DH Kolloquium during Summer Term 2025
In the summer semester 2025, the DHSS will once again offer the Digital Humanities Colloquium. In addition to students and staff from DHSS, guest scholars from the Digital Humanities are also invited to present.
The colloquium provides researchers from DHSS and their guests, as well as BA and MA students of Digital Humanities, with a platform to present ongoing or completed projects, participate in discussions, and receive feedback from colleagues and like-minded individuals.
Time: Wednesdays, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Location: Room 3.17 (3rd floor), Werner-von-Siemens-Straße 61, 91052 Erlangen
Registration for attending the colloquium talks is NOT required.
For students working on their final theses, the colloquium can also serve as a space to present their own research project or an idea. If interested, a suitable date can be arranged in consultation with the supervising instructor and the colloquium organizers (Contact).
Talks, Projects + Thesis Presentations
(Talks will be held in English.)
| Date | Agenda |
| 23.04.2025 | Introduction |
| 30.04.2025 | Michaela Mahlberg, DHSS FAU: How Do You Write a Good MA Dissertation in Digital Humanities? |
| 7.05.2025 | Katrin Rohrbacher, DHSS FAU: Modeling Fictional Worlds: A Quantitative Approach to Setting |
| 14.05.2025 | MA projects (workshop reports): Cristian Ortega, DHSS FAU: Corpus creation and analysis and a mixed-methods approach to corporeality in poetry slam texts |
| 21.05.2025 | Svenja Guhr, Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt: Literary Soundscapes – Operationalization and Analysis |
| 28.05.2025 | Lauren Tilton, Department of Rhetoric and Communications, University of Richmond : Distant Viewing |
| 4.06.2025 | MA projects (workshop reports): Adrian Schneider, DHSS, FAU: Smart, green, sustainable? The role of sustainability in German smart city strategy papers. |
| 11.06.2025 | Andreas Wagner & Dominik Kremer + Nathan Dykes & Michaela Mahlberg, DHSS, FAU: DH Tools in Context |
| 18.06.2025 | MA projects (workshop reports): Shuyi Li, DHSS, FAU: Understandings of explainable AI (XAI) in research communities. A mixed-method approach using topic modelling and SNA Moritz Meckl, DHSS, FAU: Die Relevanz von Wahrheitsgehalt von KI Einsatz in Werbung |
| 25.06.2025 | Finn Dammann, Geographie, FAU: Geographies of digital infrastructures |
| 2.07.2025 | Markus Tischner, FAU Lehre: From prompt engineering workflows to custom gpts. Introduction and live development |
| 9.07.2025 | PhD projects (workshop reports): Marizza Anna Mercario, Visiting researcher, University of Bari: Digital Humanities and Language Learning: Impact Assessment for Data-Driven Learning |
| 16.07.2025 | No Colloquium |
| 23.07.2025 | PhD projects (workshop reports): Desiree Russo, Visiting researcher, University of Bari: Quantitative and qualitative methods for analysis: Corpus-based Humanitarian Discourse Analysis (HDA) framework applied to EU texts on war and war-related topics |
