Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digitalhistoryofk, aggregated by home.social.
📯This week in #DigitalHistoryOFK: Lik Hang Tsui (City University of Hong Kong) presents "Histories of Digital History in the Chinese World: Infrastructure, Method, and Its Discontents." The talk examines how infrastructures, institutions, and debates have shaped #DigitalHistory in the Chinese-speaking world and why criticism of DH signals its growing relevance for historical scholarship.
📅15 Jul, 4pm CEST, online
ℹ️https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/14273
📯In this week's #DigitalHistoryOFK, Frédéric Clavert (Univ Luxembourg) and Caroline Muller (Univ Rennes 2) present: "From Digital Humanities to History in the Digital Age".
What about the digital practices historians use every day but rarely discuss or study? This talk explore these overlooked "discreet digital practices" and their role in shaping historical scholarship.
📅1.07., 4pm CET | Hybrid (Paris + Zoom)
ℹ️https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/14062
📯In this week's #DigitalHistoryOFK, Stefano Dall’Aglio (Ca' Foscari) presents: “When Digital History Goes Public: Theory, Practice, Perspectives”.
He explores how #DigitalHistory and #PublicHistory can enrich one another, examining collaborative and participatory approaches, shared authority, crowdsourcing, and the methodological challenges of digital historical research.
📅24 June 2026, 4pm (CET) online
ℹ️https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/14080
📯Im #DigitalHistoryOFK sprechen @cosima_wagner (FU Berlin), Jonas Müller-Laackman (UHH), Jana Mende (MLU) & @tillgrallert (HU Berlin) über „Mind the Gap: Multilinguale historische Daten und ihre digitale Repräsentation“. Im Fokus stehen monolinguale Biases digitaler Infrastrukturen und der „resourcedness gap“ in den #DH.
📅17.06.2026, 16–18 Uhr CET online
ℹ️https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/14096
#DigitalHistory #4memory #Multilingualität
@historikerinnen @histodons @digitalhumanities
📯#DigitalHistoryOFK: Adrian Wüthrich (TU Berlin) presents “Network Epistemology in Practice”.
How are theories of network epistemology reflected in historical scientific practice? The NEPI project uses born-digital sources from large research collaborations (like CERN's ATLAS) to study knowledge production through computational analysis.
📅10 June 2026, 4pm CET, online
ℹ️https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/13693
📯„Karikaturen digitaler Umwelten: Computer-Natur-Beziehungen im Anthropozän mit Vision Language Models erforschen“ präsentiert Martin Schmitt (Universität Paderborn) im #DigitalHistoryOFK in dieser Woche.
Anhand von 1.250 Computerkarikaturen zeigt er, wie Computer-Vision-Modelle neue Perspektiven auf digitale Kulturen und #Umweltgeschichte eröffnen.
📅3.06.26, 16Uhr (CET), im ZZF & online
ℹ️https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/13713
📯#DigitalHistoryOFK: Zachary Loeb (Purdue University) explores “What’s the worst that could have happened? Y2K and the Risks of the Information Age.” This talk asks how Y2K was treated as a crisis aiming to help us better understand and navigate technological risks today.
📅Wed ,27 May 2026, 4–6 pm (CET), online
ℹ️https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/13480
#4memory #DigitalHistory #HistoryOfTechnology #CriticalInfrastructure #STS
@historikerinnen @histodons @digitalhumanities
📯Diese Woche im #DigitalHistoryOFK zeigt Prof. Dr. Gabriele Gramelsberger (RWTH Aachen) in "Save the Code!", wie historische wissenschaftliche Software erforscht und bewahrt werden kann.
Software wird als fragiles Kulturerbe digitaler Wissenschaft diskutiert und das Projekt „Edition wissenschaftliche Software“ zur Sammlung und Edition historischer Software (1950–2010) vorgestellt.
📅 Mi, 16 Uhr c.t. (CET), online
ℹ️ https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/12989
📯#DigitalHistoryOFK welcomes Malte Thießen (Institut für Westfälische Regionalgeschichte) on “Writing Digital History in 3D: Spaces and Regions of Digital Transformation from the 1950s to the Present”.
