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…
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…
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,…
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 &…
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…
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…
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…
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…