DH Kolloquium during Summer Term 2025

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25. April 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, 16:15 to 17:45
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).

Students who wish to receive ECTS credits for the event must join the StudOn course and present their own project or final thesis.

→ More information on the recognition of the event for DH degree programs.

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: a mixed-methods approach to corporeality in poetry slam textsHyunsook Kim, DHSS FAU: Nam June Paik’s A Tribute to John Cage: Linking Data in Contemporary Art Using Semantic Principles
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: AI In Theory and Practice
4.06.2025	MA projects (workshop reports): Moritz Meckl, DHSS, FAU: Die Relevanz von Wahrheitsgehalt von KI Einsatz in Werbung
11.06.2025	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 MA projects (workshop reports): Adrian Schneider, DHSS, FAU: Smart, green, sustainable? The role of sustainability in German smart city strategy papers.
18.06.2025	Dominik Kremer, DHSS, FAU: Getting engaged: a call for “more than digitising” Digital Humanities
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	Andreas Wagner, DHSS, FAU: Future Narratives on Water
16.07.2025	Das Kolloquium entfällt
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

Contact for questions:

Dr. Marianna Gracheva

Research Assistant (Postdoc)

Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61
91052 Erlangen

Email: marianna.grachova@fau.de

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