Digital History in Germany: Challenges, Chances, Developments

Digital History in Germany: Challenges, Chances, Developments

This presentation will give an overview of recent developments in

Germany in the field of digital history as part of the digital humanities.
It will not only address themes, tendencies and existing structures,
but will also reflect on the institutional future and the political
framing when it comes to challenges in the field of digital humanities
– like funding, questions of sustainability, citizen science, or
interdisciplinary and transnational cooperation in a European and
trans-Atlantic context. It will demonstrate cutting edge developments
on the example of a portal that combines history, art history, digital
heritage, and virtual reconstruction.

Peter Haslinger is professor for the history of Eastern Europe at
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen and director of the Herder-Institute
for Historical Research on East Central Europe, an institute of the
Leibniz-Association. Until recently, he was also chair of the working
group for digital history in the realm of the German Historian’s
Association.

This event is sponsored in part by the CDH Slavic DH Working Group.