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Video recordings of the HDSM open lectures (2022-2025)

HDSM organises and co-hosts a wide range of open presentations from leading experts, academics, and museum practitioners. These lectures are now available online and can be found on the OpenLearnWare platform of the TU Darmstadt. In this post, you find a snapshot of the lectures with the corresponding online recordings below.


22 October 2024: Dr. Vayianos Pertsas, Athens University of Economics and Business (GR) “Creating a Knowledge Graph for research in Humanities”

29 October 2024: Dr. Alisa Maximova, Center for Advanced Internet Studies, Bochum “Negotiating the meanings of artificial intelligence in museum exhibitions”

5 November 2024: Dr. Lauren Tilton, University of Richmond (US) “Distant Viewing”

12 November 2024: Svenja Guhr, TU Darmstadt (DE) “Discovering Character Sound in German Language Fiction”

19 November 2024: Dr. Mia Ridge, British Library “Digital scholarship at the British Library”

26 November 2024: Carmen Noguera, University of Luxembourg (LXM) “Partying, Flirting and Building Collective Identity: the emergence of the first participative websites in Luxembourg (1996-2004)”

17 December 2024: Nathalie Fridzema, the University of Groningen, Centre for Media and Journalism Studies “Researching the Early Dutch Web: Digital Methods for Historical and Historiographical Objectives in Internet Studies”

4 February 2025: Dr. Nicole M. Mueller, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in Tokyo (JP) “Modeling Emerging Futures – Japanese Tech Imaginaries through Digital Corpora Analysis”


21 October 2024: Dr. Madeline Brown, Dr. Paul Shackel, University of Maryland (US) “Anthracite Oral Histories and Text Mining”

4 November 2024: PhD Candidate Maria Vrachliotou, Ionian University (GR) “OH metadata. Usability, accessibility and interoperability of OH interviews in the digital realm”

11 November 2024: Dr. Michael Townsen Hicks, the University of Glasgow (UK) “Large Language eModels are bullshitters”

18 November 2024: Dr. Chris Fitzgerald, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick (IRE) “Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities: Applying Digital Linguistics Techniques to Oral History Collections”

25 November 2024: Dr. Maria Dermentzi, Hugo Scheithauer “AI and Oral History: Applications in Holocaust Testimonies”

2 December 2024: Dr. Norah Karrouche, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) “Can oral history data be FAIR? Lessons learnt from building a digital infrastructure for oral history in the Netherlands”

16 December 2024: Dr. Almila Akdag Salah, Utrecht University (GE) “Breathing Emotions & Stories: A different way of navigating Oral History”

13 January 2025: Prof. Dr. Todd Presner, UCLA’s Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies (US) “Using Machine Learning and AI to Analyze Interviewer Questions in Holocaust Oral Histories”

20 January 2025: Chris Pandza, Columbia University (US) “Curating large oral history archives with artificial intelligence”

3 February 2025: Prof. Dr. Linde Apel, the Research Center for Contemporary History (GE) “Oral History and the digital transformation. Some historical, ethical and methodological remarks”


16 April 2024: Anna Sofia Lippolis – Sloane Lab Community Fellow / Univ “An Ontology for Multivocality: Embracing Diverse Perspectives in Machine-Reada”

23 April 2024: Dr Wolfgang Göderle, Max Planck Institute “Enhancing OCR with AI for Historical Documents”

28 May 2024: Arjun Sanyal – University of Himachal Pradesh “Enframing narratives & post-Fordist Global South Digital Humanities ecosystem”

4 June 2024: Phillip Rhys Olney – Sloane Lab Community Fellow “The Display Strategies of Hans Sloane’s Collection As ‘Bifocal Data'”

18 June 2024: Rosalind White / Hannah Cusworth “Women in Sloane Lab Knowledge Base / Sloane in Conversation with Blackness”


31 October 2023: Prof. Niels Brügger (Aarhus University) “Three cases of web history: (1) a country’s entire web domain, (2) tracing one term’s history, and (3) investigating the communicative history of football clubs’ websites”

