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Category: Digital Public History

  • 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…

  • Out Now | Karya 1943. Forced Labour and Holocaust – The Catalogue for the German-Greek Travelling Exhibition

    With the publication of the exhibition catalogue Karya 1943. Forced Labour and Holocaust in German and English, a publication is now available that documents a multi-year German-Greek collaborative project on the reappraisal of a long-forgotten chapter of the Holocaust and places it in its historical context. This contribution presents the catalogue and contextualises it through…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…