DH Ringvorlesung

Website of the DH Ringvorlesung (lecture series) at the University of Bern, Walter Benjamin Kolleg / Digital Humanities.

🌐 https://dhbern.github.io/dh-lecture-series/

index.qmd            index of editions + search across all contributions
2026/                current edition (prose, one page with anchors per date)
2020/ … 2024/        past editions — GENERATED, do not edit by hand
data/editions.yml    the source for every past edition
scripts/             build_editions.py — writes the year pages and search-index.json
assets/programme/    the original programme PDF of each past edition
handout/             Markdown and PDF exports of the current edition

Past editions and the search index are generated:

npm run editions

Edit data/editions.yml, never 20XX/index.qmd. The search index covers every edition: past ones come from the YAML, the current one is read out of 2026/_beitraege.qmd, so nothing is maintained twice.

The programme is also published as plain Markdown (for the UniBE CMS) and as a PDF, in a full and a short variant:

All four are generated from the partials in 2026/ that the website page also includes, so they cannot drift from the published programme. The speaker list and the link-free programme table used by the short variant are themselves derived at build time. Regenerate after any change:

npm run handout

That renders GFM and Typst (no LaTeX needed), flattens the Markdown for a plain CMS (GitHub alert blocks become ordinary blockquotes, in-page anchors are unlinked, inline HTML removed) and fails if anything CMS-hostile survives. Both files are copied into the published site, so they also have stable URLs:

• https://dhbern.github.io/dh-lecture-series/handout/dh-ringvorlesung-hs2026.pdf
• https://dhbern.github.io/dh-lecture-series/handout/dh-ringvorlesung-hs2026.md

Requires Quarto.

quarto preview      # live preview
quarto render       # build to _site/
npm install         # dev tooling
npm run format      # format sources before pushing (CI lints with Prettier)

Pushing to main triggers .github/workflows/quarto-publish.yml: lint, render, optimise, dead-link check, deploy to GitHub Pages.

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• DH Lab

• Text: CC BY-SA 4.0 — abstracts remain with their authors
• Code: AGPL-3.0