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Curriculum vitae

Dr. sc. Moritz Mähr
University of Bern, Institute of History
Länggassstrasse 49, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
moritz.maehr@unibe.ch · ORCID 0000-0002-1367-1618 · GitHub: maehr
Born December 31, 1987. Swiss citizen.

Current positions and affiliations

University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

August 2026–present: Research Associate in Digital History, Department of History, permanent
Supports Digital History in research and teaching at the Department of History. Teaches every semester.
February 2023–present: Associate Researcher in Digital Humanities
Conducts research on critical AI literacy and the social history of computing.

ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

September 2025–December 2026: Information and Library Science Specialist, Research Analytics Services, temporary
Contributes to national strategies for Open Science interoperability through the NAIF project.

University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

February 2024–present: Technical Advisor, hourly, Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church in Switzerland
Develops a secure MediaWiki research environment for highly sensitive historical sources. Implements semantic data modeling and trains project members. Manages the technical infrastructure on LeoMed at ETH Zurich.

Teaching appointments

November 2026 and March 2027 (forthcoming): University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Trainer at the Graduate Center (GRACE) for Stochastic Parrots and Beyond: Normative Dimensions of Generative AI, with Laura Wagner.
October 2026–present: Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), Lucerne, Switzerland. External Lecturer in Data Design + Art for All Data Are Local: Introduction to Data Literacy.
Autumn 2026: University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. Lecturer in Digital Humanities for GitHub as a Project Management Tool.
September 2025–present: UniDistance.ch, Brig, Switzerland. Lecturer in History, part-time, for Critical AI Literacy for Historians.
Spring 2025: University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. Lecturer in Digital Humanities for Decoding Inequality: Critical Perspectives on Machine Learning and Social Stratification, with Rachel Huber.
Winter 2018/19: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany. Lecturer for Bauhaus Digital Masterclass & Grundlagenkolloquium Digitalisierung, with Christoph Engemann, Daniel Cardoso Llach, and Alexander R. Galloway.

Education

2022: ETH Zurich: Dr. sc. ETH Zurich, History of Technology.
2014: ETH Zurich: Master of Arts, with honors, History and Philosophy of Knowledge.
2011: University of Zurich: Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, Banking and Finance.

Former positions and affiliations

University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

May–June 2026: Visiting Research Fellow
Conducted research and scholarly exchange in digital history and digital humanities.

University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

October 2021–December 2025: Project Manager, Stadt.Geschichte.Basel
Led research data management and public history for a large public history project. Implemented an Open Science infrastructure with FAIR/CARE principles, digital sustainability, and accessibility.

University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

September–November 2025: Visiting Research Fellow, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)
Conducted research on critical AI literacy and Internet Histories. Delivered Managing Large-Scale Public History Projects in the C²DH public history talk series. Participated in scholarly exchange on experimental methods in contemporary and digital history.

Earlier appointments

August 2022–January 2023: Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. IFN Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
February 2018–October 2022: Chair for History of Technology and Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Research Assistant.
2008–2009: Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Tutor and Teaching Assistant.

Grants and fellowships

2024: SNSF Open Access Books: Wie der Verwaltungscomputer die Arbeitsmigration programmierte: Elektronische Datenverarbeitung in der Bundesverwaltung 1964–1982. Grant 221756.
2022: University of Bern: IFN Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Courses taught

Mähr, Moritz, and Laura Wagner. 2027. “Stochastic Parrots and Beyond: Normative Dimensions of Generative AI.” Course. GRACE Transferable Skills. AI-Skills Module 3, University of Basel, March 3. https://fortbildung.unibas.ch/courses/organizer/scientific-tools/stochastic-parrots-and-beyond-normative-dimensions-of-generative-ai-303499. Forthcoming.

Mähr, Moritz, and Laura Wagner. 2026. “Stochastic Parrots and Beyond: Normative Dimensions of Generative AI.” Course. GRACE Transferable Skills. AI-Skills Module 3, University of Basel, November 4. https://fortbildung.unibas.ch/courses/organizer/scientific-tools/stochastic-parrots-and-beyond-normative-dimensions-of-generative-ai-303499. Forthcoming.

Mähr, Moritz. 2026i. “GitHub as a Project Management Tool.” Workshop (Autumn Term). October 16. https://maehr.github.io/github-as-a-project-management-tool/.

Mähr, Moritz. 2026c. “All Data Are Local: Introduction to Data Literacy.” Block Course (Autumn Term). October 5. https://maehr.github.io/all-data-are-local/.

Mähr, Moritz. 2026e. “Critical AI Literacy for Historians: Source Criticism and Scholarly Practice in the Age of Large Language Models.” Course (Spring Term). https://unidistance.ch/en/history/master/syllabus-1#flush-heading-9.

Huber, Rachel, and Moritz Mähr. 2025. “Decoding Inequality: Kritische Perspektiven auf Machine Learning und gesellschaftliche Ungleichheit.” Kolloquium (Spring Term). https://dhbern.github.io/decoding-inequality-2025/.

Engemann, Christoph, Daniel Cardoso Llach, Alexander R. Galloway, and Moritz Mähr. 2018. “Bauhaus Digital Masterclass & Grundlagenkolloquium Digitalisierung.” Seminar (WiSe 2018/19). https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=40104&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung.