21 November 2023: Assoc. Prof. Melanie Conroy (The University of Memphis) “Mapping Social Networks in Smaller Datasets” 

28 November 2023: Assoc. Prof. Mette Skov (Aalborg University) “Towards a data driven approach to studying museum communication”

19 December 2023: Anne Wichmann (digital artist, New York, Aurora) “More Horses Than Women”

9 January 2024: Prof. Lik Hang Tsui (City University of Hong Kong) “Histories of the Digital Humanities in the Chinese World”

16 January 2024: Dr. Jaap Geraerts (Leibniz Institute of European History) „Networks of confessional affiliation: religious choice and the Schism of Utrecht, 1702 – c. 1775”


25 May 2023:
Kathleen Lawther (Freelance Curator/Collections Researcher) – People make the data: Museum Makers, people-centred cataloguing and collections as data.
Florence Okoye (Qualitative researcher, User Experience and Service designer, Natural History Museum) – Approaches for anti-colonial narratives through digital collections.

1 June 2023:
Koraljka Golub (Professor, iInstitute, Linnaeus University, co-leader of LNU’s Digital Humanities Initiative) – Subject access in online information services for humanities: the case of LGBTQI fiction.
Inna Kizhner (Research Fellow, Digital Humanities Lab, Haifa University) – Exploring epistemic bias in museum collections.

8 June 2023:
Lucille Junkere (Visual artist, educator and researcher)- Cultural Colours Jamaica
Benjamin Lee (Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington) – Reimagining Search and Discovery for Digital Collections with Machine Learning.

15 June 2023:
Ananda Rutherford (Research Fellow, Transforming Collections, Decolonising Arts Institute, University of Arts London) – Problematising catalogue texts: writing, editing and the potential of interactive machine learning.
Jane Stevenson (Archivist, Archival Cataloguing)- The Shortcomings of and Opportunities for Archival Cataloguing to Create a Fuller Picture of Our Histories.


22 June 2023:
Rosemary Grennan (Mayday Rooms archive) – Leftovers Digital Archive: Somewhere between automation and the handmade.
Amalia S Levi (Archivist/Cultural heritage Professional, HeritEdge Connection, Bonn University’s Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies) – Archival Dependencies: The Cascading Violence of Colonial Records.


8 June 2022:

  • Douglas Lambert (University at Buffalo, United States) – Audio/video thematic indexing: meaning mapping for oral history access and usage
  • Alexander Freund (University of Winnipeg, Canada) – Historicizing modalities: a few thoughts on oral history under surveillance capitalism

22 June 2022:

  • Tanya Clement (University of Texas at Austin, United States) – Dissonant records: close listening to cultural resistance in audio archives

6 July 2022:

  • Almila Akdag Salah & Francisca Pessanha (Utrecht University, Netherlands) – What can breathing patterns tell us to analyze Oral History Archives?
  • Myriam Fellous-Sigrist (King’s College London, United Kingdom) – Between access and protection: applied ethics for curating digital oral history

13 July 2022:

  • Machteld Venken (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) – Talking borders, history and digital hermeneutics
  • Elspeth Brown (University of Toronto, Canada) – Is there anybody out there? Multimodal research creation and queer oral history

20 July 2022:

  • Sharon Webb (University of Sussex, United Kingdom) – Streams of data: methods for distant and close listening for oral histories
  • Tara Brabazon (Flinders University, Australia) – The auditory academic: transforming the soundscape of scholarship

9 May 2023: Prof. Paul L. Arthur (Edith Cowan University, Western Australia) “Open Access to Humanities Research Outputs and Data”

30 May 2023: Dr. Marten Düring “Machine Learning to Read Yesterday’s News”

9 January 2023: Dr. Daniele Metilli “Data for the Digital Historian. The Sloane Lab Experience”

12 December 2022: Dr. Paul Gooding “Historians and the Digitised World. Informational Abundance and Material Absence”


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valentinaprishchepova (August 28, 2025). Video recordings of the HDSM open lectures (2022-2025). HDSM. Retrieved March 15, 2026 from https://hdsm.hypotheses.org/5574


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