Dr. Christopher Nunn

Official Position

Quality Manager and Coordinator of the Basic Ethical-Philosophical Studies (EPG) and the ZQ "Ethical Challenges in the School Context"

Contact

Hauptstr. 231 (1F)

christopher.nunn@theologie.uni-heidelberg.de
tel.: +49 (0) 62 21/54 - 39 70

post adress:

Dekanat der Theologischen Fakultät

Hauptstraße 231
D-69117 Heidelberg

Quality Management

Domain: Q+ Teaching (teaching evaluation, room and curriculum coordination, teaching assignments, Moodle), Q+ Service and Administration (public relations, work safety, administration)

Curriculum Vitae

1988 born in Worms
2007 Abitur in Frankenthal
2007-2012 University Education in Protestant Theology and Latin Philology in Heidelberg
2013 State Examination in Heidelberg
Since 2014 Quality Manager at the Faculty of Theology
2020-2021 Deputy Managing Director at the Faculty of Theology
Since 2021 Coordinator of the Basic Ethical-Philosophical Studies (EPG) and the ZQ "Ethical Challenges in the School Context"
2022 Dr. theol. in Church History (Antiquity and Middle Ages)

PhD-Thesis in Church History (Antiquity and Middle Ages)

The Bishop and the Ascetics - Augustine's Correspondence with Women (supervised by Prof. Dr. Winrich Löhr - finished in July 2022, to be published soon in Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum, Ergänzungsbände, Kleine Reihe)

Areas of Research Specialization

Late Antique Epistolography
Patristic Ethics
Intertextuality (cultural techniques of citation in Late Antiquity)
Computational Narratology
Philosophy of Science (Computational Theology)

Papers

References in the Correspondence of Augustine. Chances and Boundaries of digital “Distant Reading” Processes, in: Revue des études augustiniennes 62,2 (2016), 223-233. doi: 10.1484/J.REA.4.2017033
Grußformeln als Medium der Polemik in Augustins Briefen, in: Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 22,1 (2018), 71-90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2018-0014 (since 2020 also with Open Access via the Heidelberg Document Server)
with Dr. Stefan Karcher: Erfolgsfaktor "Kommunikation" - wie digitale Lehre gelingen kann, in: HINT. Heidelberg Inspirations for Innovative Teaching 2 (2021), 163-175. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/hint.2021.1
Das Thema patristischer Ethik - Versuch einer Annäherung durch Distanz am Beispiel der Briefe des Augustinus von Hippo, in: Journal of Ethics in Antiquitiy and Christianity 4 (2022), 31-51. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25784/jeac.v4i0.1011

Data

Augustinian Correspondence Database 3 (ACDb3), in heiDATA: Heidelberg Research Data Repository, ²2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/data/10085.
Keywords in Augustine's Letters (KAL), in heiDATA: Heidelberg Research Data Repository, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/data/R5RAXO.

Blog

with Dr. Stefan Karcher: InFoDiTex: What We Do and What We Want, in INFODITEX-BLOG, 2018-02-26, https://infoditex.hypotheses.org/6.
with Matthias Arnold: If Kant used a computer… #DHd2018 (“Digital Humanities im Deutschsprachigen Raum”), in INFODITEX -BLOG, 2018-03-06, https://infoditex.hypotheses.org/64.
Veni Vidi Vici? Using the TreeTagger on Latin Texts, in INFODITEX -BLOG, 2018-04-16, https://infoditex.hypotheses.org/108.
Searching for the Key of Knowledge: Gender Studies in Augustine’s Correspondence, in INFODITEX -BLOG, 2018-06-27, https://infoditex.hypotheses.org/164.
Avoiding Nightmares in Teaching Digital Methods, in INFODITEX -BLOG, 2018-08-03, https://infoditex.hypotheses.org/221.
Ressentiments Towards Digital Humanities And How to Deal With It, in INFODITEX -BLOG, 2018-11-30, https://infoditex.hypotheses.org/72.
Forty-Two - The Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, in INFODITEX -BLOG, 2019-05-09, https://infoditex.hypotheses.org/1247.
Poking in the fog – My personal access to Digital Humanities Theory, in INFODITEX -BLOG, 2019-11-08, https://infoditex.hypotheses.org/1275.
with Dr. Stefan Karcher: Ein kurzer Aufriss. Digitale Methoden in der Lehrer*innen-(Aus)Bildung, in Fokus Lehrerbildung. Blog der Heidelberg School of Education, 2019-12-03, https://hse.hypotheses.org/2119.
Audio-Dateien zusammenführen und konvertieren in Audacity (Windows), in Lebe lieber literarisch. Deine Schnittstelle zu Literaturwissenschaft, 2020-06-04, https://lebelieberliterarisch.de/audio-dateien-zusammenfuehren-und-konvertieren-in-audacity-windows