Invited lectures and seminar sessions

Mähr, Moritz. 2026o. “Präludium: Logik vs. Stochastik im Zeitalter von KI.” Invited Lecture. Einführung in die Logik, University of Potsdam, January 26.

Mähr, Moritz. 2025l. “Präludium: Einführung Metadaten.” Invited Lecture. Projektseminar: Medienwissenschaft in digitalen Archiven, Humboldt‑Universität zu Berlin, November 14. https://agnes.hu-berlin.de/lupo/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung&veranstaltung.veranstid=236510.

Mähr, Moritz. 2025d. “Critical Metadata Practice for Historians.” Guest Lecture. Data Management & Ethics, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), University of Luxembourg, October 8.

Mähr, Moritz. 2024e. “How to Organize Your Research (Digitally).” Lecture. DH Lab (fall semester 2024), University of Bern, April 16.

Mähr, Moritz. 2024g. “Mit ChatGPT Texte schreiben: Prompting-Methoden für Historiker:innen.” Seminar Session. Geschichte schreiben mit künstlicher Intelligenz (600k506a), University of Zurich, March 8. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10815218.

Mähr, Moritz. 2022d. “The Corpus as a Network. Turning Source Documents into a Graph with NLP.” Lecture. Lecture series Einblicke in die Digital Humanities (fall semester 2022), University of Bern, December 12. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7430555.

Mähr, Moritz. 2022b. “The Automation of Migration Policy in Switzerland in the 1960s.” Seminar Session. Interdisciplinary Seminar on Migration and Mobility, ETH Zurich. ETH Zurich, March 25. 20 p. https://doi.org/10.3929/ETHZ-B-000538201.

Mähr, Moritz. 2020c. “Review (Sitzung 11).” Seminar Session. Schreibübung (600-009a), University of Zurich, May 5. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000413518.

Mähr, Moritz. 2019c. “E-Mail wird 36 Jahre alt. Zeit für eine Quellenkritik.” Lecture. Digital Masterclass, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, February 7. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000324252.

Supervision

2021: Nina Guyot, Inhabiting Zurich, MA thesis, ETH Zurich. Supervisor: Alexandre Theriot. Co-supervisor: Moritz Mähr.

Organisation of conferences, workshops, and panels

Mähr, Moritz. 2026j. “Handbuch Zur Erstellung Diskriminierungsfreier Metadaten.” Workshop. CAREing for Data in Dialogue. Perspectives on Social and Cultural Data, University of Bern, December 9. Forthcoming.

Bürki, Levyn, Joris Burla, Peggy Grosse, et al. 2025. “Diskriminierungssensible Metadaten für historische Sammlungen erstellen und verschiedenen Öffentlichkeiten zugänglich machen: Herausforderungen und Ansätze für inklusive Digital Humanities.” Panel. Digital Humanities Conference 2025, NOVA University Lisbon, July 16. https://dokumentation.stadtgeschichtebasel.ch/products/talks-posters/dh25-metadata/index.html.

Feichtinger, Moritz, Moritz Mähr, Michael Piotrowski, and Dominic Weber. 2025. “Open Access, Open & Community Peer Review: Rethinking Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Humanities.” Workshop. DSI UZH Digital Humanities Community, University of Zurich, April 30. https://www.dsi.uzh.ch/de/current/events/archive/2025/workshop-open-access.html.

Koller, Guido, Rachel Huber, Kijan Espahangizi, Stephan Parak, and Moritz Mähr. 2025. “Wie der Verwaltungscomputer die Arbeitsmigration programmierte.” Round table. Buchvernissage, Bundesarchiv Bern, February 25.

Baudry, Jérôme, Lucas Burkart, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, et al. 2024b. “Digital History Switzerland 2024.” International Conference. University of Basel, September 12–13. https://digihistch24.github.io/.

Amsler, Claudia, Vlad Atanasiu, Jan Baumann, et al. 2021. “Critique Digitale.” Unconference. Online, October 21–22. https://critique-digitale.ch/.

Krauer, Philipp, Moritz Mähr, and Nick Schwery. 2019. “Digitale Werkzeuge in der Quellenarbeit.” Workshop. February 14. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17553054.

Leins, Stefan, and Moritz Mähr. 2015. “Das Wissen der Finanzmärkte.” Workshop. March 16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17553165.

Service and affiliations

Advisory and leadership roles

2026–2028: Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd): Co-opted member of the Executive Board.
Since July 2026: Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences: Member of the Open Science Commission.
Since 2026: Netzwerk Digitale Geisteswissenschaften, Universität Potsdam: Member.
Since May 2024: OpenData.ch: Member of the Advisory Board.
Since February 2024: Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich: Member of the Digital Humanities Community.
Since January 2023: Digital History Network Switzerland: Founding Member.

Languages

German: Native.
English: Advanced (C1). Cambridge English Level 2 Certificate in ESOL International (Advanced).
Spanish: Advanced (C1). Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CELU Intermedio c. m. excelente; Language Center of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich C1.
French: Intermediate (B2).

Qualification in higher education didactics

2021: Optimize my performance with voice and presentation technique
2019: Teaching scientific writing skills

Publications and other academic output

Monographs

Mähr, Moritz. 2024k. Wie der Verwaltungscomputer die Arbeitsmigration programmierte: Elektronische Datenverarbeitung in der Schweizer Bundesverwaltung 1964–1982. Edited by Klaus Gestwa, Martina Heßler, Dirk van Laak, and Helmuth Trischler. Vol. 17. Geschichte der technischen Kultur. Brill Schöningh. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657796823.

