What? 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. The seminar offers an important way of keeping up to date with the methodological and theoretical state of the art in digital oral history. We invited speakers to present work on recent technological developments that may hold promise for digital oral history. In this way, the seminar series appeals to (digital) oral historians, digital humanists and scholars of the history of information, memory and knowledge systems.
Where? The lectures series are offered in a hybrid, online format, with TU Darmstadt students attending the lecture hall in person and other colleagues joining remotely. Talks will be recorded and published on the media channels of the respective universities 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 talk.
When? Mondays 14.25 – 15.45 from 14 October 2024 – 3 February 2025.
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-unbound-tickets-1048685214707
Programm:
21 October 2024: Dr. Paul Shackel, Dr. Madeline Brown, University of Maryland (US) “Anthracite Oral Histories and Text Mining”
4 November 2024: Dr. 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) “Intersectional Feminist Perspectives on Digital Museum Collections through Counterdata Visualisations”
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 TBD
20 January 2025: Chris Pandza, Columbia University (US) “Curating large oral history archives with artificial intelligence”
27 January 2025: Prof. Dr. Mary Larson, the Oklahoma State University Libraries (US) “Context Added and Subtracted: Ethical Considerations for the Digital Reuse of Oral Histories”
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”