Using North-Rhine Westphalia as a case study, he explores how computers shape infrastructure & urban relations highlighting the potential of #RegionalHistory for #DH.
📅13 May 2026, 4-6pm (CET), online
ℹ️https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/13416
#4memory
@historikerinnen @digitalhumanities
📯This week in #DigitalHistoryOFK: Jane Winters (University of London) presents “From ‘digital dark age’ to ‘an age of historical abundance’?” on born-digital cultural heritage. Exploring web archives, social media & personal data, the talk reflects on preservation, infrastructures & historical value.
📅6 May 2026, 16–18 CET (Zoom)
ℹ️Info: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/13238
#4memory #WebArchives #DigitalPreservation
@historikerinnen
@histodons
@digitalhumanities
📯In this week’s #DigitalHistoryOFK, @histoftech (University of Virginia) presents “Rethinking Computable Subjects: Methods, Topics, and Boundaries in the History of Computing”. The talk explores instances of resistance within computing history and proposes alternative methods beyond dominant historiographical narratives.
📅29.04.26, 4pm CET, online
ℹ️https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/13080
#DigitalHistory #Historiography #CriticalDH
@historikerinnen
@histodons
@digitalhumanities
📯#DigitalHistoryOFK: @iankismar (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, BR) presents "Digital History from the Margins? Latin American Perspectives on an Emerging Field"
The talk examines how inequality in infrastructure, skills & institutions shapes digital history, challenging assumptions of universal digital methods.
📅 22 April, 4pm c.t. (CET), online
ℹ️ https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/12913
#DigitalHistory #4memory #DigitalHumanities
@historikerinnen
@histodons
@digitalhumanities
📯 This week’s #DigitalHistoryOFK: @gerbenzaagsma (C²DH, Univ. of Luxembourg) presents “Facing the History Machine: Why Histories of Digital History Matter”. The talk advocates for the central role of historiography in digital history by showing how technologies shape and have shaped knowledge production across the historical discipline.
📅 15 Apr, 4pm CET
ℹ️ Infos: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/12800
📯Diese Woche im #DigitalHistoryOFK: Inga Lange, Holle Meding, Nicole Dresselhaus, Noah Baumann & Philipp Schneider präsentieren „Digital-historisch Promovieren“. Im Vortrag stellen sie ihr White Paper aus dem @nfdi4memory-Promovierendennetzwerk Digital History vor und diskutieren Infrastrukturen und Dissertationskulturen digital-historischer Forschung.
📅 Mi., 4. Feb., 16:15 Uhr (CET), online (Zoom)
ℹ️ Abstract & Infos: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/12585
📯 Diese Woche hybrid: Der #DigitalHistoryOFK-Vortrag
Wir freuen uns auf Michael Homberg, Nina Neuscheler & Frederike Heinitz vom @ZZF und ihren Vortrag zur Geschichte des World Wide Webs der 1990er und 2000er Jahre mit Blick auf Nutzungspraktiken und die Netzwerkgesellschaft.
📅 28.01.26, 16–18h (CET), hybrid
🔗 Abstract, Zoom-Link, Mailinglist: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/12544
📯Diese Woche präsentiert Noah Baumann (HU Berlin) im #DigitalHistoryOFK: „Wandel Verstehen: Dynamische Netzwerkmodellierung & Analyse zur Rekonstruktion urbaner Mobilität im geteilten Berlin (1945–1989)“. Unter dem Prisma der Accessibility verbindet der Vortrag Infrastruktur und räumliche Ungleichheit, modelliert durch bi-temporale Property-Graphen.
📅 21. Jan., 16–18 Uhr (CET), online
ℹ️ https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/12510
📯How can contradiction, ambiguity & missingness enrich historical interpretation? Join us at #DigitalHistoryOFK as Claire Lemercier (CNRS) presents "In Defence of Dirty Data. Standardization, Source Criticism, and Digital/Quantitative History". A reflection on source criticism and DIY quantitative history.
