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
Digitising History From a Global Context; And What This Tells Us About Access and Inequalityin Historical Transactions - Royal Historical Society Blog (2023)
2022
Introduction: Handbook of Digital Public History; ;
in Noiret, Serge; Tebeau, Mark; Zaagsma, Gerben (Eds.) Handbook of Digital Public History (2022)
Review Fighters Across Frontiers - Transnational Resistance in Europe, 1936-48in Francia-Recensio (2022), 2022(2),
Content Managementin Zaagsma, Gerben; Noiret, Serge; Tebeau, Mark (Eds.) Handbook of Digital Public History (2022)
Jewish Studies in the Digital Age: Introduction; ; ; ;
in Levi, Amalia S.; Zaagsma, Gerben; Stökl Ben Ezra, Daniel; Rürup, Miriam; Margolis, Michelle (Eds.) Jewish Studies in the Digital Age (2022)
2021
Keynote lecture: Exploring Jewish History in the Digital AgeScientific Conference (2021, October 04)
Review of Adam Crymble: Technology and the Historian. Transformations in the Digital Agein H-Soz-Kult: Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften (2021)
Keynote roundtable presentation: Digital History and the Politics of Cultural Heritage DigitisationScientific Conference (2021, March 16)
2020
The Promise and Peril of Digital Research in Yiddish: An Interview with Gerben Zaagsma;
Diverse speeches and writings (2020)
The Helpers of Anne Frank - Recontextualising the Rescue of Dutch JewsScientific Conference (2020, November 24)
Keynote lecture: The Hybrid Historian - Historical Research in the Digital AgePresentation (2020, September 25)
Het Dagboek van Anne Frank en andere Joodse EgodocumentenConference given outside the academic context (2020)
Roundtable - Combating anti-Semitism in contemporary Europe; ; ;
Diverse speeches and writings (2020)
Denis Scuto an Dr. Gerben Zaagsma iwwer den FORUM Z Holocaust: History and Memory;
Diverse speeches and writings (2020)
2019
Tracing the ‘Jewish Freedom Fighter’. The legacy of Naftali Botwin and the construction of a transnational cult of Jewish heroesin Balázs, Eszter; Royer, Clara (Eds.) Le Culte des héros en Europe centrale 1880-1945 (2019)
Doing History in the Digital Age - On Hybridity, Hermeneutics and the Politics of DigitisationPresentation (2019, May 09)
Interview with Prof. Dr David Bodenhamer (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis);
Diverse speeches and writings (2019)
Interview with Prof. Dr Steven E. Jones (University of South Florida);
Diverse speeches and writings (2019)
Interview with Prof. Dr Andrew Prescott (University of Glasgow);
Diverse speeches and writings (2019)
Interview with Dr. Melvin Wevers (KNAW Humanities Cluster, Amsterdam);
Diverse speeches and writings (2019)
Interview with Prof. Dr Jane Winters (School of Advanced Study, University of London);
Diverse speeches and writings (2019)
2018
Jewish responses to anti-Semitism in Paris and London in the late 1930s as European Jewish political historyin Bajohr, Frank; Pohl, Dieter (Eds.) Right-Wing Politics and the Rise of Antisemitism in Europe 1935-1941 (2018)
#DHJewish - Jewish Studies in the Digital Agein Medaon: Magazin für Jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung (2018), 23
Roundtable 'Humanities in the mirror: writing Jewish history in a digital key'Presentation (2018, July 15)
Humanities Talk - Jiddesch Fräiwëlleger am Spuenesche BiergerkrichDiverse speeches and writings (2018)
"Chosen Fighters of the Jewish People": Jewish volunteers in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil WarPresentation (2018, April 05)
Digital Resources and Tools in Historical Research;
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)
Digital picture archives in historical research and the visual history of education;
Presentation (2018, August 28)
2017
Hybrid approaches to historical research: analysing the Anne Frank diaries with digital toolsPresentation (2017, November 28)
Closing reflections: EHRI Workshop Engaging New Generations: The Holocaust and Knowledge Dissemination in the Digital AgePresentation (2017, November 09)
Opening remarks: From Tablet to Tablet – workshop Jewish Studies & Digital Humanities, Hamburg, 4-6 September 2017Presentation (2017, September 05)
Jewish volunteers, the international brigades and the Spanish Civil WarBook published by Bloomsbury Academic (2017)
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