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Digital History Berlin
@dighistberlin.bsky.social
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Hier postet die Professur für Digital History der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Blog: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/
HU-Website: https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/bereiche-und-lehrstuehle/digital-history
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📯#DigitalHistoryOFK: Whitney Trettien (UPenn) and Roberto Gonzalez (Eastern) explore "Data Frictions in the History of Prisons" through their digital collection of prison publications: archival stories, modern issues, digital methods.
📅 26 Nov, 4-6pm(CET), online
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November 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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📯Digital Methods in Diplomatics: At this week's #DigitalHistoryOFK, Noé Leroy applies computational stylometry to medieval diplomatic writing on the chancery of Liège.

📅 19 Nov, 16-18 Uhr (CET), online
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#DigitalMethods #DigitalHistory #digitalHumanities
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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📯Wie belastbar sind LLM-gestützte Analysen? Auftakt im #DigitalHistoryOFK zur semantischen Modellierung und Annotation:
Anna Grönig - Wappenbeschreibung
Aurel Daugs - Konsumkultur in Kochbüchern

📅 12. Nov, 16-18 Uhr (CET), online
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November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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📯 Julianne Nyhan at #DigitalHistoryOFK: "Mixed-methods Digital Oral History" - exploring AI transcription, Semantic Web tech & multimodal approaches to oral history data
📅 9 July, 4-6 pm CET, hybrid
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#DigitalHistory #4memory #OralHistory #AIinHumanities
July 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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📯 Diese Woche im #DigitalHistoryOFK: @wscholger.bsky.social : "KI im Spannungsfeld von Innovation & Regulierung" – EU AI Act, Urheberrecht & ethische Fragen zu generativer KI in der Forschung
📅 2. Juli, 16-18 Uhr (CET), hybrid
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#4memory #DigitalHistory #AIAct
June 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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📯 #DigitalHistoryOFK: @torstenhiltmann.bsky.social und Noah Baumann – "RAG den Spiegel". Innovatives RAG-System analysiert SPIEGEL-Archiv 1948-79. Wie LLMs die Geschichtswissenschaft revolutionieren 🚀
📅 25.6., 16-18h, online
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#LLM #4memory #DigitalHistory
June 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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📯 #DigitalHistoryOFK: Zwei Masterarbeiten zu LLMs! Anselm König – Intertextualität Bibel/Wilhelm v. Auxerre, Isabell Trilling – Naturkatastrophen in Stadtchroniken.
📅 18. Juni, 16-18h (CET)
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#LLMs #4memory #DigitalHistory
June 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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📯 Nächster Vortrag im #DigitalHistoryOFK: Robert Giel: "Das Handschriftenportal: Alles an (s)einem Ort?". Von Handschriften zu digitalen Infrastrukturen
📅 11.6., 16-18h (CET), online
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#DigitalHistory #4memory #Handschriften
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June 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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📯 This Wed at #DigitalHistoryOFK: Whitney Trettien on printing presses in US prisons (1880s+). Her DH project explores prison newspapers as counter-archives and deals with digital access/ethics challenges
📅 4 June, 4-6pm CET, online
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#4memory #DigitalHistory
June 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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📯 This weeks talk at #DigitalHistoryOFK: Arabic #paleography meets #OntologyEngineering! Riham Aida Mokrani explores computational approaches to #manuscript analysis & script canonization.
📅 Wed 4 June, 4-6 pm CET
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#4memory #DigitalHistory #SemanticWeb #MachineLearning
May 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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📊 How is Data Literacy transforming historical scholarship? Join Ursula Lehmkuhl's talk on NFDI4Memory's innovative training approaches for digital source criticism and research data management

📅 May 21, 4:15pm CET
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#DigitalHistoryOFK #DigitalHistory #4memory
May 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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🔍 #DigitalHistory in Berlin an der @humboldtuni studieren? Neugierig aber unsicher?

Unser Sommerschnuppern am 📅 19.05., 18 Uhr beantwortet alle Fragen!

Anmeldung noch offen bis 16.05! Präsenz oder Zoom möglich.

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#4memory #Geschichtswissenschaft #DH #DigitalHumanities
May 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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📯 #DigitalHistoryOFK: Edgar Lejeune explores medieval digital corpus practices (1960-2020). Has computational knowledge accumulated or siloed?
📅 14 May, 16h CET
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#4memory #DigitalHistory #MedievalStudies
May 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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📯 Mahsa Vafaie presents "NS Injustice on the Semantic Web" at #DigitalHistoryOFK. See how knowledge graphs & LLMs transform Nazi reparation archives!

