General

This year's conference of the association "Digital Humanities in German-speaking countries" (DHd) took place in Passau from February 26th to March 1st, 2024, which marked the DHd conference's 10th anniversary! By the way: The first conference also took place in Passau. The conference's motto was "Qu...

The opening of the AI-Experiment, which was initiated by Bernhard Egger (junior professor for Cognitive Computer Vision) and realized together with Swiss artist and layer Hans Furer, will take place on March 8th, from 6 pm. The vernissage will be framed by various talks by Sabine Lang (the history o...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2024! The DHSS wishes all students and colleagues a nice and relaxing Christmas break and a good start to 2024! The year 2023 included many highlights for the department at FAU: In April, we participated in the Girls' Day and created digital maps with ...

  Science Talks (30 min. each)   All talks will be held in German 5pm Günther Görz: Online presentation of the Behaim-Globe: Portal and 3D-Model ("Online-Präsentation des Behaim-Globus: Portal und 3D-Modell")* 6pm Sabine Lang: Can AI-based methods assist with the search for ob...

Digitization is linked to a fundamental change in social conditions. In an interdisciplinary focus at FAU, master's students in the social and cultural sciences can examine the background, analysis and design options for this change. The focus is currently already integrated into the Master of...

The conference „Ähnlichkeit und Methode: Digitale Perspektiven für die Arbeit mit historischem Bildmaterial statt“ took place at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel between October 11th and October 13th. The term similarity and possible similarity dimensions were discussed by various disciplin...

This year’s FORGE (= Research Data in the Humanities) took place between October 4th and October 6th under the motto “Anything Goes?! Research Data in the Humanities - Critically Examined" in Tübingen. The talks, workshops and posters critically engaged with research data and addressed, among other...

Don't miss: Online new student information session on Friday Oct. 6 at 11 a.m. for first-year Bachelor Digitale Geistes- und Sozialwissenscahften, Master Digital Humanities and ModulstudienDigital Humanities students. The information event will be held as a ZOOM conference. https://fau.zoom-x.d...