Projects

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...

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...

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...

On July 6-7, 2023, Dominik Kremer attended on behalf of DHSS the International Symposium on Isotope Hydrology at IAEA in Vienna with a poster presentation on the newly acquired BMBF-funded project IsoGW. At the symposium, researchers from all over the world, especially from national groundwater mana...

The Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies joins other researchers from the Philosophical Faculty at this year's Researchers' Day (27 July). The following talks will report on current research at the Department: Dr. Dominik Kremer: "Der Nürnberger Kreuzweg in der "FAU GeoExplore...

On March 27th, Ute Verstegen and Dominik Kremer represent the DHSS at UHDL 2023, hosted by LMU Munich, with a talk on the topic The Nuremberg Stations of the Cross. Enriching on-site experiences of a historical pathway by the “FAU GeoExplorer” App. With the FAU Geoexplorer, at the DHSS we prov...

The two HTA departments "Digital Humanities and Social Studies" and "Data Science" were successful with their concept "STEM et HUMANITIES at FAU. G'scheid g'machd hält länger!" in the "Smart Qualifiziert: MINTplus - plusMINT" program of the Stifterverband and the Daimler Fund. Interdisciplinary w...

Digitale Bilder ermöglichen es uns Kunstwerke virtuell zusammenzubringen, sie zu gruppieren und beliebig zu rearrangieren. Die potentiell sehr komplexen Verbindungen, Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede innerhalb solcher Datensätze können von Computern analysiert werden. Dies macht jedoch ein Verständnis...