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SFB 1567- Virtuelle Lebenswelten

The Department of Didactics of History and Public History is involved with a subproject in the SFB 1567 "Virtuelle Lebenswelten".

In the project area B Knowledge, the research assistant Lena Ciochon and Prof. Dr. Christian Bunnenberg, together with colleagues from medieval studies, are investigating the use and role of virtual objects in researching and communicating objects of medieval history in the sub-project B02 Virtual Middle Ages - Historical Science, Historical Culture, Public History. In this context the use of virtual objects will be critically reviewed within a scholarly framework and related to practices of mediation to broader publics (in exhibitions, etc.) as well as in didactic contexts. The aims are to take stock of and reflect on existing practices, to investigate the influence on the disciplinary methodological discussions as well as the effects on the perception of historical content in new media (VR, AR).

Subproject leader: Prof. Dr. Christian Bunnenberg | Prof. Dr. Klaus Oschema


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Workshop "Virtuelles Erzählen: Text - Erleben - Wissen"

On 9 and 10 November 2023, this workshop will be all about virtual storytelling. Along the central themes of text, experience and knowledge, the workshop will focus on narrative processes in order to examine the fabrication of narrated worlds on the one hand and to discuss their status as virtual lifeworlds and differences to possible or fictional worlds on the other. Elena Lewers will also make a contribution to this in the first panel on Friday, 10 November. The workshop was organised by the sub-area B02 "Virtual Middle Ages" as well as the entire B-area and D02 of the SFB 1567 and will take place in the event centre, conference room IV at the RUB.

The detailed programme and further informatin can be found here.



Workshop "Middle Ages: digital and virtual - objects, practices, reflections

In this workshop medievalists, digitisation experts, museum professionals, didactic specialists, and librarians convene to explore digital and virtual developments in discourse about the Middle Ages. The workshop will be held on 24 october 2023 and the experts will provide video presentations beforehand. During the day of the workshop, they discuss both the practical implementation and theoretical discourse, aiming to redefine digital medievalism and reconsider how knowledge about the Middle Ages is created, formed and communicated.

For further information and the program of the day click here.