Digitale Geschichte und Historiographie

Following on a series of conferences that addressed the specifics of Digital Humanities (DH) approaches within the field of Jewish Studies and a hands-on DH Jewish hackathon, the second #DHJewish conference aims to critically (re)assess the value(s) of the Digital for the field of Jewish Studies as it has been developed and discussed over the past ten years.

The starting points of the presentation consist of some examples of answers, in text and image, generated by chatbots such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, to questions such as: Could you give us a short history of artificial intelligence, from the beginning to the present? Could you generate an image to represent the history of artificial intelligence?

Historical Arguments and the Digital is an international conference to demonstrate the argumentative practices of Digital History and the broader historical profession, employing any form of methodology or tool under the umbrella of ‘digital history’ examining any historical period across the globe to present findings and arguments engaging with and contributing to historical narratives.

The C²DH is co-organiser of an international conference about the History of Digital History that will take place at the German Historical Institute in October 2024.

Dataset from the research project Doing Experimental Media Archaeology (DEMA) was recently published on Europeana, the online platform of cultural heritage.