Doctoral Training Unit “Digital History & Hermeneutics”

Digital hermeneutics and the European Historic Towns Atlas project: The digital and interactive historical town atlas of Luxembourg City as a “trading zone”

“Digital cartography & mapping technologies” is one of the thematic areas of the DTU. In the DTU’s proposal to the…

Training the trainer: being a PhD supervisor of a digital historian in the making – A short opinion paper

The launch of the Doctoral Training Unit in Digital History and Hermeneutics (DTU-DHH) coincided with my joining a new research…

Ex Modelo Summer School: simulation modelling as a thinkering method

In June 2019 I had an opportunity to participate in an interdisciplinary modelling summer-school “eX Modelo” organized by the team developing the model exploration software…

Digital Exploration of General Paralysis in the Nineteenth Century

How can we analyse approximately 70 years of content within the British Journal of psychiatry (BJP) amounting to a total of 51.479 pages? This pressing…

Problems in editorial practices of low-key and historical languages and digital possibilities

(Lecture in German) Speaker: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Dahmen, Bamberg (Prof. em. of Romanian Philologie, University of Jena) 14 Nov 2019 | 17:00 | C²DH-Lounge, MSH,…

Text as data at DHBenelux 2019

DHBenelux 2019 was held at the University of Liège (Belgium), and it was the first time I attended this conference. As someone working in computational…

Experimenting with the Phonograph

Did you ever record music with a phonograph? Well, we gave it a go during the skills training on Experimental Media Ethnography (4 - 5 July…

Deep Learning for Language Analysis Summer School

I attended the Deep learning summer school for language analysis at Universität zu Köln from 9 to 13 September. The summer school was a collaboration…