The vision: a network for digital humanities in the university city of Potsdam.
The digital transformation is changing broad fields of research in the humanities: from research infrastructure and the routines of publication to the handling of sources, editions and research data, as well as the digital methods of analysing literary texts and cultural artefacts. Additionally, the Digital Humanities face the task of reflecting the digital change of our society.
In order to confront these challenges and to realise the innovative potentials of this development, a research initiative at the University of Potsdam bundles together activities in the field of Digital Humanities. The goal of the research initiative is to establish interdisciplinary connections of different institutions and players based in Potsdam: between the institutions of the Faculty of Philosophy, as well as other faculties of the University of Potsdam. There will be co- operation with other research facilities in Potsdam, such as the University of Applied Science in Potsdam, and also between regional, national and international institutes affiliated to Digital Humanities.
News
- 05/2021: Press release published on the EU project CLS INFRA. "Breaking New Ground - European Infrastructures for Literary Studies of the Future".
The University of Potsdam has joined twelve institutions from across Europe in an international collaborative project. In the four-year project "Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure" (CLS INFRA), prototypes for transnational infrastructures will be developed in close cooperation, high-quality research data will be created, and reusable software and services for an increasingly digitally operating literary and cultural studies will be elaborated.
- 03/2021: Policy paper on the expansion of scholarly publishing practices published
Together with Constanze Breuer (Leopoldina), network spokesperson Prof. Dr. Peer Trilcke , on behalf of the WG "Scientific Practice" of the Alliance of Science Organizations, has prepared a discussion paper on "Expanding the Scientific Practice of Publishing under the Conditions of Digital Transformation".
- 03/2021: EU-Projekt CLS INFRA started
Our Horizon2020 project "CLS INFRA" to build an infrastructure for Computational Literary Studies has started work. Potsdam takes the lead in WP7 "Building the Ecosystem of and for Programmable Corpora" under the leadership of Peer Trilcke - together with Frank Fischer (HSE Moscow).
- 02/2021: DHd2022 - Call for Papers published
the 8th annual conference of the association "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V." will take place from March 7 to 11, 2022 at the University of Potsdam and the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam under the theme "Cultures of Digital Memory".we publish here the updated call for papers and ask for submissions of proposals in the categories "Lecture", "Panel", "Poster" and "Workshop" via Conftool.
