In the Winter semester 2026/27, 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: 00.013 (seminar room 2), 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.
Talks, Projects + Thesis Presentations
(Talks will be held in English.)
| Date | Agenda |
| 14.10.2026 | Andreas Wagner M.Sc., DHSS FAU: Introduction |
| 21.10.2026 | Andreas Wagner M.Sc., DHSS FAU: Bachelor/Masterarbeit Literaturrecherche und Verwaltung |
| 28.10.2026 | Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg, DHSS FAU: How to write a thesis |
| 04.11.2026 | Sofie Dobbener: Von Macht und Gewalt. Ein Topic Modeling mittelaltererzählender Kinder- und Jugendliteratur der Nachkriegszeit On this day, the colloquium will take place online |
| 11.11.2026 | Peter Broadwell PhD, Stanford University: Once More with a Different Feeling: Multimodal Inference and Cultural Evolution in the Performing Arts |
| 18.11.2026 | Präsentation der Masterarbeiten |
| 25.11.2026 | Dr. Katrin Rohrbacher: How LLMs Build Fictional Worlds: Setting and Narrative Space in AI-Generated Creative Storytelling |
| 02.12.2026 | Janno Reincke M.A.: Analysing multimodal narratives in Video Games |
| 09.12.2026 | Prof. Dr. Michael Roth, Technische Universität Nürnberg: Modeling Textual Sources of Misunderstanding and Inferences About Gender |
| 16.12.2026 | James Tauber, M.A.: Linguistic variation in Tolkien |
| Christmas Break | |
| 13.01.2027 | Prof. Dr. Meoghan Cronin, Saint Anselm College Manchester: Dickens’s American Children: Studying the Dickens’ Little Folks Abridgements of Charles Dickens’s Novels |
| 21.01.2027 | Prof. Dr. Maximilian Schich, Tallinn University: TBA On this day, the colloquium will take place on Thursday instead of Wednesday, 16:00 to 18:00 pm in room 00.013, Nürnberger Strase 74. |
| 27.01.2027 | Dr. Tim Feldmüller, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim: DeReKoVecs-Ressource |
| 03.02.2027 | Andreas Wagner M.Sc.: DHSS FAU: Water in climate fiction |
Kontakt für Fragen:
Andreas Wagner, M. Sc.
Nürnbergerstrasse 74
91052 Erlangen
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