Lina (she/her) is a PhD Research Fellow engaged in the Extending Digital Narrative (XDN) Project at the Center for Digital Narrative, Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies. Lina explores AI chatbots that simulate historical figures through generative technology and reenactment, what she terms histobots (Harder 2024). These simulations allow users to interact with AI-generated versions of individuals from Anne Frank to Alexander the Great. Her interdisciplinary work combines history and technology to investigate how AI shapes historiography, memory, and informal education. Through both critical analysis and practical design (see: Hedy Lamarr Chatbot), she explores how generative narratives might support more inclusive approaches to learning about the past.

Lina has a professional background in museum practice, which includes work in digital content creation at German contemporary history museums in Berlin, Bonn and Leipzig and has completed a two-year academic traineeship (German “Volontariat”) at a museum dedicated to the evolution of communication. She has worked on projects from exhibition curation to developing an online guide to Berlin’s Sites of Unity and the curation of exhibitions. She holds an M.A. in World Heritage Studies from BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and a B.A. in cultural studies with a focus on history from Saarland University. Her earlier research has adressed Holocaust education in Poland and the use of audiovisual Holocaust survivor testimonies in German Holocaust education. 

Lina is a member of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), a member of the working group for the Norwegian Network for Digital Humanities and Cultural Organizations (DHKO) and former co-chair and member of STIP-HF (2025, the interest committee for all PhD candidates at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen.

Upcoming March 2026

Unreal Ancestors – Reimagining History Through AI
Presentation at the DH Lecture Series
Organised by Digital Lab University of Bergen Library, D-lab at NTNU and the Norwegian Network for Digital Humanities and Cultural Organization (DHKO)
Online, 23 March 2026 

December 2025

(A)I Can't See Them
Paper Presentation and Panel Discussion at GenAI and Creative Practices
Organised by Responsible Digital Transformations, the event brings together researchers and practitioners to critically examine the evolving relationship between Generative AI (GenAI) and creative work.
University of Amsterdam and OBA Theatre, 17-18 December.

October 2025

(A)I Can't See Her
Paper Presentation and Panel Discussion at AoIR 2025 Ruptures
26th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers, Panel Archeologies & Histories of Digital Artifacts
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil, 18 October 2025.

Wherever I go, you're always with me & 404. Realness Not Found
Generative video loop & speculative film poster as part of the exhibition An Eye for AI Cinema
Center for Digital Narrative (CDN) in cooperation with Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF)
USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway, 15-23 October 2025.

Persona Non Data
Session Presentation and Panel Discussion at Research Ethics Day "Research Ethics After AI"
Session 3: Building Ethical Literacy: Towards a New Era of Research Ethics.   
University of Bergen, Norway, 3 October 2025.

June 2025

Histobots in Conversation: Ontologies and Typologies
Research Presentation at Lake Forest College, Illinois, USA, 26 June 2025. 

Mai 2025 

Histobots: Rewriting History, One Chat at a Time
Presentation at the University:Future Festival /imagine
Hochschulforum Digitalisierung, Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre, Stifterverband
Online, 13-15 May 2025.
Watch the talk on YouTube.

March 2025 

Post-Human Couture. 
Exhibit in the Fashion Magazine as part of the exhibition New Realities
Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt, 21 March 2025–11 January 2026.

Haunted Algorithms: Techno-Necromancy and Ghosts in the Machine
Presentation at the Workshop Weird Stories & Wicked Communities
Center for Digital Narrative (CDN) in cooperation with University of Stuttgart
University of Bergen, Norway, 13-14 March 2025. 

AI Meets History 
Online Workshop (Concept & Realisation) as part of the Art meets Tech: Web3Expressão series
Goethe Institute Lisbon, Online, 11 March 2025.

December 2024 

Echoes of History? The Impact of AI-Generated Historical Figures on Informal Education
Paper presentation at the Workshop AI, Politics and Society
Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy, 11-13 December 2024. 

November 2024

Reimagining History: AI-Generated Figures in Informal Education 
Guest Lecture at the AI Media Research Network, Department of Art and Media Studies
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU), Trondheim, 15 November 2024.

October 2024

Echoes of History? The Impact of AI-generated Historical Figures on Informal Education.
Presentation at the DHKO Annual Conference "Digital and digitized traces"
Norwegian network for digital humanities and cultural organization (DHKO)
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU), Trondheim, 22 October 2024. 

Histobots. Echoes of History or AI Storytime?
Presentation at the AI and Narrative Seminar, Center for Digital Narrative (CDN)
University of Bergen, Norway, 17 October 2024.

Hedy Lamarr Chatbot
Chatbot prototype using GPT-4o-mini as part of the exhibition More Than Meets AI
Center for Digital Narrative (CDN), University of Bergen, Norway, 1-25 October 2024.

September 2024

In Conversation with Hedy Lamarr. "Reanimating" Historical Figures with Artificial Intelligence.
Presentation at the Gode KI-historier seminar, Kommunikasjonsavdelingen
University of Bergen, Norway, 30 September 2024.

April 2024

Building the Nethersphere: Artificial Intelligence and the Reanimation of Historical Minds
Presentation at the Center for Digital Narrative's Seminar on AI and Digital Media Aesthetics
University of Bergen, Norway, 24 April, 2024. 
Watch the talk on YouTube.

Building the Nethersphere: Artificial Intelligence and the Reanimation of Historical Minds.
Presentation at the Futures of Digital Narrative Seminar
Center for Digital Narrative (CDN), Centre Universitaire de Norvège à Paris (CUNP), Paris, April 2024.