@dhssfau
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/
For today's World Book Day, @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social are giving you a taste of all the books to explore on www.clic-ficiton.com.
Using the FlexiConc tab developed by RC21 gives you even more options to see how books were described in 19th century literature.
It is World Book Day in the UK, and a great input from our Text and Language Lab.
Applications are open for the MA Digital Humanities program.
An interdisciplinary Master’s program combining humanities research with digital methods.
📅 Deadline: 15 July
Learn more:
www.dhss.phil.fau.de/education/ma...
#DigitalHumanities #DHSS #FAU #gradschool #HumanitiesAndTech
Great news this morning.
Had a great workshop last Friday with the crew of the Fandom | Cultures | Research Journal in beautiful Marburg, discussing fandom practices and cultural memory. Got loads of useful feedback on my talk "Nostalgia and the Imagined Past in Bible Fanfictions".
journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/announce...
In the Manchester area and free this afternoon?
Join Prof. @michamahlberg.bsky.social for a lecture organised by @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social .
Find all the details and free tickets here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-sen...
#digitalhumanities #language #stories #lecture #ManchesterCity
📜Research Highlight
A new publication by @mila-oiva.bsky.social (co-author), Professor of Digital Humanities with focus on Images & Objects.
Conducted at the CUDAN Lab, Tallinn University, the study examines geographical bias in Soviet newsreels.
Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#DHSS
Still growing — and more exciting news is on the way!
We had a fantastic first meeting with our new colleagues, Prof. @mila-oiva.bsky.social and Dr. @tillmannohm.bsky.social
We were thrilled to welcome them and share our work, plans, and aspirations for the future of DHSS.
Great conversations, smart ideas, and inspiring people.
#DigitalHumanities
Looking forward to Friday - joining a workshop in Marburg that focuses on fan and memory studies practices!
My talk will be on "Nostalgia and the imagined past in Bible fanfictions".
Thank you @guhrs.bsky.social for an inspiring and productive week!
I absolutely loved the energy!
... and your organisantional skills are something else 😀
I'm at the #DHd2026 🎉
And the first day is already over!
At the workshop "Beyond m/w/d" I presented my approach to multi-layered, community-based and time-sensitive gender annotation for my corpus of German published slam poetry
So proud of my brilliant PhD researchers! Luise Prager and Cris Ortega have both received a traveling stipend to attend #DHd2026 in Vienna this week.
@cris-ortega.bsky.social
@dhssfau.bsky.social
@grk2806.bsky.social
Excited that my paper “Interactive Storytelling in Fandom: Fanfiction as Electronic Literature” has been accepted for an oral presentation at #DHBenelux 2026 in Maastricht!
Grateful for the thoughtful reviewer feedback. Looking forward to the discussion at DHBenelux!
Tune in to the Life & Language podcast and enjoy many engaging episodes.👇
A reminder about tomorrow’s lecture by @michamahlberg.bsky.social at @berkeleyischool.bsky.social.
For more info and the Zoom link: www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2026/...
🎙️ On CJLO Radio
@cris-ortega.bsky.social, a PhD fellow at the RTG @grk2806.bsky.social featured on Sonic Lit: A SpokenWeb Radio Show as part of “Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe”.
Listen now:
🎧 cjlo.com/shows/sonic-...
#DHSSFAU #FAU #DigitalHumanities #CJLO #SonicLit #Poetry #GRK2806
Join us for our first Bellwether Lecture w/ @michamahlberg.bsky.social, Prof. @dhssfau.bsky.social!
She will propose a digital humanities approach that aims to widen the perspective on the study of language.
📅 February 11, 12:10 - 2:00 pm
📍 210 South Hall
🎨 Final DH Colloquium of the semester
🎙️Zsofia Pilz:
"Children’s Art Perception in Museums – an eye-tracking perspective"
📅 4 Feb 2026
⏰ 16:00–18:00
📍 Seminar Room 00.026, Nürnberger Straße 74, Erlangen
Our last colloquium session this semester. Open to all.
Good news everyone!
Dr. Mila Oiva @mila-oiva.bsky.social
our former postdoctoral senior research fellow at @cudanlab.bsky.social in #Estonia, has been appointed #professor in Digital Humanities at FAU @dhssfau.bsky.social.
Congrats to Mila & my home state of #Bavaria! 🎉
🎉Congratulations to @andreaswagnr.bsky.social on starting his research stay at the University of Birmingham, funded by a DAAD research grant.
He will spend five months continuing his PhD research and organising a children’s writing competition.
More details coming soon.
We are so happy to receive such good news. Welcome to the department, Professor Mila Oiva! Everyone is eager to welcome you.
👩💻DH Colloquium
We are pleased to invite you to a talk by @hannaschmueck.bsky.social on "Cross-Temporal and Cross-Linguistic Discourse Patterns: From 18th-Century Historiography to Reddit Discussions of Democracy"
📍 Room 00.026, Nürnberger Straße 74, Erlangen
🗓️ Jan 28, 2026
🕒 4–6 PM
#fau #DHSS
Last week, we had a full house for the highly anticipated lecture by Prof. David Hannah @freshwaterflows.bsky.social on water in a changing environment. The talk held in our department @dhssfau.bsky.social was rich in detail, and the audience was highly engaged.
Photos by @michamahlberg.bsky.social
Leaving the building of @dhssfau.bsky.social for the last time… for the next five months.
I‘m joining Prof. David Hannah at the #BISCA in Birmingham for my #DAAD funded research stay until July. I‘ll be hosting children‘s writing competitions and continuing my research on narratives of water.
Plaketten mit der Aufschrift "Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung", "Ort der Demokratiegeschichte" am Eingang des Archivs.
Toller Tag in Kassel! Erster Stopp war das "Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung", Kooperationspartner für unser Projektmodul im Studiengang Digitale Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften.
Unfortunately, we have to cancel Katharina Leyrer's talk in our DH #Colloquium tomorrow. Instead, we will have a Master thesis presentation! #DigitalHumanities #DHSS #FAU
Outgoing talk by @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social on Gender, Speech Acts and Power: Digital Analyses of Editorial Interventions in Fairy Tales as part of the research colloquium "Measuring the Mind" at Universität Kassel.
📍 Kurt-Wolters-Str. 5, Room 3044
🗓 January 21, 2026
⏰ 4:15–5:45 PM
Digital Humanities Colloquium
Jan 21, 2026, 4–6 PM
Katharina Leyrer will speak on Value Sensitive Design and how ethical questions can be addressed in digitalisation.
Room 00.026, Seminar Room 3
Nürnberger Straße 74, Erlangen
All interested are welcome.
#DigitalHumanities #DHSS #FAU #Colloquium
@mariannagracheva.bsky.social will give a talk titled "The Study of Register and Functional Correspondence". The talk is part of the Oberseminar/Kolloquium series organized by LS English Linguistics and IZ CoCoLex, FAU.
🗓 19 January 2026
⏰ 16:15–17:45
📍 Room C 301, Bismarckstraße 1, Erlangen