Lina Ruth Harder

At a Glance

• PhD Fellow, Extending Digital Narrative Project (XDN), Center for Digital Narrative (CDN), a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence at the University of Bergen (2024–present)
• Digital Content Creator, Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (2018–2024)
• Researcher (Freelance), Museum für Kommunikation Berlin (2017–2018)
• Academic Trainee, Museum für Kommunikation Berlin (2015–2017)
• MA World Heritage Studies, BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg (2012–2015)
• BA Historisch orientierte Kulturwissenschaften, Universität des Saarlandes (2008–2012)

Grants & Fellowships

• Inclusive AI Emerging Fellow 2025-26, Inclusive AI Lab, Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Overseas Research Grant, Research Council of Norway (Mai-June 2026)

Talks & Workshops

Past

• “(A)I Cannot See Them,” GenAI & Creative Practices, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 2025 – Presentation
• “(A)I Can't See Her,” AoIR 2025 Ruptures, 26th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers, Niterói, Brazil, 2025 – Presentation
• “Persona Non Data: Histobots and the Ethics of AI Simulation,” Research Ethics Day, University of Bergen, Norway, 2025 – Session Presentation and Panel Discussion on "Building Ethical Literacy: Towards a New Era of Research Ethics"
• “Histobots in Conversation: Ontologies and Typologies,” Lake Forest College, Illinois, USA, May 2025 – Guest Lecture
• “Histobots: Rewriting History, One Chat at a Time,” University:Future Festival /imagine, Hochschulforum Digitalisierung, Germany, May 2025 – Presentation
• “Haunted Algorithms: Techno-Necromancy and Ghosts in the Machine,” Weird Stories & Wicked Communities , University of Stuttgart & Center for Digital Narrative, Bergen, March 2025 – Workshop Presentation
• “AI Meets History,” Goethe Institute, Art Meets Tech Series, Lisbon, March 2025 (online) – Concept & Realisation (Workshop Design & Facilitation)
• “Echoes of History? The Impact of AI-Generated Historical Figures on Informal Education,” AI, Politics & Society, University of Bologna, Italy, December 2024 – Paper Presentation
• “Reimagining History: AI-Generated Figures in Informal Education,” AI Media Research Network, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, November 2024 – Guest Lecture
• “Echoes of History? The Impact of AI-Generated Historical Figures on Informal Education,” Digitale og digitaliserte spor / Digital and Digitized Traces, DHKO Conference, Trondheim, Norway, October 2024 – Presentation
• “Histobots. Echoes of History or AI Storytime?” AI & Narrative, Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen, October 2024 – Presentation
• “In Conversation with Hedy Lamarr. ‘Reanimating’ Historical Figures with Artificial Intelligence,” Gode KI-historier, Kommunikasjonsavdelingen, University of Bergen, September 2024 – Presentation
• “Building the Nethersphere: Artificial Intelligence and the Reanimation of Historical Minds,” Futures of Digital Narrative Research, Centre Universitaire de Norvège à Paris (CUNP), Paris, France, April 2024 – Research Presentation

Exhibits

• Harder, Lina Ruth & Colin Robinson. 2025. Wherever I go, you're always with me. Part of the exhibition An Eye for AI Cinema, Center for Digital Narrative in cooperation with Bergen Internasjonale Filmfestival (BIFF) , 15–23 October 2025.
• Harder, Lina Ruth. 2025. 404. Realness Not Found. Part of the exhibition An Eye for AI Cinema, Center for Digital Narrative in cooperation with Bergen Internasjonale Filmfestival (BIFF) , 15–23 October 2025.
• Harder, Lina Ruth. 2025–26. Post-Human Couture. In the Fashion Magazine as part of the exhibition New Realities, Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt, 21 March 2025–11 January 2026.
• Harder, Lina Ruth. 2024. Hedy Lamarr Chatbot. Part of the exhibition More Than Meets AI, curated by Eamon O’Kane, Jill Miller, Scott Rettberg, Alex Saum, and Jhave Johnston. Exhibition, 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.
• Harder, Lina. 2024. “Dong Xuan Centre” and “Karlshorst Theatre.” In Sites of Unity. Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
  • Dong Xuan Centre article
  • Karlshorst Theatre article
• Harder, Lina. 2020. ‘#mauerfall30. Ein Hashtag für den Mauerfall’. Museumsmagazin, no. 1: 18.
• Harder, Lina. 2017. ‘Kleider machen Leute’. In Das Radio in der Nussschale und andere Objektgeschichten: aus den Sammlungen der Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, by Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation
, Julia Bastian, Klaus Beyrer, et al., edited by Veit Didczuneit, 113-14. Eine Publikation der Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, 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, by Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, Julia Bastian, Klaus Beyrer, et al., edited by Veit Didczuneit, 256-259. Eine Publikation der Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, 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, by Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, Julia Bastian, Klaus Beyrer, et al., edited by Veit Didczuneit, 280-281. Eine Publikation der Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, 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 Review

• Imaginations
• electronic book review

Networks

• Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) — Member since July 2025
• Norwegian Network for Digital Humanities and Cultural Organization (DHKO)
  Norsk nettverk for digital humaniora og kulturorganisasjon — Board member since January 2025
• STIP-HF
  Ph.d.-kandidatutvalget ved Det humanistiske fakultet — Co-Chair January–July 2025, Board Member August 2025-January 2026

Research Profiles

• ORCID
• ResearchGate
• SciProfiles

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