at the University of Vienna in the winter semester of 2023/24
This lecture circuit provides students with a reasonably broad overview of the state of research and working methods in the Digital Humanities. A variety of speakers from different disciplines within the humanities – history, literature, museum studies, art history, archaeology, and more – will discuss what digital methods bring to their own fields, and what they understand the Digital Humanities actually to be.
The lectures will take place weekly, every Tuesday from 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM, starting 10.10.2023 in the lecture hall 41, Gerda-Lerner Hauptgebäude (main building of the) University of Vienna, 1st floor, staircase 8 and will be followed by a small reception.
Subject to the consent of the lecturer, the lectures can be followed live at the following Link
(note that the Link will only work during the lecture itself): Live-Stream.
Programme
- 10 October: Introducing Digital Humanities @Uni Wien
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tara Andrews (Digital Humanities, University of Vienna)
- 17 October: Digital Humanities MA graduates present their work
Nora Linser – Data Driven Insights in Art Museums’ Collections
Lisa Nußbaumer – The Loose Lips of AI: How Information Leaks from Large Language Models
- 24 October: Big, Linked, Cultural Heritage Data
Dr Rebecca Kahn, University of Vienna
- 7 November: What Will the Future Bring? New Methods for Editing the sortes
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Elisa Cugliana, University of Köln
- 14 November: Trading Zones Without Trade?
About the Difficulties of Creating a Structured Overview of DH Resources in Austria (and Beyond)
Mag. Dr. Thomas Wallnig, University of Vienna
- 21 November: In/Tangible European Heritage – Visual Analysis, Curation, and Communication
Mag. Dr. Florian Windhager, Danube University Krems
- 28 November: Scholarly Editing in the Times of Artificial Intelligence
Univ.-Prof. Georg Vogeler, University of Graz
- 5 December: Bringing the Virus to the Computer. Digital Data in the History of Epidemics, Environment and Climate
Mag. Dr. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, ÖAW
- 12 December: Meet Tropy: Your Portable Archive Reading Room
Dr. Anita Lucchesi, University of Luxembourg (in collaboration with the Vienna Public History chair)
- 9 January: ‘Small’ Texts on a Large Scale: Digitally Analysing Lists in Historical Newspapers
Nina Rastinger MA, ÖAW
- 16 January: Digital Explorations on the Ancient Silk Road
Assoz.-Prof. Mag. Hannes Fellner, University of Vienna
- 23 January: Digital Linguistics (ACDH-CH Lecture 10.1)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Witt, University of Mannheim
Organisation
Tara L. Andrews is University Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Vienna.
She completed her bachelor’s degree at MIT in 1999, studying a combination of history, computer science, and electrical engineering. After a period working as a software release engineer for Akamai Technologies and Goldman Sachs, she returned to academia to gain an MPhil (Byzantine Studies, 2005) and DPhil (Oriental Studies, 2009) from the University of Oxford, where she also served for one year as Departmental Lecturer in Byzantine History. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the KU Leuven (2010–2013) on the “Tree of Texts” project on digital stemmatology, and as an assistant professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Bern (2013–2016). Her 2016 book Matt’ēos Uṙhayec’i and His Chronicle was awarded the Sona Aronian Book Prize for Excellence in Armenian Studies.
