Digital History Seminar
Virtually all aspects of the historian’s work have been transformed by digital technology. The digital history seminar is a venue for exploring the consequences of this transformation and discussing how to leverage digital technology in historical research.
Montage. The goddess Klio holding a tablet. Original: Pierre Mignard I. Montage from <a class="ck-external-link" href="https://earlyamericanists.com/" target="_blank">https://earlyamericanists.com/</a>, shared under license cc-by-nc-nd.
The Digital history seminar is hosted by the Department of History at Stockholm University in collaboration with Lund University and Linnaeus University. The seminar gathers researchers and student with an interest in the digitization of the history discipline – in the past and the present as well as in the future. The Digital history seminar series also provides a space for discussions of digital methods in historical research, regardless of theme and time period.
The digital history seminar convenes on Zoom on select days, mainly Tuesdays. The links below provide the date, time, and registration information for each seminar.
Scheduled seminars spring semester 2026
Click on the seminar titles for more information and registration links for seminars convening on Zoom.
Tuesday 10/2, 13.00–15:00: Jacob Langeloh (Stockholm University)
Presentation: "Sacred Speech and Political Power: Exploring the Sermons held at the Councils of Constance and Basel with Digital Methods".
In collaboration with the Medieval Seminar.
Tuesday 7/4 13.00–15.00: Tarren Andrews (Yale University
Presentation: "A Peace Most Fragile: A Corpus-Analysis Approach to Understanding the Genre of the Anglophone from the 9th Century to the 19th."
In collaboration with the Medieval Seminar.
Tuesday 28/4 13.00–15.00
"Clio at the Computer Centre: Media Technologies and the Transformation of Historical Research in the Nordic countries since the 1960s". Petri Paju (University of Turku), Gerben Zaagsma (University of Luxembourg), Freja Morris (Lund University) and Sune Bechmann Pedersen (Stockholm University), presents at the seminar.
Monday 25/5 15.00–17.00
Presentation in Swedish: "AI för transkription och bearbetning av medeltida texter". David Haskiya, Erik Lenas, Pontus Henningsson, Oliver Blomqvist and Olof Karsvall (Riksarkivet), presents at the seminar.
In collaboration with the Medieval Seminar.
Last updated: 2026-02-03
Source: Historiska institutionen