Mähr, Moritz, and Noëlle Schnegg. 2024. Handbuch zur Erstellung diskriminierungsfreier Metadaten für historische Quellen und Forschungsdaten. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11124720.

Edited works and conference proceedings

Baudry, Jérôme, Lucas Burkart, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, et al., eds. 2024a. Book of Abstracts. Digital History Switzerland 2024. Zenodo. https://digihistch24.github.io/book-of-abstracts/.

Articles, chapters, and reports

Mähr, Moritz, Lucas Federer, and Magda Kaspar. 2026. “Sexueller Missbrauch im Umfeld der katholischen Kirche in der Schweiz. Aufbau einer partizipativen, iterativen und sicheren Forschungsdatenbank.” Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften 11 (May). https://doi.org/10.17175/2026_006.

Mähr, Moritz, and Moritz Twente. 2025g. “Seeing History Unseen: Evaluating Vision-Language Models for WCAG-Compliant Alt-Text in Digital Heritage Collections.” Anthology of Computers and the Humanities 3 (November): 1148–68. https://doi.org/10.63744/njQVYcLndSPE.

Mähr, Moritz, and Moritz Twente. 2025c. “One Template to Rule Them All: Interactive Research Data Documentation with Quarto.” Anthology of Computers and the Humanities 2 (October): 54–67. https://doi.org/10.63744/X90VnKkYV5Hb.

Mähr, Moritz. 2024a. “Die Geschichte von Basel ins Netz stellen: Beteiligung relevanter Anspruchsgruppen an der Entwicklung eines nachhaltigen und offenen Public-History-Portals.” In Zusammenarbeit klug gestalten: Projektmanagement und Digital Humanities, edited by Fabian Cremer, Swantje Dogunke, Anna Maria Neubert, and Thorsten Wübbena. Digital Humanities Research 9. Bielefeld University Press. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839469675-007.

Diekjobst, Anne, Tim Geelhaar, Tobias Hodel, Moritz Mähr, and Melanie Seltmann. 2024. “Mit Standards forschen und Handlungsräume schaffen.” In Living Handbook “Digitale Quellenkritik”, edited by Aline Deicke, Jonathan G. Geiger, Marina Lemaire, and Stefan Schmunk. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12656766.

Gabay, Simon, Tobias Hodel, Moritz Mähr, et al. 2023. Datenstandards für die historische Forschung – Ein White-Paper der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Geschichte. White-Paper. Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Geschichte. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10122052.

Mähr, Moritz. 2022e. “The Promise of an Automated Migration Policy: On Planning an Information System in the Swiss Federal Administration in the 1960s.” In Digital Federalism Information, Institutions, Infrastructures (1950–2000), edited by Paolo Bory and Daniela Zetti. Beihefte zur Schweizerischen Zeitschrift für Geschichte 49. Schwabe. https://doi.org/10.24894/978-3-7965-4509-2.

Mähr, Moritz, and Kijan Espahangizi. 2020. “Computing Aliens. From Central Control to Migration Scenarios, 1960-1990.” In Data Centers. Edges of a Wired Nation., edited by Monika Dommann, Hannes Rickli, and Max Stadler. Lars Müller Publishers.

Espahangizi, Kijan, and Moritz Mähr. 2020. “The Making of a Swiss Migration Regime. Electronic Data Infrastructures and Statistics in the Federal Administration, 1960s–1990s.” Journal of Migration History 6 (3): 379–404. https://doi.org/10.1163/23519924-00603005.

Mähr, Moritz. 2020a. “CTRL + F. Eine Suchmaschine für die Quellenarbeit bauen.” etü, no. II: 88–91. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000449830.

Mähr, Moritz. 2020g. “Working with Batches of PDF Files.” Programming Historian 9. https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0088.

Federer, Lucas, and Moritz Mähr. 2020. “Bewegte Quellen festhalten. Wie wird in Zukunft auf digital verfügbare audiovisuelle Quellen verwiesen?” Traverse 27 (3): 159–66. https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-914091.

Mähr, Moritz. 2012. “Blaupause einer flexiblen Lebensform.” In In Ordnung. Trans, edited by Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur (gta) and Architektura Fachverein der Architekturstudierenden an der ETH Zürich, vol. 21. Departement Architektur der ETH Zürich. https://doi.org/10.5169/SEALS-918760.

Conference presentations, invited talks, keynotes, and workshops

Mähr, Moritz, and Magda Kaspar. 2026. “Forschungsethische Perspektiven und Problemstellungen im Projekt zu sexuellem Missbrauch im Umfeld der katholischen Kirche in der Schweiz.” Kurzbeitrag / Data Pitch. CAREing for data in dialogue. Perspectives on social and cultural data, Bern, Schweiz. Universität Bern, Universitätsbibliothek Bern, Open Science, December 9. Forthcoming.

“Digital verwaltete Ausländer: Wie Computer die Schweizer Arbeitsmigration seit den 1960er-Jahren programmierten.” 2026. Invited Talk. Buch am Mittag, December 8, 2026, Bern. December 8. Forthcoming.

