How are the ways in which we teach history affected by the availability of millions of new sources in digital formats and a growing variety of digital research tools? Should we teach history students how to use digital archives and digital methods? And how should it be done? These are all questions we will discuss at the Teaching Digital History Workshop arranged by CEDHAR, the Center for Digital
History Aarhus, 23 October 2019, 10-17 in the Preben Hornung room, Frederik Nielsens Vej, 2-4. 

Invited speakers include representatives from the Programming Historian, the team behind Ranke2 as well as university teachers who have already begun introducing digital archives and digital methods in their classes. The program will contain a mixture of talks and discussions of questions related to the practices of teaching digital methods to history students. 

Schedule:

10:00-11:00 TALKS

A Beating Heart of Digital History: The Programming Historian

Sofia Papastamkou, CNRS, Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion, University of Lille 

Smuggling Digital Source Criticism into the academic fortress: Strategies for challenging the backlog in digital literacy at faculties of Humanities.

Stefania Scagliola, Center for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg.  

Establishing the role of the library and archives in digital humanities teaching at the University of Limerick 

Kirsten Mulrennan and Sinéad Keogh, Glucksman Library, University of Limerick

11:00-11:20 BREAK 

11:20-12:00 TALKS

Preliminary thoughts on teaching Digital History at Aalborg University

Marianne Sletten Paash & Johan Heinsen, Aalborg University

Teaching Workflows and References to Improve Digital Archival Literacy  

Helle Strandgaard Jensen & Adéla Sobotkova, Aarhus University. 

12:00-13:00 LUNCH

13:00-14:30 TALKS

Priming historians and history students to study the archived web 

Niels Brügger, Aarhus University

Letting students loose in a digital archive: Teaching the Georgian Papers Programme  

Arthur Burns, King’s College London, and the Georgian Papers Programme

Project-based and collaborative pedagogy in Digital Humanities

Anne Alexander, Cambridge Digital Humanities, University of Cambridge

Rigsarkivet’s Digital History Methods Lab: teaching basic tools to disseminate our collections.

Louise Ludvigsen, The Danish National Archives & Barbara Revuelta-Eugercios, The Danish National Archives/University of Copenhagen. 

14:30-14:45    BREAK

14:45-15:30    DISCUSSION 

Where to go from here? Teaching digital history in the 2020s. Workshop by C2DH & CEDHAR. 

15:45-16:15     BREAK

16:15-17:00    DISCUSSION CONT.

How to engage (other) faculty and students and who provides the needed infrastructure? Managing up and down in the case of digital history.    

Click here for registration. Deadline for registration is the 17th of October.