On 11 October 2024, Silke Schwandt will give a lecture on the basics of digital history as part of a UNIVERSEH (European Space University for Earth and Humanity) project seminar.
The workshop „Diakoniegeschichte schreiben: Methoden - Konzepte – Perspektiven“ (Writing Diaconal History: Methods - Concepts - Perspectives) will take place from 25 to 26 October 24 in Bielefeld-Bethel. Silke Schwandt is participating on 25 October with the lecture ‘Diakoniegeschichte und Digital History - eine Annäherung’.
Digitality is one of the greatest challenges of our time and affects all areas of society – not least science. This has a profound impact on scientific theories and methods, as well as on research practices and questions.
In her research and teaching activities as Professor for Digital History at Bielefeld University, Silke Schwandt addresses these challenges on three levels: in the theorisation of digital history, in its methods and practices, as well as in its dissemination in academic teaching and to society. The conceptualisation of change under the conditions of digitality is therefore at the centre of her scientific work. Seizing and utilizing the possibilities of digital media for researching the relation of space and time is one of her research foci. A sustainable society needs the analytical reflection and scientific guidance of the digital transformation that humanities can provide. Silke Schwandt develops creative and innovative formats with a focus on Data Literacy as well as new digital publication formats.
Silke Schwandt is also currently serving as Head of the Senate at Bielefeld University.
Since October 2022
Full Professor of Digital History at Bielefeld University
January 2020 – October 2022
Professor of Digital History and Medieval History at Bielefeld University
December 2013 – January 2020
Research Assistant for Medieval History at Bielefeld University, Department of History, Philosophy, and Theology
January 2011 – November 2013
Research Assistant at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main; “Basics of Historical Semantics: Text corpora”
February 2010
PhD in Medieval History at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (magna cum laude)
July 2008 – December 2010
Scientific Coordinator of the Project “Political Language in the Middle Ages. Semantic Approaches” (led by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Jussen at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main)
February 2005 – June 2008
Doctoral Researcher in the subproject A11 “Political Language in transcendentally legitimised Societies: Semantics of Order in Latin Christian Literature of the Middle Ages”, CRC 584 “The Political as Communicative Space in History” at Bielefeld University
1999 – 2005
MA in History, Latin, and Theology at Bielefeld University