Mähr, Moritz. 2026a. “320 Bytes pro Person: Wie das Zentrale Ausländerregister der Schweiz Menschen in Daten verwandelte.” Short talk. Vintage Computer Festival, Derendingen, Switzerland, November 7. https://www.enter-online.ch/en/events/vintage-computer-festival-2026-en/. Forthcoming.

Mähr, Moritz. 2026d. “Annotation Is Decision-Making: Metadata between Identification, Visibility, and Power.” Keynote. Annual meeting of the DARIAH-CH Digital Editions Working Groups 2026: Identity, Identifiers, Identifying, University of Bern, September 11. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22706974.

“Digital Source Criticism and the Versioned Apparatus: Why Historical Research Needs Git-Based Infrastructures.” 2026. Invited Talk. Arbeitsbereiches Digitalität (DH Labs IEG), Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz, September 8.

Mähr, Moritz, and Noëlle Schnegg. 2026b. “Public Open Review in Practice: Experiences from the Living Handbook ‘Discrimination-Sensitive Metadata Practice’.” Invited Talk. Lunch & Learn Open Science, University of Zurich, August 27.

Mähr, Moritz. 2026k. “Historisches Arbeiten im Zeitalter der KI: Chancen, Grenzen und neue Fragen der Quellenkritik.” Invited Lecture. Kolloquium Modern History, University of Konstanz, June 30. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21084070.

Mähr, Moritz, and Luz Christopher Seiberth. 2026. “TextRefs: An Open Registry for Canonical Text References.” Invited Talk. Research Colloquium @ Digital Humanities, University of Bern, June 18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20744060.

Mähr, Moritz. 2026g. “Generative KI in der Geschichtswissenschaft: Kritische Kompetenzen für Forschung und Lehre.” Invited Talk. AG ‚KI in Forschung & Lehre‘, Online, May 22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20343628.

Mähr, Moritz. 2026s. “The Gentrification of Code: Forced Obsolescence and the Political Economy of Complexity in Open Source Software.” Presentation. Leibniz-Zentrum Für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF). Guest lecture presented on 19 May 2026 in Department III: Media and Information Society, Potsdam, May 19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20287338.

Mähr, Moritz. 2026l. “Manuals as Forensic Evidence: Reconstructing Digital Systems and Administrative Practice.” Invited Talk. Digital Forensics Workshop, University of Bern, May 8. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20080878.

“Critical AI Literacy for Historians as ‘Uncertainty Management’: OER Exercises That Operationalize Audit Trails, Evidence Discipline, and Source Criticism.” 2026. Contributed Lightning Talk. Researching with AI. Between opportunity and imposition, Bern, Switzerland, February 11. https://www.ub.unibe.ch/services/open_science/os_events/researching_with_ai/index_eng.html.

Schnegg, Noëlle, and Moritz Mähr. 2026. “Auf dem Weg zu einer diskriminierungssensiblen Metadatenpraxis: Erfahrungen aus einem Handbuchprojekt zur ethischen Auszeichnung historischer Quellen und Forschungsdaten.” Invited Talk. Relativieren oder limitieren? Zum Umgang mit Dark Heritage in Sammlungen und Archiven, SLUB Open Science Lab, January 29. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18399776.

Mähr, Moritz, and Moritz Twente. 2025h. “Seeing History Unseen: Evaluating Vision-Language Models for WCAG-Compliant Alt-Text in Digital Heritage Collections.” Contributed Presentation. Computational humanities research conference (CHR 2025), University of Luxembourg, December 12. https://maehr.github.io/chr2025-seeing-history-unseen/.

Mähr, Moritz, and Noëlle Schnegg. 2025. “Auf dem Weg zu einer diskriminierungssensiblen Metadatenpraxis: Erfahrungen aus einem Handbuchprojekt zur ethischen Auszeichnung historischer Quellen und Forschungsdaten.” Invited Talk. Metadaten in den Humanities, Zentralbibliothek Zürich, December 4. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17751267.

Mähr, Moritz. 2025j. “Managing Large-Scale Public History Projects: The Case of Stadt.Geschichte.Basel.” Public Lecture. C²DH public history talk, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), University of Luxembourg, October 29. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17468745.

Mähr, Moritz, and Moritz Twente. 2025a. “A Long-Term Archival Pipeline for the Forschungsdatenplattform Stadt.Geschichte.Basel.” Contributed Presentation. DaSCHCon 2025 – Cultural Institutions in the Digital Age: The Future of Infrastructures (DaSCHCon 2025), Museum für Kommunikation, Bern, October 15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17357300.

Mähr, Moritz. 2025b. “Critical AI Literacy for Historians: Source Criticism, Documentation, and Reproducible Practice with LLMs and vLLMs.” Invited Talk. C²DH colloquium, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), University of Luxembourg, October 14.

Schmidt, Lennart, and Moritz Mähr. 2025. “Digital Migration Regimes: Technologies of Control in Postwar Europe.” In Digital Borders: Migration and Data Politics, 1950s–2000s, Contributed Presentation. SHOT Annual Meeting 2025, Session S9, University of Luxembourg, October 11. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17280216.

Mähr, Moritz. 2025c. “Critical AI Literacy in Practice: Lessons from Current DH Projects.” Invited Talk. Open Data Research: Sounding Board Researchers Retreat, St. Peterinsel, Switzerland, September 9. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17086257.