Teaching Assignments

EPG 1: Varianten frühchristlicher Ethik auf dem Hintergrund antiker Philosophie (SoSe 14 / SoSe 16)
EPG 1: Ernst Troeltsch vs. Wilhelm Herrmann - Güter- oder Gebotsethik? (WiSe 14/15)
EPG 1: Feministische Ethik - Kritik und Reformulierung ethischer Klassiker (WiSe 15/16 / WiSe 22/23)
Ü: Bildung und Bibel im digitalen Zeitalter (SoSe 18 with Dr. Stephan Ahrnke)
Ü: Einführung in die Ethik (WiSe 21/22 / SoSe 22)

Lectures

felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas - Augustins Umgang mit Vergilzitaten in Fragen der Ethik (with Christian Haß, Heidelberg,on the 14^th annual meeting of the " Arbeitskreis Patristik" in Heidelberg, April 2014)
"Allusions in the Correspondence of Augustine: Chances and Boundaries of digital «Distant Reading» Processes" (as part of the Workshop « Text – Subtext – Context. On the Way to a Comprehensive Commentary of the Augustinian Letters» at the XVII^th International Conference on Patristics Studies in Oxford, August 2015)
Grußformeln als Medium der Polemik in Augustins Briefen – digital gestützte Analyse (as part of the Workshop « Unfreundlichkeit und Polemik im Briefkorpus Augustins», Burkardushaus Würzburg, October 2016)
Distant Reading in den Briefen Augustins – ein Praxistest, Neue Universität Heidelberg, Oktober 2016
Augustinus 2.0? Digital Applications in Patristic Studies (as a part of the Computational Linguistics Colloquium, Heidelberg, January 2018)
Was ist eine "Epistula Augustini"? (as a part of the Workshop «Was ist eine <Augustini epistula>? Untersuchungen zur Konstituierung des augustinischen Briefkorpus», Tagungs- und Exerzitienhaus Himmelspforten Würzburg, September 2018)
Come to an End - Typology of Closures in Augustine's Correspondence (at the XVIII^th International Conference on Patristics Studies in Oxford, August 2019)
Bibel im Religionsunterricht im digitalen Zeitalter. Didaktische Verortung der digitalen Arbeit mit biblischen Texten im Religionsunterricht (with Dr. Stephan Ahrnke at the 1. Kirchenforum Digitalisierung of Evangelische Landeskirche in Baden, Karlsruhe, October 2019)
Einsatzgebiete digitaler Textwissenschaften im Theologischen Forschungsalltag ( 3. Kolloquium "Digital Humanities und Theologie", TheoLab Heidelberg, Februar 2022)
Computergestützte Auswertungen in der Erforschung der Spätantike. Die Korrespondenz Augustins (im Rahmen des Workshop "Möglichkeiten computergestützter Auswertung von historischen Korrespondenzen, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Februar 2022)
Voraussetzungen und Potentiale computationeller Textanalysen im theologischen Forschungsalltag (as part of the Workshop “Digitale Forschung in der Theologie. Erkenntnisweisen - Methoden - Gegenstände”, Institut für Katholische Theologie, RWTH Aachen, März 2023)
Revolution through collaboration? An attempt to familiarize „old guards“ with DH (short paper as part of the ADHO Digital Humanities Conference 2023 in Graz with PD Dr. Frederike van Oorschot and Selina Fucker, July 2023)

Conference Organization

Ausprägungen christlicher Ethik in der Alten Kirche ( 14. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Patristik in Heidelberg with Ulrich Göppel and Anna-Maria Semper, April 2014)
1st Summer School of Digital Humanities: Distant Reading - Potentials and Applications, Heidelberg, September 2017
Interdisziplinäres Forum digitaler Textwissenschaften (InFoDiTex) (with Dr. Stefan Karcher and (since 2020) Kevin Wunsch, November 2016 - January 2022 once per month in Heidelberg)
Corpus Contest 2021 – Europäische Religionsfrieden experimentell erforscht. vDHd 2021 Experimente (vDHd), with Melanie Althage, Philipp Schneider and Kevin Wunsch, December 2021, virtual. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5850820
Facing Digital Humanities II - Potentiale und Herausforderungen digitaler Forschung in der Theologie (2. TheoLab Konferenz, virtual in Heidelberg with Selina Fucker and PD Dr. Frederike van Oorschot, April 2022)
Amplifying unheard voices in Digital Humanities: an OpenMethods edit-a-thon (workshop as part of the ADHO Digital Humanities Conference 2023 in Graz with Prof. Dr. Ulrike Wuttke and Dr. Alíz Horváth, Juli 2023)
Computational Theology. Methoden - Praktiken - Perspektiven (workshop in Heidelberg with PD Dr. Frederike van Oorschot, Sept. 2023)

Memberships

Editorial Team Member on OpenMethods - Highlighting Digital Humanities Methods and Tools (@openmethods_dh)
Project development and coordination of the TheoLab- Research Network Digital Theology
Member of Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities
Member of Verband DHd - "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum"

Awards

Preis für digitale Lehre of Heidelberg University in the category „außergewöhnliche Aktivitäten bei der Entwicklung und Anwendung digitaler Formate" with Dr. Stefan Karcher ( Special Edition of Unispiegel, Page 2)
2nd Runner Up in DH Awards 2018 in the category „Best Use of DH for Public Engagement", with Dr. Stefan Karcher for InFoDiTex

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