At the 54th German Historians' Conference, which took place in Leipzig in September 2023 under the motto "Fragile Facts", Kirsten Pörschke (Körber Foundation) and Prof. Saskia Handro (University of Münster) organised the panel "More than a fact check! Historical research by students as historical-cultural capital". Based on the Federal President's History Competition, which is organised by the Körber Foundation, the panel discussed the social function and potential of historical research by school students in times of 'fragile facts'. The constributions are documented in the current LAG magazine (3/2024) from 20 March 2024 - including an article by Prof. Dr. Christian Bunnenberg on the present and future of the history competition in a culture of digitality: https://lernen-aus-der-geschichte.de/Lernen-und-Lehren/content/15671.

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 process 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 wolrds 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 information can be found here.

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 presenations 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.

To join the workshop online, please register here. For further information and the program of the day click here.

In August 2023, the anthology @ichbinsophiescholl. Darstellung und Diskussion von Geschichte in Social Media was published by the Wallstein Verlag. The title is edited by Mia Berg and Christian Kuchler and is part of the series Historical Education and Public History, vol. 1.

You can find the book here.

On 25 August 2023, Stefan Zeppenfeld was a guest on the Deutschlandfunk Nova podcast Ab21. As a historian, he conducts interviews with contemporary witnesses, among others, and was thus able to enrich the episode "Lebensgeschichte(n). Wie wir mit unseren Großeltern connecten" with his expertise on the exchange between generations.

You can listen to the episode here.

On 4 and 5 July 2023, you will have the opportunity to follow exciting contirbutions on the topic of history in VR at a joint conference of RWTH Aachen University and RUB.

The event will take place in Aachen and is free of charge. However, pre-registration is requested at: andrea.hopf@ipw.rwth-aachen.de

For further informatin and the event programme, please see the flyer.

In the 12th episode of the University of Hamburg's science communication podcast, which was released on 25 May 2023, Mia Berg and Kristin Oswald (Hamburg) talk about their joint project "SocialMediaHistory" and how citizen participation was planned from the very beginning.

You can listen to the podcast here.

Together with the Department of History at the Ludwigsburg University of Education, an excursion will take place from 28.08.2023 to 01.09.2023 to the former battlefield of Woerth (in Alsace), where one of the central battles of the Franco-Prussian War was fought on 06.08.1870. The five day excursion is offered as part of the history didactic in-depth seminar.

As there are only limited places (10), please register at christian.bunnenberg@ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Registration is open now.

For further information (accommodation, price etc.) please see the attached PDF file.

The HZ published a review of the volume "Geschichte auf YouTube" (History on YouTube) edited by Nils Steffen and Christian Bunnenberg. The volume has also been available as an affordable paperback version since 2021. You can find the review as a PDF file here.

For the current TV documentary series "HITLERS MACHT" (ZDF 2023), Prof. Dr. Christian Bunnenberg has developed didactic accompanying material. You can access the documentary series here. You can find the accompanying material as a PDF here.

Social media such as Instagram or TikTok have become popular platforms for presenting history in multimedia forms. As part of the #SocialMediaHistory project, Prof. Dr. Christian Bunnenberg and his team are investigating the extent to which historical representations on such platforms are preceived by users, to what extent they are distorted or which topics are not even addressed. A detailed interview on this topic between Prof. Dr. Christian Bunnenberg and detektor.fm editor Julia Seegers can now be heard here in the podcast.