Digital Humanities Training Day – 22 November 2024
The Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS) invites you to its first Digital Humanities Training Day.
This is an opportunity for students (undergrad and Postgrad), early-career researchers, and scholars from within and outside the humanities to gain insights into current research in Digital Humanities (DH). The focus of the day will be on textual data, fictional texts, and real-world contexts. The event will feature talks by three invited guest speakers along with presentations from the DHSS team.
When: 22 November 2024, 9:15 AM to 6:45 PM
Where: Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61, Room 3.17 Kollegienhaus (Room 2.019), Universitätsstraße 15, 91054 Erlangen
Registration is free, but we kindly ask all attendees to register in advance as places are limited. The deadline for registration is 18 November 2024 (Monday).
Invited Speakers:
- Gavin Brookes – Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Lancaster University, UK
- Christof Schöch – Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Trier, Germany
- James Tauber – Founder, Digital Tolkien Project, Boston, US
Event Programme:
- 09:15 AM – 09:30 AM Welcome
- 09:30 AM – 10:15 AM Michaela Mahlberg – Storytelling in DH: Fiction and the Real World
- 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM James Tauber – The Digital Tolkien Project
- 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Anastasia Glawion – Middle-earth Fanfiction: Interpretive Communities on a German-speaking Fanfiction Website
- 11:45 AM – 12:15 PM Coffee Break
- 12:15 PM – 01:00 PM Christof Schöch – Linked Open Data for Literary History
- 01:00 PM – 01:45 PM Sabine Lang – Uncovering the History of Objects: Image Search in Auction Catalogues to Aid Provenance Research
- 01:45 PM – 03:15 PM Lunch Break (+ SpaceLog App Data Collection[1])
- 03:15 PM – 04:00 PM Gavin Brookes – Corpus Linguistics, Generative AI, and Discourses of Dementia
- 04:00 PM – 04:45 PM Marianna Gracheva – Creative Nonfiction: The Language of ‘True Stories Well Told’
- 04:45 PM – 05:15 PM Coffee Break
- 05:15 PM – 06:00 PM Nathan Dykes & Alexander Piperski – The RC21 Project: Methods and Tools for Concordance Reading
- 06:00 PM – 06:45 PM Dominik Kremer & Andreas Wagner – Recording Active Storytelling on Site: Current Use Cases of the App SpaceLog
- 06:45 PM Close
Location:
New Location: Kollegienhaus (Room 2.019), Universitätsstraße 15, 91054 Erlangen
Note: Due to a high number of registrations, we have changed the location to accommodate more participants.
Contact for Assistance:
If you encounter any issues with registration or need assistance, please contact us at DHSS email (dhss-team@fau.de).