Registration is open: Workshop “History of Digital History between East and West” (6-7 February 2026)

HDSM is delighted to announce that the registration for the workshop “History of Digital History between East and West” is now open.

31.10.2025

In histories of digital history, as in digital humanities in general, much emphasis has been placed on the two commonly recognized centers of the development of historical computing since the 1950s: the United States and Western Europe. As a result, crucial developments elsewhere have been overlooked, including in the Nordic countries as well as the Soviet Union and the various states of the Eastern bloc. This workshop will address blind spots by focusing attention on the question of how the local and the transnational intersected in the technology-inflected reshaping of historical research practices and how political backgrounds, contexts and constraints fed into this process.