Open(ing) Science? Digital Humanities in Area Studies
Registration for the Public Program at the Franco-German Summer School
7-11 July 2025 | Leipzig, Germany
Monday, 7 July | Lecture Hall, Bibliotheca Albertina
- 16:30–18:00 | Roundtable:
The digital turn in area studies – Franco-German perspectives in the age of artificial
intelligence
Participants: Mercedes Volait (CNRS & DISTAM), Matthias Middell (Leipzig
University & NFDI4Memory), Anne Lipp (Leipzig University Library), Sandra Aube
(CNRS & DISTAM)
Moderator: Kathleen Schlütter (Leipzig University & NFDI4Memory)
Tuesday, 8 July | Lecture Hall, Bibliotheca Albertina
- 09:00–10:30 | Presentation:
Data-driven intellectual history? The challenges of building a research platform for
Arabic manuscript cultures
Speaker: Daniel Kinitz (Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities) - 10:45–12:15 | Presentation:
Treating a genre as a database: a digital research methodology for studying Chinese
local gazetteers
Speaker: Shih-Pei Chen (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) - 13:45–14:45 | Presentation:
Reference systems and interoperability
Speaker: Benjamin Guichard (Bibliothèque universitaire des
langues et civilisations) - 14:45–15:45 | Presentation:
Multilinguality and data access: an area studies librarian’s perspective
Speaker: Cosima Wagner (Freie Universität Berlin & NFDI4Memory) - 17:00–18:30 | Presentation (Online):
Digital Benin: a digital platform connecting the displaced royal artefacts from Benin
Kingdom
Speakers: Anne Luther & Eiloghosa Obobaifo (Institute for Digital Heritage)
Wednesday, 9 July | Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistraße 6-10, Room 716
- 9:00–10:30 | Presentation:
How to think of your research in terms of data management and FAIR
Speaker: Eva Ommert (Leipzig University & NFDI4Memory)
Thursday, 10 July | Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistraße 6-10, Room 716
- 09:00–10:30 | Roundtable:
Back to the future with area studies? Artificial intelligence, open access, and ethical
dimensions
Participants: Chahan Vidal-Gorène (École nationale des chartes & Calfa),
Representative of De Gruyter/Brill (tbc), Mareike König (German Historical Institute,
Paris), Cosima Wagner (Freie Universität Berlin & NFDI4Memory)
Moderator: Mercedes Volait (CNRS & DISTAM)