21th CODH Seminar
Digital History: Concepts and Practices

We welcome a distinguished guest, Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers, the director of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), to deliver a keynote talk about digital history. We will also have presentations from three early-career digital history scholars from Japan and discuss the concepts and practices of digital history.

To respond to a request for an online event, we decided to switch to a hybrid event. If you would like to join online, please make a registration again. The Zoom link will be sent to you on the morning of March 4.

Basic Information

Date 14:00-17:30 JST, March 4 (Mon), 2024
Venue Room 1903, National Institute of Informatics (Access) or online (Zoom)
Registration Free
Registration in advance is required
Language English
Translation to Japanese is not available.
Co-Host From Local Historical Material Studies to Regional Historical Culture: Creation of a New Research Field for Resilient Local Communities in a Country of Natural Disasters (Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research)

Keynote Talk

Title

Digital Hermeneutics: A Conceptual Framework for Doing History in the Digital Age

Speaker

Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers

Since 2016, Andreas Fickers is the director of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), 3rd interdisciplinary center at the University of Luxembourg and head of its Digital History Lab. He studied history, philosophy and sociology and is currently Professor for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg. He took his PhD in 2002 at RWTH Aachen University and worked as Assistant Professor for television history at Utrecht University (2003-2007) and Associate Professor for comparative media history at Maastricht University (2007-2013).

He's head of the FNR funded Doctoral Training Unit “Deep Data Science of Digital History” (D4H) and coordinates the Trinational doctoral school together with Prof. Dr Dietmar Hüser (Universität des Saarlandes) and Prof. Dr Hélène Miard-Delacroix (Université Paris-Sorbonne). He's also prinicipal investigator of the projects DEMA, Popkult60, LuxTime and BUREU. Furthermore, he is the editor of the Journal of Digital History and co-editor of the book series ‘Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics’ published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg.

Program

14:00-14:15 Introduction of Digital History Research at CODH
Presentation slides: doi:10.20676/00000419
Asanobu Kitamoto
ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the Humanities (CODH) / National Institute of Informatics
14:15-15:15 Digital Hermeneutics: A Conceptual Framework for Doing History in the Digital Age
Presentation slides: doi:10.20676/00000420
Andreas Fickers
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)
15:15-15:30 Break
15:30-15:50 Networking Historical Knowledge in Digital Age: Constructing Data Infrastructure and Knowledge Bases for Historical Practices
Presentation slides: doi:10.20676/00000421
Jun Ogawa
ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the Humanities (CODH) / National Institute of Informatics
15:50-16:10 Introduction to Practice Examples of Digital Curation and Digital History with a Focus on Japanese Materials
Presentation slides: doi:10.20676/00000422
Satoru Nakamura
The University of Tokyo
16:10-16:30 From Community to Academy: Enhancing Digital Historical Research in Japan through Early-Career Researchers
Presentation slides: doi:10.20676/00000423
Naoki Kokaze
Chiba University
16:30-17:30 Panel discussion All speakers

Registration

You are all invited, free of charge.
Registration in advance is required using the following form.
March 3: The deadline for participation.
Onsite participants are limited to 40 people.

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