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Feb 04, 2026 I will deliver a talk on datafication and its consequences for history as a craft and discipline in the research colloquium at the University of Stuttgart.
Nov 20, 2025 We had the chance to discuss our work with the AG multilingual DH in the DHd association with the wonderful folks at RadiHum. The podcast episode is available here
Oct 06, 2025 I will deliver a “NFDI talk” on our Wikidata-based tool registry for digital humanities entitled “Open Tool Registries! Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata”. A recording will be available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP93HUEbRB8.
Sep 15, 2025 Our wonderful team at HU Berlin just published the first interviews in our new series titled “Soundscapes of Digital History”. Click here for more infos.
Nov 14, 2024 I will talk about Arabic periodicals and offer a practical critique of digital infrastructures at the conference “Cultural Heritage Data & Power. Exploring Digital Collections and Situated Knowledges in Film History and Beyond” in Marburg. You can find the programm here.
Sep 30, 2024 I am honoured to have been invited to deliver the keynote for this year’s Day of DH at the University of Bochum. My talk is entitled “Do it yourself (but not alone) and KISS!” and slides are available here.
Sep 01, 2023 I humbled and honoured to have been invited to deliver the closing keynote at the joint MEC and TEI conference “Encoding Cultures” in Paderborn next Friday.
Aug 30, 2023 I just signed a new contract and will be leading a new Methods Innovation Lab at HU Berlin as part of NFDI 4Memory. This also means that, sadly, I did return the funds from my MSCA fellowship at University of Hamburg.
May 10, 2023 I will participate in the conference “Digital History 2023” in Berlin with a paper titled “Looking at the iceberg from below the waterline. Stylometric authorship attribution for anonymous articles in Arabic periodicals from the early twentieth century”.
Mar 01, 2023 I will participate in the upcoming DHd2023 in Trier as a panelist for two panel discussions: “Open DH? Mapping Blind Spots”, organised by the empowerment working group and “Opening Sources – modulare Wege zur Quellenbereitstellung und -edition” organised by the working group digital humanities of the Max Weber Stiftung.
Oct 10, 2022 Nadja Danilenko interviewed me for her podcast “tell me a history - Erzähl mir eine Geschichte” and I spoke about early Arabic periodicals and digital humanities.
Sep 23, 2022 I will be part of a fantastic panel on “Building Digital Humanities Networks & Training” at the “Building Digital Humanities” online conference to take place on 14 November 2022.
Feb 15, 2022 As of today, I have commenced a new job to establish a prototypical scholarly makerspace at the central university library of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Feb 03, 2022 [CFP] Panel at DOT 2022 "Computational contributions to the Social and Cultural History of the Islamicate World"
Apr 02, 2021 My time at the Orient-Institut Beirut will come to an end on April 10. Stay tuned for the exciting things to come.