Open Research Colloquium on Digital History

The Department of Digital History at Humboldt University in Berlin cordially invites all those interested in digital humanities and digital history to this year's semester-long open research colloquium on digital history. The program will feature presentations by young researchers and established experts from several European institutions from Humboldt University in Berlin to the universities of Ghent, Cologne, and Potsdam, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

The colloquium will focus on topics such as:

• the use of large language models (LLMs) in the description and analysis of historical sources — from heraldry to 18th-century cookbooks,
• digital methods in diplomatics and paleography, including stylometry and machine learning,
• critical work with historical data, including the issue of "dirty data" and gaps in digital corpora,
• network analysis and modeling of historical processes, for example in the study of urban mobility in post-war Berlin, and reflection on the history of the early web and current practices in digital historical research.

You can find the diverse and international program on the department's blog.

Presentations take place every Wednesday from 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. (CET) via Zoom, starting on November 12. To obtain access details, send a short request to digitalhistory@hu-berlin.de or subscribe to the open mailing list. Some of the lectures from the research colloquium that have taken place so far can also be found on the department's YouTube channel.

We look forward to welcoming you to the research colloquium and engaging in discussions with you!