The IEG is participating in this year’s DIGITAL HUMANITIES BENELUX 2026 conference

Several researchers from the IEG’s DH Lab (Sofia Baroncini, Thorsten Wübbena, Fabian Cremer and Thorsten Wübbena) are participating in this year’s DH Benelux Conference in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Over four days, the conference offers insights into the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities. Under the theme “Digital Storytelling,” participants explore how digital tools are transforming and reshaping established ways of sharing stories across cultures and disciplinary boundaries.

An overview of the projects presented:

Forgeries and Networks (ForNet). The Mittheilungen des Museen-Verbandes and forgery networks in the 20th century.

Carbonite Coffin for ConedaKOR: A database software with a built-in self-degradable static mode as a sustainable Digital Humanities research infrastructure 

Lost in digitalisation? Using data as a source for quantitative art history 

Creating Authentic Stories in a Cultural Heritage Knowledge Architecture: Modelling 3D reconstructions, replicas and restorations of the Chest of Distress of Maastricht 

More information can be found via the link on the right.