Featured Lectures
22 May 2025 . Julianne Nyhan, “Oral History as Data? Critically approaching the digital turn in method, meaning and recollection,” Susan Hockey Lecture in Digital Humanities, UCL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXfFOXyViKs
31 March 2023. Julianne Nyhan, “Examining the Digital Humanities as a site and ‘peoplescape’ of collecting and collections,” UCL Inaugural Professorial Lecture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmrH46OB_UI
Keynotes and Invited Lectures
09 July 2025. Julianne Nyhan, “Mixed-methods Digital Oral History: Reflections on Limits, Horizons and Emerging Findings”. Offenes Forschungskolloquium Digital History. Humboldt Universiteaet zu Berlin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtdz6MQP6fI
21 May 2024. Julianne Nyhan, Contesting, remaking and reimagining absence among and with digital methods: a 3-project based examination Max Planck Institut fuer Wissenschaft Geschichte. https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/contesting-remaking-and-reimagining-absence-among-and-digital-methods-3-project-based-0
April 2024. Julianne Nyhan, “Towards a multimodal oral history: prospects and dangers for oral history in the digital age,” Korean Oral History Association 15th Anniversary Symposium, Seoul, South Korea.
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November 2023. Julianne Nyhan, “Towards a Digital Hermeneutic Proving Ground? Multimodal Oral History: Prospects and Limits,” Digital Hermeneutics II: Sources, Analysis, Interpretation, Annotation, Curation, FernUniversität in Hagen. [Keynote]
July 2023. Julianne Nyhan, “Oral History in the Digital Age,” International Summer School “Oral History Meets European Studies. Sources, Tools and Methods in the Digital Age,” Maison Schuman, University of Luxembourg. [Keynote]
April 2023. Julianne Nyhan, “Digital Cultural Heritage in Context: On the Sloane Lab and the ‘collections as data’ turn,” Workshop zum Thema “Schnittstelle Mediävistik” im Rahmen des DFG-„Netzwerk Offenes Mittelalter“ zu Linked Open Data (LOD)-Verfahren. [Keynote]
November 2022. Julianne Nyhan, “Mind the Gap: Data Absence, data silence and data bias,” Der Schöne-Vortrag 2022, TU Berlin in Kooperation mit der Richard-Schöne-Gesellschaft für Museumsgeschichte e.V. [Keynote]
July 2022. Julianne Nyhan, “Thinking through the place of absence in the grand challenges of the Digital Humanities and Humanities Data Science,” Digital Humanities Summer School at Oxford – DHOxSS2022, Keble College Oxford. [Keynote]
January 2020. Julianne Nyhan, “Where does the history of the Digital Humanities fit in the longer history of the Humanities? Reflections on the historiography of the ‘old’ in the work of Fr Roberto Busa S.J.,” The Inevitable Turn: Challenges and Perspectives in Humanities Computing, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. [Keynote lecture]
September 2019. Julianne Nyhan, “Critical Reflections on Enlightenment Architectures: Sir Hans Sloane’s catalogues of his collections. Collecting and Collections: Digital lives and after lives,” The Royal Society, UK. [Keynote lecture]
2017. Julianne Nyhan, “What are the longer-term origins of the asymmetrical power structures that shape so much of the practice of Digital Humanities?” ITUG-Jahrestagung, Technischen Universität Darmstadt. [Keynote]
2015. Julianne Nyhan, “Knowledge organisation systems and Digital Humanities: looking back in order to look forward,” ISKO Knowledge organization systems and digital humanities, Strasbourg, France. [Keynote]
2015. Julianne Nyhan, “New paths through the histories of Digital Humanities: uncovering hidden contributions to Busa’s Index Thomisticus,” International Symposium of Information Science, University of Zadar, Croatia. [Keynote]
2013. Julianne Nyhan, “What can modern-day Digital Humanities learn from studying its past? Some recommendations and suggestions,” CIDE.16: Dispositifs numériques : contenus, interactivité et visualisation, France. [Keynote]
2013. Julianne Nyhan, “Through memories and times: reflections on reflecting on the histories of computing in the Humanities,” Humanities Unbound, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. [Keynote]
2013. Julianne Nyhan, “Text, Image and Sound: where we are and where we are not in Digital Humanities,” Future Digital Conference, Open University, UK. [Keynote]
Conference Presentations
July 2023. Julianne Nyhan, “New Sources for the History of the Humanities: Exploring oral history sources,” History of the Humanities: Stories, Sources, and Challenges Summer School, Huizinga Institute, Leiden University.
