Category: Digital History
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Online Now | Two New NGHM Exhibitions
What can we learn about local history when we read administrative files, index cards, and survey forms not merely as carriers of information, but as sources that were themselves involved in the production of knowledge about population, belonging, and exclusion? Two new digital exhibition projects by students from the Research Group Modern History and Historical…
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Digital Teaching and Learning | Contribution to the Lecture Series of the UOS Centre for Teacher Education
History × Digital History × AI On January 20, 2026, Christoph Rass spoke as part of the lecture series “Teaching and Learning in the Digital World” at the University of Osnabrück about the potentials and challenges of Artificial Intelligence for historical studies. The central thesis of the contribution: AI does not change what history is.…
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NGHM WebApp Slam | Students Present Historical WebApps
On 21 January 2026, the first NGHM WebApp Slam took place at the Department of History at the University of Osnabrück. Eleven students presented their WebApps on historical topics developed during the winter semester 2025/26 in short pitches. The event concluded the seminar “Digital History Workshop: AI & Personal Information Management for Historians” and simultaneously…
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NGHM reads | A knowledge graph with literature recommendations for studying at the Chair of Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research at UOS
Reading as Critical Practice: The NGHM Reading List and its Digital Exploration. Studying Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research means more than just familiarising oneself with methods, facts and data. It is about developing critical thinking, questioning analytical categories and understanding the construction processes of history itself. This is precisely where the NGHM reading list…
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NGHM WebApp Slam on January 21, 2026
How can historical questions be reconceptualised using digital tools? Students from the History Department engaged with this question during the winter semester 2025/26 in the NGHM Digital History Workshop. At the NGHM WebApp Slam, the students will now present their experimental WebApp prototypes – developed with historical questions, critical reflection and AI-supported tools. We cordially…
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Announcement: Tiny Desk Colloquium on 29 January 2026: The Holocaust and its Consequences – Regional and International Perspectives
On January 29, 2026, the fifth edition of the NGHM Tiny Desk Colloquium will take place. Once again, young historians from the University of Osnabrück will have the opportunity to present outstanding thesis papers, and our guests will have the chance to present and discuss their research on the topic “The Holocaust and its Consequences…
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NGHM engaged | The Day of Teaching and the Relevance of Historical Studies.
December 3, 2025, was dedicated to two central aspects of university work for the Research Group Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research: innovative teaching and critical reflection on the social role of historical scholarship. In the afternoon, the NGHM team presented two LehrZeit projects at the University of Osnabrück’s first “Day of Teaching”, which exemplarily…
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3D Digitization Hands-On Workshop on 10.11.2025
On 10 November 2025, the Research Group on Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research — including Lukas Hennies, Imke Selle, Tim Ott and Johannes Pufahl — together with Henning Wellmann, staff member in the Education Department of the Arolsen Archives, conducted a practical workshop on 3D digitisation of small objects. The occasion for this project…
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Research Revisited: Digitally Remembering Maly Trostinets – Trinational Cooperation Opens Up a Forgotten Site of Extermination
Between 1942 and 1944, approximately 60,000 people were murdered at Maly Trascjanec southeast of Minsk. This extermination site thus ranks among the largest scenes of the Shoah in the territory of the occupied Soviet Union. Nevertheless, Maly Trascjanec remained almost invisible in European memory culture for a long time. A trinational project by the Universities…
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Team NGHM@”Future Digital?” Poster Slam on September 30th at UB Osnabrück
At the University of Osnabrück, Digital Humanities methods are not only applied in teaching and research in many areas, but are also being developed, tested and made ready for application. In order to further develop the consolidation and networking of these approaches and to discuss the question of what infrastructures the social sciences and cultural…
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History@SFB: DOMiD Workshop with Students of History and IMIB
On 27 June, the first test workshop of the SFB 1604 transfer project “Reflexive Migration Research in the Museum” took place. For this purpose, the project staff members Aladin El-Mafaalani, Lale Yildirim, Annika Heyen, Johannes Pufahl and Tim Ott, together with students from the History department as well as the Master’s programme “International Migration and…
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Making History Production ‘Playable’ | The “Osnabrück Peace Chess”. Negotiating Memory in Game Format.
In the context of the interdisciplinary LehrZeit project “Research, mediate, exhibit. Virtual learning spaces in historical studies” at the University of Osnabrück, students together with Imke Selle, Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass, Prof. Dr. Lale Yildirim & Prof. Dr. Michael Brinkmeier have developed the “Osnabrück Peace Chess”: the chessboard functions as an interactive memory game in…
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Digital Public History Workshop “The ‘Emsland Camps’ as a Conflict Landscape in Transformation
On 5 June 2025, a workshop took place at the Esterwegen Memorial with students from years 11 and 12 of Georgianum Lingen. The event was conducted as part of the project “The ‘Emslandlager’ as a Conflict Landscape in Transformation. Research-based Learning at the Intersection of University Teacher Education, Memorial Site Pedagogy and Participatory Digital Public…
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History@SFB: Projects A3, A5 and T with the DH Team of the University Library as Guests at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main
From July 10th to 11th, the team from the Chair of Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research and the Collaborative Research Centre 1604 “Production of Migration” were guests at the German National Library, together with colleagues from Osnabrück University Library. As part of a joint workshop of the research study programme “Hermes”, they discussed the…
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Announcement: Tiny Desk Colloquium: Digital History & Humanities – Research, Teaching and Infrastructures in Dialogue on 17 July 2025
On 17 July 2025, the fourth edition of the NGHM Tiny Desk Colloquium will take place. Once again, young historians from the University of Osnabrück will have the opportunity to present and discuss outstanding theses as well as their projects in the field of Digital Humanities. The programme will be expanded by contributions from VirtUOS…
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Digital Humanities at the University of Osnabrück. University Library Workshop with Cultural and Social Sciences in May 2025
The social sciences and humanities have already been undergoing a profound transformation for several years, driven by the ubiquitous and constantly accelerating digitisation of knowledge, culture and communication. This transformation has entered a new phase with the general availability of “artificial intelligence”, whose course and impact we can barely foresee at present. The social sciences,…