Mähr, Moritz. 2025i. “Epistemic Shadows in the Archive: What Is Lost in Digitization.” Invited Talk. Closing workshop “Hidden Utopias in 1960/today,” Kurhaus Bergün, August 20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16913164.

Twente, Moritz, and Moritz Mähr. 2025b. “Navigating Disconcertment in Map-Making: How to Turn Conflict and Collaboration into Accessible Geodata.” Long Paper. Digital Humanities Conference 2025, NOVA University Lisbon, July 18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16042822.

Mähr, Moritz, and Moritz Twente. 2025d. “One Template to Rule Them All: Interactive Research Data Documentation with Quarto.” Long Paper. Digital Humanities Tech Symposium at DH2025, NOVA University Lisbon, July 14. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16045573.

Mähr, Moritz. 2025f. “Daten einer Stadt: Stadt.Geschichte.Basel digital.” Contributed Presentation. 7. Schweizerische Geschichtstage (Panel “Ausgeleuchtet und dem Vergessen enthoben? Bilder und Daten der Schweizer Geschichte digital”), University of Lucerne, July 11. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15861300.

Mähr, Moritz. 2025m. “Was ist das Digitale an Digital History.” Presentation. Meeting of the Digital History Network Switzerland, University of Basel, May 8.

Mähr, Moritz. 2025h. “Die Geschichte von Basel ins Netz stellen: Stadt.Geschichte.Basel digital.” Presentation. Buchvernissage Stadt.Geschichte.Basel Band 8–9, Kuppel Basel, March 27. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15056355.

Mähr, Moritz. 2025g. “Die Basler Keyword-Apokalypse: ChatGPTs fehlgeleitete Suche nach historischer Ordnung.” Contributed Lightning Talk. Analysing Sources After the ChatGPT Shock: How Large Language Models Process Medieval and Born-Digital Sources, Sozialarchiv Zürich, March 12. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15010340.

Mähr, Moritz. 2025n. “Werkstattbericht: Die Geschichte von Basel ins Netz stellen. Die neue Forschungsdatenplattform der Stadtgeschichte.” Invited Talk. Vortragszyklus der Historisch Antiquarischen Gesellschaft Basel (HAG), Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, February 10. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14845483.

Mähr, Moritz. 2024c. “Digitale Sammlungen mit FAIR-Daten und Open Source Software erstellen: Eine Einführung in CollectionBuilder.” Invited Talk. Coffee Lectures, University of Bern, December 3. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14267948.

Kolb, Lucie, Linda Ludwig, Moritz Mähr, and Iolanda Pensa. 2024. “FAIR and CARE: Challenges and Opportunities.” Round table. DARIAH-CH Study Day, HGK Basel, November 22. https://www.dariah.ch/study-day-2024.

Mähr, Moritz. 2024i. “Uncovering Hidden Connections: Exploring History with Social Network Analysis.” Invited Talk. DH Methods & Tools, University of Zurich, November 13. https://doi.org/10.48620/76223.

Görlich, Nico, Moritz Mähr, Moritz Twente, and Cristina Wildisen-Münch. 2024. “Accessible Public History: Digitale Sammlungen mit CollectionBuilder selbst erstellen.” Contributed Workshop. Praxislabor at Historikertag 2024, online, October 15. https://doi.org/10.58079/11sc7.

Görlich, Nico, Moritz Mähr, Noëlle Schnegg, and Moritz Twente. 2024. “Accessible Public History: Digitale Sammlungen mit CollectionBuilder selbst erstellen.” Contributed Workshop. Digital History und Citizen Science 2024, University of Halle, September 21. https://www.conftool.org/digital-humanities-citizen-science-2024/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=74.

Mähr, Moritz. 2024d. “Fast Prototyping: CollectionBuilder’s Minimal Computing Approach to Open-Source Collections and Exhibits.” Contributed Lightning Talk. RSE Meetup, ETH Zurich, June 4. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11190199.

Mähr, Moritz. 2024f. “Mit ChatGPT Texte schreiben: Prompting-Methoden für Historiker:innen.” Invited Workshop. Dozierenden-Workshop des historischen Seminars, University of Zurich, March 15. https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10815356.

Mähr, Moritz. 2024j. “Werkstattbericht: Das neue Portal der Stadtgeschichte.” Invited Talk. Vortragszyklus der Historisch Antiquarischen Gesellschaft Basel (HAG), Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, March 4. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10780215.

Mähr, Moritz. 2024b. “Die Geschichte von Basel ins Netz stellen: Mit Forschungsdaten Public History schreiben.” Contributed Presentation. Doing Digital Public History, Zentralbibliothek Zürich, February 2. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10602603.

Mähr, Moritz. 2023c. “Digital Longevity: Learnings from the (Digital) History Project Stadt.Geschichte.Basel.” Invited Talk. Legal History Meets Digital Humanities, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, December 12. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10368874.

Mähr, Moritz. 2023a. “Accessible Public History: CollectionBuilder’s Minimalist Approach to Open-Source Collections and Exhibits.” Invited Infrastructure pitch. DARIAH-CH Study Day, University of Bern, October 20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10003519.

