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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesDepartment of Digital Humanities

Susanne Kurz

Head of IT-Certificate of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Lecturer media computer science and information processing

Classes

 

Overview

Special Interests

A multi-layered representation of trust in digital spaces as well as a new idea and technical realisation of trust management for digital objects is one of my special interests. This includes the exploration and modelling of trust processes in digital spaces and the associated challenges for scientists and academic research in an early post-natal AI society.

Furthermore, I am interested in future-oriented methods in the field of agile and interdisciplinary academic teaching and learning, also in digital spaces.

Professional Career

University of Cologne

  • Since 04/2024 lecturer for the Institute of Public Law and Administration in the MA program Law of Digitalization.
  • Since 10/2021 Cooperation partner of the Certificate: Law and Digitalisation of the Research Unit Law and Ethics of Digital Transformation.
  • 01/2020 - 02/2021 Development of the IT certificate for teaching as part of a Tandem Stifterverband Fellowship for innovations in digital university teaching together with the ZfL Cologne.
  • 02/2019 Conception and realisation of the IT certificate of the Faculty of Humanities for academic staff of the Faculty of Humanities.
  • Since 10/2008 responsible for the conception, implementation and teaching of the IT certificate of the Faculty of Humanities, as well as its consolidation and extension.
  • 10/2017 - 06/2018 Acquisition of the additional qualification 'Professional Counselling' as part of the further education program “Advising students professionally”
  • 10/2015 - 03/2018 Subject advisor and student advisor for the elective subject Media Computer Science of the joint degree program Media Cultural Studies, responsible for the organization of study programs and teaching
  • Since 04/2003 Lecturer for Media Computer Science/Information Processing at the University of Cologne

Projects - Others

  • since 03/2021 ARTEST project member: Cooperation with Mongolian Universities to establish MA DH degree programmes
  • 03/2019 - 11/2022 Speaker of the lecture series 'Digital Sovereignty' of the Frauenberatung Wuppertal.
  • 08/2006 - 12/2007
    Project: PLANETS Long-term archiving and access through networked services.
    Digital archiving in research and technology
    Function: Project Coordinator
  • 06/2003 - 09/2004
    Project: RETRO EVAL - Project to evaluate the national funding programme for retrospective digitisation.
    Function: Project Coordinator
  • 06/2003 - 09/2003
    Employer: Landesarchiv NRW Hauptstaatsarchiv Düsseldorf
    Function: Development and realisation of a server for an online finding aid via KLEIO
  • 02/2003 - 05/2003
    Project: E-Culture Net European Network of Centres of Excellence for Digital Culture Research and Education
  • 04/1989-09/1998: Pharmaceutical Technical Assistant in various pharmacies

Teaching

Leading and updating regularly the seminars (semester recurrent)

  • Basic Systems of Information Processing -1- Userfrontend Development
  • Basic Systems of Information Processing - 2 - App Development

focus on study-programs Media Computer Science and Informationsverarbeitung as well as

  • summersemester recurrent lecture Algorithms and Logic II - MA Digitalisation Law
  • semester recurrent various courses of IT-Certificate of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Advanced IT Basics, Advanced Web Basics, Tool & Methods in DH und Digital Object Processing ) for all students of the University.
  • Winter semester 2017/18 conception and teaching of the seminar Social Bots: Pestilenz des 21. Jhds? together with Prof. Dr. Ø. Eide (focus on study-program Media Computer Science).
  • Summer semester 2003 conception and teaching of the seminar System Analysis and Software Design (focus on study-program  Informationsverarbeitung).
     

Publications

  • Vertrauen in die Wirklichkeit - AI, Trust und Reliability in den Digital Humanities
    Susanne Kurz und Øyvind Eide
    21. Februar 2024
    DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10698375  /  Is part of Book: 10.5281/zenodo.10686564 (DOI)

     

  • Digital Humanities  - Grundlagen und Technologien für die Praxis
    Susanne Kurz
    2. Aufl. 2016, XXVI, 313 S.
    © Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2016

    ISBN:  978-3-658-05793-0 (Onlineausgabe) 978-3-658-05792-3 (Druckausgabe)
    → als E-Book oder gedrucktes Werk verfügbar.

  • Digital Humanities - Grundlagen und Technologien für die Praxis
    Susanne Kurz
    XXVII, 292 S. © Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2015
    ISBN:  978-3-658-05793-0 (Onlineausgabe) 978-3-658-05792-3 (Druckausgabe)

  • Evaluierung des bisherigen Verlaufs des Förderschwerpunktes "Retrospektive Digitalisierung von Bibliotheksbeständen" ,
    in: zeitenblicke 5 (2006), Nr. 3, [2006-12-03],
    URL: www.zeitenblicke.de/2006/3/Kurz/index_html URN: urn:nbn:de:0009-9-6556

Education

  • 10/1998-01/2003: Study of Information Processing (Digital Humanities), Sociology and Philosophy
    Institution: University at Cologne
    Certificate: Magistra Artium; MA thesis: Data mining in www-based statistics archives based on a Java client-server architecture
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Manfred Thaller