Lina Ruth Harder

At a Glance

2024–PresentPhD Fellow, Extending Digital Narrative Project (XDN), Center for Digital Narrative (CDN), University of Bergen.

2018–2024Digital Content Creator, Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

2017–2018Researcher (Freelance), Museum für Kommunikation Berlin.

2015–2017Academic Trainee, Museum für Kommunikation Berlin.

2010-2015Professional roles with pressrelations, Bundesstiftung Baukultur, NRW KULTURsekretariat, Landesmedienanstalt Saarland, Galicia Jewish Museum, Stiftung Saarländischer Kulturbesitz, Funkhaus Saar GmbH.

2012–2015MA, World Heritage Studies, BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg.

2008–2012BA, Historisch orientierte Kulturwissenschaften, Universität des Saarlandes.

Grants & Fellowships

2026Overseas Research Grant, Research Council of Norway.

2025–2026Inclusive AI Emerging Fellow, Inclusive AI Lab, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

Talks & Workshops

Upcoming

20 March 2026Research as a Creative Practice, CDN Equinox, Center for Digital Narrative's biannual research day, University of Bergen, Norway. Panel discussion.

26 March 2026Unreal Ancestors – Reimagining History Through AI, DH Lecture Series, Digital Lab University of Bergen Library, D-lab at NTNU and Norwegian Network for Digital Humanities and Cultural Organization (DHKO), online. Presentation.

Past Talks

December 2025(A)I Cannot See Them, GenAI & Creative Practices, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Presentation & Panel Discussion.

October 2025(A)I Can't See Her, AoIR 2025 Ruptures, 26th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers, Niterói, Brazil. Presentation & Panel Discussion.

October 2025Persona Non Data: Histobots and the Ethics of AI Simulation, Research Ethics Day, University of Bergen, Norway. Presentation & Panel Discussion.

May 2025Histobots in Conversation: Ontologies and Typologies, Lake Forest College, Illinois, USA. Guest Lecture.

May 2025Histobots: Rewriting History, One Chat at a Time, University:Future Festival /imagine, Hochschulforum Digitalisierung, Germany, online. Presentation.

March 2025Haunted Algorithms: Techno-Necromancy and Ghosts in the Machine, Weird Stories & Wicked Communities, University of Stuttgart and Center for Digital Narrative, Bergen, Norway. Workshop Presentation.

March 2025AI Meets History, Goethe Institute Portugal, Art Meets Tech Series, online. Workshop Design & Facilitation.

December 2024Echoes of History? The Impact of AI-Generated Historical Figures on Informal Education, AI, Politics & Society, University of Bologna, Italy. Paper Presentation & Panel Discussion.

November 2024Reimagining History: AI-Generated Figures in Informal Education, AI Media Research Network, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, online. Guest Lecture.

October 2024Echoes of History? The Impact of AI-Generated Historical Figures on Informal Education, Digitale og digitaliserte spor / Digital and Digitized Traces, DHKO Conference, Trondheim, Norway. Presentation & Panel Discussion.

October 2024Histobots: Echoes of History or AI Storytime, AI & Narrative Seminar, Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen, Norway. Presentation.

September 2024In Conversation with Hedy Lamarr: ‘Reanimating’ Historical Figures with Artificial Intelligence, Gode KI-historier, Kommunikasjonsavdelingen, University of Bergen, Norway. Presentation.

April 2024Building the Nethersphere: Artificial Intelligence and the Reanimation of Historical Minds, Futures of Digital Narrative Research, Centre Universitaire de Norvège a Paris (CUNP), Paris, France. Presentation.

Exhibits

2025Wherever I go, you're always with me (with Colin Robinson), An Eye for AI Cinema, Center for Digital Narrative in cooperation with Bergen Internasjonale Filmfestival (BIFF), 15–23 October 2025.

2025404. Realness Not Found, An Eye for AI Cinema, Center for Digital Narrative in cooperation with Bergen Internasjonale Filmfestival (BIFF), 15–23 October 2025.

2025–2026Post-Human Couture, New Realities, Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt, 21 March 2025–11 January 2026.

2024Hedy Lamarr Chatbot, More Than Meets AI, curated by Eamon O'Kane, Jill Miller, Scott Rettberg, Alex Saum, and Jhave Johnston; multiple venues in Bergen, 20 September–25 October 2024.

Published Work

Harder, Lina Ruth, David Jhave Johnston, Scott Rettberg, Sérgio Galvão Roxo, and Haoyuan Tang. 2026. “Extending Digital Narrative with AI, Games, Chatbots, and XR: How Experimental Creative Practice Yields Research Insights.” Humanities 15 (1): 17. doi:10.3390/h15010017.

Harder, Lina. 2024. “Dong Xuan Centre” and “Karlshorst Theatre.” In Sites of Unity. Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. https://www.orte-der-einheit.de/en/.

Harder, Lina. 2020. “#mauerfall30. Ein Hashtag für den Mauerfall.” Museumsmagazin, no. 1: 18. hdg.de/museumsmagazin_1-2020.pdf.

Harder, Lina. 2017. “Kleider machen Leute.” In Das Radio in der Nussschale und andere Objektgeschichten: Aus den Sammlungen der Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, edited by Veit Didczuneit, 113–14. Bd. 38. Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation.

Harder, Lina. 2017. “Walkmania – Mobile Freiheit.” In Das Radio in der Nussschale und andere Objektgeschichten: Aus den Sammlungen der Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, edited by Veit Didczuneit, 256–59. Bd. 38. Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation.

Harder, Lina. 2017. “Dem Paket auf der Spur.” In Das Radio in der Nussschale und andere Objektgeschichten: Aus den Sammlungen der Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, edited by Veit Didczuneit, 280–81. Bd. 38. Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation.

Harder, Lina. 2017. “Durch die Nacht mit Domian.” In Das Buch der Nächte, edited by Klaus Beyrer, 20–23. Verlag Hermann Schmidt.

Peer Reviewing

2026Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies
1 article reviewed

2025electronic book review
1 article reviewed

Networks

July 2025-PresentAssociation of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
Member

January 2025-PresentNorwegian Network for Digital Humanities and Cultural Organization (DHKO)//Norsk nettverk for digital humaniora og kulturorganisasjon
Board member

2025-2026STIP-HF//Ph.d.-kandidatutvalget ved Det humanistiske fakultet
Co-chair January 2025 to July 2025, Board member August 2025 to January 2026

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