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To all new students of the BA Digitale Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften and the Digital Humanities module course: On 14.10.2024 from 10am to 12pm the first semester welcome will take place in room KH 1.014 lecture hall at the Kollegienhaus (Universitätsstraße 15, 91054 Erlangen). The course “...

We are delighted to share that Dr. Marianna Gracheva has joined the DHSS as a Research Associate! Marianna holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Northern Arizona University. Her research lies in corpus linguistics, and her main focus is on linguistic and communicative variation among texts. Mar...

The format “2 Minuten Wissen” presents exciting projects and research areas of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology. The DHSS is represented with a contribution by Dominik Kremer and Sabine Lang, which asks whether detailed digital maps of gang activity and shootings can give res...

The international Spring School is co-organised by the DH Network of the University of Potsdam and the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies of the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. The Spring School is aimed at students and early-career scholars* who are beginning to explore Digital Humanities (...

The Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for a Full Professor of Digital Humanities with a focus on Images and Objects (salary group W3) at the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies.

Currently, Dominik Kremer and Andreas Wagner from the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg are conducting a large-scale study under the label Geolingual Studies together with partners from the University of Würzburg and the Karl...

As part of our Hackerspace, another guest lecture will take place next Tuesday, on June 25! »Integrating traditional corpus methods with AI using the AntConc corpus analysis toolkit« Speaker: Laurence Anthony (Waseda-Universität, Tokyo) When? Tuesday, 25 June starting at 6.15 pm Where...

Last week, the "funklust AI week" took place: Experts from various research fields discussed the influence of artificial intelligence in eight topic-specific live broadcasts (in German). Topics included AI and ethics, AI and law/politics, and AI in work/communication. The event concluded with a ...

The new series "funklust AI week" starts next week. From June 10th to June 13th, experts from different research areas will discuss potentials and risks of artificial intelligence and research and application possibilities in eight topic-specific live broadcasts. A panel discussion on June 14th on "...

Between July 1 and July 10, the NUEDIGITAL festival will once again take place in Erlangen, Nuremberg, Fürth and the entire metropolitan region. More than 200 events offer room to exchange knowledge and discuss ideas, opportunities and risks of the digital change. The FAU is also represented with ...