Digital research? 1st Digital Humanities Day at the University of Oldenburg
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Digital research? 1st Digital Humanities Day at the University of Oldenburg
11 - 12 June 2026 | Library Hall
The University of Oldenburg is bringing its digital humanities community together - over two days, in one room, with one common question:
Where do we stand - and where is the journey going?
The Digital Humanities (DH) are at the interface between the humanities and digital technologies. They bring methods of Computing Science, data analysis and visualisation to subjects such as history, linguistics, philosophy or art history and thus enable completely new ways of answering old questions or even asking new questions in the first place, creating interdisciplinary dialogues and synergy effects and generating new insights through co-operation.
Whether AI-supported searches of historical sources, computer-aided analysis of large volumes of text or the preservation and 3D digitisation of artefacts: DH are as diverse as the humanities themselves.
The 1st DH Day offers a platform for an exchange on current projects, new methods and the future of digital humanities at the University of Oldenburg - open to all researchers and interested parties from Oldenburg and the surrounding area.
Programme highlights
- Keynote speech by Prof Dr Andrea Rapp (TU Darmstadt | President of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz)
- Presentations by Oldenburg academics from all Schools on their DH projects
- Roundtable discussion on the status quo and the future of DH at the university
- 3GO doctoral candidate day on 11 June on the topic of digital humanities
Programme
11.06.2026
6-8 pm: Opening of the 1st Digital Humanities Day at the University of Oldenburg: Keynote Research Digital! Research Cultures in the Humanities (Prof. Dr Andrea Rapp, Technische Universität Darmstadt) followed by a discussion (the keynote will also conclude the 3GO Doctoral Candidates' Day) (moderated and welcomed by the organisers Jonas Kaiser, Dr Lucas Haasis, Rea Kodalle and Robert Mitschke)
12.06.2026
08:30-09:00: Check-In
09:00-09:30: Moderation and welcome by the organisers Jonas Kaiser, Dr. Lucas Haasis, Rea Kodalle and Robert Mitschke; greetings (Prof. Dr. Ralf Grüttemeier, Heike Andermann)
09:30-10:00: Presentation of DH-Service BIS: Advice, training, networking - the BIS Digital Humanities Service Centre (Jonas Kaiser, Rina Ferdinand, Dr Jan F. Maas) (Moderation: Dr Lucas Haasis)
10:00-11:00: Panel 1 (Moderation: Jonas Kaiser):
Prof. Dr Marius Sältzer: The truth
Dr Lucas Haasis: A mailbag full of history - exploring historical letters digitally
Dr Christopher Sommer: Trust is good, control is better - analysing qualitative interview data with MAXQDA Tailwind
11:00-11:30: Coffee break
11:30-12:30: Panel 2 (Moderation: Dr Lucas Haasis):
Dr Simone Franz: Data modelling in a postcolonial perspective: metadata practices in the academy project Prize Papers. Indexing - Digitisation - Presentation
Dr Sarah Thompson: Capturing the Prize Papers - How DiViAS uses AI, 3D analyses and spectroscopy to explore an archive collection
Dr Klara von Lindern/Dr Christopher Sommer/Dr Sarah Thompson: Wearing the Prize Papers. Analogue and digital (re)stagings of historical clothing
12:30-13:30: Lunch break
13:30-14:30: Panel 3 (Moderation: Jonas Kaiser):
Dr Motoki Saito: L2 learning with natural but unclear pronunciations: Experiment meets computational modelling
Lina Blank: Searching and finding references to literature in parliamentary debates
PD Dr Christian Schmitt: Does entertainment know that it entertains? Narrative processes in fairground prints of the 19th century - a search for clues with Voyant Tools
14:30-15:00: Coffee break
15:00-16:30: Roundtable (Prof. Dr Susanne Boll-Westermann, Prof. Dr Doreen Brandt, Prof. Dr Ira Diethelm, Prof. Dr Benedikt Hensel, Prof. Dr Felicitas Macgilchrist, Prof. Dr Sebastian Vehlken) followed by a final discussion (Moderation: Jonas Kaiser, Dr Lucas Haasis)