June 2023 . Andrew Flinn (UCL) with Doug Boyd (University of Kentucky), Charlie Morgan (NLS Archivist) and Julianne Nyhan, “Democratising access? The interface of new technologies and archived life stories,” The Life Story in Oral History Practice: A Two-Day International Symposium, British Library, St Pancras, London
12 April 2023. Julianne Nyhan, “The Sloane Lab: looking back to build future shared collections” as a microcosm of some current challenges and opportunities of collections as data research, AMC Colloquia, Maastricht University.
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October 2022 . Julianne Nyhan, Colloquium in Digital Cultural Heritage, Universität zu Köln.
October 2022 . Digital Humanities and devalued labour: where to next? 60 Minutes of DH, Centre for Digital Humanities, Uppsala University.
2022 . Julianne Nyhan, “New Perspectives on Sloane,” The Society for the History of Collections, British Museum, London.
December 2021 . Julianne Nyhan, “Loss, absence and contestation in Digital Humanities,” Digital Humanities Seminar, University of Cambridge.
December 2019 . Julianne Nyhan, Invited Lecture to “New Horizons in Digital Humanities,” C²DH, Luxembourg.
September 2019 . Julianne Nyhan, “Digital Scholarship and the role of the research library,” RLUK Research Libraries UK, London.
June 2019 . Julianne Nyhan, “Hidden contribution to the deep histories of digital humanities tools,” Digital Humanities 2019, Utrecht, Netherlands.
January 2019 . Julianne Nyhan, “IHR Digital History ethics panel presentation,” Institute of Historical Research, London.
2018 . T. Hauswedell, J. Nyhan, M. Beales, “Oceanic Exchanges: Tracing Global Information Networks Historical Newspaper Repositories,” EADH 2018, Ireland.
2018 . Julianne Nyhan, “Oceanic Exchanges, research across large-scale digital newspaper collections,” Digital Humanities 2018, Mexico City.
2018 . Plenary Roundtable: C. Schöch, J. Nyhan, A. Ciula, J. van Zundert, “Data in Digital Humanities,” EADH 2018, Ireland.
2018 . Julianne Nyhan, “What can the Humanities do for digital technologies?” thinkBIG Workshop on the Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor.
2018 . Julianne Nyhan, “Voices heard, voices silenced: on hidden contributions to the emergence of Digital Humanities c.1954-67,” British Society for the History of Mathematics meeting, History of Computing beyond the computer, Oxford University, UK.
2018 . K. Sloane, J. Nyhan, A. Ortolja-Baird, V. Pickering, “Enlightenment Architectures: Sir Hans Sloane’s Catalogues of his collections,” Presentation to the Board of Trustees, British Museum.
2017 . Julianne Nyhan, “Digital Humanities approaches to the formation and transformation of knowledge: a critical analysis,” Birmingham University, UK.
2017 . Julianne Nyhan, “’Techies’ versus scholars: Roberto Busa’s Index Thomisticus project and its role in the establishment of the iniquitous power structures of Digital Humanities,” Digital Humanities at Siberian Federal University Conference, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
2017 . K. Sloan, J. Nyhan, V. Pickering, “Enlightenment Architectures: Sir Hans Sloane’s Catalogues of His Collections. Animating the archive: Enlightenment lives and letters,” Research Workshop, Centre for Enlightenment Studies at King’s & Queen Mary Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies.
2015 . Julianne Nyhan, “Archives and Digital Humanities: new pathways, new kinships?” Archive and Education conference, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
2015 . Julianne Nyhan, “An introduction to the Histories of Digital Humanities,” University of Babeș-Bolyai / Transylvanian Digital Humanities Centre, Romania.
