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The Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS) invites you to the RC21 Project Symposium. This event will feature discussions on the methodology and applications of concordance analysis, including: Empirical studies in language learning, syntax, and discourse analysis. Me...

The latest FAU Magazine #FAUMenschen is out! Our head of department, Professor Dr. Michaela Mahlberg, talks to Bavarian State Minister of Science and the Arts about Hightech Agenda Bavaria, digital technologies & social media.

In the winter term 2024/25, the DHSS is once again offering the Digital Humanities Colloquium. In addition to DHSS students and staff, we also invited guest researchers from the field of Digital Humanities! The colloquium is an opportunity for DHSS researchers and their guests as well as BA a...

Talk: Obesity in the News: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Studies Perspective Speaker: Gavin Brookes Date: 05 November 2024 Time: 18:00 Location: Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61, Room 3.17 Language: English In this talk, I present findings from the Representations of Obesity in the N...

The Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS) invites you to its first Digital Humanities Training Day. This is an opportunity to gain insights into current research in Digital Humanities (DH). The event will feature talks by three invited guest speakers along with presentations from the DHSS team.

To all new students of the BA Digitale Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften and the Digital Humanities module course: On 14.10.2024 from 10am to 12pm the first semester welcome will take place in room KH 1.014 lecture hall at the Kollegienhaus (Universitätsstraße 15, 91054 Erlangen). The course “...

We are delighted to share that Dr. Marianna Gracheva has joined the DHSS as a Research Associate! Marianna holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Northern Arizona University. Her research lies in corpus linguistics, and her main focus is on linguistic and communicative variation among texts. Mar...

The format “2 Minuten Wissen” presents exciting projects and research areas of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology. The DHSS is represented with a contribution by Dominik Kremer and Sabine Lang, which asks whether detailed digital maps of gang activity and shootings can give res...

The international Spring School is co-organised by the DH Network of the University of Potsdam and the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies of the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. The Spring School is aimed at students and early-career scholars* who are beginning to explore Digital Humanities (...