On May 18, I took part in a very interesting workshop held by Jakub Mlynar from the Malach Centre for Visual History at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague. This association provides local access to the extensive digital archives of the USC Shoah Foundation – the Institute for Visual … Continued
The DTU held up its first Writing Café to focus on writing an entire day in an informal but structured setting. Working eight hours straight and writing efficiently from nine to five? Who can accomplish that during the writing phase of the PhD every day? Well, it can work if you have the right setting. … Continued
On February 26th, a workshop “Mapping Urban History in the Digital Age” organised by C²DH took place at the University of Luxembourg. The two main themes of the workshop were data modelling, including frameworks of map presentations, and virtual reconstructions with a focus on transmedia storytelling. The first theme started with a presentation from Taras … Continued
In the academic year 2018-2019, the DTU ‘Digital History & Hermeneutics’ had been teaching the course Introduction to Digital History in the Master ‘European History’ at the University of Luxembourg. Course description When researching collections of historical documents, multiple perspectives can be taken to … Continued
Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers (University of Luxembourg), Prof. Dr. Kristen Haring (Standford University), Dr. Jessica Mesman (Maastricht University) and Dr. Stefan Krebs (University of Luxembourg) This skills training introduced students to Ethnography and Experimental Media Archaeology as methods and techniques in media historical research. Unlike previous skills trainings, in which we explored digital tools and techniques … Continued
Dr. Catherine Jones, Kerry Schiel and Kaarel Sikk (University of Luxembourg) Nowadays historians, geographers and social scientists have a myriad of digital resources (digital borne or digitised) at their fingertips. They may be formal or informal datasets open for public use or held behind closed doors, but all contain implicit or explicit geographical information. Thus, … Continued
Prof. Dr. Pascal Bouvry, Prof. Dr. Frank Hofmann, Dr. Martin Rosalie (University of Luxembourg) The objective of this skills trainings was to make students familiar with ‘Algorithmic Critique’ as an important skill in Digital History and Humanities research. Specifically, the training provided an introduction to optimisation, search and decision problem modelling. Various problem solving techniques … Continued
Dr. Vincent Koenig and Dr. Carine Lallemand (University of Luxembourg) The ever-growing trend for digital tools confronts PhD candidates with new challenges when it comes to designing or evaluating technologies and underlying services. The “tool criticism” training offered a critical and reflexive approach to digital tools, to the interaction with those tools and to the … Continued
Dr. Marten During (University of Luxembourg), Dr. Robin De Croon and Francisco Gutiérrez Hernández (KU Leuven) This skills training served as an introduction to data visualisation, an important skill in digital humanities and historical research, analysis and presentation. The first training day focused specifically on network visualisation and the use of Palladio as a DH … Continued
Dr. Folgert Karsdorp (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam) This workshop provided an introduction to computational text analysis with Python for scholars in the Humanities. Computational text analysis has gained popularity across different fields in the humanities, with successful applications such as computational authorship attribution, personality detection, linguistic profiling, and topic modeling. The goal of the workshop was … Continued