From 28-29 November, the University of Siegen is hosting the conference ‘Doing City. Der Stadt-Raum als soziale Konstruktion in der Moderne’. Stefan Zeppenfeld will also be taking part with his lecture entitled ‘Der Flohmarkt. Ein urbanes Ereignis und seine lokalen Lesarten’.
On November 14 and 15, the workshop “Fake History? Uncertain (re)constructions of the past on social media" is taking place in Marburg. Scholars, media professionals, content creators and other experts will discuss the various forms, challenges and dangers of digital “fake history”. Together with Andrea Lorenz and Kristin Oswald (University of Hamburg), Mia Berg will give an insight into the findings of the SocialMediaHistory project in the lecture “”people whose only source is tiktok: 😨 “ History-related negotiation and appropriation processes on Instagram and TikTok”.
Click here for the flyer with the entire program.
The workshop organised by the University of Marburg entitled ‘Fake History? Uncertain (re)constructions of the past on social media’, organised by the University of Marburg, deals with the unscientific presentation of supposedly historical content on social media platforms. The organisers would like to engage in a professional exchange with academics, media professionals, content creators and other experts.
On the second day of the workshop, 15 November, Mia Berg will be joined by her colleagues Andrea Lorenz and Kristin Oswald from the #SocialMediaHistory team. They will give a presentation on ‘people whose only source is tiktok:’ - History-related negotiation and appropriation processes on Instagram and TikTok in the VI panel on ‘Digital History Cultures’. They will also take part in a ‘live experiment’ entitled ‘Sehe ich was, das du nicht siehst? Algorithmisation of history in social media’.
Registration is required and is possible until 3 November by e-mail to sfbevent@uni-marburg.de. You can find the flyer for the full programme here.
On 9 October, the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship and the Deutsche Gesellschaft e.V. are organising a conference entitled ‘1989 - Mit der Revolution in die Zukunft’. The event includes a panel discussion on the topic ‘1989 interkulturell: (Post-)Migrantische Perspektiven auf die Friedliche Revolution’, in which experts from various disciplines, including Stefan Zeppenfeld, will participate.
The conference will take place in person, but will be broadcast live on the YouToube channel of the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship. Participation in the event is free of charge, but registration is requested by 7 October 2024 by e-mail to heike.tuchscheerer@deutsche-gesellschaft-ev.de. You can view the programme flyer here and obtain further information here.
On 8 October this year, the Bergzabern Republic will be presented with the ‘Place of Rhineland-Palatinate's History of Democracy’ award by the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament. The event will include a panel discussion on the topic of ‘Communicating (democratic) history’, at which Mia Berg will be present.
Participation is free of charge, but requires prior registration. You can register here. You can find a flyer for the event here.
At this year's second Treffpunkt Geschichtsunterricht in Greifswald on 25 September, teachers can choose from one of four workshops as part of the training programme. One of the four workshops will be held by Elena Lewers on the topic of ‘History to relive? The challenges and potential of virtual reality in history lessons’. Christian Bunnenberg will also be taking part with his keynote speech ‘Will everything remain different? Perspectives for history lessons in the age of digital transformation’.
Detailed information on the day's programme and the opportunity to register for the limited places can be found here.
On 19 and 20 September, a conference will be held at the Hessian State Archives in Marburg on the topic of ‘Abgrenzungen, Verflechtungen, Aufbruch? Neue Perspektiven auf Migration und Einwanderungsgesellschaft in Geschichtswissenschaft und Public History’. On the second day of the conference, Stefan Zeppenfeld will enrich the programme with his lecture ‘Kicken, Kämpfe, Kompromisse. Migrantische Fußballvereine als Perspektive der Citizen Science und Public History'.
The flyer with the complete conference programme can be found here.
At this year's bi-annual meeting of the Conference for History Didactics (KGD) from 18-20 September in Mainz, innovative approaches and challenges of history didactics, which is currently undergoing change, will be discussed. The first section deals with questions on ‘Virtual Reality applications as (a) future of historical learning?’. In this thematic block, Elena Lewers will give a lecture entitled ‘Virtual Reality as an experiential space of history - theoretical and empirical perspectives’.
The anthology Geschichtskulturen im digitalen Wandel, recently published by Wochenschau Verlag and edited by Olaf Hartung, Alexandra Krebs and Johannes Meyer-Hamme, is enriched by contributions from Mia Berg and Elena Lewers, among others. The essays in the volume deal with current issues relating to historical culture and digital change.
Mia Berg, together with Andrea Lorenz, contributes an article entitled #BigDataHistory. Forschungspragmatische Überlegungen zu Geschichte in sozialen Medien. Elena Lewers dedicates her essay to the topic "So n bisschen als wenn man vor Ort wäre" Empirische Annäherung an Virtual Reality als Erfahrungsraum für Geschichte.
The volume is available here.
The seventh year Public History students have published a podcast about the first luxury cruise of the Augusta Viktoria in 1894: "Mit Champagner auf (Nor)Wegen" can be found on Spotify.
The students invite listeners to travel exactly 130 years into the past, to the year 1894, when the ship "Augusta Viktoria" travelled to Norway for the first time as a cruise ship. These were the beginnings of a travel model that still exists today. In the podcast, listeners find out why cruises came into being at this particular time, who travelled on the Augusta Viktoria and which people below the surface were responsible for the smooth running of the cruise. It also looks at which stops were made on the journey, what happened on the ship, what was eaten and drunk - spoiler: including champagne - and much more.
The information is based on an intensive study of sources and literature and is presented in very different ways, to create a lively listening experience.
In June 2024, WDR5 Scala published a feature on classical cultural mediation, especially on Instagram and TikTok. In addition to the creators Klaus Willbrand and Susanne Siegert, Mia Berg also enriched the feature with insights into the research perspective and experiences as part of the SocialMediaHistory project. The feature sheds light on how social media contributes to the dissemination and communication of cultural content and what role it plays in today's society.
The feature compiled by Laura Dresch can be listened to here until 26 June 2025: https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr5/wdr5-scala-hintergrund/klassische-kulturvermittlung-bei-instagram-und-co-100.html
On 9 March 2024, the RUB Teachers Day was successfully held for the fourth time on the Ruhr University campus. As part of this event, staff from the Chair of Didactics and Public History offered various training courses. Professor Dr. Christian Bunnenberg gave a workshop on the Federal President's History Competition, Elena Lewers lectured on history in virtual reality, Mia Berg discussed history on social media and Stefan Zeppenfeld offered a training course on the topic of cultures of compromise in history lessons. All four speakers were very pleased with the demand and active participation of the colleagues from the schools. The complete programme of the 4th RUB Teachers Day can be found here.
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