Digital Humanities — Introductions
FS 2026 · University of Bern · 3 ECTS
About the Series
The Digital Humanities — Introductions lecture series brings together 17 researchers from Swiss and European universities to present major research areas and methods in Digital Humanities. Lectures are fully online, can be worked through in any order, and are assessed via an open-book multiple-choice exam.
Exam: June 1, 2026 · 60 minutes · 20 randomly selected questions · 4 options each · no negative marking
Consultation: April 21 & May 27, 2026 · 12:15–14:00 · via Zoom/ILIAS
Thematic Overview
The 17 lectures span four interconnected themes drawn from the introductory podcast:
- Text — digitization, recognition, editing, and linguistic analysis of texts (Lectures 1, 3, 4, 8, 11, 14)
- Data & Infrastructure — imaging, linked data, network analysis, archives (Lectures 9, 6, 10, 15)
- Critical Perspectives — theory, gender, materiality, photography (Lectures 2, 7, 12, 16)
- Case Studies — book history, musicology, game studies (Lectures 5, 13, 17)
Lectures
| # | Lecturer | Institution | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andreas Fischer | HES-SO / Univ. Fribourg | Text Recognition |
| 2 | Bianca Prietl | Univ. Basel | Gender & Digitalization |
| 3 | Cerstin Mahlow | ZHAW | Digital Linguistics |
| 4 | Elena Chestnova | USI | Digital Editing |
| 5 | Gerhard Lauer | Univ. Mainz | Digital Book Studies |
| 6 | Lukas Rosenthaler | Univ. Basel | Open Linked Data |
| 7 | Michael Piotrowski | Univ. Lausanne | Theory & Epistemology |
| 8 | Noah Bubenhofer | Univ. Zurich | Corpus Linguistics |
| 9 | Peter Fornaro | Univ. Basel | Imaging Technologies (DE only, not for exam) |
| 10 | Ramona Roller | ETH Zurich | Network Analysis |
| 11 | Rico Sennrich | Univ. Zurich / DARIAH | Natural Language Processing |
| 12 | Selena Savic | FHNW | Data Materialism |
| 13 | Stefan Münnich | Univ. Basel | Digital Musicology |
| 14 | Tobias Hodel | Univ. Bern / DARIAH | ML & History |
| 15 | Tobias Wildi | FH Graubünden | Archives & Preservation |
| 16 | Vera Chiquet | Univ. Basel | Digital Photography |
| 17 | Yannick Rochat | Univ. Lausanne | Game Studies |
Exam Preparation
→ Interactive Quiz — practice all 80 exam questions in Kahoot-style format. Filter by lecture, choose single- or multi-answer mode.
→ H5P / ILIAS version — download for offline practice or import into ILIAS.
Series Introduction (Podcast)
📥 Download script · Generated with Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS · 8 min 12 sec
Where the Lecturers Are Based
17 lecturers from 11 institutions across Switzerland, Germany, and beyond · Leaflet / OpenStreetMap
Source: thodel/intro-lecture · Built with Quarto