Fréderic Clavert & Caroline Muller: From Digital Humanities to History in the Digital Age: Reflecting on Discret Digital Practices

When we talk about history and digital technology, we often refer to a number of high-profile, large-scale projects centred on vast databases, distant reading, network visualisation, major infrastructure and digital methods that are sometimes claimed to be revolutionary. It is rare for the ‘digital turn’ in history to be analysed through the lens of the day-to-day work of most historians. 

Building on the work we have carried out since 2017, which culminated in the publication of Écrire l’Histoire. Gestes et expériences à l’ère numérique last autumn, we will examine in this presentation the digital practices we have described as ‘discreet’: all those practices that disappear from chapters and articles on methodology because they have become commonplace, and because, at times, they are not fully stood by. Yet these practices — including today the use of (Generative) AI — reshape the classic questions of the historian’s craft, the allure of the archive, and the conditions of writing history.

Vortrag im Rahmen des Forschungskolloquiums und Ringvorlesung „Digital History“
Zeit: Mittwoch, 1. Juli 2026, 16-18 Uhr
Ort: Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris, 8 Rue du Parc Royal, F-75003 Paris (Um eine Anmeldung via E-Mail wird gebeten) & Zoom-Konferenz (Zugang auf Anfrage oder via Mailingliste)

Digital History Berlin (Redaktion)

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