📅 May 7, 4-6pm CET

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#SemanticWeb #DigitalArchives #HistoricalData #digitalhistory #DH #AI #LLM
May 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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📣3 SHK-Stellen á 40h/Monat, 24 Monate Laufzeit.📣

Wir suchen für unseren Lehrstuhl & #NFDI4Memory Studierende mit Interesse an #DigitalHistory für Kommunikation, Veranstaltungsorga und Datenarbeiten.

Erfahrung in o.g. Bereichen von Vorteil, aber keine Voraussetzung!

👉 www.hsozkult.de/job/...

Ausschreibung SHK-Stelle des Lehrstuhls für Digtial History
May 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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⏰Date & Time: 25 Feb 2025, 12:00-13:00

ℹ️ Attendance in person (R2019, MPIWG) or online via tinyurl.com/dhbbljan25.

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#DigitalHistory #MultilingualHistory #DigitalHumanities
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Screenshot of the talk announcement for the event series “Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch.” The image shows a map filled with red dots indicating various locations. The text provides the event details: February 25, 2025, 12:00–13:00, Room R219 at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and online. Speaker: Till Grallert, Research Fellow at the Department of History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Title of the talk: The fundamental challenges of multilingual digital humanities. The logo of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science appears in the top right corner.
February 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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📢 Today, Till Grallert will deliver a talk at the monthly Digital Humanities Brown Bag Series at MPI for the History of Science entitled "The Fundamental Challenges of Multilingual Digital Humanities: Computational Arab Periodical Studies and the digital infrastructures of exclusion".

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Screenshot of the talk announcement for the event series “Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch.” The image shows a map filled with red dots indicating various locations. The text provides the event details: February 25, 2025, 12:00–13:00, Room R219 at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and online. Speaker: Till Grallert, Research Fellow at the Department of History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Title of the talk: The fundamental challenges of multilingual digital humanities. The logo of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science appears in the top right corner.
February 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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🥳 To conclude this semester's #DigitalHistoryOFK, we are delighted to welcome @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy this week! He’ll share insights into his experiments with the ethical and critical use of AI technologies in #archaeology.

🔜 5 Feb., 4–6 pm (CET)
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Announcement image for this week's talk in the Open Research Colloquium Digital History. The title "Open Research Colloquium Digital History" is prominently displayed at the top in orange and black font. The event details are listed below it: "Wednesday, 5 Feb., 4:15–5:45 pm (CET)." The speaker Shawn Graham (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) will give a talk titled “Do It Yourself Digital Golems: Experiments with various AI, neural networks, and other technologies for archaeology.” The colloquium will be held as a video conference via Zoom, the access data can be requested by e-mail to “digitalhistory at hu-berlin.de” or by scanning the QR code shown below on the right. A light green silhouette of iconic Berlin buildings can be seen in the background. Logos of associated institutions are displayed at the top right corner; from left to right: NFDI4Memory, Chair for Digital History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
February 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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➡️ Based on three case studies they will show how “Unseen Species Models” offer new perspectives and approaches for handling incomplete historical archives.

🔜 29 Jan., 4-6 pm (CET), hybrid!
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#DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities
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Announcement image for this week's talk in the Open Research Colloquium Digital History. The title "Open Research Colloquium Digital History" is prominently displayed at the top in orange and black font. The event details are listed below it: "Wednesday, 29 Jan., 4:15–5:45 pm (CET)." The speakers, Folgert Karsdorp (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Mike Kestemont (University of Antwerp, Belgium), will give a talk titled “The application of unseen species models in history: correcting registration bias in nineteenth-century police reports from Brussels.” The colloquium will take place as a hybrid event. Location: Room 2070 A, Main Building of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin The Zoom access data can be requested via e-mail to “digitalhistory at hu-berlin.de” or by scanning the QR code shown below on the right. A light green silhouette of iconic Berlin buildings can be seen in the background. Logos of associated institutions are displayed.
January 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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👉 In this week's #DigitalHistoryOFK @folgertk.bsky.social & @mikekestemont.bsky.social will discuss how statistical methods from ecology can be used in historical research to identify and analyze gaps and biases in historical records.

#DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities
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Announcement image for this week's talk in the Open Research Colloquium Digital History. The title "Open Research Colloquium Digital History" is prominently displayed at the top in orange and black font. The event details are listed below it: "Wednesday, 29 Jan., 4:15–5:45 pm (CET)." The speakers, Folgert Karsdorp (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Mike Kestemont (University of Antwerp, Belgium), will give a talk titled “The application of unseen species models in history: correcting registration bias in nineteenth-century police reports from Brussels.” The colloquium will take place as a hybrid event. Location: Room 2070 A, Main Building of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin The Zoom access data can be requested via e-mail to “digitalhistory at hu-berlin.de” or by scanning the QR code shown below on the right. A light green silhouette of iconic Berlin buildings can be seen in the background. Logos of associated institutions are displayed.
January 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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📢 Achtung - wichtiger Hinweis zum #DigitalHistoryOFK:

Der ursprünglich für diese Woche geplante Vortrag von Ursula Lehmkuhl "Datenkompetenzen in den Geschichtswissenschaften: Einblick in die Arbeiten der NFDI4Memory Task Area ‘Data Literacy’" muss leider kurzfristig verschoben werden.

