Annotated courses
Overall view – summer semester 2025
GSW-MA-DH 1.1
(Grundlagen und anwendungsorientierte Methoden der Digital Humanities)
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Seminar – Ghost Mines - Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
- Teacher
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- Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern
- Max attendee capacity
- 10
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
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Date Clock time Place Event format to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person - Description
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Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
Located in eastern Germany, the regions of Ore Mountains and Lusatia were heavily exploited for uranium mining and lignite (brown coal) extraction, respectively. Decades of industrial activity left behind significant environmental contamination, degraded landscapes, and disrupted ecosystems. In response, large-scale rehabilitation projects were launched to transform these post-industrial landscapes into sustainable and recreational spaces. In the case of the Ore Mountains efforts focused on cleaning up radioactive contamination and restoring the area for mixed natural and recreational uses. In Lusatia, the conversion involved flooding massive open-pit mines to create the Lusatian Lake District, an extensive network of artificial lakes. Water management played a critical role in both contexts—whether by stabilizing and decontaminating radioactive sites in the Ore Mountains or by engineering hydrological systems to manage Lusatia’s new lakes. These projects exemplify how environmental and social scars are being reimagined as opportunities for ecological regeneration, economic diversification, and sustainable futures.
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures invites participants to explore the haunting legacy of abandoned mines and extractive landscapes, questioning how these sites can inform our understanding of resource-driven histories and speculative futures. The research studio delves into the concept of "ghost mines"—both as literal sites of abandonment and metaphorical markers of environmental trauma and contested futures. Through an interdisciplinary lens that draws from environmental sciences, media theory, and science and technology studies, participants will investigate how the remnants of mining reflect cultural memory, embody political struggles, and reveal global economic transformations. Topics will include the spectral presence of labor and exploitation, the transformation of materials into commodities, and the capacity of scarred environments to inspire new narratives of resilience, reclamation, and sustainability.
The studio emphasizes sensory ethnography, environmental mapping, and experimental data practices to uncover the human and ecological entanglements embedded in these landscapes. Participants will explore how digital sensing technologies and biogeochemical analysis can reveal hidden histories and inform future land-use decisions. Our aim is to investigate the historical development of digital data landscapes, moving beyond a mere focus on contemporary cutting-edge technologies and instead situating them within broader contexts. Through active engagement with the methods and mediums of data-making across multiple regional sites and institutional resources, participants will examine how these transformative processes are entangled with the shifting modes of knowledge production and future forecasting. This engagement will help better situate the scope of planetary experiments as they unfold on regional scales.
The research studio is open to early-career researchers and advanced practitioners. The program will cover lectures, screenings, and workshops on digital ecologies and artistic data practices, as well as two days of field trips to the Ore Mountains and Lusatia. It will result in a common online publication bringing together audiovisual and textual contributions created throughout the week. The research studio is free of charge, however participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation in Dresden. For participants who do not have institutional support we offer a limited amount of stipends. If you need travel/accommodation support please outline your situation in the motivation letter.
In order to participate in the research studio, please send us your CV, portfolio (if applicable) and a short motivation letter (one page) elaborating on your background, research interests and connection to the theme of Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures. Documents should be submitted in one PDF file (5 MB max) no later than 31.01.25 to michaela.buesse@tu-dresden.de
Organizers:
Michaela Büsse, Orit Halpern, Kristiane Fehrs, Özgün Eylül Iscen - Assignments
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- Modular
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- GSW-MA-DH 1.1 – Grundlagen und anwendungsorientierte Methoden der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.3 – Rechtliche Aspekte der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 2.1 – Grundlagen der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion
- GSW-MA-DH 2.2 – Grundlagen des Anforderungs- und Testmanagements
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
GSW-MA-DH 1.2
(Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities)
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Seminar – Ghost Mines - Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
- Teacher
-
- Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern
- Max attendee capacity
- 10
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person - Description
-
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
Located in eastern Germany, the regions of Ore Mountains and Lusatia were heavily exploited for uranium mining and lignite (brown coal) extraction, respectively. Decades of industrial activity left behind significant environmental contamination, degraded landscapes, and disrupted ecosystems. In response, large-scale rehabilitation projects were launched to transform these post-industrial landscapes into sustainable and recreational spaces. In the case of the Ore Mountains efforts focused on cleaning up radioactive contamination and restoring the area for mixed natural and recreational uses. In Lusatia, the conversion involved flooding massive open-pit mines to create the Lusatian Lake District, an extensive network of artificial lakes. Water management played a critical role in both contexts—whether by stabilizing and decontaminating radioactive sites in the Ore Mountains or by engineering hydrological systems to manage Lusatia’s new lakes. These projects exemplify how environmental and social scars are being reimagined as opportunities for ecological regeneration, economic diversification, and sustainable futures.
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures invites participants to explore the haunting legacy of abandoned mines and extractive landscapes, questioning how these sites can inform our understanding of resource-driven histories and speculative futures. The research studio delves into the concept of "ghost mines"—both as literal sites of abandonment and metaphorical markers of environmental trauma and contested futures. Through an interdisciplinary lens that draws from environmental sciences, media theory, and science and technology studies, participants will investigate how the remnants of mining reflect cultural memory, embody political struggles, and reveal global economic transformations. Topics will include the spectral presence of labor and exploitation, the transformation of materials into commodities, and the capacity of scarred environments to inspire new narratives of resilience, reclamation, and sustainability.
The studio emphasizes sensory ethnography, environmental mapping, and experimental data practices to uncover the human and ecological entanglements embedded in these landscapes. Participants will explore how digital sensing technologies and biogeochemical analysis can reveal hidden histories and inform future land-use decisions. Our aim is to investigate the historical development of digital data landscapes, moving beyond a mere focus on contemporary cutting-edge technologies and instead situating them within broader contexts. Through active engagement with the methods and mediums of data-making across multiple regional sites and institutional resources, participants will examine how these transformative processes are entangled with the shifting modes of knowledge production and future forecasting. This engagement will help better situate the scope of planetary experiments as they unfold on regional scales.
The research studio is open to early-career researchers and advanced practitioners. The program will cover lectures, screenings, and workshops on digital ecologies and artistic data practices, as well as two days of field trips to the Ore Mountains and Lusatia. It will result in a common online publication bringing together audiovisual and textual contributions created throughout the week. The research studio is free of charge, however participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation in Dresden. For participants who do not have institutional support we offer a limited amount of stipends. If you need travel/accommodation support please outline your situation in the motivation letter.
In order to participate in the research studio, please send us your CV, portfolio (if applicable) and a short motivation letter (one page) elaborating on your background, research interests and connection to the theme of Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures. Documents should be submitted in one PDF file (5 MB max) no later than 31.01.25 to michaela.buesse@tu-dresden.de
Organizers:
Michaela Büsse, Orit Halpern, Kristiane Fehrs, Özgün Eylül Iscen - Assignments
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- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.1 – Grundlagen und anwendungsorientierte Methoden der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.3 – Rechtliche Aspekte der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 2.1 – Grundlagen der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion
- GSW-MA-DH 2.2 – Grundlagen des Anforderungs- und Testmanagements
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
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Seminar – Race, Borders, and Digital Technology
- Teacher
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- Dr. Michelle Pfeifer
- Max attendee capacity
- 25
- Enrollment
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- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
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Date Clock time Place Event format to OSL In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to OSL3 In-person to In-person - Description
- Race, borders, and technology mediate distinctions between inside and outside, global inequalities, and hierarchies of human life. This course introduces students to foundational concepts and themes in border studies. Students will learn to understand the coproduction of race, borders, and technology and gain an understanding of how specific technologies work to identify, control, surveil and police people and space. We will focus on specific technologies including biometrics, visual, sonic and algorithmic technologies. Our course materials include readings from Science and Technology Studies, Geography, Anthropology, Political Science, Media Studies, Ethnic Studies, as well as work by artists, novelists, and essayists. Materials will cover a range of geographical areas. With the readings we will move from an understanding of borders as territorial boundaries to the internal borders of asylum procedures, immigration detention, and labor. Taking a capacious understanding of technology, we will learn to understand technology not simply as tools, but as embedded social and political phenomena, thereby challenging the perceived neutrality of technology. Throughout, we will not only pay attention to how borders and race are policed, but also look at how borders are contested through struggles over the freedom of movement and how these struggles might disturb hegemonic hierarchies of race.
