From the Object to the System: Critical Art History in the Age of Digital Humanities

Paul B. Jaskot will give the keynote lecture at the international conference Digital Art History – Methods, Practices, Epistemologies V. Critical Approaches to Sources in (Digital) Art History Join us on thursday, 16 October 2025 starting at 10:00 am.

A former President of the National Committee of the History of Art (US affiliate of CIHA) and founding member of the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative, Jaskot is among the most prominent figures in digital art history. He is the author of The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right (2012) and Geographies of the Holocaust (2014).

In the lecture titled “From the Object to the System,” Jaskot challenges art history's traditional focus on individual artworks, arguing that digital methods unlock radical new approaches to systemic questions. Drawing on his pioneering work applying GIS and computational analysis to Nazi architecture, forced labor networks, and the politics of memory, he demonstrates how Critical Digital Art History transforms our discipline—revealing the dynamic relationship between political power, space, and cultural systems.

To follow the lecture in person or online, please register via Google Forms until 14 October 2025.

More about the conference programme here.