DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
@dhssfau.bsky.social
Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @fau.de. Website: https://www.dhss.phil.fau.de/. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dhss_fau/ Newsletter: https://www.dhss.phil.fau.de/dhss-newsletter/
Today.
📅 Nov 26, 2025, 4–6 PM
📍 Room 00.026, Nürnberger Straße 74, Erlangen

Anna Baryshnikova will be presenting her MA thesis:
“Genre-specific translation of Russian multiword expressions into German using LLMs.”
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
A lecture by @mariannagracheva.bsky.social at the Interdisciplinary Linguistic Colloquium Augsburg (ILKA).
ILKA addresses current issues in language, communication, and language culture, bringing together Romance, English, German, and computational linguistics at the University of Augsburg.
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A talk by @michamahlberg.bsky.social illuminates the interplay between AI and language and shows how strengthening digital skills also requires basic linguistic knowledge.
The talk is part of the #Bayern Innovativ event TRANSFERleben Breakfast Club in Erlangen – Strengthening Digital Skills.
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
On 22 November, @sabinelang.bsky.social will give a talk at Überzeichnet – Ist das KI oder kann das weg? covering digital art history, FAU’s AI-Experiment and current copyright issues. The three day conference invites young professionals to discuss AI in a mix of lectures and workshops.
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
📰DHSS Newsletter!

We are excited to publish the first issue of the DHSS Newsletter tomorrow.
If you would like to receive it, you can subscribe here:

www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/dhss-newslet...

Thank you for your interest in our work at the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies at FAU.
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This month, Prof. Anastasia Glawion @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social returns for her second visiting lecture: “Fanfiction as Data: Exploring Interpretive Communities through Network Analysis.” Humlab Talk at Umeå Universitet.

🔗 More info & Zoom link: www.umu.se/en/events/hu...

#fanfiction #lecture
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Digital Humanities Colloquium
Nov 19, 2025, 4–6 PM
Room 00.026, Nürnberger Straße 74, Erlangen

Talks:
• Analysing climate emotions in environmental video games (MA thesis work) by Janno Reincke

• Ideenskizze für das PhD-Vorhaben by Moritz Meckl
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Join us for the next DH Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Uhrig (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) on Digital Linguistics & Big Data. His research spans cognitive linguistics, Construction Grammar, collocation, corpus & computational linguistics, lexicography, and large multimodal datasets with data science & ML methods.
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Aspects of Space: Quantitative Approaches to Fictional Worlds
A lecture by Dr. Katrin Rohrbacher at the University of Hamburg.
The lecture will be held in German.

📅 12 November 2025
🕒 Wednesdays, 10:15–11:45 a.m.
📍 Main Building, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, West Wing, Room 221
November 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Department of Digital Humanities & Social Studies at FAU is hiring a Managing Director.

Lead a dynamic academic environment and help shape the future of digital research.

Details and application: www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/geschae...
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The DHSS cordially invites you to the following talk in our DH Colloquium:

Discussing Roland Meyer’s talk:
“Generative KI und die Ästhetik des digitalen Faschismus”

📅 Date: 5 November 2025
🕒 Time: 16:00 – 18:00
📍 Location: Room 00.026 (Seminar Room 3), Nürnberger Strasse 74, Erlangen
November 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Part of the Digital Humanities series of lectures, Digital Humanities in Focus: Methods, Applications, and Perspectives, held at the University of Rostock.
A lecture today by Prof. Anastasia Glawion.

The lecture will be held online via Zoom. More info: www.germanistik.uni-rostock.de/forschung/di...
November 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Prof. Michaela Mahlberg will give a seminar lecture at Etnatext.

For more information about the program, visit: etnatext.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
📚 Digital Humanities Colloquium

Join us this Wednesday for a talk by Sabine Lang:
“Umberto Eco on How to Write a Scientific Thesis.”

🕓 16:00–18:00
📍 Room 00.026 (Seminar Room 3), Nürnberger Straße 74, 91052 Erlangen

#DigitalHumanities #FAU #DHSS #Colloquium #AcademicWriting #Research
October 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
📢 Location update:
The Digital Humanities Colloquium now takes place in
Room 00.026 (Seminar Room 3), Nürnberger Straße 74, 91052 Erlangen.

🗓 Wednesdays, 16:00–18:00

Join us for talks, project presentations, and discussions on research in DH.

More info 👉 www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2025/08/16/d...
October 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften returns on 25 October 2025 (17:00–24:00).

Join DHSS at 📍 FAU Tech, Cauerstraße 5a/5b, Erlangen for an evening of exploration and discovery in the Digital Humanities.

More info 👉 www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2025/10/22/t...
October 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The DHSS Digital Humanities Colloquium returns this Winter Semester!

A space for students, staff, and guest scholars to share ideas, projects, and feedback.

📅 Wednesdays, 16:00–18:00
📍 Room 3.17, Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61, Erlangen.

More info 👉 www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2025/08/16/d...
October 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
A warm welcome to all students as we begin a new semester at DHSS! Wishing you inspiration, growth, and success in the months ahead!

#newsemester #dhss #fau
October 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Who is doing What to Whom? Analyzing Gender Biases in Large Language Models with @katrohrbacher.bsky.social

#DHSS2025 #Languagemodels #Genderbiases
September 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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
September 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
We explored how language shifts across gender, style, and register ✍️ With Dr. Marianna Grachova, we learned how Keyfeature analysis reveals the words and structures that make each variety stand out 🔍

#DHSS2025 #Linguistics #Sociolinguistics #LanguageVariation
September 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
We are truly honoured to have Prof. Mareike Schumacher @mkschumacher.bsky.social with us, delivering her amazing talk on corpus compilation and gender-sensitive analysis.
What a wonderful way to conclude the final day of our school!

#DHSS2025 #DigitalHumanities
September 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The participants of our school have designed a number of graphical abstracts, with just a few glimpses shown here. A creative journey for researchers and future scholars to broaden their skills, discover new ways to visualise their work, and make it more visible and accessible.

#DHSS2025
September 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
CliC, CliC, CliC...📚🖥
Participants learned a great deal by using a powerful digital tool like Clic to analyze #gender in #19th-century #fiction with concordance analysis, all run by Dr. Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social.

#DHSS2025 #DigitialHumanities #FAU
#CliC
September 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
✨ Good morning! After yesterday’s wonderful excursion to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, we’re starting the day with a workshop run by Dr. Sabine Lang @sabinelang.bsky.social, where participants are modeling selected objects in #Wikidata.

#DHSS2025 #DigitalHumanities
September 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM