One of the rewarding parts of my new role in Berlin has been helping to organize the Digital Classicist Berlin Seminar 2025/26. Hosted by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), this long-running lecture series brings together researchers from across the world who explore the use of digital methods in the study of the…
I have a new publication (no, this time not about video games) that I co-authored a paper on the state of digital and computational archaeology (DCA) in Germany. I published the paper with my old colleague and friend Sophie C. Schmidt. The paper is published in the journal it – Information Technology and is open…
On the 3rd and 4th of June our network on “Digital Competencies in Archaeology” (DiKopA) met in Darmstadt, Germany. We had 10 presentations, 9 pitches and a World Café. The network and external visitors met in the lecture hall of the university library. Short story: I learned a lot from the DiKopA workshop. DiKopA I…
At the beginning of this year, I published a chapter in a volume called “What is a Digital Archaeologist?” in which I described what – in my personal view – makes the digital in Digital Archaeology. Today, I read a introductory chapter by Karsten Lambers in a new publication that tackles more or less the…