2015 . Julianne Nyhan, “Collaboration and Digital Humanities: two studies and a plea. Technospaces. Persistence – Practices – Procedures – Power,” University of Darmstadt, Germany.
2015 . Julianne Nyhan, “Were Humanists and Digital Humanities always so very different? An investigation of the earliest contributions to Humanist,” Department of Digital Humanities public seminar series, King’s College London, UK.
2015 . Julianne Nyhan, Invited panel member, “TALK ART/TALK SOCIETY. Merging technology and historical research: What are the future archives like?” The Finnish Institute in London, UK.
2015 . Julianne Nyhan, “Digital Humanities: origins and future directions,” Invited research seminar, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Collaboration and Digital Humanities: on the past, present and future,” Transforming Digital Methods conference, University of Exeter.
2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “About the book as data,” The Post Digital Scholar, Lüneburg, Germany.
2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Community Archives in the UK: an overview,” International conference on Community Archives: models of cooperation with the state, Poland.
2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Digital Humanities. Knowledge Machines: the potential of the digital,” Symposium on alternative practices in Humanities research, University of Kent, UK.
2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Digital Humanities, Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity,” Pushing the boundaries: Early Career research and interdisciplinarity, British Academy event for Early Career researchers, Open University, UK.
2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “The application of facial analysis techniques to the research of ancient seals: some preliminary considerations,” Digitization in the Round workshop, Ashmolean Museum / Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK.
2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Uncovering the socio-cultural contexts of the emergence of Digital Humanities and their enduring significance,” Conference on cultural heritage research and innovation, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany.
2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Fr Roberto Busa: founder of Digital Humanities?” University of Trier Digital Humanities seminar, Germany.
2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Digital Humanities: an introduction,” DARIAH-GR opening workshop, Academy of Athens, Greece.
2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “On the Digital Humanities and the necessity of thinking historically,” Opening event Forschungsverbund MWW, Berlin, Germany.
2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Memory, narrative and disciplinary identity: an investigation,” Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy.
2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Analyse, sort, classify and mark up: text encoding and its debt to historical dictionaries and word lists,” Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford, UK.
2014 . Julianne Nyhan, “Arts and Humanities research data: a few idiosyncrasies,” DigitalHSS Lunchtime Seminar: Managing Humanities Research Data, University of Edinburgh, UK.
2013 . Julianne Nyhan, “A researcher’s view on Arts and Humanities data management/sharing (with a focus on infrastructure needs and wants),” RDMF10: Research data management in the Arts and Humanities, St Anne’s College, Oxford, UK.
2012 . Julianne Nyhan, “Research Infrastructures in the Digital Humanities” [round table discussion and presentation], Leipzig University, European Summer School of Culture and Technology evening lecture, Germany.
2012 . Julianne Nyhan, “Digital Humanities: histories or memories and what in between?” Leipzig University, European Summer School of Culture and Technology, Germany.
2012 . Julianne Nyhan, “Contributions towards a history of computing in the Humanities,” University College Cork, School of Historical Sciences Seminar Series, Rep. of Ireland.
2012 . Julianne Nyhan, “What is oral history and what role can it play in the history of Digital Humanities?” Universität Trier, Digital Humanities Seminar Series, Germany.
2011 . Julianne Nyhan, A. Welsh, “Hidden Histories: Computing and the Humanities c.1949-1980,” London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, School of Advanced Studies, Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK.
2009 . Julianne Nyhan, “Teaching and Learning TEI: an introduction to TEI-EJ,” TEI Praxis Symposium, Cologne Centre for e-Humanities, Germany.
2009 . Julianne Nyhan [with O. Schmidt], “TextGrid tools and concepts: present and future,” Tools for Collaborative Scholarly Editing over the Web, University of Birmingham, UK.
2008 . Julianne Nyhan, “The advantages and disadvantages of the application of XML to medieval inflected languages: a case study of electronic resources for medieval Irish, Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics (LULCL) II,” European Academy, Bolzano, South Tyrol, northern Italy.
