International Master Class “Digital History and Hermeneutics” Online

Guest Lectures

Lecture 24 June Data Search / Data Management:

14:00-15:00 (CET): Introductory Lecture by Dr. Lincoln Mullen, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Virginia (USA): Creating and Visualizing Datasets to Interpret American Religious History

Lecture 25 June Dissemination: 

14:00-15:00 (CET): Dr. Mareike König, German Historical Institute, Paris: Does Blogging Make You a Better Academic? Writing Practices in Scholarly Blogs in the Humanities

Review of DTU-DHH projects by international partners

Sam Mersch – The Hybridity of Living Sources. Hermeneutics and Source Criticism in Modern Place Name Studies

commentators: Serge Noiret, European University Institute Florence and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Dahmen, Romanian Philologie, University of Jena

Sytze van Herck – It’s Intuitive Once You Use It. A critical approach to digital history, a tool called Tropy and a method for transmedia storytelling

commentator: Lori Emerson, College of Media, Communication and Information, Colorado

Jan Lotz – Ancient History and Digital History: A critical approach of using network analysis and GIS on fragmented sources

commentator: Prof. Stephen Robertson, George Mason University, Virginia (USA) and Priv.-Doz. Dr. Leif Scheuermann, Center for Information Modelling – Austrian Center for Digital Humanities, Graz

Thomas Durlacher – How do we use digital methods in the research process? Philosophical perspectives on topic modelling, network analysis and computer-based representations.

commentator: Dr. Mareike König, German Historical Institute Paris

Antonio Fiscarelli – Social network analysis for the humanities

commentator: Dr. Marten Düring, C²DH University of Luxembourg

Ekaterina Kamlovskaya – Exploring a corpus of Australian Aboriginal autobiographies with word embeddings modelling: a methodological reflection

commentators:  Prof. Dr. Christof Schöch, University of Trier and Dr. Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg

Kaarel Sikk – Hunting for emergences in the past with Agent-Based models

commentator: Dr. Iza Romanowska, Barcleona Supercomputing Center

Shohreh Haddadan – Argument structures of political debates, annotation, extraction and applications

commentators: Prof. Dr. Christof Schöch, University of Trier and Dr. Lincoln Mullen, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Virginia (USA)

Eva Andersen – Digital history as a solution for writing a transnational history of psychiatry

commentators: Dr. Lincoln Mullen, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Virginia (USA) and Dr. Matteo Romanello, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Jakub Bronec – Experimenting with qualitative text analysis and citizen science when writing about Jewish history in Luxembourg

 commentator: Dr. Mareike König, German Historical Institute Paris:

Christopher Morse – Artful Data: A Hermeneutics of Museum Experience Design

commentator: Serge Noiret, European University Institute Florence

Marleen de Kramer – 3D Models Are Easy. Good 3D Models Are Not

commentators: Dr. Stefan Gelfgren, Director Humlab, Umeå University, Prof. Dr. Sander Münster, Digital Humanities University of Jena