- Assignments
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- Modular
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- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
GSW-MA-DH 1.3
(Rechtliche Aspekte der Digital Humanities)
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Seminar – Ghost Mines - Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
- Teacher
-
- Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern
- Max attendee capacity
- 10
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person - Description
-
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
Located in eastern Germany, the regions of Ore Mountains and Lusatia were heavily exploited for uranium mining and lignite (brown coal) extraction, respectively. Decades of industrial activity left behind significant environmental contamination, degraded landscapes, and disrupted ecosystems. In response, large-scale rehabilitation projects were launched to transform these post-industrial landscapes into sustainable and recreational spaces. In the case of the Ore Mountains efforts focused on cleaning up radioactive contamination and restoring the area for mixed natural and recreational uses. In Lusatia, the conversion involved flooding massive open-pit mines to create the Lusatian Lake District, an extensive network of artificial lakes. Water management played a critical role in both contexts—whether by stabilizing and decontaminating radioactive sites in the Ore Mountains or by engineering hydrological systems to manage Lusatia’s new lakes. These projects exemplify how environmental and social scars are being reimagined as opportunities for ecological regeneration, economic diversification, and sustainable futures.
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures invites participants to explore the haunting legacy of abandoned mines and extractive landscapes, questioning how these sites can inform our understanding of resource-driven histories and speculative futures. The research studio delves into the concept of "ghost mines"—both as literal sites of abandonment and metaphorical markers of environmental trauma and contested futures. Through an interdisciplinary lens that draws from environmental sciences, media theory, and science and technology studies, participants will investigate how the remnants of mining reflect cultural memory, embody political struggles, and reveal global economic transformations. Topics will include the spectral presence of labor and exploitation, the transformation of materials into commodities, and the capacity of scarred environments to inspire new narratives of resilience, reclamation, and sustainability.
The studio emphasizes sensory ethnography, environmental mapping, and experimental data practices to uncover the human and ecological entanglements embedded in these landscapes. Participants will explore how digital sensing technologies and biogeochemical analysis can reveal hidden histories and inform future land-use decisions. Our aim is to investigate the historical development of digital data landscapes, moving beyond a mere focus on contemporary cutting-edge technologies and instead situating them within broader contexts. Through active engagement with the methods and mediums of data-making across multiple regional sites and institutional resources, participants will examine how these transformative processes are entangled with the shifting modes of knowledge production and future forecasting. This engagement will help better situate the scope of planetary experiments as they unfold on regional scales.
The research studio is open to early-career researchers and advanced practitioners. The program will cover lectures, screenings, and workshops on digital ecologies and artistic data practices, as well as two days of field trips to the Ore Mountains and Lusatia. It will result in a common online publication bringing together audiovisual and textual contributions created throughout the week. The research studio is free of charge, however participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation in Dresden. For participants who do not have institutional support we offer a limited amount of stipends. If you need travel/accommodation support please outline your situation in the motivation letter.
In order to participate in the research studio, please send us your CV, portfolio (if applicable) and a short motivation letter (one page) elaborating on your background, research interests and connection to the theme of Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures. Documents should be submitted in one PDF file (5 MB max) no later than 31.01.25 to michaela.buesse@tu-dresden.de
Organizers:
Michaela Büsse, Orit Halpern, Kristiane Fehrs, Özgün Eylül Iscen - Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.1 – Grundlagen und anwendungsorientierte Methoden der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.3 – Rechtliche Aspekte der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 2.1 – Grundlagen der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion
- GSW-MA-DH 2.2 – Grundlagen des Anforderungs- und Testmanagements
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
GSW-MA-DH 2.1
(Grundlagen der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion)
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Seminar – Ghost Mines - Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
- Teacher
-
- Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern
- Max attendee capacity
- 10
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person - Description
-
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
Located in eastern Germany, the regions of Ore Mountains and Lusatia were heavily exploited for uranium mining and lignite (brown coal) extraction, respectively. Decades of industrial activity left behind significant environmental contamination, degraded landscapes, and disrupted ecosystems. In response, large-scale rehabilitation projects were launched to transform these post-industrial landscapes into sustainable and recreational spaces. In the case of the Ore Mountains efforts focused on cleaning up radioactive contamination and restoring the area for mixed natural and recreational uses. In Lusatia, the conversion involved flooding massive open-pit mines to create the Lusatian Lake District, an extensive network of artificial lakes. Water management played a critical role in both contexts—whether by stabilizing and decontaminating radioactive sites in the Ore Mountains or by engineering hydrological systems to manage Lusatia’s new lakes. These projects exemplify how environmental and social scars are being reimagined as opportunities for ecological regeneration, economic diversification, and sustainable futures.
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures invites participants to explore the haunting legacy of abandoned mines and extractive landscapes, questioning how these sites can inform our understanding of resource-driven histories and speculative futures. The research studio delves into the concept of "ghost mines"—both as literal sites of abandonment and metaphorical markers of environmental trauma and contested futures. Through an interdisciplinary lens that draws from environmental sciences, media theory, and science and technology studies, participants will investigate how the remnants of mining reflect cultural memory, embody political struggles, and reveal global economic transformations. Topics will include the spectral presence of labor and exploitation, the transformation of materials into commodities, and the capacity of scarred environments to inspire new narratives of resilience, reclamation, and sustainability.
The studio emphasizes sensory ethnography, environmental mapping, and experimental data practices to uncover the human and ecological entanglements embedded in these landscapes. Participants will explore how digital sensing technologies and biogeochemical analysis can reveal hidden histories and inform future land-use decisions. Our aim is to investigate the historical development of digital data landscapes, moving beyond a mere focus on contemporary cutting-edge technologies and instead situating them within broader contexts. Through active engagement with the methods and mediums of data-making across multiple regional sites and institutional resources, participants will examine how these transformative processes are entangled with the shifting modes of knowledge production and future forecasting. This engagement will help better situate the scope of planetary experiments as they unfold on regional scales.
The research studio is open to early-career researchers and advanced practitioners. The program will cover lectures, screenings, and workshops on digital ecologies and artistic data practices, as well as two days of field trips to the Ore Mountains and Lusatia. It will result in a common online publication bringing together audiovisual and textual contributions created throughout the week. The research studio is free of charge, however participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation in Dresden. For participants who do not have institutional support we offer a limited amount of stipends. If you need travel/accommodation support please outline your situation in the motivation letter.
In order to participate in the research studio, please send us your CV, portfolio (if applicable) and a short motivation letter (one page) elaborating on your background, research interests and connection to the theme of Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures. Documents should be submitted in one PDF file (5 MB max) no later than 31.01.25 to michaela.buesse@tu-dresden.de
Organizers:
Michaela Büsse, Orit Halpern, Kristiane Fehrs, Özgün Eylül Iscen - Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.1 – Grundlagen und anwendungsorientierte Methoden der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.3 – Rechtliche Aspekte der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 2.1 – Grundlagen der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion
- GSW-MA-DH 2.2 – Grundlagen des Anforderungs- und Testmanagements
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
GSW-MA-DH 2.2
(Grundlagen des Anforderungs- und Testmanagements)
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Seminar – Ghost Mines - Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
- Teacher
-
- Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern
- Max attendee capacity
- 10
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person - Description
-
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
Located in eastern Germany, the regions of Ore Mountains and Lusatia were heavily exploited for uranium mining and lignite (brown coal) extraction, respectively. Decades of industrial activity left behind significant environmental contamination, degraded landscapes, and disrupted ecosystems. In response, large-scale rehabilitation projects were launched to transform these post-industrial landscapes into sustainable and recreational spaces. In the case of the Ore Mountains efforts focused on cleaning up radioactive contamination and restoring the area for mixed natural and recreational uses. In Lusatia, the conversion involved flooding massive open-pit mines to create the Lusatian Lake District, an extensive network of artificial lakes. Water management played a critical role in both contexts—whether by stabilizing and decontaminating radioactive sites in the Ore Mountains or by engineering hydrological systems to manage Lusatia’s new lakes. These projects exemplify how environmental and social scars are being reimagined as opportunities for ecological regeneration, economic diversification, and sustainable futures.
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures invites participants to explore the haunting legacy of abandoned mines and extractive landscapes, questioning how these sites can inform our understanding of resource-driven histories and speculative futures. The research studio delves into the concept of "ghost mines"—both as literal sites of abandonment and metaphorical markers of environmental trauma and contested futures. Through an interdisciplinary lens that draws from environmental sciences, media theory, and science and technology studies, participants will investigate how the remnants of mining reflect cultural memory, embody political struggles, and reveal global economic transformations. Topics will include the spectral presence of labor and exploitation, the transformation of materials into commodities, and the capacity of scarred environments to inspire new narratives of resilience, reclamation, and sustainability.