2008 . Julianne Nyhan, “Encoding Old Irish glossaries with TEI P5,” Old Irish Glossary Symposium, Cambridge University, UK.
2008 . Julianne Nyhan, “This history, context and organisation of the European Reference Index for the Humanities,” Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar, Senegal.
2007 . Julianne Nyhan, “Electronic lexicography: medieval and modern,” Trinity College Dublin, Seminar in Medieval History, Rep. of Ireland.
Online Seminars and Events
2025-2026
TU Darmstadt Oberseminar lecture series 2026

About: The seminar explores the methodological and theoretical state of the art of digital humanities, digital heritage, digital history, digital oral history and critical AI. In 2026, we will critically interrogate ongoing efforts to “resist” AI from a wide range of disciplinary, social, cultural and technical perspectives. Speakers have been invited to present recent research from the standpoint of resistance and defence, including indiviudal and community-led counter-AI strategies, system vulnerabilities, epistemic (in)justice and responses to algorithmic harm. In this way, the seminar series should appeal to digital (oral) historians, digital humanities and interdisciplinary scholars of the history of information, memory, and knowledge systems, as well as researchers interested in critical perspectives on AI, its social implications, and its impact on cultural and institutional practices.
Programm and Video Recordings:
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21 April 2026: Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, CA) “What would it take to trust AI?”
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28 April 2026: Can Şimşek (Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, DE) “AI Resistance and Regulation”
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5 May 2026: Subhashish Panigrahi (OpenSpeaks) “Oral history is knowledge: lessons from low-resourced language documentation”
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12 May 2026: Jian Xiao (Zhejiang University, CN) “Power, resistance and Inequalities: Why synthesizing critical perspectives is essential to AI research”
19 May 2026: Johannes Dietmann (TU Darmstadt, DE) “From Local Heritage to National Model: The Digital Transformation of Burg Alzenau and Beyond”
26 May 2026: Bruce Schneier (Harvard Kennedy School, and the Munk School at the University of Toronto, CA) “AI and Trust”
9 June 2026: Cindarella Petz (DH Lab, Leibniz-Institute of European History Mainz, DE) “Augmented historical research in the age of AI”
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23 June 2026: Iran Mansouri & David Bailey (University of Birmingham, UK) “How to be ‘anti-AI’ in the 21st century: overcoming the inevitability narrative”
30 June 2026: Sarah Jan (TU Darmstadt, DE) “Layered Indexing of MeDoraH Oral History Interviews: Taxonomical, Thematic and Stance-Based Access”
7 July 2026: Gabriel Menotti Miglio Pinto Gonring (Queen’s University, CA) “AI Models, Museums, and Other Epistemic Infrastructures”
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TU Darmstadt Oberseminar lecture series 2025/2026

About: 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. It is a weekly event from mid-October 2025 to mid-February 2026. The Oberseminar is held in a hybrid format, with TU Darmstadt students attending the lecture hall in person and other colleagues joining remotely.
Programm and Video Recordings:
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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”
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28 October 2025: Francis Harvey (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, DE) “Place-names as shibboleths. Decoding coloniality in historical place-names”
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4 November 2025: Giulia Osti (University College Dublin, IE) “Rethinking Collections as Data in the Age of GenAI”
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11 November 2025: Christiane Sibille, Gentiana Rashiti, Jeremy Marbach (ETH-Library, CH) “It’s almost standardised” – Perspectives on collections as data from the archives”
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25 November 2025: Kaspar Beelen (School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK) “Heritage Weaver: Classifying, Searching, and Linking Museum Data with Multimodal AI”
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2 December 2025: Alan Colin-Arce (University of Victoria, CA) “Geographic and Linguistic Biases in Web Archives”
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9 December 2025: Anna Foka (Uppsala University, SE) “AI and Heritage Collections: Challenges and Opportunities”
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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”
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13 January 2026: Rachel Gatehouse “Trends in UK Repatriation Practice (2010-2022)”
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27 January 2026: Marcella Palladino (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT) “Speech Processing Methods for Data Collection and Analysis in (Polito)Linguistics”
2024-2025
TU Darmstadt Oberseminar lecture series 2024/2025

About: 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. It is a weekly event from mid-October 2024 to mid-February 2025. The Oberseminar is held in a hybrid format, with TU Darmstadt students attending the lecture hall in person and other colleagues joining remotely.
