SHareDH

 

Project Overview

SHareDH connects and supports research, teaching, and student projects at the Universities of Kiel and Flensburg to advance Digital Humanities in the state of Schleswig-Holstein. The project builds on existing resources at Kiel University, expands these through the perspectives and expertise of the European University of Flensburg, and thus promotes joint learning processes, exchange and practical collaboration.

To achieve this, teaching and learning modules, digital research workflows and specific consulting and support services are being developed. The aim is to create an active DH community in which knowledge is shared, experiences exchanged and new projects jointly developed.

SHareDH is supported by the State Government of Schleswig-Holstein as part of the  Digitalisierungsprogramm 4.0.

 

Project partners

 

Team

 

Activities

SHareDH Call 2026

In 2026, SHareDH is supporting a total of nine projects through expert advice and targeted assistance. The focus is on practical issues relating to the application of digital methods in the humanities – such as selecting suitable methods and tools, data modelling, and addressing specific project challenges.

In addition to individual guidance, grant recipients have access to consultation hours, workshops and a newly established DH colloquium. The aim is to create opportunities for exchange and collaboration, enabling projects to network independently, share experiences and develop further together.

  • Prof. Dr. Christine Blättler/Leon Tiemeier, Department of Philosophy, Kiel University: Alexandre Kojève's Hegel Seminar: Decentered Readings and European-Transatlantic Translationes Studiorum

  • Lea-Céline Bramsiepe, Institute of German Studies, Kiel University: The influence of AI-generated language on the multilingual writing processes of learners of German as a second language (DaZ) and German as a foreign language (DaF): An analysis of lexical and syntactic variation and metacognition

  • Dr. Benjamin Engels, Collection of Classical Antiquities, Kiel University:Object and provenance networks. An interoperable data model for the Kiel Collection of Classical Antiquities

  • Dr. Jan Kreutz, Centre for Regional Contemporary History and Public History, Europa-Universität Flensburg: The Outlines of the Colonial State. Tax and Budget Policy in the German Colonies 1884-1914

  • Prof. Dr. Tim Lorentzen, Institute of Church History, Kiel University: Iron Crosses. The Church and the Memory of War in the Nineteenth Century

  • Alena Maaß, Institute of Classical Studies, Kiel University: The development and transmission of ancient astronomical knowledge: The work of Aristarchus of Samos and his commentaries

  • Dr. Maren Elisabeth Schwab, Institute of Classical Studies, Kiel University: Saints in Transformation: Studies on the Intermediality of the Legenda Aurea using the example of the library of the Augustinian Priory of Bordesholm

  • Dr. Pierre Sfendules, Institute of Church History, Kiel University: Time Reflected in the Individual: Studies in Theological Epochal Biography (1800–1900)

  • Dr. Wong Tsz, China Centre, Kiel University: Between Pietism, Vocation and Colonial Change: Meta Wendt, the Kiel China Mission and the Breklum Mission in Southern China (1898–1949)

Workshops and Teaching

  • 28.10.2025, Europa-Universität Flensburg: Data? Algorithms? (Epistemological) challenges of digital methods in the humanities (by Patrick Nehr-Baseler)
  • During the 2025/2026 winter semester, the project supported Prof. Dr Gerald Schwedler’s lecture ‘Introduction to the Digital Humanities in History’ with three sessions (HTR and OCR; Nodegoat; the Semantic Web and Linked Data).

Lecture Series

Lecture series in the summer semester of 2026: Productive Ambivalence – Digital Methods and Master Narratives

Digital methods are transforming the epistemological foundations of the humanities and opening up new perspectives on established research narratives. The lecture series ‘Productive Ambivalence’ invites participants to discuss this critical reflection on digital methods: How can digital processes challenge traditional meta-narratives, reveal existing research approaches, or even generate new narrative forms?

The focus is on exploring the ambivalence of digital methods – between their critical potential for insight and the normative effects they themselves can generate. The series offers a space for exchange, reflection and interdisciplinary discussion and is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand and help shape the epistemological, methodological and social dimensions of the Digital Humanities. All lectures are held in German.

  • 28.04.2026, digital: Prof. Dr. Rabea Kleymann (TU Chemnitz): Wahlverwandtschaften 2.0? Statistische Narrative in den Digital Humanities
  • 05.05.2026, digital: Jun.-Prof.' Dr. Elisa Cugliana (Universität Köln): Edition als Mnemotechnik – Multimodale Quellen jenseits linearer Wissensordnungen
  • 19.05.2026, Kiel: Dr. Christopher Nunn (Universität Heidelberg): Unsere breite Gegenwart und ihre algorithmische Zukunft: LLM-Epistemik beim Aktualisieren historischer Narrative
  • 26.05.2026, Flensburg: Prof. Dr. Lina Franken (Universität Vechta): Digitale Praktiken und digital-analoge Daten zwischen Ausprobieren, Explorieren und Infrastrukturieren in den Digital Humanities
  • 09.06.2026, Kiel: Prof. Dr. Evelyn Gius (TU Darmstadt): Erzählforschung als Messverfahren? Zu den methodologischen Chancen und Herausforderungen computationeller Zugänge
  • 23.06.2026, digital: Prof. Dr. Peter Bell (Universität Marburg): Kanonkritik durch Distant Reading, Zoom und Close Reading oder De arte venandi per algorithmum

The programme of the lecture series as pdf.

Outreach

DHd 2026, University of Vienna, 3–27 February 2026: Not just text, not just data: Our project was also represented at DHd 2026, where we presented SHareDH with the poster ‘Not just data, not just algorithms? Acceptance as the basis for community-driven development of DH infrastructures – The SHareDH project’.