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Announcement image for the Open Research Colloquium Digital History. The title "Open Research Colloquium Digital History" is prominently displayed at the top in orange and black font. The image informs about a new date for a postponed talk. The new event details are: "Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 4:15–5:45 pm." The speaker, Ursula Lehmkuhl (Universität Trier, NFDI4Memory TA 4 – Data Literacy), will give a talk titled "Datenkompetenzen in den Geschichtswissenschaften: Einblick in die Arbeiten der NFDI4Memory Task Area ‘Data Literacy’." The colloquium will be held as a video conference via Zoom, the access data can be requested by e-mail to “digitalhistory at hu-berlin.de” or by scanning the QR code shown below on the right. A light green silhouette of iconic Berlin buildings can be seen in the background. Logos of associated institutions are displayed at the top right corner; from left to right: NFDI4Memory, Chair for Digital History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
January 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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👉 In this week's #DigitalHistoryOFK Amanda Regan (Clemson University) presents “Mapping the Gay Guides”, a project investigating the development of LGBTQ spaces in the USA based on Bob Damron’s travel guides (1960s–2000s).

🔜 15 Jan, 4–6 pm (CET), Zoom
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#DigitalHistory
Announcement image for this week's talk in the Open Research Colloquium Digital History. The title "Open Research Colloquium Digital History" is prominently displayed at the top in orange and black font. The event details are listed below it: "Wednesday, 15 Jan., 4:15–5:45 pm (CET)." The speaker, Amanda Regan (Clemson University, South Carolina, USA), will give a talk titled "Mapping the Gay Guides: Using Digital History to Explore LGBTQ Travel Guides, 1965 – 2005." The colloquium will be held as a video conference via Zoom, the access data can be requested by e-mail to “digitalhistory at hu-berlin.de” or by scanning the QR code shown below on the right. A light green silhouette of iconic Berlin buildings can be seen in the background. Logos of associated institutions are displayed at the top right corner; from left to right: NFDI4Memory, Chair for Digital History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
January 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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📢 The #DigitalHistoryOFK starts 2025 with a talk by Moritz Feichtinger (University of Basel) on the methodological and technical challenges of historical research with born-digital sources.

🔜 Wed, 8 Jan, 4–6 pm (CET), via Zoom
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#DigitalHistory #SourceCriticism
Announcement image for this week's talk in the Open Research Colloquium Digital History. The title "Open Research Colloquium Digital History" is prominently displayed at the top in orange and black font. The event details are listed below it: "Wednesday, 8 Jan., 4:15–5:45 pm (CET)." The speaker, Moritz Feichtinger (University of Basel, Switzerland), will give a talk titled 'Just a Little Bit? Historicizing Born-Digital Objects.' The colloquium will be held as a video conference via Zoom, the access data can be requested by e-mail to “digitalhistory at hu-berlin.de” or by scanning the QR code shown below on the right. A light green silhouette of iconic Berlin buildings can be seen in the background. Logos of associated institutions are displayed at the top right corner; from left to right: NFDI4Memory, Chair for Digital History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
January 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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🎮 Im letzten #DigitalHistoryOFK dieses Jahres wird Aurelia Brandenburg Einblicke in ihr Dissertationsprojekt zur Gaminggeschichte & deutschsprachigem Spielejournalismus 1980-2000 bieten.

🔜 18 Dec, 4-6 pm (CET), online
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#DigitalHistory #GameStudies #GenderStudies
December 17, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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Open to all!

🔜 Date & Time: 11 December, 4–6 pm CET, online

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#DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities #DigitalHistoryOFK
Announcement image for the Open Research Colloquium Digital History. The title 'Open Research Colloquium Digital History' is displayed prominently at the top in orange and black text. Below, the event details are listed: 'Wednesday, 11 Dec, 4:15–5:45 pm (CET).' The speaker, Wonhee Cho from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, will give a talk titled 'Rethinking ‘Sinicization’ through Data: A Network Analysis Methodology for Yuan Dynasty Studies.' The event will take place as a videoconference via Zoom, with access information available at 'digitalhistory@hu-berlin.de' or via a QR code shown on the bottom right. The background features a silhouette of Berlin. Logos of associated institutions (NFDI4Memory, Chair of Digital History, HU Berlin) are positioned at the top.
December 10, 2024 at 12:55 PM