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Announcement of the Program of Oberseminar @HDSM Winter Semester 2025/26

HDSM is thrilled to announce the new session of the Oberseminar during the upcoming winter semester 2025/26.

What? The Oberseminar is a forum for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art research at the crossroads of digital methods and data in the fields of Digital History and Digital Humanities.

When? It is a weekly event from mid-October 2025 to mid-February 2026 and it is scheduled on Tuesdays from 4:15 to 5:55 pm.

Where? Oberseminar will accommodate hybrid format, online format, with TU Darmstadt students attending the lecture hall in person and other colleagues joining remotely. Presentations will be recorded and published on the media channels of the HDSM to ensure a permanent record of the symposium. 
Registration is required to attend the seminar online. Registration link will be provided closer to the day of the first lecture.


Programm:

21 October 2025: Sophie Gebeil (Aix Marseille University, FR) “Web Archives as a Source of Data for Critical and Inclusive Uses of AI in History”

28 October 2025: Francis Harvey (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, DE) “Place-names as shibboleths. Decoding coloniality in historical place-names”

4 November 2025: Giulia Osti (University College Dublin, IE) “Rethinking Collections as Data in the Age of GenAI”

11 November 2025: Christiane Sibille, Gentiana Rashiti, Jeremy Marbach (ETH-Library, CH) “It’s almost standardised” – Perspectives on collections as data from the archives”

18 November 2025: Martin Grandjean (University of Lausanne, CH) “Historical Network Analysis”

25 November 2025: Kaspar Beelen (School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK) “Heritage Weaver: Classifying, Searching, and Linking Museum Data with Multimodal AI”

2 December 2025: Alan Colin-Arce (University of Victoria, CA) “Geographic and Linguistic Biases in Web Archives”

9 December 2025: Anna Foka (Uppsala University, SE) “AI and Heritage Collections: Challenges and Opportunities”

16 December 2025: Houda Lamqaddam (University of Amsterdam, NL) “Could AI Solve the Humanities’ “Messy Data” Problem? A Case Study on the Extraction and Structuring of Dutch Exhibition Catalogues”

13 January 2026: Rachel Gatehouse “Trends in UK Repatriation Practice (2010-2022)”

20 January 2026: Cindarella Petz (DH Lab, Leibniz-Institute of European History Mainz, DE) “Augmented historical research in the age of AI”

27 January 2026: Marcella Palladino (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT) “Speech Processing Methods for Data Collection and Analysis in (Polito)Linguistics”


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valentinaprishchepova (October 2, 2025). Announcement of the Program of Oberseminar @HDSM Winter Semester 2025/26. HDSM. Retrieved March 14, 2026 from https://hdsm.hypotheses.org/6040


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