“German Heritage in Letters” Shared at Digital History Conference
• Washington, October 10, 2019 •
As part of the German Historical Institute’s fourth annual digital history conference, “Digital Hermeneutics: From Research to Dissemination,” Ursula Lehmkuhl, professor of history at the University of Trier and co-director of Transatlantische Korrespondenzen: Relationale Geschichte transatlantischer Mobilitäts- und Wissensräume (the overarching research initiative of which German Heritage in Letters is a part) and project manager Atiba Pertilla joined a roundtable discussion on “Mobile Lives — Digital Approaches to a World in Motion” alongside Rosalind Beiler and Amy Larner Giroux of the project “People, Religion, Information Networks, and Travel: The Dynamics of Migration in the Early Modern World,” based at the University of Central Florida, and Katherine Faull and Diane Jakacki, of the project “Moravian Lives: Tracing the Movements and History of Members of the Moravian Church (1750-2012),” located at Bucknell University.