Department of History and Social Sciences

About the Department

The Department of History and Social Sciences comprises six institutes and offers a wide range for students and prospective researchers, who are curious about both classic and innovative subject areas. A special feature of this department at the TU Darmstadt is the intensive scientific exchange with the engineering and natural science departments and a broad-based interdisciplinary cooperation.

Welcome to the Department of History and Social Sciences.

The Institutes at the Department

Institute of History

Institute of Philosophy

Institute of Political Science

Institute of Sociology

Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies

Institute of Theology and Social Ethics

News

Gratulation zur Promotion

am Institut für Politikwissenschaft

2025 Susan Hockey Lecture – Oral History as Data? Critically approaching the digital turn in method, meaning and recollection

HDSM at the DigiCAM25: Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory

Dr. Nadezhda Povroznik is a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study (University of London)

Text Mining Workshop (tf-idf) at UCL London

Сall for papers for a special issue around AI & History: Journal of Digital History

The Journal of Digital History has just published a call for papers around AI & History for a special issue that will be co-edited by Amanda Regan, Sean Takats and Frédéric Clavert.

Strengthening Academic Ties: TU Darmstadt Delegation visits Partners in India

Nationales Zentrum für digitale Resilienz in Katastrophen in Darmstadt

Interdisziplinärer Austausch zur Energietransformation

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Study

Everything you need to know about studying and teaching at the Department of History and Social Sciences. Students and prospective students can find all the information about degree programs as well as contact options for the office for student affairs and student representatives.

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Research

The diverse research at Department of History and Social Sciences includes the three main research areas, the research networks as well as the individual research at the institutes. In addition, these pages offer information about the possibilities of a doctorate or postdoctoral qualification at the department.

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IT-Service

The Department of History and Social Sciences operates its own servers in addition to the central services of the HRZ. We provide various services for you.

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