Mähr, Moritz. 2023g. “The Reconstruction of the Central Aliens Register: Early Database Systems in the Swiss Federal Administration as a Subject of Historical Research.” Contributed Presentation. Database Histories – Histories of Databasing and Databasing of History, University of Basel, June 23. https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-136204.

Mähr, Moritz. 2023f. “Research Data Management and Public History.” Invited Talk. RISE (Internal Lecture Series), University of Basel, June 21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11106921.

Mähr, Moritz. 2023e. “Literature Research with ChatGPT: Excerpting and Summarizing for the Impatient Researcher.” Invited Talk. Interaktive Sprachmodelle: Lehre und Forschung mit ChatGPT & Co, University of Bern, April 21. https://doi.org/10.48350/181897.

Kury, Patrick, and Moritz Mähr. 2023. “New Urban History am Beispiel von Basel – analog und digital.” Invited Talk. Forschungskolloquium des Historischen Seminars, University of Lucerne, April 18. https://www.unilu.ch/fakultaeten/ksf/institute/historisches-seminar/veranstaltungen/new-urban-history-am-beispiel-von-basel-analog-und-digital-7302/.

Mähr, Moritz. 2023b. “Die Entwicklung der Internet Governance: Wie kann ein grosses Korpus an digital entstandenen Quellen in einem kollaborativen Forschungsprojekt untersucht werden?” Invited Talk. Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte nach 1800, University of Bern, March 1. http://doi.org/10.48350/179388.

Wildisen-Münch, Cristina, Nico Görlich, and Moritz Mähr. 2022c. “Teach Historians How to Design a Data Story: Stadt.Geschichte.Basel.” Contributed Poster Slam. DARIAH-CH Study Day, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Mendrisio, Switzerland, October 20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7198056.

Mähr, Moritz. 2022f. “Wer entscheidet darüber, wie das Internet funktioniert?” Invited Talk. 8. Tag der Junior Fellows, Walter Benjamin Kolleg der Universität Bern, October 1. https://doi.org/10.48350/173623.

Mähr, Moritz. 2022a. “Research Data Management in (Public) History.” Key note. Digital Humanities Methodologies DHCH 2022, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, June 15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6637118.

Mähr, Moritz. 2022i. “Wie der Verwaltungscomputer die Arbeitsmigration programmierte. Elektronische Datenverarbeitung in der Bundesverwaltung 1964–1982.” Invited Talk. Oberseminar Sommersemester 2022, Deutsches Museum, May 30. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000549787.

Mähr, Moritz. 2022h. “Wie der Verwaltungscomputer die Arbeitsmigration programmierte: Elektronische Datenverarbeitung in der Bundesverwaltung 1964–1982.” Defense. April 25. https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/587764.

Mähr, Moritz. 2021c. “The Public, the Private, and the Domestication of the Information System. How Data Protection Governed the Swiss Administration in the 1970s.” Contributed Presentation. 6th International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing, Zurich, October 27–29. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000512153.

Mähr, Moritz. 2021b. “Arbeiten mit (vielen) retrodigitialisierten Quellen: Texterkennung und Metadatenextraktion in PDF-Dateien mit freier Software.” Contributed Workshop. Praxislabor at Historikertag 2021, online, July 13. https://www.forschungsdaten.info/kalender-index/kalender-anzeige/2021/7/13/event/41801-Arbeiten-mit-vielen-retr/tx_cal_phpicalendar/.

Mähr, Moritz, Henrike Hoffmann, and Daniela Zetti. 2019. “How the Search Engine Came to the Historians.” Contributed Presentation. Sharing the Experience: Workflows for the Digital Humanities (DARIAH-DESIR Workshop), University of Neuchâtel, December 6. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000384360.

Mähr, Moritz. 2019b. “Auf Magnetband gespeicherte Ausländer. Steuerung der Arbeitsmigration zur Sicherung des Wohlstands nach 1960.” Contributed Presentation. 5. Schweizerischen Geschichtstage (Panel “Wie wird der Zusammenhang von Reichtum, Arbeit und Migration in der Schweiz in neueren Publikationen und Projekten thematisiert?”), University of Zurich, June 6. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000347897.

Mähr, Moritz. 2019a. “Auf Magnetband gespeicherte Ausländer. Steuerung der Arbeitsmigration in der Schweiz nach 1960.” Invited Talk. Forschungskolloquiums zur Geschichte der vormodernen und modernen Welt, University of Lucerne, May 7.

Mähr, Moritz. 2019f. “Netzwerke als Suchstrategie.” Invited Talk. Workshop “Digitale Werkzeuge in der Quellenarbeit,” Collegium Helveticum Zurich, February 14.

Mähr, Moritz. 2018b. “E-Mail wird 36 Jahre alt. Zeit für eine Quellenkritik.” Invited Talk. Research Network “Computer, Administration, and History,” IKKM Weimar, December 4.

Mähr, Moritz. 2018a. “Die Fremden und der Computer: Die Entstehung des zentralen Ausländerregisters in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren.” Invited Talk. Migration and Postcoloniality Meet Switzerland Workshop of University of Fribourg, Centre Loewenberg Murten, October 26.

Mähr, Moritz. 2015. “Heldengeschichten und Feldforschung: Ein kritischer Blick auf die Social Studies of Finance.” Talk. Das Wissen der Finanzmärkte (ZGW Workshop), ETH Zurich, March 16. https://web.archive.org/web/20191216201059/https://voicerepublic.com/talks/heldengeschichten-und-feldforschung.

