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Laurence Anthony Waseda University, Japan We are delighted that Professor Laurence Anthony from the University of Waseda, Japan, is joining the DHSS as a visiting professor for one year. Laurence Anthony is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of ...

The project The German Sales database is essential for provenance research, providing access to thousands of auction and sales catalogues. These offer insights into the 20th century art market, make object sales transparent and sometimes also contain information on prices, consignors and buyers. Th...

The online portal Campo is open, and all application documents must be uploaded by 15 July 2025 to start the interdisciplinary M.A. Digital Humanities in the winter semester 2025/26 at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Why Apply Now? Cutting-edge curriculum in pattern recognition, visu...

The DHSS2025 summer school offers expert-led training in DH tools and methods. It will also offer opportunities to critically discuss the type of research questions that such tools and methods can help to answer. With a thematic focus on gender, the summer school looks at the interrelationship betwe...

Distant Viewing: AI In Theory and Practice Speaker: Lauren Tilton Date: 28 May 2025 Time: 16:00 to 18:00 Location: Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61, Room 3.17 (3rd floor) Abstract The talk will introduce the concept of distant viewing, a theory and method for computer vision. After discu...

In the summer 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...

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 Human-Computer Interaction (salary group W3) at the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS).

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...