Professional Skills Workshop: Digital History

Participants are welcomed to join a workshop led by the National Library of Norway in Oslo, who will provide a look into their own digital collection that holds archival material from the medieval until today. Introductory lectures will discuss some of the ethical, historical and methodological key issues in Digital Humanities. 

• What opportunities and problems arise with the digitalization of sources? How do tools and programs affect the questions historians ask? Is there anything in the algorithms that make some knowledge or some analyses unintelligible or opaque?
• We will also historicize the phenomenon. What is the history of Digital Humanities? Who were the actors that brought us here? Could it have been different? Should it?
• Furthermore, are there any particular ethical issues that arise or become more acute when historical materials are digitized?

NB: This workshop is an integrated part of the PhD course Theory, Methods and Research Ethics in History, but it can also be done separately. Participation at both the workshop and the course grants 5 + 1 ECTS.

Programme: 

Information about participation:

• This is a workshop for PhD Fellows.
• Credit: The course is estimated to 1 ECTS. To achieve the credit, PhD fellows are expected to submit a 1-2 page long (400-800 words, excl. references) reflection note on either
  • 1) the use of digital sources in their own PhD-project
  • 2) one or several of the questions above.
• The text is to be submitted no later than 22nd March. The grading will be pass/fail.

Deadlines and application form: 

• The course is open for everyone who write a thesis in history or use historical materials/perspectives. PhD Fellows who are also participating at our PhD course Theory, Methods and Ethics in History, which is taking place the same week, and who are from NRSH's partner institutions, will be prioritised. 
• Deadline for application is 9th February.

Application

Click here to apply

Questions can be sent to: 

• Oliver Reiersen, oliver.reiersen@iakh.uio.no, with a copy to
• Ada Elisabeth Nissen, a.e.nissen@iakh.uio.no

Partner institutions of the Norwegian Research School in History are:

• University of Agder, Department of Religion, Philosophy and History
• University of Bergen, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion
• BI - Norwegian Business Schoow, Department of Law and Governance
• Nord University, Faculty of Social Science
• NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Humanities
• University of Oslo, Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History
• UiT - The Artic University of Norway, Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology
• Volda University College - Social Sciences and History
• University of South-Eastern Norway

Strategic Partner:

• The National Library of Norway