Digital History Seminar

Announcements and discussion of the IHR Digital History Seminar, online and in London

Category: 2025-2026

2025-2026

Tuesday 21 October 2025 – Bronagh McShane and Felix Vanden Borre (Trinity College Dublin): Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland

This seminar is 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm BST live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/93388586494 later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: Alexandra Ortolja-Baird Abstract: This paper explores how digital experimentation can reshape our...

2025-2026

Tuesday 4 November 2025 – Deswarte Prize Seminar – Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts, and Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp): (Fe)male Voices on Stage: Finding Patterns in Lottery Rhymes of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries with and without AI

This seminar is 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/96338659032 later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: James Baker. This seminar will celebrate the winning entry for the 2025...

2025-2026

Tuesday 9 December 2025 – Aleksandra Kaye, Malte Vogl (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology), and Raphael Schlattmann (Technische Universität Berlin): Science Across Borders: Text-Mining and Network Analysis Insights into the Polish Diasporic Periodical Press, 1830-1930

This seminar was 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/97424109081 later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: James Baker Abstract: Migration has played a significant role in Polish history...

2025-2026

Tuesday 20 January 2026 – Thomas Smits and Melvin Wevers (Amsterdam): Orientalist pixels: How machine learning reveals the colonial color palette of early photography

This seminar was 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/98599080376 later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: Alexandra Ortolja-Baird Abstract: This talk explores how digital methods can uncover hidden...