Programm and Video Recordings:
22 October 2024: Dr. Vayianos Pertsas “Creating a Knowledge Graph for research in Humanities”
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29 October 2024: Dr. Alisa Maximova “Negotiating the meanings of artificial intelligence in museum exhibitions”
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5 November 2024: Dr. Lauren Tilton “Distant Viewing”
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12 November 2024: Svenja Guhr “Discovering Character Sound in German Language Fiction”
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19 November 2024: Dr. Mia Ridge “Digital Scholarship at the British Library”
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26 November 2024: Carmen Noguera “Partying, Flirting and Building Collective Identity: the emergence of the first participative websites in Luxembourg (1996-2004)”
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17 December 2024: Nathalie Fridzema “Researching the Early Dutch Web: Digital Methods for Historical and Historiographical Objectives in Internet Studies”
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4 February 2025: Dr. Nicole M. Mueller “Modeling Emerging Futures – Japanese Tech Imaginaries through Digital Corpora Analysis”


International online Lecture Series “Voices Unbound? Exploring new and/or possible directions in digital and experimental oral history”
About: A lecture series co-organised by TU Darmstadt, University College London, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. We invited speakers to present work on recent technological developments that may hold promise for digital oral history. The seminar series aims to appeal to (digital) oral historians, digital humanists and scholars of the history of information, memory, and knowledge systems.
Video Recordings:
21 October 2024: Dr. Madeline Brown & Dr. Paul A. Shackel (University of Maryland, College Park) “Anthracite Oral Histories and text Mining”
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04 November 2024: Maria Vrachliotou (Ionian University) “OH metadata. Usability, accessibility and interoperability of OH interviews in the digital realm”
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11 November 2024: Dr. Michael Townsen Hicks (University of Glasgow) “What are Large Language Models doing”
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18 November 2024: Dr. Chris Fitzgerald (Mary Immaculate College) “Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities Applying Digital Linguistics to Oral History Collections”
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25 November 2024: Maria Dermentzi & Hugo Scheithauer “AI and Oral History Applications in Holocaust Testimonies”
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2 December 2024: Dr. Norah Karrouche (Vrije University Amsterdan) “Can oral history data be FAIR? Lessons learnt from building a digital infrastructure for oral history in the Netherlands”
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16 December 2024: Dr. Almila Akdag Salah (Utrecht University) “Breathing Emotions & Stories A different way of navigating Oral History”
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13 January 2025: Todd Presner (University of California, Los Angeles) “Archives”
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20 January 2025: Chris Pandza (UNI) “Curating large oral history archives with artificial intelligence”
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3 February 2025: Prof. Dr. Linde Apel (Research Center for Contemporary History) “Oral History and the digital transformation. Some historical, ethical and methodological remarks”

Conference “Revolutionary, disruptive, or just repeating itself? Tracing the History of Digital History”
About: In recent years, interest in the history of the digital humanities has grown. The 9th dhiha conference at the German Historical Institute Paris from 23-25 October 2024 connects to this growing interest. It explores the overlooked history of digital history from different perspectives and emphasizes the importance of understanding the field’s past by examining historical developments, methods, and research gaps. The aim is to highlight past achievements and offer a critical perspective on the evolution of digital history, challenging the rhetoric of novelty that often surrounds it.

The Sloane Lab symposium series 2024 “Critical and creative engagement with historical data” were facilitated in collaboration with the Humanities Data Science & Methodology (HDSM) Oberseminar of TU Darmstadt, the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH) and the UCL Institute for Advanced Studies (UCL IAS). This seminar invites international speakers whose work is situated at the intersections of collections as data, cataloguing histories and critical archival studies, heritage infrastructures, critical digital heritage, and information science.
The seminar papers explore and foreground:
- Computational approaches as means for historical inquiry, critique and creative takes on data driven research paradigms.
