Organisation: Digital History & Historiography

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    The First Digital Love Letters: A Hidden Story of Code

    In 1952, the Ferranti Mark I, one of the world’s first computers at the University of Manchester, did something extraordinary—it generated a series of randomly assembled love letters. These were no ordinary declarations of passion; they were written entirely by an algorithm.

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    Special issue ‘Is artificial intelligence the future of collective memory?’

    This Memory Studies Review special issue, edited by Frédéric Clavert (C²DH) and Sarah Gensburger (Sciences Po-Paris), explores the intricate relationship between artificial intelligence (ai) and collective memory.

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    3D Stories. Telling stories about historical dress

    A new interface lets users explore and learn about historic garments via 3D models in interactive and narrative-driven ways.

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  • Events

    Facing the History Machine: Towards Histories of Digital History

    Research seminar with Gerben Zaagsma, Assistant Professor at the C²DH.

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    AI to Review Government Records: New Work to Unlock Historically Significant Digital Records

    Lecture with Dr Lise Jaillant on AI to Review Government Records: New Work to Unlock Historically Significant Digital Records.

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    Producing and Debating History: Historical Knowledge on Wikipedia

    Book launch in the presence of the author Petros Apostolopoulos.

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    What Connects Early Modern News with the Apollo Program?

    Gabor M. Toth’s paper, “History, Loss, and Your GPS – Fragments from the Past,” was announced as one of the winning entries of the Luxembourg Science Writing Competition 2024.

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    Wikipedia as a source of historical knowledge: applying digital source criticism

    Dive into our newest lesson on Ranke.2 designed to revolutionize your approach to Wikipedia as a born-digital source for historical research.

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    Revolutionary, Disruptive, or Just Repeating Itself? Tracing the History of Digital History #dhiha9

    The C²DH is co-organiser of an international conference about the History of Digital History that will take place at the German Historical Institute 23-25 October 2024.

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    Archiving in times of climate crisis. Selecting, digitizing, analyzing for tomorrow

    Hands on History lecture with Anne Baillot.

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