DH Lecture Series
The DH lecture series is a collaboration between the Digital Lab at the University Library in Bergen, D-Lab at NTNU and the Norwegian Network for Digital Humanities and Cultural Orgainzation (DHKO). The lecture series addresses DH-related topics and gives researchers and others involved in DH projects or research the opportunity to share their experiences, successes and challenges related to the use of digital tools and/or methods.
Information about the lectures will be announced well in advance via the DHKO mailing list, and posted on the event calendar of the Digital Lab at UiB, where you can register to receive a Zoom link.
Do you have suggestions for topics you would like to hear more about, or are you working on something that you would like to share in a lecture? Do not hesitate to contact the organizers by e-mail.
DH Lectures Autumn 2026
In the autumn of 2026, you can attend digital DH lunches every first Thursday of the month at lunchtime from 11:30-12.00 on the following dates:
Follow the Digital Lab's calendar for more information.
September 2026
03.09.2026 - How to Uncover Ties Between the Fossil Fuel Industry and Academia
In this DH lunch lecture, you'll hear about how fossil footprints shape academia – from institutional structures to research practices – and why a critical understanding of this is crucial for the future of knowledge production.
Fossil fuel companies use universities to recruit, conduct research in their business interests, and give legitimacy to their marketing. Besides overt greenwashing, their involvement can shape students' and schoolchildren's worldviews in more subtle ways, silences critical voices, and skews the body of research towards technology favourable for fossil-fuel business models. How can we expose and examine the involvement of the fossil-fuel industry in higher education and research?
Working in decentralised coalitions and using methods straddling investigative journalism, citizen science, and academia, Solid Sustainability Research has been researching academic-fossil ties in the Netherlands, UK, and (recently) in Norway together with the Climate Accountability Lab at University of Miami. In this talk we will demonstrate our research methodology and how those interested in investigating academic ties can go about it effectively.
Aaron Pereira is associated with Solid Sustainability Research - an action-oriented research bureau focussing on climate obstruction and climate justice. For the past 3 years they have been studying the involvement of the fossil fuel industry in academia. Browse their interactive report on Dutch academia and other recent work on their website.
Get more information and register here.
October 2026
Lecture details will be announced soon.
November 2026
Lecture details will be announced soon.
Past Lectures
DH Lectures Spring 2026
January 2026
29.01.2026 - Exploring the Research Potential of Norway’s Web Archive
Jon Tønnessen presented the WEBDATA project, exploring how Norway’s national web archive can be made searchable and analyzable for research through new infrastructure for exploring preserved internet content collected since the 1990s. More.
February 2026
26.02.2026 - Building Termportalen
Jan Ole Bangen presented a developer’s perspective on interdisciplinary collaboration in building termportalen.no, exploring how developers and terminologists work together to create Norway’s national infrastructure for terminology management and specialized language preservation. More
Watch the talk on YouTube.
March 2026
26.03.2026 - Unreal Ancestors – Reimagining History Through AI
Lina Harder examined how generative image systems produce convincing visions of history, exploring how AI-generated depictions of historical figures and events shape cultural memory, reinforce social assumptions, and influence the public understanding of the past. More
Watch the talk on YouTube.
April 2026
30.04.2026 - Why Use Vision Language Models for Handwriting Recognition – A Holistic Approach Arne Solli presented a project exploring how Vision Language Models can be trained on early 20th-century Norwegian handwriting to transcribe historical census records through holistic page-level interpretation rather than traditional line-based recognition methods. More
Watch the talk on YouTube.
May 2026
28.05.2026 - From the World to Norwegian – How Can Digital Methods Help Us Show Where Translated Literature Comes From?
Inger Hesjevoll Schmidt-Melbye, Siri Fürst Skogmo, and Marcus Axelsson presented the project Verden på norsk, which uses digital humanities methods to trace global bibliomigration patterns in literature translated into Norwegian through an interactive map, a corpus of newspaper reviews, and the analysis of bibliographic metadata.
DH Lectures 2025
February 2025
13.02.2025 – Four theses on algorithmic folklore
Gabriele de Seta introduced “algorithmic folklore,” reflecting on how algorithms shape creative production and digital culture in everyday life. More
March 2025
13.03.2025 – Norway’s Forgotten Ballads – Digitizing a Cultural Heritage
Siv Gøril Brandtzæg discussed the digitisation of Norwegian skilling ballads and the creation of the first database dedicated to this material. More
April 2025
10.04.2025 – How to streamline the process of cleaning and transforming data
This lecture introduced OpenRefine and demonstrated how it can address common data issues such as inconsistent formatting, duplicates, and incomplete entries. More
May 2025
08.05.2025 – Predicting the Buried Past: Using Digital Tools in the Search for Hidden Graves in the Falstad Forest
Kristoffer Eliassen Grini presented digital and geophysical methods used to locate undocumented graves in the Falstad Forest, a protected memorial site linked to wartime executions. More
September 2025
25.09.2025 – What can literary travelogues tell us about 19th-century Norway?
Marit Sjelmo presented research using the Norwegian Travel Literature Corpus to examine depictions of Norway in 19th-century travel writing. More
October 2025
23.10.2025 – Digital collection of the Norwegian language from the runic inscriptions until 1814
Dag Trygve Truslew Haug presented “Norchron,” a diachronic corpus project building a digital text collection spanning from runic inscriptions to 1814. More
November 2025
27.11.2025 – Digital Reconstructions – Virtual Life for Lost Books
Åslaug Ommundsen presented the CODICUM project, exploring how medieval book fragments can be reconstructed virtually to illuminate Nordic book culture and scholarly networks between 1000 and 1500. More