Talks

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...

As part of our Hackerspace, another guest lecture will take place next Tuesday, on June 25! »Integrating traditional corpus methods with AI using the AntConc corpus analysis toolkit« Speaker: Laurence Anthony (Waseda-Universität, Tokyo) When? Tuesday, 25 June starting at 6.15 pm Where...

Last week, the "funklust AI week" took place: Experts from various research fields discussed the influence of artificial intelligence in eight topic-specific live broadcasts (in German). Topics included AI and ethics, AI and law/politics, and AI in work/communication. The event concluded with a ...

The new series "funklust AI week" starts next week. From June 10th to June 13th, experts from different research areas will discuss potentials and risks of artificial intelligence and research and application possibilities in eight topic-specific live broadcasts. A panel discussion on June 14th on "...

Between July 1 and July 10, the NUEDIGITAL festival will once again take place in Erlangen, Nuremberg, Fürth and the entire metropolitan region. More than 200 events offer room to exchange knowledge and discuss ideas, opportunities and risks of the digital change. The FAU is also represented with ...

The "DigiHumS Hackerspace" will also take place twice a week in Erlangen city centre in the summer semester 2024. All students are welcome to work on projects and get inspired in this coworking space. The principle is: Bring your own device. Tuesdays and Thursdays 6.00 – 8:30pm Tuesdays a...

Last Friday, March 8, the exhibition "AI-Experiment" was opened at Cauerstrasse 11 in Erlangen with lectures and a panel discussion. The experiment was initiated by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Egger and realized together with Hans Furer, artist and lawyer. The 5 image pairs, which were created during the pro...

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...