Wednesday, October 23, 2024

14:00-17:45 Pre-Conference Workshops

14h00-16h00

Andrew Flinn (University College London), An Oral History Approach to the History of Digital History – Critical Questions and Practices

Pauline Spychala (DHIP), How to Get Started with Handwritten Text Recognition – Using eScriptorium in Historical Research

16h00-16h15 Coffee break

16h15-17h45 Torsten Hiltmann (Humboldt University of Berlin), Mareike König (DHIP)
Integrating AI in Historical Sciences Education: Experience Exchange on Teaching (with) ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence

18:00 Welcome and Introduction by the organisers
18:30-20:00 Keynote

Hannah Ishmael (King’s College, London): Resisting Borders: Archives as Technology from Analogue to Digital

Engaging the frameworks of ‘technology’ and ‘space’ this talk discusses the role of colonial administration and archives in creating and maintaining physical and intellectual borders. However, whilst the colonial archive marks the starting point of this talk, I will focus on how Black communities (with a focus on Britain) have contested and negotiated these borders already in the Analogue and continue to do so in the Digital.

Dr. Hannah Ishmael is Lecturer in Digital Culture and Race at Kings College London, and previously she was the Collections and Research Manager at Black Cultural Archives. Hannah’s PhD research focussed on the development of Black-led archives in London and her current research looks at the relationship between archives, borders and technologies

20:00 Reception. Followed by dinner for conference participants at the IHA
Thursday, October 24, 2024

9:00-10:30 Panel 1: Perspectives on the History of Digital History

Opening Roundtable: Stéphane Lamassé (Univ. Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Aarhus University), Jörg Hörnschemeyer (German Historical Institute Rome), Astrid Menz (Orient-Institut Istanbul), moderated by Julianne Nyhan (TU Darmstadt/University College London), and Jane Winters (School of Advanced Study, University of London)

Gerben Zaagsma (Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxemburg)
Facing the History Machine: Towards Histories of Digital History

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:00 Panel 2: Historicising Digital History: Geographic Views, Chair: Mareike König (DHIP)

Sébastien Poublanc (CNRS, FRAMESPA)
“Tomorrow’s Historian Will Either Be a Programmer or He Won’t Be”: The Historiography of French Digital History

Lik Hang Tsui (City University of Hong Kong)
Digital Humanities in Traditional Chinese Scholarship: Early Digitisation Efforts and Their Impacts on Digital History, 1980-2009

12:00-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-14:30 Continuation of Panel 2, Chair: Torsten Hiltmann (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Judith Zimmermann (University of Salzburg)
On the Inside of German and Austrian Universities: Pioneering Pathways in Digital History Research and Teaching in the period 2000-2021

Jörg Wettlaufer (Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Göttingen)
Digital History and Digital Humanities in the German Speaking Areas. Twenty years of Cooperation und Segregation, 2004–2024

14:30-15:30 Panel 3: Digital Editions, Chair: Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Aarhus University)

Kajsa Weber (Lund University)
From Edited Volumes to Digitised Documents: Historical Research and Reviews of Remediated Primary Sources, 1881–2023

Alexander Isacsson (Lund University)
The Precursor of Mass Digitisation? Historical Source Editing and Media Transfer Prior to the Digital Age.

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:00 Panel 4: Outreach and Teaching in Digital History, Chair: Jane Winters (School of Advanced Study, University of London)

Sofia Papastamkou (Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxemburg)
Teaching Historians “the ways of the machine”: Proto-debates, Actors, and Practices on Code Literacy in the Humanities, 1966-1987

Katharina Hering (German Historical Institute Washington), Elizabeth Brown (Library of Congress, Washington D.C.)
Communicating the History of Digital History to the Public: What Can We Learn from American Memory?

Free evening
Friday, October 25, 2024

9:00-10:30 Panel 5: Historicising Digital Methods, Chair: Pauline Spychala (DHIP)

Katrin Moeller (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
The Long Road to the Digital, Standardised Classification of Historical Professions: 1568 to 2024! A Contribution to the Methodological and Digital Development of Vocabularies

Jascha Merijn Schmitz (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Are Simulations History? Reappraising an Old Digital History Method through the Context and History of its Usage and Discourse

Werner Scheltjens(University of Bamberg)
The Maritime Dimension of Digital History

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:00 Continuation of Panel 5, Chair: Hélène Noizet (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Edgar Lejeune (Université Paris Cité)
‘Open’ or ‘Close’ Research Instruments? Conflicting Rationales in the Organization of Early Digital Medieval History in Europe, 1960-1990

Michael Piotrowski (Université de Lausanne)
Looking Back to Look Ahead: Bachelard’s Phenomenotechnique and Gardin’s Logicist Approach in Digital History

12:00-13:00 General Discussion, Chair: Vadim Popov (Max Weber Network Eastern Europe)

Mareike König (DHIP)
Concluding Remarks

13:00 End of the Conference and snack to round off