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The Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS) aims to tackle one of the grand challenges of present-day humanity – making sense of the modern, digital world. Our research deals with the opportunities and challenges of the datafication and algorithmisation of society, culture and human knowledge, it develops models and techniques for studying these phenomena, and it takes a critical approach to the implications of the digital on human reality.

Three different degree programs are offered: (german only)

• The two-subject degree program in Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (B.A.), which can be completed without admission as a first or second subject,
• the postgraduate Master’s degree program in Digital Humanities (M.A.),
• as well as the module program Digital Humanities.

Digital Humanities Summer School 2025: Data, Gender & Society – Registration Now Open!

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 such tools and methods can help to answer. With a thematic focus on gender, the summer school looks at the interrelationship betwe...Continue

Here’s what happened at DH 2025 in Lisbon

Here’s what happened at DH 2025 in Lisbon The Digital Humanities Conference took place in Lisbon, Portugal, between 14 and 18 July. During this time, scholars from around the world presented and discussed DH research in numerous mini-conferences, panels, workshops, talks and poster presentations....Continue

DHSS at the upcoming 2025 Digital Humanities conference in Lisbon

DHSS will be well represented at the 2025 international Digital Humanities conference in Lisbon, Portugal (July 14-July 18, 2025), with a miniconference on the temporal dimension of data--“The times they are a-changin’” in Digital Humanities (CfP)--organized by Nathan Dykes, Anastasia Glawion, a...Continue

Laurence Anthony Guest Professor at DHSS

Laurence Anthony Waseda University, Japan

We are delighted that Professor Laurence Anthony from the University of Waseda, Japan, is joining the DHSS as a visiting professor for one year. Laurence Anthony is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of ...Continue