Over the past three decades, digital methods have increasingly shaped historical research and archival practice, while large-scale historical sources have attracted growing interest from scholars beyond the humanities. This summit brings together digital history project leaders and researchers from history-related disciplines to examine how these shifts are transforming historical research, highlighting new projects, emerging trends, and the methodological and epistemic challenges they raise.

Programme:

10:15 10:30 WELCOME

10:30 12:00 Lightning talks

In a series of five-minute lightning talks, researchers introduce new digital history projects from Denmark. The focus is not on finished products, but on challenges, uncertainties, and the realities of working at the intersection of history, data, and digital methods.

12:00 13:00 LUNCH

13:00 14:30 Roundtable 1: The Value of Historical Expertise in a Digital, Interdisciplinary Setting

Before asking how digital methods change historical expertise, it is worth asking how historical expertise functions within interdisciplinary digital projects today. This roundtable examines the role of historians in collaborative research environments, focusing on authority, responsibility, and intellectual labor. It addresses how historical knowledge is integrated, translated, or sidelined when digital infrastructures and methods take center stage.

14:30 15:00 BREAK

15:00 16:30 Roundtable 2: Changing Domain Expertise in History

When digital methods become central rather than auxiliary, history itself changes. This roundtable asks how digital workflows transform historical knowledge production, from research questions and evidence to interpretation and narrative. It challenges participants to reflect on whether historians are redefining their expertise—or quietly outsourcing parts of it—and what that means for the future of the discipline.