Summer School 2025 – Catalogue
Digital Humanities Summer School 2025: Data, Gender and Society
Held from 22 to 26 September 2025 in Erlangen, the summer school featured expert lectures, hands on sessions, participant presentations, and a visual abstracts workshop. The focus was on the relationship between society and data through the lens of gender.
Further information is available on the official page: Summer School Page.
A detailed summary of the Summer School: [View PDF].
The following photo gallery captures key moments from the event, including presentations, group discussions, and the final gathering. These images highlight the active participation and collaborative spirit of the session.
Digital Humanities Summer School Cohort 2025
Digital Humanities Summer School 2025, Erlangen
(Photo: Ismail Barakat)
Keynotes
The summer school featured insightful keynote lectures by Anna Foka on AI and Heritage: Critical perspectives on AI for the Archives, Libraries and Museum sector, Mareike Schumacher on When we focus the uncommon, the common will come in automatically! Won’t it? Corpus compilation and gender analysis in Digital Humanities, and Gavin Brookes on Corpus linguistics for gender and language research: Key concepts and critical reflections.
Workshops
The workshop series covered a wide range of topics in digital humanities and gender research. Michaela Mahlberg introduced participants to the foundations of Digital Humanities, while Sabine Lang presented Open Culture: Modelling the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Wikidata. Anastasia Glawion explored Gendered Communities and Character Networks: Social Network Analysis of Fan Fiction, and Marianna Gracheva discussed Keyfeature Analysis for Gender, Style, and Register Studies. Nathan Dykes led a session on Exploring Gender in 19th-Century Fiction with Concordance Analysis with an emphasis on CLic, and Katrin Rohrbacher examined Who is Doing What to Whom? Analyzing Gender Biases in Large Language Models. The Visual Abstracts Workshop was conducted by Ismail Barakat. Andreas Wagner first introduced participants to SpaceLog, a tool for exploring location-based data. Later, Dominik Kremer and Andreas Wagner jointly led Tracing Qualities of Stay: Analysing Place-Based Voice Recordings, connecting digital methods with embodied experiences of space.
Participant Presentations
Participants shared their ongoing research projects and discussed how questions of gender, data, and society intersect within their own fields of study.
Excursions
The excursion program included Sabine Lang’s visit to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg and a Women’s History in Erlangen walking tour, where participants used the SpaceLog app to document and reflect on their experiences.
General Gatherings
The general gatherings brought all participants together for informal discussions, networking, and shared reflections, concluding with group photos that captured the collaborative spirit of the summer school.
