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The latest FAU Magazine #FAUMenschen is out! ...and the DHSS right in the middle of it! In this edition, our head of department, Professor Michaela Mahlberg, talks to Bavarian State Minister of Science and the Arts, Markus Blume, about Hightech Agenda Bavaria, digital technologies & social m...

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.

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 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 (...

Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg who has been W3 Professor of Digital Humanities with a focus on Computing Text and Language and Department Spokesperson at the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies since April 1st, 2024, was officially awarded her Humboldt Professorship on Monday evening in Berlin.