The studio emphasizes sensory ethnography, environmental mapping, and experimental data practices to uncover the human and ecological entanglements embedded in these landscapes. Participants will explore how digital sensing technologies and biogeochemical analysis can reveal hidden histories and inform future land-use decisions. Our aim is to investigate the historical development of digital data landscapes, moving beyond a mere focus on contemporary cutting-edge technologies and instead situating them within broader contexts. Through active engagement with the methods and mediums of data-making across multiple regional sites and institutional resources, participants will examine how these transformative processes are entangled with the shifting modes of knowledge production and future forecasting. This engagement will help better situate the scope of planetary experiments as they unfold on regional scales.
The research studio is open to early-career researchers and advanced practitioners. The program will cover lectures, screenings, and workshops on digital ecologies and artistic data practices, as well as two days of field trips to the Ore Mountains and Lusatia. It will result in a common online publication bringing together audiovisual and textual contributions created throughout the week. The research studio is free of charge, however participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation in Dresden. For participants who do not have institutional support we offer a limited amount of stipends. If you need travel/accommodation support please outline your situation in the motivation letter.
In order to participate in the research studio, please send us your CV, portfolio (if applicable) and a short motivation letter (one page) elaborating on your background, research interests and connection to the theme of Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures. Documents should be submitted in one PDF file (5 MB max) no later than 31.01.25 to michaela.buesse@tu-dresden.de
Organizers:
Michaela Büsse, Orit Halpern, Kristiane Fehrs, Özgün Eylül Iscen - Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.1 – Grundlagen und anwendungsorientierte Methoden der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.3 – Rechtliche Aspekte der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 2.1 – Grundlagen der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion
- GSW-MA-DH 2.2 – Grundlagen des Anforderungs- und Testmanagements
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
GSW-MA-DH 3.1
(Anwendungen der Digital Humanities)
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Seminar – Ghost Mines - Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
- Teacher
-
- Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern
- Max attendee capacity
- 10
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person - Description
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Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
Located in eastern Germany, the regions of Ore Mountains and Lusatia were heavily exploited for uranium mining and lignite (brown coal) extraction, respectively. Decades of industrial activity left behind significant environmental contamination, degraded landscapes, and disrupted ecosystems. In response, large-scale rehabilitation projects were launched to transform these post-industrial landscapes into sustainable and recreational spaces. In the case of the Ore Mountains efforts focused on cleaning up radioactive contamination and restoring the area for mixed natural and recreational uses. In Lusatia, the conversion involved flooding massive open-pit mines to create the Lusatian Lake District, an extensive network of artificial lakes. Water management played a critical role in both contexts—whether by stabilizing and decontaminating radioactive sites in the Ore Mountains or by engineering hydrological systems to manage Lusatia’s new lakes. These projects exemplify how environmental and social scars are being reimagined as opportunities for ecological regeneration, economic diversification, and sustainable futures.
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures invites participants to explore the haunting legacy of abandoned mines and extractive landscapes, questioning how these sites can inform our understanding of resource-driven histories and speculative futures. The research studio delves into the concept of "ghost mines"—both as literal sites of abandonment and metaphorical markers of environmental trauma and contested futures. Through an interdisciplinary lens that draws from environmental sciences, media theory, and science and technology studies, participants will investigate how the remnants of mining reflect cultural memory, embody political struggles, and reveal global economic transformations. Topics will include the spectral presence of labor and exploitation, the transformation of materials into commodities, and the capacity of scarred environments to inspire new narratives of resilience, reclamation, and sustainability.
The studio emphasizes sensory ethnography, environmental mapping, and experimental data practices to uncover the human and ecological entanglements embedded in these landscapes. Participants will explore how digital sensing technologies and biogeochemical analysis can reveal hidden histories and inform future land-use decisions. Our aim is to investigate the historical development of digital data landscapes, moving beyond a mere focus on contemporary cutting-edge technologies and instead situating them within broader contexts. Through active engagement with the methods and mediums of data-making across multiple regional sites and institutional resources, participants will examine how these transformative processes are entangled with the shifting modes of knowledge production and future forecasting. This engagement will help better situate the scope of planetary experiments as they unfold on regional scales.
The research studio is open to early-career researchers and advanced practitioners. The program will cover lectures, screenings, and workshops on digital ecologies and artistic data practices, as well as two days of field trips to the Ore Mountains and Lusatia. It will result in a common online publication bringing together audiovisual and textual contributions created throughout the week. The research studio is free of charge, however participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation in Dresden. For participants who do not have institutional support we offer a limited amount of stipends. If you need travel/accommodation support please outline your situation in the motivation letter.
In order to participate in the research studio, please send us your CV, portfolio (if applicable) and a short motivation letter (one page) elaborating on your background, research interests and connection to the theme of Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures. Documents should be submitted in one PDF file (5 MB max) no later than 31.01.25 to michaela.buesse@tu-dresden.de
Organizers:
Michaela Büsse, Orit Halpern, Kristiane Fehrs, Özgün Eylül Iscen - Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.1 – Grundlagen und anwendungsorientierte Methoden der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.3 – Rechtliche Aspekte der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 2.1 – Grundlagen der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion
- GSW-MA-DH 2.2 – Grundlagen des Anforderungs- und Testmanagements
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
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Seminar – Race, Borders, and Digital Technology
- Teacher
-
- Dr. Michelle Pfeifer
- Max attendee capacity
- 25
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to OSL In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to OSL3 In-person to In-person - Description
- Race, borders, and technology mediate distinctions between inside and outside, global inequalities, and hierarchies of human life. This course introduces students to foundational concepts and themes in border studies. Students will learn to understand the coproduction of race, borders, and technology and gain an understanding of how specific technologies work to identify, control, surveil and police people and space. We will focus on specific technologies including biometrics, visual, sonic and algorithmic technologies. Our course materials include readings from Science and Technology Studies, Geography, Anthropology, Political Science, Media Studies, Ethnic Studies, as well as work by artists, novelists, and essayists. Materials will cover a range of geographical areas. With the readings we will move from an understanding of borders as territorial boundaries to the internal borders of asylum procedures, immigration detention, and labor. Taking a capacious understanding of technology, we will learn to understand technology not simply as tools, but as embedded social and political phenomena, thereby challenging the perceived neutrality of technology. Throughout, we will not only pay attention to how borders and race are policed, but also look at how borders are contested through struggles over the freedom of movement and how these struggles might disturb hegemonic hierarchies of race.
- Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
GSW-MA-DH 3.2
(Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities)
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Seminar – Ghost Mines - Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
- Teacher
-
- Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern
- Max attendee capacity
- 10
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person - Description
-
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
Located in eastern Germany, the regions of Ore Mountains and Lusatia were heavily exploited for uranium mining and lignite (brown coal) extraction, respectively. Decades of industrial activity left behind significant environmental contamination, degraded landscapes, and disrupted ecosystems. In response, large-scale rehabilitation projects were launched to transform these post-industrial landscapes into sustainable and recreational spaces. In the case of the Ore Mountains efforts focused on cleaning up radioactive contamination and restoring the area for mixed natural and recreational uses. In Lusatia, the conversion involved flooding massive open-pit mines to create the Lusatian Lake District, an extensive network of artificial lakes. Water management played a critical role in both contexts—whether by stabilizing and decontaminating radioactive sites in the Ore Mountains or by engineering hydrological systems to manage Lusatia’s new lakes. These projects exemplify how environmental and social scars are being reimagined as opportunities for ecological regeneration, economic diversification, and sustainable futures.
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures invites participants to explore the haunting legacy of abandoned mines and extractive landscapes, questioning how these sites can inform our understanding of resource-driven histories and speculative futures. The research studio delves into the concept of "ghost mines"—both as literal sites of abandonment and metaphorical markers of environmental trauma and contested futures. Through an interdisciplinary lens that draws from environmental sciences, media theory, and science and technology studies, participants will investigate how the remnants of mining reflect cultural memory, embody political struggles, and reveal global economic transformations. Topics will include the spectral presence of labor and exploitation, the transformation of materials into commodities, and the capacity of scarred environments to inspire new narratives of resilience, reclamation, and sustainability.
