DH Kolloquium during Winter Term 2025/26

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16. August 2025

In the Winter 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, 16:00 to 18:00
Location: Room: 00.026 (seminar room 3), Nürnberger Strasse 74, 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
15.10.2025	Sabine Lang, DHSS FAU: Introduction
22.10.2025	No Colloquium
29.10.2025	Sabine Lang, DHSS FAU: Umberto Ecco über wie man eine wissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeit schreibt
05.11.2025	Discussing Roland Meyer’s talk “Generative KI und die Ästhetik des digitalen Faschismus” (re:publica 2025)
12.11.2025	Prof. Dr. Peter Uhrig,Department of English and American Studies FAU: Big Data and Multimodal Communication
19.11.2025	MA Thesis: Janno Reincke, DHSS, FAU: Analysing Climate Emotions in Environmental Video Games Moritz Meckl: Ideenskizze für das PhD-Vorhaben
26.11.2025	Anna Baryshnikova: Context-specific translation of Russian multi word expressions into German using LLMs
03.12.2025	TBA: TBA
10.12.2025	Sandra Eydam (Master Thesis): TBA
17.12.2025	TBA: TBA
07.01.2026	Emily Kratsch, FAU: “Methoden für die Nachverfolgung von Entwicklungen von Narrativen über die Zeit hinweg”(Arbeitstitel)
14.01.2026	Anna Bulakova (Master Thesis): Ideenskizze
21.01.2026	Katharina Leyrer, SODa: “Value Sensitive Design: Ein Ansatz zum Umgang mit ethischen Fragestellungen bei der Digitalisierung” (Arbeitstitel)
28.01.2026	Hanna Schmück (Universität Augsburg): “Cross-Temporal and Cross-Linguistic Discourse Patterns: From 18th century Historiography to Reddit Discussions of Democracy”
04.02.2026	Zsofia Pilz, Leiden University: “Children’s Art Perception in Museums – an eye-tracking perspective”