- The potential of digital tools and data aggregations to shed light on the geographic spread, collectors, and knowledge in historical cultural heritage collections.
- Reflections on the contested nature of museum and archival collections and the role of collections as data research in foregrounding overlooked or ignored and marginalised issues like imperialism, colonialism, slavery, loss, and destruction, that have shaped collections.
- The role of digital archives in addressing historical and present-day injustices.
- Creative approaches for virtual exhibition and collection data platforms design.
This joint virtual seminar was co-hosted by University College London, TU Darmstadt, the British Museum and the Natural History Museum.
The symposium is funded by the Towards a National Collection programme (Arts and Humanities Research Council) as an activity of the Sloane Lab Discovery Project.
Video Recordings:
16 April 2024: Anna Sofia Lippolis (Sloane Lab Community Fellow / UnivThis) An Ontology for Multivocality: Embracing Diverse Perspectives in Machine-Reada”
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23 April 2024: Dr. Wolfgang Göderle (Max-Planck-Institute) will give a talk titled “Enhancing OCR with AI for Historical Documents”
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28 May 2024: Arjun Sanyal (University of Himachal Pradesh) “Enframing narratives & post-Fordist Global South Digital Humanities ecosystem”
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4 June 2024: Phillip Rhys Olney (artist and Sloane Lab community fellow) “The Display Strategies of Hans Sloane’s Collection As ‘Bifocal Data’”
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11 June 2024: Dr. Gethin Rees “Finding Alternatives to Web Mercator in the Geography of Sloane’s Collection”
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18 June 2024: Dr Rosalind White (Sloane Lab Research Fellow @ UCL, PhD in Victorian Literature, Art and Culture)“Finding Women in Sloane Lab Knowledge Base” //
Hannah Cusworth (PhD researcher with English Heritage and former Head of History) “Bringing Sloane into Conversation with Blackness”
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25 June 2024: Rosemary Grennan (Sloane Lab Community Fellow) “Building Common Ownership and Shared Archival Practices”
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2 July 2024: Brian Wingenroth (Data Science Lead at Opioid Industry Documents Archive (OIDA) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) & Cecília Tomori (Associate Professor and Director of Global Public Health and Community Health) “Digital Tools for Addressing a Public Health Crisis”
2023

TU Darmstadt Oberseminar lecture series
About: The Oberseminar is a forum for the presentation and discussion of state of the art research in the fields of Digital History, Digital Humanities, Multimodal Oral History, Collections as Data and other cognate disciplines.
TU Darmstadt colleagues and students may attend in person; national and international colleagues may attend via Zoom. The Oberseminar was a weekly event from mid-October 2023 to mid-February 2024.
Video Recordings:
31 October 2023: Prof. Niels Brügger “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”
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21 November 2023: Assoc. Prof. Melanie Conroy “Mapping Social Networks in Smaller Datasets”
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28 November 2023: Assoc. Prof. Mette Skov “Towards a Data Driven Approach to Studying Museum Communication”
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19 December 2023: Anne Wichmann “More Horses Than Women”
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9 January 2024: Prof. Lik Hang Tsui “Histories of the Digital Humanities in the Chinese World”
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16 January 2024: Dr. Jaap Geraerts “Networks of confessional affiliation: religious choice and the Schism of Utrecht, 1702 – c. 1775”
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Sloane Lab Knowledge Exchange Event (Europe) “Connecting, co-designing and engaging with digital collections and infrastructures: challenges and case studies”
About: The event was co-organised by HDSM in cooperation with University College London, the British Museum and the Natural History Museum in the UK under support by the Towards a National Collection Programme of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

The Sloane Lab Seminar Series 2023: “(Re)connecting heritage collections as data, infrastructure and participatory engagement: big dreams, big challenges”
About: The series welcomed a range of speakers interested in the intersections between collections as data, cataloguing histories and critical archival studies, heritage infrastructures, critical digital heritage, and information science. The seminar series was funded by Towards a National Collection and convened by Julianne Nyhan (TU Darmstadt & UCL), Andrew Flinn (UCL), Nina Pearlman (UCL), Andreas Vlachidis (UCL), Jeremy Hill (British Museum), Mark Carine (Natural History Museum), James Baker (University of Southampton) and Alexandra Ortolja-Baird (University of Portsmouth).