The studio emphasizes sensory ethnography, environmental mapping, and experimental data practices to uncover the human and ecological entanglements embedded in these landscapes. Participants will explore how digital sensing technologies and biogeochemical analysis can reveal hidden histories and inform future land-use decisions. Our aim is to investigate the historical development of digital data landscapes, moving beyond a mere focus on contemporary cutting-edge technologies and instead situating them within broader contexts. Through active engagement with the methods and mediums of data-making across multiple regional sites and institutional resources, participants will examine how these transformative processes are entangled with the shifting modes of knowledge production and future forecasting. This engagement will help better situate the scope of planetary experiments as they unfold on regional scales.
The research studio is open to early-career researchers and advanced practitioners. The program will cover lectures, screenings, and workshops on digital ecologies and artistic data practices, as well as two days of field trips to the Ore Mountains and Lusatia. It will result in a common online publication bringing together audiovisual and textual contributions created throughout the week. The research studio is free of charge, however participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation in Dresden. For participants who do not have institutional support we offer a limited amount of stipends. If you need travel/accommodation support please outline your situation in the motivation letter.
In order to participate in the research studio, please send us your CV, portfolio (if applicable) and a short motivation letter (one page) elaborating on your background, research interests and connection to the theme of Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures. Documents should be submitted in one PDF file (5 MB max) no later than 31.01.25 to michaela.buesse@tu-dresden.de
Organizers:
Michaela Büsse, Orit Halpern, Kristiane Fehrs, Özgün Eylül Iscen - Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.1 – Grundlagen und anwendungsorientierte Methoden der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.3 – Rechtliche Aspekte der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 2.1 – Grundlagen der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion
- GSW-MA-DH 2.2 – Grundlagen des Anforderungs- und Testmanagements
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
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Seminar – Race, Borders, and Digital Technology
- Teacher
-
- Dr. Michelle Pfeifer
- Max attendee capacity
- 25
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to OSL In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to OSL3 In-person to In-person - Description
- Race, borders, and technology mediate distinctions between inside and outside, global inequalities, and hierarchies of human life. This course introduces students to foundational concepts and themes in border studies. Students will learn to understand the coproduction of race, borders, and technology and gain an understanding of how specific technologies work to identify, control, surveil and police people and space. We will focus on specific technologies including biometrics, visual, sonic and algorithmic technologies. Our course materials include readings from Science and Technology Studies, Geography, Anthropology, Political Science, Media Studies, Ethnic Studies, as well as work by artists, novelists, and essayists. Materials will cover a range of geographical areas. With the readings we will move from an understanding of borders as territorial boundaries to the internal borders of asylum procedures, immigration detention, and labor. Taking a capacious understanding of technology, we will learn to understand technology not simply as tools, but as embedded social and political phenomena, thereby challenging the perceived neutrality of technology. Throughout, we will not only pay attention to how borders and race are policed, but also look at how borders are contested through struggles over the freedom of movement and how these struggles might disturb hegemonic hierarchies of race.
- Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1
(Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte)
-
Seminar – Ghost Mines - Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
- Teacher
-
- Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern
- Max attendee capacity
- 10
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person - Description
-
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
Located in eastern Germany, the regions of Ore Mountains and Lusatia were heavily exploited for uranium mining and lignite (brown coal) extraction, respectively. Decades of industrial activity left behind significant environmental contamination, degraded landscapes, and disrupted ecosystems. In response, large-scale rehabilitation projects were launched to transform these post-industrial landscapes into sustainable and recreational spaces. In the case of the Ore Mountains efforts focused on cleaning up radioactive contamination and restoring the area for mixed natural and recreational uses. In Lusatia, the conversion involved flooding massive open-pit mines to create the Lusatian Lake District, an extensive network of artificial lakes. Water management played a critical role in both contexts—whether by stabilizing and decontaminating radioactive sites in the Ore Mountains or by engineering hydrological systems to manage Lusatia’s new lakes. These projects exemplify how environmental and social scars are being reimagined as opportunities for ecological regeneration, economic diversification, and sustainable futures.
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures invites participants to explore the haunting legacy of abandoned mines and extractive landscapes, questioning how these sites can inform our understanding of resource-driven histories and speculative futures. The research studio delves into the concept of "ghost mines"—both as literal sites of abandonment and metaphorical markers of environmental trauma and contested futures. Through an interdisciplinary lens that draws from environmental sciences, media theory, and science and technology studies, participants will investigate how the remnants of mining reflect cultural memory, embody political struggles, and reveal global economic transformations. Topics will include the spectral presence of labor and exploitation, the transformation of materials into commodities, and the capacity of scarred environments to inspire new narratives of resilience, reclamation, and sustainability.
The studio emphasizes sensory ethnography, environmental mapping, and experimental data practices to uncover the human and ecological entanglements embedded in these landscapes. Participants will explore how digital sensing technologies and biogeochemical analysis can reveal hidden histories and inform future land-use decisions. Our aim is to investigate the historical development of digital data landscapes, moving beyond a mere focus on contemporary cutting-edge technologies and instead situating them within broader contexts. Through active engagement with the methods and mediums of data-making across multiple regional sites and institutional resources, participants will examine how these transformative processes are entangled with the shifting modes of knowledge production and future forecasting. This engagement will help better situate the scope of planetary experiments as they unfold on regional scales.
The research studio is open to early-career researchers and advanced practitioners. The program will cover lectures, screenings, and workshops on digital ecologies and artistic data practices, as well as two days of field trips to the Ore Mountains and Lusatia. It will result in a common online publication bringing together audiovisual and textual contributions created throughout the week. The research studio is free of charge, however participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation in Dresden. For participants who do not have institutional support we offer a limited amount of stipends. If you need travel/accommodation support please outline your situation in the motivation letter.
In order to participate in the research studio, please send us your CV, portfolio (if applicable) and a short motivation letter (one page) elaborating on your background, research interests and connection to the theme of Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures. Documents should be submitted in one PDF file (5 MB max) no later than 31.01.25 to michaela.buesse@tu-dresden.de
Organizers:
Michaela Büsse, Orit Halpern, Kristiane Fehrs, Özgün Eylül Iscen - Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.1 – Grundlagen und anwendungsorientierte Methoden der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.3 – Rechtliche Aspekte der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 2.1 – Grundlagen der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion
- GSW-MA-DH 2.2 – Grundlagen des Anforderungs- und Testmanagements
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
-
Seminar – Race, Borders, and Digital Technology
- Teacher
-
- Dr. Michelle Pfeifer
- Max attendee capacity
- 25
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to OSL In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to OSL3 In-person to In-person - Description
- Race, borders, and technology mediate distinctions between inside and outside, global inequalities, and hierarchies of human life. This course introduces students to foundational concepts and themes in border studies. Students will learn to understand the coproduction of race, borders, and technology and gain an understanding of how specific technologies work to identify, control, surveil and police people and space. We will focus on specific technologies including biometrics, visual, sonic and algorithmic technologies. Our course materials include readings from Science and Technology Studies, Geography, Anthropology, Political Science, Media Studies, Ethnic Studies, as well as work by artists, novelists, and essayists. Materials will cover a range of geographical areas. With the readings we will move from an understanding of borders as territorial boundaries to the internal borders of asylum procedures, immigration detention, and labor. Taking a capacious understanding of technology, we will learn to understand technology not simply as tools, but as embedded social and political phenomena, thereby challenging the perceived neutrality of technology. Throughout, we will not only pay attention to how borders and race are policed, but also look at how borders are contested through struggles over the freedom of movement and how these struggles might disturb hegemonic hierarchies of race.
- Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2
(Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte)
-
Seminar – Ghost Mines - Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
- Teacher
-
- Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern
- Max attendee capacity
- 10
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person - Description
-
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
Located in eastern Germany, the regions of Ore Mountains and Lusatia were heavily exploited for uranium mining and lignite (brown coal) extraction, respectively. Decades of industrial activity left behind significant environmental contamination, degraded landscapes, and disrupted ecosystems. In response, large-scale rehabilitation projects were launched to transform these post-industrial landscapes into sustainable and recreational spaces. In the case of the Ore Mountains efforts focused on cleaning up radioactive contamination and restoring the area for mixed natural and recreational uses. In Lusatia, the conversion involved flooding massive open-pit mines to create the Lusatian Lake District, an extensive network of artificial lakes. Water management played a critical role in both contexts—whether by stabilizing and decontaminating radioactive sites in the Ore Mountains or by engineering hydrological systems to manage Lusatia’s new lakes. These projects exemplify how environmental and social scars are being reimagined as opportunities for ecological regeneration, economic diversification, and sustainable futures.
