Dr. Gerben Zaagsma
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Faculty or Centre | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | ||||
Department | Contemporary European History | ||||
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Université du Luxembourg Maison des Sciences Humaines 11, Porte des Sciences L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette |
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Campus Office | MSH, E04 25-430 | ||||
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Telephone | (+352) 46 66 44 6208 | ||||
Gerben Zaagsma holds a Ph.D. in modern history from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. His main research and teaching interests are modern Jewish history, digital history, and music history.
Within the context of digital history he is particularly interested in the epistemological implications of using new technologies in historical research, as well as the politics of digitisation and digitised cultural heritage. He is also the project lead and one of the editors of the portal #DHJewish - Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities.
Gerben currently works on two main research projects, both of which focus on different aspects of the history of knowledge:
- A new book project explores the history and genealogies of digital history, set within the broader context of the ways in which technology has shaped historical research practices since the late 19th century.
- A second project focuses on a (partly digital) reconstruction of the history of Yiddish publishing, (self-)learning and education in Germany, especially Berlin, since the late 19th century. This project is concerned with Jewish histories of knowledge, especially its transnational migrant dimensions.
Gerben previously worked as a researcher at the Public History Research and Consultancy Center of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He studied Yiddish at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, before embarking upon his PhD research project at the EUI.
He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London and an editor, web developer & researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Between 2013-2017, Gerben worked as a research fellow in the project The diaries of Anne Frank. Research—Translations— Critical Edition at the former Lichtenberg Kolleg, the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Göttingen, where he was responsible for the annotations of a new critical scholarly edition of the diaries and conducted research on Jews in hiding in the Netherlands.
Gerben’s book Jewish volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War was published with Bloomsbury Academic in April 2017.
He joined the C²DH in August 2017 and was Head of the Research Area Digital History & Historiography until December 2020, when it merged with the center’s DHARPA team.
Gerben also serves on the Ethics Review Panel (ERP) of the University of Luxembourg on behalf of the C²DH.
For a full CV and list of publications see: gerbenzaagsma.org. Several recent papers and lectures can also be found on Zenodo.
Last updated on: Thursday, 09 February 2023

2023

in Historical Transactions - Royal Historical Society Blog (2023)
2022

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in Noiret, Serge; Tebeau, Mark; Zaagsma, Gerben (Eds.) Handbook of Digital Public History (2022)

in Francia-Recensio (2022), 2022(2),

in Zaagsma, Gerben; Noiret, Serge; Tebeau, Mark (Eds.) Handbook of Digital Public History (2022)

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in Levi, Amalia S.; Zaagsma, Gerben; Stökl Ben Ezra, Daniel; Rürup, Miriam; Margolis, Michelle (Eds.) Jewish Studies in the Digital Age (2022)
2021

Scientific Conference (2021, October 04)

in H-Soz-Kult: Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften (2021)

Scientific Conference (2021, March 16)
2020

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Diverse speeches and writings (2020)

Scientific Conference (2020, November 24)

Presentation (2020, September 25)

Conference given outside the academic context (2020)

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Diverse speeches and writings (2020)

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Diverse speeches and writings (2020)
2019

in Balázs, Eszter; Royer, Clara (Eds.) Le Culte des héros en Europe centrale 1880-1945 (2019)

Presentation (2019, May 09)

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Diverse speeches and writings (2019)

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Diverse speeches and writings (2019)

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Diverse speeches and writings (2019)

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Diverse speeches and writings (2019)

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Diverse speeches and writings (2019)
2018

in Bajohr, Frank; Pohl, Dieter (Eds.) Right-Wing Politics and the Rise of Antisemitism in Europe 1935-1941 (2018)

in Medaon: Magazin für Jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung (2018), 23

Presentation (2018, July 15)

Diverse speeches and writings (2018)

Presentation (2018, April 05)

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in Kollmann, Stefanie; Müller, Lars; Reh, Sabine; Dane, Jacques; Ruiten, Tijs van (Eds.) Picture archives and the emergence of visual history of education. ISCHE 40 pre-conference workshop. 3rd workshop "Pictura Paedagogica Online: educational knowledge in images (2018, December 21)

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Presentation (2018, August 28)
2017

Presentation (2017, November 28)

Presentation (2017, November 09)

Presentation (2017, September 05)

Book published by Bloomsbury Academic (2017)