📅 17 Dec., 4.15–5.45pm (CET)
ℹ️ Details:
#DigitalHistory #4memory #QuantMethods #DataCriticism
@historikerinnen @histodons @digitalhumanities
📯 In this week's #DigitalHistoryOFK Sarah Lang (@[email protected]) presents "Tackling Data Gaps through Digital Humanities Practice" on documentation & auditing as tools for transparency, addressing (gender) data gaps, decolonizing DH & fostering inclusive scholarship.
📅 10 Dec., 4-6 pm (CET), online
ℹ️ Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/12398
📯 Das #DigitalHistoryOFK heißt in dieser Woche Hannah Busch (Cologne Center for eHumanities) willkommen. Am Beispiel mittelalterlicher lateinischer Handschriften erkundet ihr Vortrag den Trainingsprozess künstlicher neuronaler Netzwerke vom pre-processing bis zur Auswertung. Inwiefern eignet sich deep machine learning zur paläographischen Einordnung lateinischer Handschriften?
📅 3. Dez., 16-18 Uhr (CET), hybrid
ℹ️ Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/12256
📯#DigitalHistoryOFK: Join Whitney Trettien (Price Lab for Digital Humanities) and Roberto Gonzalez (Eastern University) as they delve into "Data Frictions in the History of Prisons". Their digital collection of prison publications sheds light on the stories they capture, connects them to conemporary issues, and reflects on impactful digital methods working in a prison context.
📅 26 Nov, 4-6 pm (CET), online
ℹ️ Info: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/12205
#DigitalHumanities #EthicsInDH @whitneytrettien
📯This week at #DigitalHistoryOFK, Noé Leroy dives into Digital Methods in Diplomatics: applying computational stylometry to gain new insights into medieval diplomatic writing on the chancery of Liège.
📅 19 Nov, 4-6 pm (CET), online
ℹ️ Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/12092
📯Auftakt im #DigitalHistoryOFK: Wie belastbar sind LLM-gestützte Analysen? In zwei spannenden Vorträgen zu ihren Masterprojekten über LLM-gestützte Annotation und Modellierung berichten Anna Grönig zum Dictionary of British Arms und Aurel Daugs zur Konsumkultur in Kochbüchern des bürgerlichen England.
📅 12 Nov, 16-18 Uhr (CET), online
ℹ️ Abstracts:
https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/11964
https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/11908
#LLMs #DigitalMethods #DigitalHistory #digitalhumanities #4memory
📯 This week's #DigitalHistoryOFK: Julianne Nyhan presents "Mixed-methods Digital Oral History: Reflections on Limits, Horizons and Emerging Findings" exploring how AI-based ASR and Semantic Web technologies transform oral history into data while raising questions about memory in our datafied age.
📅 9 July, 4-6 pm (CET), hybrid
ℹ️ Info: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/11082
#DigitalHistory #4memory #OralHistory #AIinHumanities @historikerinnen @histodons @digitalhumanities
📯 Diese Woche im #DigitalHistoryOFK: Walter Scholger beleuchtet "Künstliche Intelligenz im Spannungsfeld von Innovation und Regulierung" – rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen, EU AI Act, Urheberrecht & Datenschutz für generative KI in der Forschung. Ethische Fragen zu Bias & Transparenz inklusive.
📅 2. Juli, 16-18 Uhr (CET), hybrid
ℹ️ Abstract & Infos: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10932 @historikerinnen @histodons @digitalhumanities #4memory #DigitalHistory #KI #AIAct
📯 Diese Woche im #DigitalHistoryOFK: Torsten Hiltmann und @DigHisNoah präsentieren "RAG den Spiegel" – ein innovatives RAG-System zur Analyse des SPIEGEL-Archivs. Der Vortrag zeigt, wie #LLMs Geschichtswissenschaft verändern und hermeneutische mit computationellen Methoden verbinden.