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures invites participants to explore the haunting legacy of abandoned mines and extractive landscapes, questioning how these sites can inform our understanding of resource-driven histories and speculative futures. The research studio delves into the concept of "ghost mines"—both as literal sites of abandonment and metaphorical markers of environmental trauma and contested futures. Through an interdisciplinary lens that draws from environmental sciences, media theory, and science and technology studies, participants will investigate how the remnants of mining reflect cultural memory, embody political struggles, and reveal global economic transformations. Topics will include the spectral presence of labor and exploitation, the transformation of materials into commodities, and the capacity of scarred environments to inspire new narratives of resilience, reclamation, and sustainability.
The studio emphasizes sensory ethnography, environmental mapping, and experimental data practices to uncover the human and ecological entanglements embedded in these landscapes. Participants will explore how digital sensing technologies and biogeochemical analysis can reveal hidden histories and inform future land-use decisions. Our aim is to investigate the historical development of digital data landscapes, moving beyond a mere focus on contemporary cutting-edge technologies and instead situating them within broader contexts. Through active engagement with the methods and mediums of data-making across multiple regional sites and institutional resources, participants will examine how these transformative processes are entangled with the shifting modes of knowledge production and future forecasting. This engagement will help better situate the scope of planetary experiments as they unfold on regional scales.
The research studio is open to early-career researchers and advanced practitioners. The program will cover lectures, screenings, and workshops on digital ecologies and artistic data practices, as well as two days of field trips to the Ore Mountains and Lusatia. It will result in a common online publication bringing together audiovisual and textual contributions created throughout the week. The research studio is free of charge, however participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation in Dresden. For participants who do not have institutional support we offer a limited amount of stipends. If you need travel/accommodation support please outline your situation in the motivation letter.
In order to participate in the research studio, please send us your CV, portfolio (if applicable) and a short motivation letter (one page) elaborating on your background, research interests and connection to the theme of Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures. Documents should be submitted in one PDF file (5 MB max) no later than 31.01.25 to michaela.buesse@tu-dresden.de
Organizers:
Michaela Büsse, Orit Halpern, Kristiane Fehrs, Özgün Eylül Iscen - Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.1 – Grundlagen und anwendungsorientierte Methoden der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.3 – Rechtliche Aspekte der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 2.1 – Grundlagen der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion
- GSW-MA-DH 2.2 – Grundlagen des Anforderungs- und Testmanagements
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
-
Seminar – Race, Borders, and Digital Technology
- Teacher
-
- Dr. Michelle Pfeifer
- Max attendee capacity
- 25
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to OSL In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to OSL3 In-person to In-person - Description
- Race, borders, and technology mediate distinctions between inside and outside, global inequalities, and hierarchies of human life. This course introduces students to foundational concepts and themes in border studies. Students will learn to understand the coproduction of race, borders, and technology and gain an understanding of how specific technologies work to identify, control, surveil and police people and space. We will focus on specific technologies including biometrics, visual, sonic and algorithmic technologies. Our course materials include readings from Science and Technology Studies, Geography, Anthropology, Political Science, Media Studies, Ethnic Studies, as well as work by artists, novelists, and essayists. Materials will cover a range of geographical areas. With the readings we will move from an understanding of borders as territorial boundaries to the internal borders of asylum procedures, immigration detention, and labor. Taking a capacious understanding of technology, we will learn to understand technology not simply as tools, but as embedded social and political phenomena, thereby challenging the perceived neutrality of technology. Throughout, we will not only pay attention to how borders and race are policed, but also look at how borders are contested through struggles over the freedom of movement and how these struggles might disturb hegemonic hierarchies of race.
- Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1
(Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild)
-
Seminar – Ghost Mines - Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
- Teacher
-
- Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern
- Max attendee capacity
- 10
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person - Description
-
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
Located in eastern Germany, the regions of Ore Mountains and Lusatia were heavily exploited for uranium mining and lignite (brown coal) extraction, respectively. Decades of industrial activity left behind significant environmental contamination, degraded landscapes, and disrupted ecosystems. In response, large-scale rehabilitation projects were launched to transform these post-industrial landscapes into sustainable and recreational spaces. In the case of the Ore Mountains efforts focused on cleaning up radioactive contamination and restoring the area for mixed natural and recreational uses. In Lusatia, the conversion involved flooding massive open-pit mines to create the Lusatian Lake District, an extensive network of artificial lakes. Water management played a critical role in both contexts—whether by stabilizing and decontaminating radioactive sites in the Ore Mountains or by engineering hydrological systems to manage Lusatia’s new lakes. These projects exemplify how environmental and social scars are being reimagined as opportunities for ecological regeneration, economic diversification, and sustainable futures.
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures invites participants to explore the haunting legacy of abandoned mines and extractive landscapes, questioning how these sites can inform our understanding of resource-driven histories and speculative futures. The research studio delves into the concept of "ghost mines"—both as literal sites of abandonment and metaphorical markers of environmental trauma and contested futures. Through an interdisciplinary lens that draws from environmental sciences, media theory, and science and technology studies, participants will investigate how the remnants of mining reflect cultural memory, embody political struggles, and reveal global economic transformations. Topics will include the spectral presence of labor and exploitation, the transformation of materials into commodities, and the capacity of scarred environments to inspire new narratives of resilience, reclamation, and sustainability.
The studio emphasizes sensory ethnography, environmental mapping, and experimental data practices to uncover the human and ecological entanglements embedded in these landscapes. Participants will explore how digital sensing technologies and biogeochemical analysis can reveal hidden histories and inform future land-use decisions. Our aim is to investigate the historical development of digital data landscapes, moving beyond a mere focus on contemporary cutting-edge technologies and instead situating them within broader contexts. Through active engagement with the methods and mediums of data-making across multiple regional sites and institutional resources, participants will examine how these transformative processes are entangled with the shifting modes of knowledge production and future forecasting. This engagement will help better situate the scope of planetary experiments as they unfold on regional scales.
The research studio is open to early-career researchers and advanced practitioners. The program will cover lectures, screenings, and workshops on digital ecologies and artistic data practices, as well as two days of field trips to the Ore Mountains and Lusatia. It will result in a common online publication bringing together audiovisual and textual contributions created throughout the week. The research studio is free of charge, however participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation in Dresden. For participants who do not have institutional support we offer a limited amount of stipends. If you need travel/accommodation support please outline your situation in the motivation letter.
In order to participate in the research studio, please send us your CV, portfolio (if applicable) and a short motivation letter (one page) elaborating on your background, research interests and connection to the theme of Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures. Documents should be submitted in one PDF file (5 MB max) no later than 31.01.25 to michaela.buesse@tu-dresden.de
Organizers:
Michaela Büsse, Orit Halpern, Kristiane Fehrs, Özgün Eylül Iscen - Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.1 – Grundlagen und anwendungsorientierte Methoden der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.3 – Rechtliche Aspekte der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 2.1 – Grundlagen der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion
- GSW-MA-DH 2.2 – Grundlagen des Anforderungs- und Testmanagements
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
-
Seminar – Race, Borders, and Digital Technology
- Teacher
-
- Dr. Michelle Pfeifer
- Max attendee capacity
- 25
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to OSL In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to OSL3 In-person to In-person - Description
- Race, borders, and technology mediate distinctions between inside and outside, global inequalities, and hierarchies of human life. This course introduces students to foundational concepts and themes in border studies. Students will learn to understand the coproduction of race, borders, and technology and gain an understanding of how specific technologies work to identify, control, surveil and police people and space. We will focus on specific technologies including biometrics, visual, sonic and algorithmic technologies. Our course materials include readings from Science and Technology Studies, Geography, Anthropology, Political Science, Media Studies, Ethnic Studies, as well as work by artists, novelists, and essayists. Materials will cover a range of geographical areas. With the readings we will move from an understanding of borders as territorial boundaries to the internal borders of asylum procedures, immigration detention, and labor. Taking a capacious understanding of technology, we will learn to understand technology not simply as tools, but as embedded social and political phenomena, thereby challenging the perceived neutrality of technology. Throughout, we will not only pay attention to how borders and race are policed, but also look at how borders are contested through struggles over the freedom of movement and how these struggles might disturb hegemonic hierarchies of race.
- Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2
(Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild)
-
Seminar – Ghost Mines - Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
- Teacher
-
- Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern
- Max attendee capacity
- 10
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person - Description
-
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
Located in eastern Germany, the regions of Ore Mountains and Lusatia were heavily exploited for uranium mining and lignite (brown coal) extraction, respectively. Decades of industrial activity left behind significant environmental contamination, degraded landscapes, and disrupted ecosystems. In response, large-scale rehabilitation projects were launched to transform these post-industrial landscapes into sustainable and recreational spaces. In the case of the Ore Mountains efforts focused on cleaning up radioactive contamination and restoring the area for mixed natural and recreational uses. In Lusatia, the conversion involved flooding massive open-pit mines to create the Lusatian Lake District, an extensive network of artificial lakes. Water management played a critical role in both contexts—whether by stabilizing and decontaminating radioactive sites in the Ore Mountains or by engineering hydrological systems to manage Lusatia’s new lakes. These projects exemplify how environmental and social scars are being reimagined as opportunities for ecological regeneration, economic diversification, and sustainable futures.
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures invites participants to explore the haunting legacy of abandoned mines and extractive landscapes, questioning how these sites can inform our understanding of resource-driven histories and speculative futures. The research studio delves into the concept of "ghost mines"—both as literal sites of abandonment and metaphorical markers of environmental trauma and contested futures. Through an interdisciplinary lens that draws from environmental sciences, media theory, and science and technology studies, participants will investigate how the remnants of mining reflect cultural memory, embody political struggles, and reveal global economic transformations. Topics will include the spectral presence of labor and exploitation, the transformation of materials into commodities, and the capacity of scarred environments to inspire new narratives of resilience, reclamation, and sustainability.
The studio emphasizes sensory ethnography, environmental mapping, and experimental data practices to uncover the human and ecological entanglements embedded in these landscapes. Participants will explore how digital sensing technologies and biogeochemical analysis can reveal hidden histories and inform future land-use decisions. Our aim is to investigate the historical development of digital data landscapes, moving beyond a mere focus on contemporary cutting-edge technologies and instead situating them within broader contexts. Through active engagement with the methods and mediums of data-making across multiple regional sites and institutional resources, participants will examine how these transformative processes are entangled with the shifting modes of knowledge production and future forecasting. This engagement will help better situate the scope of planetary experiments as they unfold on regional scales.
The research studio is open to early-career researchers and advanced practitioners. The program will cover lectures, screenings, and workshops on digital ecologies and artistic data practices, as well as two days of field trips to the Ore Mountains and Lusatia. It will result in a common online publication bringing together audiovisual and textual contributions created throughout the week. The research studio is free of charge, however participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation in Dresden. For participants who do not have institutional support we offer a limited amount of stipends. If you need travel/accommodation support please outline your situation in the motivation letter.
In order to participate in the research studio, please send us your CV, portfolio (if applicable) and a short motivation letter (one page) elaborating on your background, research interests and connection to the theme of Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures. Documents should be submitted in one PDF file (5 MB max) no later than 31.01.25 to michaela.buesse@tu-dresden.de
Organizers:
Michaela Büsse, Orit Halpern, Kristiane Fehrs, Özgün Eylül Iscen - Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.1 – Grundlagen und anwendungsorientierte Methoden der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.3 – Rechtliche Aspekte der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 2.1 – Grundlagen der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion
- GSW-MA-DH 2.2 – Grundlagen des Anforderungs- und Testmanagements
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
-
Seminar – Race, Borders, and Digital Technology
- Teacher
-
- Dr. Michelle Pfeifer
- Max attendee capacity
- 25
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to OSL In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to OSL3 In-person to In-person - Description
- Race, borders, and technology mediate distinctions between inside and outside, global inequalities, and hierarchies of human life. This course introduces students to foundational concepts and themes in border studies. Students will learn to understand the coproduction of race, borders, and technology and gain an understanding of how specific technologies work to identify, control, surveil and police people and space. We will focus on specific technologies including biometrics, visual, sonic and algorithmic technologies. Our course materials include readings from Science and Technology Studies, Geography, Anthropology, Political Science, Media Studies, Ethnic Studies, as well as work by artists, novelists, and essayists. Materials will cover a range of geographical areas. With the readings we will move from an understanding of borders as territorial boundaries to the internal borders of asylum procedures, immigration detention, and labor. Taking a capacious understanding of technology, we will learn to understand technology not simply as tools, but as embedded social and political phenomena, thereby challenging the perceived neutrality of technology. Throughout, we will not only pay attention to how borders and race are policed, but also look at how borders are contested through struggles over the freedom of movement and how these struggles might disturb hegemonic hierarchies of race.
- Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1
(Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung)
-
Seminar – Ghost Mines - Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
- Teacher
-
- Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern
- Max attendee capacity
- 10
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person - Description
-
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
Located in eastern Germany, the regions of Ore Mountains and Lusatia were heavily exploited for uranium mining and lignite (brown coal) extraction, respectively. Decades of industrial activity left behind significant environmental contamination, degraded landscapes, and disrupted ecosystems. In response, large-scale rehabilitation projects were launched to transform these post-industrial landscapes into sustainable and recreational spaces. In the case of the Ore Mountains efforts focused on cleaning up radioactive contamination and restoring the area for mixed natural and recreational uses. In Lusatia, the conversion involved flooding massive open-pit mines to create the Lusatian Lake District, an extensive network of artificial lakes. Water management played a critical role in both contexts—whether by stabilizing and decontaminating radioactive sites in the Ore Mountains or by engineering hydrological systems to manage Lusatia’s new lakes. These projects exemplify how environmental and social scars are being reimagined as opportunities for ecological regeneration, economic diversification, and sustainable futures.
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures invites participants to explore the haunting legacy of abandoned mines and extractive landscapes, questioning how these sites can inform our understanding of resource-driven histories and speculative futures. The research studio delves into the concept of "ghost mines"—both as literal sites of abandonment and metaphorical markers of environmental trauma and contested futures. Through an interdisciplinary lens that draws from environmental sciences, media theory, and science and technology studies, participants will investigate how the remnants of mining reflect cultural memory, embody political struggles, and reveal global economic transformations. Topics will include the spectral presence of labor and exploitation, the transformation of materials into commodities, and the capacity of scarred environments to inspire new narratives of resilience, reclamation, and sustainability.
The studio emphasizes sensory ethnography, environmental mapping, and experimental data practices to uncover the human and ecological entanglements embedded in these landscapes. Participants will explore how digital sensing technologies and biogeochemical analysis can reveal hidden histories and inform future land-use decisions. Our aim is to investigate the historical development of digital data landscapes, moving beyond a mere focus on contemporary cutting-edge technologies and instead situating them within broader contexts. Through active engagement with the methods and mediums of data-making across multiple regional sites and institutional resources, participants will examine how these transformative processes are entangled with the shifting modes of knowledge production and future forecasting. This engagement will help better situate the scope of planetary experiments as they unfold on regional scales.
The research studio is open to early-career researchers and advanced practitioners. The program will cover lectures, screenings, and workshops on digital ecologies and artistic data practices, as well as two days of field trips to the Ore Mountains and Lusatia. It will result in a common online publication bringing together audiovisual and textual contributions created throughout the week. The research studio is free of charge, however participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation in Dresden. For participants who do not have institutional support we offer a limited amount of stipends. If you need travel/accommodation support please outline your situation in the motivation letter.
In order to participate in the research studio, please send us your CV, portfolio (if applicable) and a short motivation letter (one page) elaborating on your background, research interests and connection to the theme of Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures. Documents should be submitted in one PDF file (5 MB max) no later than 31.01.25 to michaela.buesse@tu-dresden.de
Organizers:
Michaela Büsse, Orit Halpern, Kristiane Fehrs, Özgün Eylül Iscen - Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.1 – Grundlagen und anwendungsorientierte Methoden der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.3 – Rechtliche Aspekte der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 2.1 – Grundlagen der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion
- GSW-MA-DH 2.2 – Grundlagen des Anforderungs- und Testmanagements
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
-
Seminar – Race, Borders, and Digital Technology
- Teacher
-
- Dr. Michelle Pfeifer
- Max attendee capacity
- 25
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to OSL In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to OSL3 In-person to In-person - Description
- Race, borders, and technology mediate distinctions between inside and outside, global inequalities, and hierarchies of human life. This course introduces students to foundational concepts and themes in border studies. Students will learn to understand the coproduction of race, borders, and technology and gain an understanding of how specific technologies work to identify, control, surveil and police people and space. We will focus on specific technologies including biometrics, visual, sonic and algorithmic technologies. Our course materials include readings from Science and Technology Studies, Geography, Anthropology, Political Science, Media Studies, Ethnic Studies, as well as work by artists, novelists, and essayists. Materials will cover a range of geographical areas. With the readings we will move from an understanding of borders as territorial boundaries to the internal borders of asylum procedures, immigration detention, and labor. Taking a capacious understanding of technology, we will learn to understand technology not simply as tools, but as embedded social and political phenomena, thereby challenging the perceived neutrality of technology. Throughout, we will not only pay attention to how borders and race are policed, but also look at how borders are contested through struggles over the freedom of movement and how these struggles might disturb hegemonic hierarchies of race.
- Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2
(Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung)
-
Seminar – Ghost Mines - Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
- Teacher
-
- Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern
- Max attendee capacity
- 10
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person - Description
-
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
Located in eastern Germany, the regions of Ore Mountains and Lusatia were heavily exploited for uranium mining and lignite (brown coal) extraction, respectively. Decades of industrial activity left behind significant environmental contamination, degraded landscapes, and disrupted ecosystems. In response, large-scale rehabilitation projects were launched to transform these post-industrial landscapes into sustainable and recreational spaces. In the case of the Ore Mountains efforts focused on cleaning up radioactive contamination and restoring the area for mixed natural and recreational uses. In Lusatia, the conversion involved flooding massive open-pit mines to create the Lusatian Lake District, an extensive network of artificial lakes. Water management played a critical role in both contexts—whether by stabilizing and decontaminating radioactive sites in the Ore Mountains or by engineering hydrological systems to manage Lusatia’s new lakes. These projects exemplify how environmental and social scars are being reimagined as opportunities for ecological regeneration, economic diversification, and sustainable futures.
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures invites participants to explore the haunting legacy of abandoned mines and extractive landscapes, questioning how these sites can inform our understanding of resource-driven histories and speculative futures. The research studio delves into the concept of "ghost mines"—both as literal sites of abandonment and metaphorical markers of environmental trauma and contested futures. Through an interdisciplinary lens that draws from environmental sciences, media theory, and science and technology studies, participants will investigate how the remnants of mining reflect cultural memory, embody political struggles, and reveal global economic transformations. Topics will include the spectral presence of labor and exploitation, the transformation of materials into commodities, and the capacity of scarred environments to inspire new narratives of resilience, reclamation, and sustainability.
The studio emphasizes sensory ethnography, environmental mapping, and experimental data practices to uncover the human and ecological entanglements embedded in these landscapes. Participants will explore how digital sensing technologies and biogeochemical analysis can reveal hidden histories and inform future land-use decisions. Our aim is to investigate the historical development of digital data landscapes, moving beyond a mere focus on contemporary cutting-edge technologies and instead situating them within broader contexts. Through active engagement with the methods and mediums of data-making across multiple regional sites and institutional resources, participants will examine how these transformative processes are entangled with the shifting modes of knowledge production and future forecasting. This engagement will help better situate the scope of planetary experiments as they unfold on regional scales.
The research studio is open to early-career researchers and advanced practitioners. The program will cover lectures, screenings, and workshops on digital ecologies and artistic data practices, as well as two days of field trips to the Ore Mountains and Lusatia. It will result in a common online publication bringing together audiovisual and textual contributions created throughout the week. The research studio is free of charge, however participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation in Dresden. For participants who do not have institutional support we offer a limited amount of stipends. If you need travel/accommodation support please outline your situation in the motivation letter.
In order to participate in the research studio, please send us your CV, portfolio (if applicable) and a short motivation letter (one page) elaborating on your background, research interests and connection to the theme of Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures. Documents should be submitted in one PDF file (5 MB max) no later than 31.01.25 to michaela.buesse@tu-dresden.de
Organizers:
Michaela Büsse, Orit Halpern, Kristiane Fehrs, Özgün Eylül Iscen - Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.1 – Grundlagen und anwendungsorientierte Methoden der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.3 – Rechtliche Aspekte der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 2.1 – Grundlagen der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion
- GSW-MA-DH 2.2 – Grundlagen des Anforderungs- und Testmanagements
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
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Seminar – Race, Borders, and Digital Technology
- Teacher
-
- Dr. Michelle Pfeifer
- Max attendee capacity
- 25
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to OSL In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to OSL3 In-person to In-person - Description
- Race, borders, and technology mediate distinctions between inside and outside, global inequalities, and hierarchies of human life. This course introduces students to foundational concepts and themes in border studies. Students will learn to understand the coproduction of race, borders, and technology and gain an understanding of how specific technologies work to identify, control, surveil and police people and space. We will focus on specific technologies including biometrics, visual, sonic and algorithmic technologies. Our course materials include readings from Science and Technology Studies, Geography, Anthropology, Political Science, Media Studies, Ethnic Studies, as well as work by artists, novelists, and essayists. Materials will cover a range of geographical areas. With the readings we will move from an understanding of borders as territorial boundaries to the internal borders of asylum procedures, immigration detention, and labor. Taking a capacious understanding of technology, we will learn to understand technology not simply as tools, but as embedded social and political phenomena, thereby challenging the perceived neutrality of technology. Throughout, we will not only pay attention to how borders and race are policed, but also look at how borders are contested through struggles over the freedom of movement and how these struggles might disturb hegemonic hierarchies of race.
- Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1
(Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur)
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Seminar – [Ling - Lange] - Language Research Lab
- Teacher
-
- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Max attendee capacity
- 40
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Ab 04.04.2025, 10 Uhr bei OPAL
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to W48/ABS/BSS In-person to W48/ABS/BSS In-person to W48/ABS/BSS In-person to W48/ABS/BSS In-person to W48/ABS/BSS In-person to W48/ABS/BSS In-person - Description
- This course will take you straight into the fascinating world of research on language(s). We will work together to explore different approaches to doing empirical research, among them corpuslinguistic tools and resources, methods for studying language attitudes such as surveys and dialect maps, ideas for investigating language contact phenomena and multilingualism, linguistic landscape research, and other fields that you would like to tackle – bring your ideas and interests along! We will also consider how to come up with a research hypothesis, how to handle empirical data, and how to present your research project in the form of a poster.
- Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
-
Seminar – Ghost Mines - Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
- Teacher
-
- Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern
- Max attendee capacity
- 10
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person - Description
-
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
Located in eastern Germany, the regions of Ore Mountains and Lusatia were heavily exploited for uranium mining and lignite (brown coal) extraction, respectively. Decades of industrial activity left behind significant environmental contamination, degraded landscapes, and disrupted ecosystems. In response, large-scale rehabilitation projects were launched to transform these post-industrial landscapes into sustainable and recreational spaces. In the case of the Ore Mountains efforts focused on cleaning up radioactive contamination and restoring the area for mixed natural and recreational uses. In Lusatia, the conversion involved flooding massive open-pit mines to create the Lusatian Lake District, an extensive network of artificial lakes. Water management played a critical role in both contexts—whether by stabilizing and decontaminating radioactive sites in the Ore Mountains or by engineering hydrological systems to manage Lusatia’s new lakes. These projects exemplify how environmental and social scars are being reimagined as opportunities for ecological regeneration, economic diversification, and sustainable futures.
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures invites participants to explore the haunting legacy of abandoned mines and extractive landscapes, questioning how these sites can inform our understanding of resource-driven histories and speculative futures. The research studio delves into the concept of "ghost mines"—both as literal sites of abandonment and metaphorical markers of environmental trauma and contested futures. Through an interdisciplinary lens that draws from environmental sciences, media theory, and science and technology studies, participants will investigate how the remnants of mining reflect cultural memory, embody political struggles, and reveal global economic transformations. Topics will include the spectral presence of labor and exploitation, the transformation of materials into commodities, and the capacity of scarred environments to inspire new narratives of resilience, reclamation, and sustainability.
The studio emphasizes sensory ethnography, environmental mapping, and experimental data practices to uncover the human and ecological entanglements embedded in these landscapes. Participants will explore how digital sensing technologies and biogeochemical analysis can reveal hidden histories and inform future land-use decisions. Our aim is to investigate the historical development of digital data landscapes, moving beyond a mere focus on contemporary cutting-edge technologies and instead situating them within broader contexts. Through active engagement with the methods and mediums of data-making across multiple regional sites and institutional resources, participants will examine how these transformative processes are entangled with the shifting modes of knowledge production and future forecasting. This engagement will help better situate the scope of planetary experiments as they unfold on regional scales.
The research studio is open to early-career researchers and advanced practitioners. The program will cover lectures, screenings, and workshops on digital ecologies and artistic data practices, as well as two days of field trips to the Ore Mountains and Lusatia. It will result in a common online publication bringing together audiovisual and textual contributions created throughout the week. The research studio is free of charge, however participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation in Dresden. For participants who do not have institutional support we offer a limited amount of stipends. If you need travel/accommodation support please outline your situation in the motivation letter.
In order to participate in the research studio, please send us your CV, portfolio (if applicable) and a short motivation letter (one page) elaborating on your background, research interests and connection to the theme of Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures. Documents should be submitted in one PDF file (5 MB max) no later than 31.01.25 to michaela.buesse@tu-dresden.de
Organizers:
Michaela Büsse, Orit Halpern, Kristiane Fehrs, Özgün Eylül Iscen - Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.1 – Grundlagen und anwendungsorientierte Methoden der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.3 – Rechtliche Aspekte der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 2.1 – Grundlagen der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion
- GSW-MA-DH 2.2 – Grundlagen des Anforderungs- und Testmanagements
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
-
Seminar – Race, Borders, and Digital Technology
- Teacher
-
- Dr. Michelle Pfeifer
- Max attendee capacity
- 25
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to OSL In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to OSL3 In-person to In-person - Description
- Race, borders, and technology mediate distinctions between inside and outside, global inequalities, and hierarchies of human life. This course introduces students to foundational concepts and themes in border studies. Students will learn to understand the coproduction of race, borders, and technology and gain an understanding of how specific technologies work to identify, control, surveil and police people and space. We will focus on specific technologies including biometrics, visual, sonic and algorithmic technologies. Our course materials include readings from Science and Technology Studies, Geography, Anthropology, Political Science, Media Studies, Ethnic Studies, as well as work by artists, novelists, and essayists. Materials will cover a range of geographical areas. With the readings we will move from an understanding of borders as territorial boundaries to the internal borders of asylum procedures, immigration detention, and labor. Taking a capacious understanding of technology, we will learn to understand technology not simply as tools, but as embedded social and political phenomena, thereby challenging the perceived neutrality of technology. Throughout, we will not only pay attention to how borders and race are policed, but also look at how borders are contested through struggles over the freedom of movement and how these struggles might disturb hegemonic hierarchies of race.
- Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2
(Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur)
-
Seminar – [Ling - Lange] - Language Research Lab
- Teacher
-
- Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
- Max attendee capacity
- 40
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Ab 04.04.2025, 10 Uhr bei OPAL
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to W48/ABS/BSS In-person to W48/ABS/BSS In-person to W48/ABS/BSS In-person to W48/ABS/BSS In-person to W48/ABS/BSS In-person to W48/ABS/BSS In-person - Description
- This course will take you straight into the fascinating world of research on language(s). We will work together to explore different approaches to doing empirical research, among them corpuslinguistic tools and resources, methods for studying language attitudes such as surveys and dialect maps, ideas for investigating language contact phenomena and multilingualism, linguistic landscape research, and other fields that you would like to tackle – bring your ideas and interests along! We will also consider how to come up with a research hypothesis, how to handle empirical data, and how to present your research project in the form of a poster.
- Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
-
Seminar – Ghost Mines - Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
- Teacher
-
- Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern
- Max attendee capacity
- 10
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person to ABS In-person - Description
-
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures
Located in eastern Germany, the regions of Ore Mountains and Lusatia were heavily exploited for uranium mining and lignite (brown coal) extraction, respectively. Decades of industrial activity left behind significant environmental contamination, degraded landscapes, and disrupted ecosystems. In response, large-scale rehabilitation projects were launched to transform these post-industrial landscapes into sustainable and recreational spaces. In the case of the Ore Mountains efforts focused on cleaning up radioactive contamination and restoring the area for mixed natural and recreational uses. In Lusatia, the conversion involved flooding massive open-pit mines to create the Lusatian Lake District, an extensive network of artificial lakes. Water management played a critical role in both contexts—whether by stabilizing and decontaminating radioactive sites in the Ore Mountains or by engineering hydrological systems to manage Lusatia’s new lakes. These projects exemplify how environmental and social scars are being reimagined as opportunities for ecological regeneration, economic diversification, and sustainable futures.
Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures invites participants to explore the haunting legacy of abandoned mines and extractive landscapes, questioning how these sites can inform our understanding of resource-driven histories and speculative futures. The research studio delves into the concept of "ghost mines"—both as literal sites of abandonment and metaphorical markers of environmental trauma and contested futures. Through an interdisciplinary lens that draws from environmental sciences, media theory, and science and technology studies, participants will investigate how the remnants of mining reflect cultural memory, embody political struggles, and reveal global economic transformations. Topics will include the spectral presence of labor and exploitation, the transformation of materials into commodities, and the capacity of scarred environments to inspire new narratives of resilience, reclamation, and sustainability.
The studio emphasizes sensory ethnography, environmental mapping, and experimental data practices to uncover the human and ecological entanglements embedded in these landscapes. Participants will explore how digital sensing technologies and biogeochemical analysis can reveal hidden histories and inform future land-use decisions. Our aim is to investigate the historical development of digital data landscapes, moving beyond a mere focus on contemporary cutting-edge technologies and instead situating them within broader contexts. Through active engagement with the methods and mediums of data-making across multiple regional sites and institutional resources, participants will examine how these transformative processes are entangled with the shifting modes of knowledge production and future forecasting. This engagement will help better situate the scope of planetary experiments as they unfold on regional scales.
The research studio is open to early-career researchers and advanced practitioners. The program will cover lectures, screenings, and workshops on digital ecologies and artistic data practices, as well as two days of field trips to the Ore Mountains and Lusatia. It will result in a common online publication bringing together audiovisual and textual contributions created throughout the week. The research studio is free of charge, however participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation in Dresden. For participants who do not have institutional support we offer a limited amount of stipends. If you need travel/accommodation support please outline your situation in the motivation letter.
In order to participate in the research studio, please send us your CV, portfolio (if applicable) and a short motivation letter (one page) elaborating on your background, research interests and connection to the theme of Ghost Mines—Sensing Pasts, Casting Futures. Documents should be submitted in one PDF file (5 MB max) no later than 31.01.25 to michaela.buesse@tu-dresden.de
Organizers:
Michaela Büsse, Orit Halpern, Kristiane Fehrs, Özgün Eylül Iscen - Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.1 – Grundlagen und anwendungsorientierte Methoden der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 1.3 – Rechtliche Aspekte der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 2.1 – Grundlagen der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion
- GSW-MA-DH 2.2 – Grundlagen des Anforderungs- und Testmanagements
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
-
Seminar – Race, Borders, and Digital Technology
- Teacher
-
- Dr. Michelle Pfeifer
- Max attendee capacity
- 25
- Enrollment
-
- Enrollment via
- Enroll via url
- Enrollment deadline
- From
- Appointments
-
Date Clock time Place Event format to OSL In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to In-person to OSL3 In-person to In-person - Description
- Race, borders, and technology mediate distinctions between inside and outside, global inequalities, and hierarchies of human life. This course introduces students to foundational concepts and themes in border studies. Students will learn to understand the coproduction of race, borders, and technology and gain an understanding of how specific technologies work to identify, control, surveil and police people and space. We will focus on specific technologies including biometrics, visual, sonic and algorithmic technologies. Our course materials include readings from Science and Technology Studies, Geography, Anthropology, Political Science, Media Studies, Ethnic Studies, as well as work by artists, novelists, and essayists. Materials will cover a range of geographical areas. With the readings we will move from an understanding of borders as territorial boundaries to the internal borders of asylum procedures, immigration detention, and labor. Taking a capacious understanding of technology, we will learn to understand technology not simply as tools, but as embedded social and political phenomena, thereby challenging the perceived neutrality of technology. Throughout, we will not only pay attention to how borders and race are policed, but also look at how borders are contested through struggles over the freedom of movement and how these struggles might disturb hegemonic hierarchies of race.
- Assignments
-
- Modular
-
- GSW-MA-DH 1.2 – Inter- und transdisziplinäre Projektentwicklung in den Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.1 – Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH 3.2 – Vernetzte Anwendungen der Digital Humanities
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-GG 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Gesellschaft und Geschichte
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-KB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Kunst und Bild
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SB 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Schule und Bildung
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 1 – Grundlagen fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur
- GSW-MA-DH-WP-SL 2 – Vertiefung fachspezifischer Digital Humanities – Sprache und Literatur