowledgement!

Die Kunst zu herrschen. Neue Perspektiven auf die Goldene Bulle von 1356

The art of ruling. New perspectives on the Golden Bull of 1356.: The Golden Bull of 1356 regulated the election of the Roman-German king and future emperor and became the decisive basis for the unity of the empire for 450 years.

HDSM is co-organising a conference on the history of Digital Humanities.

This winter semester 23/24, a lecture series will be held on the history of „tropical architecture“. The Lecture series will start on 9th November (6 p.m.).

please refer to the German version for more information

with the chapter co-authored by Prof. Julianne Nyhan

We are happy to share the release of the open access publication, “Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe.” This book delves into the intricate landscape of heritage studies, exploring its critical aspects and their implications for the future of Europe. It includes a chapter co-authored by our HDSM Professor Julianne Nyhan:

Der dritte Newsletter der Coffee Lectures Geschichtsdidaktik ist erschienen! Darin: Einladung zur Coffee Lecture mit Magdalena Zeller am 22.11.2023, tutory.de und der Band „Deutsche Filmgeschichten“ (2023) in der Besprechung. Schauen Sie doch mal rein!

Event in person

Lichtenberg II-Hochleistungsrechner: Expanding the Horizon of the Humanities through supercomputing

Dr. Magdalena Weileder takes on new professorship

In October, Dr. Magdalena Weileder took on her professorhsip for History of the Middle Ages – History Methodology“” as part of the wider academic project ›Regesta Imperii – Quellen zur Reichsgeschichte‹.

Interdisciplinary lecture series with guests from Germany and abroad

Research at your fingertips: you are invited to participate. We are looking forward to welcoming you at TU Darmstadt!

HDSM is thrilled to announce the new session of the Oberseminar during the upcoming winter semester 2023/24. The Oberseminar is a forum for the presentation and discussion of state of the art research in the fields of Digital History, Digital Humanities, Multimodal Oral History, Collections as Data and other cognate disciplines.

Freedom – Justice – Violence

The Department of Medieval Studies at TU Darmstadt hostes the conference “Late Medieval Protest Movements and the ”Peasants' War“ of 1525 in Comparison”.