Posters

Mähr, Moritz. 2026m. “NAIF: Responsible Research Assessment and Metadata Quality for Interoperable Research Infrastructures in Switzerland.” Poster. DARIAH Annual Event 2026: Digital Arts and Humanities With and For Society: Building Infrastructures of Engagement, Università Roma Tre, May 26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20391046.

Mähr, Moritz, Martin Jaekel, David Johann, Rüdiger Mutz, and Elena Šimukovič. 2026. “On the Current and Future Uses of Quantitative Scientometric Indicators (QSI) in Swiss Higher Education Institutions: Results from the NAIF Project.” Poster. Research on Research (RoR) Event 2026, University of Zurich, January 29. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18656169.

Twente, Moritz, and Moritz Mähr. 2025a. “Minimal Computing Meets Public History: The Stadt.Geschichte.Basel Approach to Open Research Data with CollectionBuilder.” Poster. Digital Humanities Conference 2025, NOVA University Lisbon, July 17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15823310.

Wildisen-Münch, Cristina, Nico Görlich, Moritz Mähr, and Moritz Twente. 2023. “Karten als ‘boundary objects’ oder wie man mit Geodaten historische Thesen bildet.” Poster. Digital History Tagung 2023 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, May 23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7960745.

Wildisen-Münch, Cristina, Nico Görlich, and Moritz Mähr. 2022b. “How to Tell a Data Story.” Poster. DARIAH-CH Study Day, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Mendrisio, Switzerland, October 20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7193613.

Mähr, Moritz. 2018d. “Typademic, Collaborative Academic Publishing.” Poster. DARIAH CH Workshop at University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, November 29. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000311815.

Mähr, Moritz, Henrike Hoffmann, and Daniela Zetti. 2018. “Topic Modelling and Explorative Search.” Poster. DARIAH CH Workshop at University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, November 29. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000311816.

Mähr, Moritz. 2018c. “Topic Modelling & Explorative Suche.” Poster. DARIAH DE Grand Tour at TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, September 20. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000311814.

Theses

Mähr, Moritz. 2022g. “Wie der Verwaltungscomputer die Arbeitsmigration programmierte: Elektronische Datenverarbeitung in der Bundesverwaltung 1964–1982.” Doctoral Thesis, ETH Zurich. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000587758.

Mähr, Moritz. 2014. “Wie die Demokratie zu ihrem Wissen kommt: Über demokratisch adäquate, epistemische Mechanismen.” Master Thesis, ETH Zurich. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000311817.

Mähr, Moritz. 2011. “Wer entscheidet in der Schweiz de jure und de facto über Systemrelevanz?” Bachelor Thesis, University of Zurich. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.2270.6082.

Research software and data

Wagner, Laura, and Moritz Mähr. 2026. “Stochastic Parrots and Beyond: Normative Dimensions of Generative AI.” October 14. https://maehr.github.io/stochastic-parrots-and-beyond/.

Mähr, Moritz. 2026h. “GitHub as a Project Management Tool: Workshop and Open Educational Resource.” October 12. https://maehr.github.io/github-as-a-project-management-tool/.

Mähr, Moritz, and Noëlle Schnegg. 2026a. “Diskriminierungssensible Metadatenpraxis. OER für einen Hands-on-Kurs.” Version 0.1.0. October 6. https://maehr.github.io/diskriminierungssensible-metadatenpraxis-problembewusstsein-workshop/.

Mähr, Moritz. 2026r. Simple Topic Modeling. V. 2.0.0-alpha. Released September 21. https://github.com/maehr/simple-topic-modeling.

Mähr, Moritz. 2026b. “All Data Are Local: Introduction to Data Literacy.” September 15. https://maehr.github.io/all-data-are-local/.

Mähr, Moritz. 2026p. Quarto MCP. V. 0.2.0. Released August 31. https://github.com/maehr/quarto-cli-mcp.

Mähr, Moritz. 2026q. SGB Minimal HTML. V. 0.1.0. Stadt.Geschichte.Basel, released July 7. https://github.com/Stadt-Geschichte-Basel/sgb-minimal-html.

Mähr, Moritz. 2026t. Zenodo-Uploader. V. 0.1.0. Released July 7. https://github.com/maehr/zenodo-uploader.

Mähr, Moritz, and Luz Christopher Seiberth. (2026) 2026. TextRefs. TypeScript. May 22, released June 3. https://github.com/textrefs/textrefs.org.

Mähr, Moritz. 2025k. PDF Metadata Enhancer. Stadt.Geschichte.Basel, released October 19. https://github.com/Stadt-Geschichte-Basel/pdf-metadata-enhancer.

Mähr, Moritz, and Nico Görlich. 2025. Omeka2dsp. Stadt.Geschichte.Basel, released October 15. https://github.com/Stadt-Geschichte-Basel/omeka2dsp.

Mähr, Moritz. 2025e. Data Validation Tool. Stadt.Geschichte.Basel, released September. https://github.com/Stadt-Geschichte-Basel/sgb-data-validator.

Mähr, Moritz, and Moritz Twente. 2025e. One Template to Rule Them All: Interactive Research Data Documentation with Quarto. Markdown. Released July 17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16045573.

