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

We are delighted to share that Dr. Katrin Rohrbacher has joined the DHSS! Katrin is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the ‘Text and Language’ Group of Prof. Michaela Mahlberg! She completed her PhD in German Studies at McGill University, where she was advised by Prof. Andrew Piper. Her dissertation, Aspe...

The Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS) invites you to the RC21 Project Symposium. This event will feature discussions on the methodology and applications of concordance analysis, including: Empirical studies in language learning, syntax, and discourse analysis. Me...

The latest FAU Magazine #FAUMenschen is out! Our head of department, Professor Dr. Michaela Mahlberg, talks to Bavarian State Minister of Science and the Arts about Hightech Agenda Bavaria, digital technologies & social media.

In the winter term 2024/25, the DHSS is once again offering the Digital Humanities Colloquium. In addition to DHSS students and staff, we also invited guest researchers from the field of Digital Humanities! The colloquium is an opportunity for DHSS researchers and their guests as well as BA a...

Talk: Obesity in the News: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Studies Perspective Speaker: Gavin Brookes Date: 05 November 2024 Time: 18:00 Location: Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61, Room 3.17 Language: English In this talk, I present findings from the Representations of Obesity in th...

The Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS) invites you to its first Digital Humanities Training Day. This is an opportunity to gain insights into current research in Digital Humanities (DH). The event will feature talks by three invited guest speakers along with presentations from the DHSS team.

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 “...