Announcement of the Program of Oberseminar @HDSM Winter Semester 2025/26
HDSM is thrilled to announce the new session of the Oberseminar during the upcoming winter semester 2025/26.
2025/10/10
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.
Programm:
21 October 2025: Sophie Gebeil (Aix Marseille University, FR) “Web Archives as a Source of Data for Critical and Inclusive Uses of AI in History”
28 October 2025: Francis Harvey (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, DE) “Place-names as shibboleths. Decoding coloniality in historical place-names”
4 November 2025: Giulia Osti (University College Dublin, IE) “Rethinking Collections as Data in the Age of GenAI”
11 November 2025: Christiane Sibille, Gentiana Rashiti, Jeremy Marbach (ETH-Library, CH) “It’s almost standardised” – Perspectives on collections as data from the archives”
18 November 2025: Martin Grandjean (University of Lausanne, CH) “Historical Network Analysis”
25 November 2025: Kaspar Beelen (School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK) “Heritage Weaver: Classifying, Searching, and Linking Museum Data with Multimodal AI”
2 December 2025: Alan Colin-Arce (University of Victoria, CA) “Geographic and Linguistic Biases in Web Archives”
9 December 2025: Anna Foka (Uppsala University, SE) “AI and Heritage Collections: Challenges and Opportunities”
16 December 2025: Houda Lamqaddam (University of Amsterdam, NL) “Could AI Solve the Humanities’ “Messy Data” Problem? A Case Study on the Extraction and Structuring of Dutch Exhibition Catalogues”
13 January 2026: Rachel Gatehouse “Trends in UK Repatriation Practice (2010-2022)”
20 January 2026: Cindarella Petz (DH Lab, Leibniz-Institute of European History Mainz, DE) “Augmented historical research in the age of AI”
27 January 2026: Marcella Palladino (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT) “Speech Processing Methods for Data Collection and Analysis in (Polito)Linguistics”