Digital History
Prof.'in Dr. Silke Schwandt
News
On November 26, 2024, Silke Schwandt will give a lecture as part of the GlobeLectures at the University of Leipzig. The title of the lecture: „Figuring Out the Past“: Do numbers tell stories?
Silke Schwandt will speak on the topic “How does Digitality Change History? Digital History Methods in an Institutional Context. Legal History Meets Digital Humanities” on December 3, 2024, in Frankfurt am Main. The event at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory will take place both on-site and online.
As part of the lecture series of the IZMF (Salzburg), “Zwischen Codices und Codes. Innovative Perspektiven in der Mittelalter- und Frühneuzeitforschung” Silke Schwandt will deliver a talk on December 16, 2024, titled „'Having data doesn’t make you successful; knowing what to do with it, does.' Datenexploration und -visualisierung als Methoden der Geschichtswissenschaft“.
Digitality & Research
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.
Curriculum Vitae
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
Research
Activities
- Center for Uncertainty Studies (CeUS) - Founding Director
- „Digital Academy“ – Host
- Participant at „NFDI-Konsortium NFDI4Memory"
- „Digital Humanities Research“ at Bielefeld University Press – Editor
- “Contributions to the History of Concepts” – Editor
- “Clio Online Guides. Handbuch zu digitalen Ressourcen in der Geschichtswissenschaft“ – Co-publisher of the third edition.
Scientific Boards
- BiUP – Bielefeld University Press (Steering Committee)
- Mitglied Wissenschaftlicher Beirat des IEG – Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz
- Ab 02/24 – Kooptierte Expertin für Digital Humanities im wissenschaftlichen Beirat des Zentrums für Wissenschaftsforschung, Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina, Halle/Saale
- Mitglied im DFG-Fachkollegium 102 „Geschichtswissenschaften“ (Amtsperiode 2024- 2028)
- Vorstandsmitglied im Institut für Interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung