Ongoing research projects HCDH
Here you can finde all current research projects at the Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities. These are continually being updated.
Chronoretheorics
The Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities participated in the 2025 international DH conference “Words in Numbers – Data-Driven Approaches to Texts in the Humanities and Social Sciences” at the ZukunftsZentrum Zollverein in Essen with a poster and presentation, providing a first insight into our latest research on the use of temporal figures in political speeches. Our approach is closely related to the concept of chronopolitics, particularly in the dimension of politicized time: "Time as a weapon of politics, as a means of legitimizing one's own political program" (Esposito & Becker 2023: 15-16). Current research on chronopolitics often focuses on phenomena such as historical revisionism and other manipulations of the perception of time and history, particularly in right-wing and authoritarian politics. With our approach, we attempt to unravel patterns of chronopolitics at the linguistic level using text mining, NLP, and artificial intelligence.
Read more on our blog:
‘Chronorhetorics’ – short report about a new research project
CAEDHET (HCDH, HSE and PH)
Another key focus within the HCDH is the research initiative CAEDHET – Critical AI Engineering, Digital Humanities, and Educational Transfer. This collaborative research group involves the Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities (HCDH), the Heidelberg School of Education (HSE), and the Heidelberg University of Education. The team collaboratively addresses current developments in artificial intelligence, critical technology reflection, and digitally-supported education. Ongoing projects range from analyzing AI-supported collaboration and prompting practices to exploring epistemic and didactic questions surrounding machine-generated text.