📅 25. Juni, 16-18 Uhr, online (Zugang auf Anfrage)
ℹ️ Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10912 #TextMining #4memory #DigitalHistory @historikerinnen @histodons @digitalhumanities
📯 Diese Woche im #DigitalHistoryOFK: Zwei spannende Vorträge zu Masterarbeiten über LLMs in den Geschichtswissenschaften! Anselm König (https://fedihum.org/@konigans) zu "Intertextualitätsanalyse mit großen Sprachmodellen" (Bibel & Wilhelm von Auxerre) und Isabell Trilling zu "LLMs zur Identifikation von Naturkatastrophen in mittelalterlichen Stadtchroniken"
📅 18. Juni, 16-18 Uhr (CET), online
ℹ️ Abstracts:
https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10881
https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10894
#LLMs #TextReuse #DigitalMethods
📯 Das Handschriftenportal (@hsprtl) im Fokus: Robert Giel präsentiert im #DigitalHistoryOFK "Das Handschriftenportal: Alles an (s)einem Ort?". Von der unikalen Handschrift zur digitalen Infrastruktur – eine Reise durch Erschließung, Präsentation und Portalentwicklung.
📅 Mittwoch, 11.6., 16-18h (CET)
ℹ️ Online via Zoom, Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10712
#DigitalHistory #4memory #Manuscripts @historikerinnen @histodons @digitalhumanities
📢 Important note on #DigitalHistoryOFK:
The talk by Whitney Trettien (Price Lab for Digital Humanities, UPenn) on "Data Frictions in the History of Prison", initially planned for this Wednesday, June 04th, 4-6 p.m. CET, unfortunately has to be postponed.
We will inform you of course, once a new date has been set.
#DigitalHistory #NFDI4Memory
📢 Important note on #DigitalHistoryOFK:
The talk by Whitney Trettien (Price Lab for Digital Humanities, UPenn) on "Data Frictions in the History of Prison", initially planned for this Wednesday, June 04th, 4-6 p.m. CET, unfortunately has to be postponed.
We will inform you of course, once a new date has been set.
#DigitalHistory #NFDI4Memory
ℹ️ https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10408
#4memory #DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities @historikerinnen @histodons @digitalhumanities
📯 This week's #DigitalHistoryOFK: Riham Aida Mokrani presents "Manuscript Meets Model: Digital Approaches to Arabic #Paleography" - exploring how #OntologyEngineering & #ML are transforming Arabic #ManuscriptStudies.
📅 4 June, 4-6 pm (CET), online
ℹ️ Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10533
#DigitalHistory #4memory #Paleography #MachineLearning #semanticweb #ontologies
@histodons @historikerinnen @digitalhumanities
📯 How can historians develop crucial data competencies? In our next #DigitalHistoryOFK, Ursula Lehmkuhl discusses "Building Data Competencies for Historians" from the @NFDI4Memory program.
🔍 Digital historical method
📊 Research data management
🌐 Digital area histories
🧰 Training resources
📅 Wed, May 21, 2025, 4:15-5:45pm CET
ℹ️ Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/9490
📯 Join us for #DigitalHistoryOFK! Edgar Lejeune examines historical database projects (ARTEM, MEDITEXT, 1427 catasto) to explore how medieval historians' corpus practices evolved in the digital age. Has computational knowledge truly accumulated since the 1960s or remained siloed?
📚 Is Cumulativity of Knowledge just an Epistemological Chimera? (1960-2020)
📅 Wed, 14 May, 16-18h CET
ℹ️ https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10154
#4memory #DigitalHistory #MedievalStudies #DataHistory @historikerinnen @NFDI4Memory
📯 Join us for #DigitalHistoryOFK with Mahsa Vafaie presenting "National Socialist Injustice on the Semantic Web: From Archival Records to a Knowledge Graph". Learn how LLMs and knowledge graphs are transforming millions of Nazi reparation documents into structured historical data!
📅 May 7, 2025, 4-6 pm (CET), via Zoom
ℹ️ Abstract & registration: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10161
#DigitalArchives #SemanticWeb #KnowledgeGraphs #digitalhistory #DH #AI #LLM #4memory @historikerinnen