Mähr, Moritz, and Moritz Twente. 2025b. “Dokumentation.stadtgeschichtebasel.ch.” Stadt.Geschichte.Basel, March 12. https://github.com/Stadt-Geschichte-Basel/stadt-geschichte-basel.github.io.

Mähr, Moritz, Nico Görlich, and Moritz Twente. 2024. “Forschung.stadtgeschichte.basel.” Stadt.Geschichte.Basel, August 16. https://github.com/Stadt-Geschichte-Basel/forschung.stadtgeschichtebasel.ch.

Mähr, Moritz, and Moritz Twente. 2023. Open Research Data Template. Released March 15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19111355.

Mähr, Moritz, Nico Görlich, and Moritz Twente. 2023. “Stadtgeschichtebasel.ch.” Stadt.Geschichte.Basel. https://github.com/Stadt-Geschichte-Basel/stadtgeschichtebasel.ch.

Mähr, Moritz. 2022c. The Corpus as a Network. Released December. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7430555.

Mähr, Moritz. 2021a. Academic Pandoc Template. Released December 2. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7816853.

Mähr, Moritz, Tobias Hodel, and Vlad Atanasiu. 2021. Critique-Digitale.ch. Released July 6. http://github.com/critique-digitale/critique-digitale.ch.

Mähr, Moritz. 2020f. UZH MA Thesis. Released November 12. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4270126.

Mähr, Moritz. 2020e. Typademic. Released October 29. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4153183.

Mähr, Moritz. 2020b. Open-Museum.ch. Open-museum, released. https://github.com/open-museum/open-museum.ch.

Mähr, Aline, and Moritz Mähr. 2020. Web. Open-museum, released. https://github.com/open-museum/web.

Mähr, Moritz. 2019e. “International Labour Office Historical Studies and Reports English.” December 18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3582818.

Mähr, Moritz. 2019d. GitHub Template. Released. https://github.com/maehr/github-template.

Other works

Mähr, Moritz. 2026f. “Critical AI Literacy.” Wiki entry. Digital Archival Literacy Cooperative, October 28. https://dh-literacy.org/doku.php?id=critical_ai_literacy.

Podcast mit Moritz Mähr – Wie der Verwaltungscomputer die Arbeitsmigration programmierte. Elektronische Datenverarbeitung in der Schweizer Bundesverwaltung 1964–1982. 2026. Episode 32. cliocast. Infoclio.ch, April 17. 35:12. https://www.infoclio.ch/de/node/192093.

Mähr, Moritz. 2026n. “Oberon: Procedure Interfaces, Parameter Modes, and Strict Typing (1992).” January 12. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18775504.

Mähr, Moritz, and Moritz Twente. 2025f. Open Access and Open Peer Review in the Digital Humanities. Open Science in der Schweiz. Infoclio.ch. https://www.infoclio.ch/en/open-access-and-open-peer-review-digital-humanities.

Mähr, Moritz. 2025a. Critical AI Literacy for Historians. GitHub. https://maehr.github.io/critical-ai-literacy-for-historians/.

Mähr, Moritz. 2024h. “Q&A with Moritz Mähr, Stadt.Geschichte.Basel and Cb-Translate.” Interview by Julia Stone. April 22. Blog. https://collectionbuilder.github.io/2024-04-22-cb-moritz-mahr/.

Mähr, Moritz. 2023d. “Embracing Endings: Principles for Digital Longevity and Their Importance for Research Software Engineers.” Blog. DHTech, August 7. https://dh-tech.github.io/blog/2023-08-07-ending-principles/.

Wildisen-Münch, Cristina, Nico Görlich, and Moritz Mähr. 2022a. “Das Kontrollbüro und die Wundermaschine: Wie Basel-Stadt in den 1960er Jahren das Einwohnermeldewesen digitalisierte.” Data Story. ArcGIS StoryMaps, June 7. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15240927.

Mähr, Moritz, Malte Vogl, Diego Siqueira, et al. (2017) 2021. “Awesome Digital Humanities.” August 8. https://dh-tech.github.io/awesome-digital-humanities.

Mähr, Moritz. 2020d. “Sofia Booz, Der Reißwolf. Aktenvernichtung als destruktiver, ordnender und produktiver Umgang mit Daten (1965-2015).” TG 87 (3): 265–66. https://doi.org/10.5771/0040-117X-2020-3.

Mähr, Moritz, Henrike Hoffmann, Markus Wolfenswan, Rida Ayed, Wincent Balin, and Kieran Robson. (2019) 2019. “Awesome Digital History.” Linklist. Awesome Digital History, September 21. https://maehr.github.io/awesome-digital-history/.

Vishnu, Ashwin, and Moritz Mähr. 2018. “Awesome Scientific Writing.” Awesome Scientific Writing, September 5. https://writing-resources.github.io/awesome-scientific-writing/.

Mähr, Moritz, Matias Mikhail, and Andri Tschudi. 2014. Tagungsbericht: Das Politische in der Wissensgeschichte – Perspektiven eines Forschungskonzepts, 10.04.2014 – 12.04.2014 Zürich. H-Soz-Kult. http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-5437.

Mähr, Moritz, and Luz Christopher Seiberth. n.d. “TextRefs.” TextRefs. Accessed June 29, 2026. https://textrefs.org/.