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Water in a Changing Environment Too Much, Too Little, Too Hot The Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS), in collaboration with the Institute of Geography, invites students, researchers, and faculty to a joint colloquium addressing current challenges in water sciences. ...

The Text and Language Research Group, led by Prof. Michaela Mahlberg, has just revealed its newly designed in-house logo. The logo was created to reflect the group’s identity within the digital humanities and to help communicate who they are, both within academic circles and in the public sphere. T...

DHSS Newsletter, Issue 1 – Coming Tomorrow We are pleased to announce that the first issue of the DHSS Newsletter will be published tomorrow. The newsletter will feature updates on ongoing projects, events, and activities within the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies. If you w...

On Saturday, October 25, night will turn into day for all those eager to learn: Experience fascinating experiments, exciting lectures, and surprising insights into laboratories and research facilities – and discover how science is changing our world. Whether it's technology, medicine, culture, or na...

Upcoming Campus Visits We invite all students to attend these presentations. Locations and times will be announced later. Space and Place The Space and Place campus visit will take place on 14 October 2025. The exact time and location are still to be announced. The speak...

From 22 to 26 September 2025, the Digital Humanities Summer School on Data, Gender and Society took place in Erlangen. The program featured expert lectures, hands-on workshops, participant presentations, and a visual abstracts session, all focusing on the intersection of society and data through t...

To all new students enrolled in the BA Digitale Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften program and the Digital Humanities module course: The first semester welcome will take place on October 15, 2025, from 8:00 am to 10:00 am c.t., in room 56701.03.017 (third floor) at Werner-von-Siemens-Straße 60, 91052...

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...

Here’s what happened at DH 2025 in Lisbon The Digital Humanities Conference took place in Lisbon, Portugal, between 14 and 18 July. During this time, scholars from around the world presented and discussed DH research in numerous mini-conferences, panels, workshops, talks and poster presentations....

DHSS will be well represented at the 2025 international Digital Humanities conference in Lisbon, Portugal (July 14-July 18, 2025), with a miniconference on the temporal dimension of data--“The times they are a-changin’” in Digital Humanities (CfP)--organized by Nathan Dykes, Anastasia Glawion, a...