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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 16d

What does it mean to ‘stay’ in a place, and how can sound capture that experience? 🎧 Dr. Dominik Kremer and @andreaswagnr.bsky.social guided us through Tracing Qualities of Stay, exploring voice recordings tied to place and presence.

#DHSS2025 #SoundStudies #Linguistics #PlaceAndSpace

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Sabine Lang @sabinelang.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you everyone for coming to the #GermanischeNationalmuseum today (despite some serious train delays and rain). I enjoyed it so much and it makes me miss working as a tour guide #dhss2025 @dhssfau.bsky.social

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andreaswagnr.bsky.social @andreaswagnr.bsky.social · 18d

Eight now in our Summer School on Data, Gender and Society @nfdykes.bsky.social is introducing hands on examples of concordance analysis with flexiconc.
#DHSS2025

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 24d

We can’t wait to welcome our great keynote speakers at next week’s Summer School!
Find out more details about their sessions on our website.

@annafoka.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @mkschumacher.bsky.social
#DHSS2025 #DigitialHumanities

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Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social · Sep 10

Great to the schedule for the #DHSS2025 summer school out! An amazing programme is waiting for our participants ☺️
#DataGenderSociety #DH #DigitalHumanities

go.fau.de/1cadb

Digital Humanities Summer School 2025: Data, gender and society

If you are attending the FAU Innovation Days (view details), you have the opportunity to register for the keynote talks. Mo 22 – Fri 26 September 2025 The DHSS2025 summer school offers expert-led…

go.fau.de

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · Jul 31

📢 Our second #DHSS25 keynote is Mareike Schumacher!

Don't miss her talk "Corpus Compilation and Gender-Sensitive Analysis" as part of our #DataGenderSociety summer school this September!

#DigitalHumanities #DH

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andreaswagnr.bsky.social @andreaswagnr.bsky.social · Jul 30

Im am so happy being part of the Text and Language Lab @dhssfau.bsky.social and working with all those lovely people.

#digitalhumanities

Marianna Gracheva @mariannagracheva.bsky.social · Jul 30

The Text and Language Lab @dhssfau.bsky.social @fau.de 🙂

#corpuslinguistics
#digitalhumanities

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · Jul 29

🎥 A glimpse from our Digital Humanities Training Day, where our upcoming Summer School keynote speaker @gavinbrookes.bsky.social delivered a thought-provoking talk on "Corpus Linguistics, Generative AI, and Discourses of Dementia."
Join us this summer for more inspiring sessions like this!
#DHSS25

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · Jul 28

📣 Keynote Speaker Announcement #DHSS25

We’re pleased to announce our third keynote speaker: @gavinbrookes.bsky.social

🎤 Title: Corpus linguistics for gender and language research: Key concepts and critical reflections

🗓️ 22–26 September 2025
🔗 www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/summer-school

#dhss25

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · Jul 28

We are looking for an administrative assistant to join our team @dhssfau.bsky.social

Working in an international context, we are looking for people who can operate in both German & English.
Full-time, initially fixed-term, but with a long-term perspective!

www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/teamass...

Teamassistenz am Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies (m/w/d)

www.jobs.fau.de

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andreaswagnr.bsky.social @andreaswagnr.bsky.social · Jul 28

The collected data will feed into our workshop:

“Safe Travels – Assessing Gender-Specific Sense of Safety in Urban Mobilities”

hosted by Dominik Kremer and myself.

📅 Details:
🔗 www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/summer-school

#DHSS #FAU #dhss25
@dhssfau.bsky.social

Digital Humanities Summer School 2025: Data, gender and society

Registration is closed, but you can now join the waiting list for the DHSS Summer School. We’ll contact you if a spot becomes available. Mo 22 – Fri 26 September 2025 The DHSS2025 summer school offers...

www.dhss.phil.fau.eu

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andreaswagnr.bsky.social @andreaswagnr.bsky.social · Jul 28

During our DHSS Summer School 2025 we're visiting the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg for an exciting workshop hosted by @sabinelang.bsky.social.
On the way there, we're thrilled to collect real-world, multimodal mobility data using our own app, #SpaceLog.

Building of FAU in the background and a hand holding a phone with the app SpaceLog opened in the foreground.

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · Jul 25

Digital Humanities Summer School Waiting List now open!!!

Sign up now!

#DHSS #FAU #dhss25

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · Jul 22

🚨 Exciting workshop alert!
Join us this September at the DHSS Summer School 2025: Data, Gender and Society for:

“Open Culture: Modelling the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Wikidata” with @sabinelang.bsky.social 🏛️

📅 Details:
🔗 www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/summer-school

#Wikidata #DHSS2025

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · Jul 8

Big reveal 🥁
Here is the second keynote speaker for our #DHSS25 summer school (22 - 26 Sept 2025)

Prof. Mareike Schumacher
@mkschumacher.bsky.social will talk about

" #Corpus compilation and gender-sensitive analysis"

Join us @fau.de in September!

