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01JUN 2026
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New at DHSS: James Tauber
We are delighted to welcome James Tauber as a PhD candidate in the Text and Language Lab, led by Prof. Michaela Mahlberg in the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies. James’s doctoral research explores linguistic variation in narrative fiction, combining corpus linguistics, computational narratology, and natural language processing. His work focuses on how language […]
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27MAY 2026
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New at DHSS: Nancy Scharpff
We are delighted to welcome Nancy Scharpff as the new managing director of the Department for Digital Humanities and Social Studies! With her background in academia and many years of experience in research funding and science management, she brings valuable expertise and, since May, supports the strategic development of the department and the creation of […]
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26MAY 2026
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AVinDH Online Workshop Series 2026
The AVinDH Special Interest Group is launching the AVinDH Online Workshop Series 2026, a year-round programme dedicated to current developments in Audiovisual and Digital Humanities. The series brings together scholars, researchers, and practitioners interested in innovative approaches to audiovisual media. Through online workshops, it highlights new tools for analysing audio and visual data, emerging methodologies, […]The AVinDH Special Interest Group is launching the AVinDH Online Workshop Series 2026, a year-round programme dedicated to current developments in Audiovisual and Digital Humanities. The series brings together scholars, researchers, and practitioners interested in innovative approaches to audiovisual media. Through online workshops, it highlights new tools for analysing audio and visual data, emerging methodologies, […]
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06MAY 2026
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Congratulations to Dr. Tillmann Ohm on Two Awards at Tallinn University
We are delighted to congratulate Dr. Tillmann Ohm, postdoctoral fellow of the Images and Objects Group in Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, on receiving two awards at Tallinn University. His doctoral thesis, “Designing Processes and Tools to Research Similarity Spaces of Visual Collections,” supervised by Prof. Maximilian Schich, was awarded Best Doctoral Thesis in the […]
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22APR 2026
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CLiC relaunched at FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg
The CLiC web app has been officially relaunched at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, marking an important step in advancing digital approaches to literary and linguistic analysis. Originally the CLiC web app has been developed as part of the CLiC Dickens project, designed specifically for the analysis of literary texts. CLiC Dickens started at the University of Nottingham in 2013, later […]
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22APR 2026
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🌍 Earth Day 2026
In mid-January 2026, Prof. David M. Hannah, Professor of Hydrology, UNESCO Chair in Water Sciences, and Director of the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action, visited the Text and Language Lab to deliver a lecture titled “Water in a Changing Environment.” On this Earth Day, we are sharing a scientific statement from Prof. Hannah […]
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