The symposium is funded by the Towards a National Collection programme (Arts and Humanities Research Council) as an activity of the Sloane Lab Discovery Project.
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Video Recordings:
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, Institute, Linnaeus University, co-leader of LNU’s Digital Humanities Initiative, programme coordinator for M.A. in Digital Humanities) “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”
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8 June 2023: Lucille Junkere (Visual artist, educator and researcher with recent research focusing on the legacy of colonialism in African Caribbean textile history) “Cultural Colours Jamaica”
Benjamin Lee (Incoming Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, Kluge Fellow in Digital Studies at the Library of Congress) “Reimagining Search and Discovery for Digital Collections with Machine Learning”
15 June 2023: Jane Collings (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”
2022

International, online Lecture series “The Digital Humanities Long View”
About: Research happens in context. But, how did Digital Humanities (DH) get here? This seminar series explores the socio-historical, -political and -cultural contexts of DH research as a means of building understanding of how we all ended up here and what that means for the future of the field. It’s an opportunity for newcomers to understand how the field has developed, and for established practitioners to consider their work as part of a larger movement with competing influences, ambitions, and blindspots. Papers may take an “insider” or “outsider” view of DH, that is, papers may be positioned within the discipline of DH or take a comparative approach that situates DH in a wider disciplinary, social, cultural and/or historical context. This seminar series was co-hosted by scholars living eight time zones apart, and therefore the times of sessions varied to allow the greatest possible access to people based at different points on the globe. It was both an experiment to push the (social) boundaries of a virtual seminar series, and a bridging of trans-Atlantic digital humanities centres who are committed to rich international discussions from a range of perspectives, with an emphasis on reflective practice. Co-hosted by UCL Centre for Digital Humanities & the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford. Convenors: Drs Giovanna Cesarani (Stanford), Adam Crymble (UCL), Julianne Nyhan (UCL), Laura Stokes (Stanford), Agnieszka Backman (Stanford).
Summaries and Video Recordings (where available):
27 January 2021: Ian Milligan (University of Waterloo) “From Engagement to Retreat? Historians and Digital Preservation, 1968-2003”
09 February 2021: Jessica Johnson (Johns Hopkins University) “Digital Humanities Against Enclosure”
23 February 2021: Zephyr Frank (Stanford University) “Digital Humanities & Spatial History: Atlantic World Stories”
10 March 2021: Riva Quiroga (Programming Historian) “Multilingual Publishing in Digital Humanities”
13 April 2021: Quinn Dombrowski (Stanford University) “Histories and Futures of Linguistic Diversity in DH”
27 April 2021: Scott Weingart & Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara (Carnegie Mellon) “A Look Backwards Through the Index of DH Conferences”
12 May 2021: E. Earhart (Texas A&M University) “Complicating the whiteness of Digital Humanities: The Deep History of Black DH”
26 May 2021: Valérie Schafer (University of Luxembourg) & Jane Winters (University of London) “The Web Archives Long View”
09 June 2021 (cancelled): Gerben Zaagsma (University of Luxembourg) “Uncovering Digital History’s forgotten roots”
22 June 2021: Mark Algee-Hewitt (Stanford University) & Urszula Pawlicka-Deger (King’s College London) “Laboratory Life in the Humanities: Computation, Criticism & Collaboration”

“Multimodal Digital Oral History: The Forward-View Seminar”
About: This seminar series “Multimodal Digital Oral History: The Forward-View Seminar” was organised by the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and UCL; the Chair of Humanities Data Science und Methodology, TU Darmstadt, together with the International Centre for Archives and Records Management Research, UCL; and the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities.