& don't forget to apply for a travel bursary

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · Jun 16

The wait is over☀️
Registration for #DHSS25 Summer School is officially OPEN!

Experience expert-led lectures and practical, hands-on learning using advanced DH tools.

Don't miss out - spots are limited and filling up fast ⏳

👉Secure your place now: go.fau.de/1bihf
#DataGenderSociety #FAU #DHSS

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andreaswagnr.bsky.social @andreaswagnr.bsky.social · Jun 13

Stay tunes for this brilliant MA project of @jannoreincke.bsky.social at our department @dhssfau.bsky.social.

If you are also interested in #DigitalHumanities, #GameStudies and #environment come and join us at our MA.

Deadline is the 16th of July.
Apply now!

www.dhss.phil.fau.de/2025/06/10/n...

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Luca Giovannini @lucagiovannini.bsky.social · Jun 12

🏟️ Our contribution to #AIUCD2025: a prototype for a "Little Atlas of Early Modern English Drama"

Demo: atlas-emed.github.io
Paper: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

with @andreaswagnr.bsky.social

@aiucd.bsky.social
@dhpotsdam.bsky.social @dracor.org

A Little Atlas of Early Modern English Drama

Website displaying locations in plays from EngDraCor

atlas-emed.github.io

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andreaswagnr.bsky.social @andreaswagnr.bsky.social · Jun 11

Here @dhssfau.bsky.social we use our #SpaceLog App to collect geodata and multimodal data in outdoor environments.

If you are interested in learning more about applications of #DigitalHumanities come and join us!
Applications for MA in Digital Humanities are open until July 15 go.fau.de/1bige

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andreaswagnr.bsky.social @andreaswagnr.bsky.social · May 25

Our first #DHSS2025 SummerSchool will take place this September @dhssfau.bsky.social on #DataGenderSociety.

Pre-registration is now open! Come and join us.

DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · May 23

‼️📣Come enjoy Erlangen in September while learning new research skills at our #DigitalHumanities summer school!

#DHSS2025 #DataGenderSociety

More about the summer school and pre-registration link below:

www.dhss.phil.fau.de/digital-huma...

Digital Humanities Summer School 2025: Data, gender and society

Mo 22 – Fri 26 September 2025 The DHSS2025 summer school offers expert-led training in DH tools and methods. It will also offer opportunities to critically discuss the type of research questions that…

www.dhss.phil.fau.de

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · May 15

Join our team @dhssfau.bsky.social @fau.de

2 full professorships in #DigitalHumanities

‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #HCI

‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #Place&Space

⏰ Deadline: 2 June 2025

www.fau.eu/people/worki...
@fauphil.bsky.social

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · May 15

Meet our next guest and mark your calendars! Dr. Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social from the University of Richmond will give a talk on "Distant Viewing: AI in Theory and Practice" in our DH Colloquium on May 28!

www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2025/05/02/t...

Talk: Distant Viewing: AI In Theory and Practice

Speaker: Lauren Tilton Date: 28 May 2025 Time: 16:00 to 18:00 Location: Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61, Room 3.17 (3rd floor) The talk will introduce the concept of distant viewing, a theory and method…

www.dhss.phil.fau.eu

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · May 14

📢Coming Up in the #DHKolloquium📢

📆Wed, 21 May 2025
👩‍🎓Svenja Guhr
💬Literary Soundscapes – Operationalization and Analysis

Don't miss this quick message from our next speaker:
@guhrs.bsky.social

Her website: Svenjaguhr.github.io

Hope to see you there!✨

👉 go.fau.de/1bibi

@fau.de #FAU #DHSS #DH

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · Apr 2

🎉 I'm absolutely delighted to welcome @katrohrbacher.bsky.social to the #Text&Language Group of @dhssfau.bsky.social @fau.de
Katrin joins us from McGill University.
She is an expert in #culturalanalytics and #NLP.

#Digitalhumanities #DH #storytelling

www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2025/04/02/n...

New at DHSS: Dr. Katrin Rohrbacher

We are delighted to share that Dr. Katrin Rohrbacher has joined the DHSS! Katrin is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the ‘Text and Language’ Group of Prof. Michaela Mahlberg! She completed her PhD in…

www.dhss.phil.fau.eu

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andreaswagnr.bsky.social @andreaswagnr.bsky.social · Apr 1

Day 2 at the #TextAsData Spring School from @dhpotsdam.bsky.social and @dhssfau.bsky.social

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