PVP 3 - An introduction to debates, methods and techniques of the Digital Humanities with regard to Modern Central European History

Syllabus

Johannes Gleixner: Introduction to the Digital Humanities   Introduction

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18.02.2020: Introduction I: What are the Digital Humanities?

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25.02.2020: Introduction II: And what are the Humanities?

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03.03.2020: Introduction III: What is data? What are computational methods?

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10.30.2020: Introduction IV: A practical overview on the most common research areas for DH   Working with text as data

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17.03.2020: Text as data in linguistic analysis and literary science

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24.03.2020: Distant reading, Topic modeling, Markup   Databases

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31.03.2020: Structuring historical data beyond texts

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07.04.2020: Practical uses of databases   Historical Network Analysis

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14.04.2020: Introduction to HNA

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21.04.2020: Working on network data and creating a database

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28.04.2020: Visualizing network data and discussing results   Presentations/Practical work

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05.05.2020: Conceptualizing an own DH project

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12.05.2020: Practical work

Annotation

This course is an introducting to Digital Humanities with a focus on digital methods in historiography in general and examples from European history in particular. By definition, it is also a course on methodology and modelling in the humanities.

The course will focus mostly on methods and techniques that are popular in historiography like text mining/topic modelling and historical network analysis. While it will provide mostly an orientation within the field of DH, there will be some practical exercises.

In-depth knowledge of programming or computer science is, however, not required. The course will on a basic level deal with databases and historical network analysis and encourages some practical usage as well.

Participants are therefore encouraged to use the course to implement their own data and research interests.