Digital Humanities Network at the University of Potsdam is hosting three international fellows within the CLS INFRA Transnational Access Fellowship programme funded by the the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. All three fellows are working within the framework of the DraCor (Drama Corpora) research project hosted at the University of Potsdam. Agnieszka Szulińska (Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Science) is working on the research project “Behind the scenes. Integrating TEI Panorama Polish drama data into DraCor”, Lucas van der Deijl (University of Groningen) is integrating 150 early modern Dutch plays (1550-1700) into DraCor, and Botond Szemes (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) is developing new metrics for DraCor

From 10 April - 12 April 2024, the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies together with the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History hosts a conference that aims to critically (re)assess the value(s) of the Digital for the field of Jewish Studies. The Hackathon preceding the conference is co-organized by the Digital Humanities Network at the University of Potsdam. 

The DraCor project, co-hosted and co-founded by the DH Network Potsdam, was chosen for the Young European Research Universities Network (YERUN) Open Science Award. YERUN Open Science Awards target initiatives by individuals or teams of researchers and/or professional support services that demonstrate strong Open Science practices, and/or that support the scholarly community to adopt Open Science practices in their work.

On 6 and 7 July 2023, the Digital Humanities Network of the University of Potsdam, in cooperation with the Theodor-Fontane-Archive, will host a workshop on Do it Yourselve-Archives.

From 31 May - 2 June 2023, the Digital Humanities Network at the University of Potsdam, in cooperation with the research project "Weather Reports – Wind as Media, Model, and Experience", will host a Hackathon on Environmental Data, Media and the Humanities. The event will be led by three international fellows: Liliana Bounegru, Simone Fehlinger and Jonathan Gray.

From March to April 2023, Federico Pianzola will work with us as a CLS INFRA Fellow on the Network for Digital Humanities at the University of Potsdam.

Python for Poets: Under this name the coordinator of the Digital Humanities Network, Daniil Skorinkin, together with Johanna Rockstroh and Friederike Schulz from the department of Romance Studies and Henny Sluyter-Gäthje from the department of German Studies at the University of Potsdam introduce programming with Python to colleagues working at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. The course aims at showing the application of Python to text processing and at enabling researchers to work with Python in their own projects.

From September to December 2022, Petr Pořitzka will work with us as a CLS INFRA Fellow on the Network for Digital Humanities at the University of Potsdam.

From 15-18 September 2022, the Digital Humanities Network at the University of Potsdam in cooperation with the Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum Potsdam will host a Hackathon on Digital Humanities and Jewish Studies. The event will be led by three international fellows: Yael Netzer, Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky and Gerben Zaagsma.

As a satellite event of the DHd2022 conference "Cultures of Digital Memory", the University of Potsdam and the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences are hosting a Barcamp for the conference scholarship holders on July 8th and 9th, 2022. The Barcamp with the title “Cultural Data in Data Cultures: Digital Humanities as Cultural Practice” is dedicated to promoting young talent and facilitating scientific exchange between the participants of the Barcamp and the DH Researchers in Potsdam.

The Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS), together with local organizers (this year in Darmstadt), organizes an annual conference on Computational Literary Studies (CLS). Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in the Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS).

From May to July 2022, two international fellows, Christopher Lu (Warburg Institute, London) and Ivan Pozdniakov (independent researcher), will work with us on their projects of the Digital Humanities Network at the University of Potsdam.

The Theodor Fontane Society and the Theodor Fontane Archive at the University of Potsdam are developing a 3D interactive environment  in the joint cooperation project “FontaneVR”. Thanks to funding from the German Federal Cultural Foundation, we can implement a prototype of a digital 3D exhibition and the interactive environment.

Collecting and archiving, remembering and commemorating – how is cultural memory changing in the age of digitalization? More than 1000 scholars will discuss this at the 8th annual conference of the “Digital Humanities in the German-speaking space” (DHd2022) association. The conference, organized by the University of Potsdam and the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, will take place virtually due to the pandemic.

Prof. Dr. Birgit Schneider and Alexander Schindler from the Institute for Arts and Media at the University of Potsdam have set up a new online platform that provides video interviews and impulse texts on climate change communication on the platform www.re-imagine-climate.com.

The University of Potsdam has joined twelve institutions from across Europe in an international collaborative project. In the four-year project "Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure" (CLS INFRA), prototypes for transnational infrastructures will be developed in close cooperation, high-quality research data will be created, and reusable software and services for an increasingly digitally operating literary and cultural studies will be elaborated.  

Together with Constanze Breuer (Leopoldina), network spokesperson Prof. Dr. Peer Trilcke , on behalf of the WG "Scientific Practice" of the Alliance of Science Organizations, has prepared a discussion paper on "Expanding the Scientific Practice of Publishing under the Conditions of Digital Transformation".

Our Horizon2020 project "CLS INFRA" to build an infrastructure for Computational Literary Studies has started work. Potsdam takes the lead in WP7 "Building the Ecosystem of and for Programmable Corpora" under the leadership of Peer Trilcke - together with Frank Fischer (HSE Moscow).