The Seminar was co-convened by Andrew Flinn, Reader in Archival Studies and Oral History, Arts and Humanities Faculty Vice-Dean for Postgraduate Research and Julianne Nyhan, Professor and Chair of Humanities Data Science, Institute for History, Technical University Darmstadt. It was co-organised by Daniele Metili Research Fellow in Advanced Data Architectures for Digital Humanities at the Sloane Lab, a Towards a National Collection discovery project and Hanna Smyth Lecturer on the Archives and Records Management programme of the Department of Information Studies, UCL
If the first “digital turn” in oral history was largely a passive affair, concerned with the online dissemination of retro-digitised and born digital oral history recordings, what might the incipient “sound as data” turn herald? What gains and losses might result from data-driven enquiries of oral history interviews as sonic or multimodal artefacts, individually or at scale? Which digital tools, processes and platforms can best be utilized in the data-driven analysis of oral history as sonic and multimodal artefact? What rationale and ethical commitments should guide processes of tool selection and creation for this work? What new research questions and trans-disciplinary collaborations may follow? And what are the implications for oral history of participating in this research, as may be illuminated through the emerging sub-field of digital hermeneutics?
Multimodal Digital Oral History engages with oral history artefacts in all their representational modalities: transcript, sound, waveform, metadata and more. These seminars will contribute to the task of imagining a Multimodal Digital Oral History turn, where the digital is active rather than passive; where digital oral history modalities are positioned as analytical categories of inquiry and also as sites of data-driven analysis; where reflexivity is a core aspect of digitally-mediated research; and as an endeavour that nevertheless remains attuned to oral history as a subjective and intersubjective meaning-making process, situated in space, time, culture and technology.
Video recordings:
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
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22 June 2022: Tanya Clement (University of Texas at Austin, United States) – Dissonant records: close listening to cultural resistance in audio archives
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6 July 2022: Almila Akdag Salah & Francisca Pessanha (Utrecht University, Netherlands) – More than words: a computational look at non-verbal cues in Oral History Archives
Myriam Fellous-Sigrist (King’s College London, United Kingdom) – Between access and protection: applied ethics for curating digital oral history
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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
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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
2018
Symposium “Early Modern Collection Catalogues: Open Questions, Digital Approaches, Future Directions” at the British Museum, UK
About: This two day workshop consisted of a first day with three workshop sessions concerning the Enlightenment Architectures project. A second day began with keynote presentations on complimentary projects in the morning, followed by an afternoon brainstorming session to discuss future directions and partnerships for the Sloane project, including potential follow on projects.
Workshop Reflections by Samantha Callaghan
2011

“Symposium on Methodologies for the History of Computing in the Humanities, c.1949-1980”
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Audio recordings (where available):
Audio recording: Willard McCarty (King’s College London, University of Western Sydney) “Beyond chronology and profession: discovering how to write a history of the Digital Humanities” (Opening Keynote)
Claudine Moulin (Universität Trier) “Knowledge Spaces and Digital Humanities”
Audio recording: Edward Vanhoutte (Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature – Ghent) “Unwriting the history of Humanities Computing”
Audio recording: Melissa Terras (University College London) “Crowd sourcing: beyond the traditional, boundaries of academic history”
Audio recording: James G.R. Cronin (University College Cork) “Different stories to be lived and told: recovering Lehmann James Oppenheimer (1868-1916) for the narrative of the Irish Arts & Crafts movement (1894-1925)”
Audio recording: Andrew Flinn (University College London) “Oral History and acts of recovery: humanizing history?”
Audio recording: Vanda Broughton (University College London) “Lost origins of Information Science”
Claire Warwick (University College London) “Plus ça change: a historical perspective on the institutional context of Digital Humanities”
Ray Siemens (University of Victoria) “DH pioneers and progeny: some reflections on generational accomplishment and engagement in the Digital Humanities”
Audio recording: Lou Burnard (Oxford University Computing Services Emeritus) “Data vs. Text: forty years of confrontation” (Closing Keynote)
Interviews, Podcasts and Media
2020 . Julianne Nyhan, “Interview with new UCLDH Director: Dr Julianne Nyhan,” UCL Department of Information Studies / Digital Humanities Blog. https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/dh/2020/09/25/interview-with-new-ucldh-director-dr-julianne-nyhan/