It is a bit short notice, but for mid-May we are organising a two-day DiKopA workshop on teaching and learning in archaeology in Darmstadt. We have organised one before, but this is the second one. I would like to share the now finalised programme with you and of course invite you to come and see the workshop yourself if you are in the area.

DiKopA

I have written a few times about the DiKopA network, a project of German lecturers and students trying to establish more digital teaching of archaeology in Germany. We are trying to build up a resource page with learning materials and even produce some of them ourselves. For example, we are in the process of producing several tutorial videos that we will publish on our website.

We are also organising and publishing workshops during the project. Two, to be precise. The first one was last year and we are almost finished putting together an open access publication about it. If we are very lucky, it will be published in May. The second one will also be published, but we think it will be very early in 2026.

The workshop day 1

On the 19th and 20th of May we will be holding a workshop at the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt. The first day will start with a keynote by Prof. Dr. Janoscha Kreppner, who will talk about his paperless excavations. There will then be a whole block on digitisation, with international speakers talking about different methods of digitisation and digital working.

The second half of the day will start with a presentation of a survey on the needs for digital teaching and learning in archaeology, followed by a panel discussion with representatives from several German institutions related to archaeological work. It will be very interesting to see how the discussion goes and what everyone thinks about the topic.

The workshop day 2

On the second day we will again have two blocks. In the first block we will talk about teaching events in the broadest sense. This will be introduced by a keynote from Kai-Christian Bruhn, representing the National Research Data Infrastructure Consortium (NFDI). After him, Kevin Körner and I will present our experiences with the archaeogaming hackathons we organised this year and last year.

The last block is about reproducible research and we have a number of scholars presenting their research. I am also delighted that my former colleague and friend Sophie Schmidt is also presenting. She will be talking about how to organise data, while others will be talking about aspects of reproducible research. I have attached the programme here so you can see for yourself. By the way, you can also attend via ZOOM!