Digital Historical Political Economy Conference

The Digital Historical Political Economy (DigHPE) Conference is held at CBS on Tuesday, June 24, 2025.

The DigHPE conference brings together leading scholars of history, political science, and economics working on the political and economic causes and consequences of national socialism. Conference program.
Please e-mail Maria Norgreen (mn.egb@cbs.dk) no later than Friday, June 20th if you wish to join the conference.

The conference is organized as part of the project "Who became a Nazi? A Structured Database of the German Denazification Questionnaires, 1945–1949" (DeNazDB). The conference will open with very first results from the DeNazDB project presented by DeNazDB Co-PI Jan Stuckatz (CBS-EGB). The program continues with research on political purges, voting behavior under Nazism, and personal narratives during the denazification process. In the afternoon, sessions highlight methodological advances, including new AI-based tools for historical data collection and coding, followed by empirical studies on Nazi regime loyalty, the long-term impacts of repression in Poland, political polarization in Weimar Germany, and bureaucratic dynamics within the German Wehrmacht. The conference features contributions from researchers of MIT, LSE, ETH Zürich, Osnabrück and Aarhus University and showcases the potential of data-driven historical research across disciplinary boundaries. Lunch and coffee will be provided. A conference dinner is organized for speakers and discussants only.

The event is generously supported by the Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish Data Science Academy.