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Jane Winters: From “digital dark age” to “an age of historical abundance”? The Past, Present and Future of Born-Digital Cultural Heritage

This lecture will consider the challenges associated with the identification, capture, archiving and preservation of the myriad forms of digital cultural heritage created by individuals, communities, institutions and organisations every day. It will discuss digital records ranging from the archives of the web and social media to information held on company document servers and personal hard drives, exploring their value for histories of the late 20th and early 21st century. The lecture will address questions of abundance and scarcity, vulnerability and resilience, and conclude with some reflections on the digital infrastructures that mediate access to both digital and analogue records.

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Katharina Hadassah Wendl: DHd2026 Wien: Digital Humanities an der Schnittstelle von Text, Daten und Theorie

Unter dem Thema Nicht nur Text, nicht nur Daten fand Ende Februar an der Universität Wien die jährliche Konferenz der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum statt. Mit bis zu fünf parallelen Sessions, fast 100 Posterbeiträgen, einem guten Dutzend Workshops und speziellen Sessions von und für Doktorand*innen, war das Programm anregend, anspruchsvoll und vielfältig. Bei dieser meiner ersten DHd Konferenz als Teilnehmerin, Vortragende und Stipendiatin habe ich besonders aufmerksam verfolgt, wie Diskurse um Forschungsdaten, digitale Infrastrukturen und Methoden die deutschsprachige DH-Community prägen, fordern und neue Ideen, Projekte und Kollaborationen anregen.

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Mar Hicks: Rethinking Computable Subjects: Methods, Topics, and Boundaries in the History of Computing

The history of computing has been written in large part as a history of institutions and powerful people, or people serving powerful interests, that has tended to normalize the hierarchies embedded in modern computing systems. This talk looks at examples from that history with a focus on instances of resistance and pushback, to offer an alternative set of tools and methods for writing (and reading) computing’s history.

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Ian Kisil Marino: Digital History from the Margins? Latin American Perspectives on an Emerging Field

The globalized rhetoric surrounding digital transformation often translates into presumptions of universalization within the field of digital history, which is then discussed in a generic sense, as if it were established on common ground. This correlates with history itself, which developed as a modern discipline in the nineteenth century under the pretense of the universalization of time and historical methods. One should notice, however, that the conditions in which forms of knowledge develop depend on multiple factors of a cultural, political, and economic nature, as has been well debated by multiple facets of anti-colonial thought, for example. When dealing with a field such as digital history, which has developed so closely attached to the need for digital infrastructure, computational skills, and innovation, one should notice that inequality plays a major role in preventing ubiquity on a global scale.

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Gerben Zaagsma: Facing the History Machine: Why Histories of Digital History Matter

With the advent of AI in the last few years, historians are grappling with the question of how these new tools will affect historical knowledge production. Yet questioning the impact of new technologies on the profession is hardly new. For decades, historians have raised fundamental epistemological and methodological questions when confronted with new technologies, yet this is often forgotten in favor of a rhetoric of radical newness and future promises. Recent scholarship is beginning to change this, however. As the praxeological turn in the history of the humanities and historiography has taken hold over the past two decades, scholars have begun to investigate the role of technology in the creation of historical knowledge.[1] More recently, the history of digital history has emerged as a new avenue of research.[2] Nonetheless, the strongest interest in the history of digital history manifests in the history of the humanities and the history of knowledge, and not in the field itself.

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