Applications are open for the MA Digital Humanities program.
An interdisciplinary Master’s program combining humanities research with digital methods.
📅 Deadline: 15 July
Learn more:
www.dhss.phil.fau.de/education/ma...
#DigitalHumanities #DHSS #FAU #gradschool #HumanitiesAndTech
📚 World Book Day in the UK is special with CLiC
We celebrate with you by inviting you to explore and read some of the most famous novels in the English literary canon with CLiC, which you can access freely at clic-fiction.com.
#WorldBookDay #DigitalHumanities #Clic #CorpusLinguistics 📖
For today's World Book Day, @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social are giving you a taste of all the books to explore on www.clic-ficiton.com.
Using the FlexiConc tab developed by RC21 gives you even more options to see how books were described in 19th century literature.
Out now: 'What is good care, and who is it good for? A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of UK care home websites'. Chapter led by @emma-putland.bsky.social with Kevin Harvey in the Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han.... Accepted version in original post below!
29.01.2026 12:43 — 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Today, I appointed Mila Oiva (University of Turku, Finland) to a Professorship in Digital Humanities at FAU, focusing on images and objects.
She studies audiovisual heritage, especially historical newsreels (e.g., Soviet Novosti Dnya and Estonian newsreels).
Welcome to FAU, Mila.
👩💻DH Colloquium
We are pleased to invite you to a talk by @hannaschmueck.bsky.social on "Cross-Temporal and Cross-Linguistic Discourse Patterns: From 18th-Century Historiography to Reddit Discussions of Democracy"
📍 Room 00.026, Nürnberger Straße 74, Erlangen
🗓️ Jan 28, 2026
🕒 4–6 PM
#fau #DHSS
Looking forward to #cads2026 with two presentations:
📚 "Body, movement and sensation in fanfiction on Jane Austen" with @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social & @michamahlberg.bsky.social
🏛️ "A Multivariate Analysis of Quotation in German Parliamentary Debates"
Immer ein Gewinn, Ruth Wodak zu lesen:
Ruth Wodak, prominente Sprachwissenschafterin und Wittgenstein-Preisträgerin im Interview zu den USA, zu Mehrsprachigkeit und zu ihrem Wohnbezirk Favoriten
www.kleinezeitung.at/service/news...
Portuguese put the words it inherited from Latin through a lot of fascinating sound changes.
This becomes extra clear when you compare them to later borrowings of the same Latin word:
‘chão’ and ‘plano’ both come from Latin ‘plānum’!
Here’s episode 5 of my 10-part series.
Tomorrow: Romanian.
Today is the final day to send us your abstracts! You have until midnight (UK time)! 😁 Here is the submission link: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
19.12.2025 11:06 — 👍 9 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Petition 183950
Keine Führung eigener Register zur Erfassung von trans* und nichtbinärer
Quorum sind 30000, mehr als 10% sind schon erreicht
(Petition direkt an den Bundestag, einmal registrieren und dann bei jeder Petition entscheiden ob anonym oder namentlich)
A lecture by @mariannagracheva.bsky.social at the Interdisciplinary Linguistic Colloquium Augsburg (ILKA).
ILKA addresses current issues in language, communication, and language culture, bringing together Romance, English, German, and computational linguistics at the University of Augsburg.
📰DHSS Newsletter!
We are excited to publish the first issue of the DHSS Newsletter tomorrow.
If you would like to receive it, you can subscribe here:
www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/dhss-newslet...
Thank you for your interest in our work at the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies at FAU.
September 17 | 10-11 CEST Frazer Heritage (Manchester Metropolitan University) Caveman Theories, Modern Misogyny: Evolutionary Psychology in Incel Fora October 29 | 12-13 CET Veronika Laippala (University of Turku) Mining Digital Discourse(s) from the Multilingual Web November 5 | 15-16 CET Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (UNC Charlotte) Forgiveness? in Post-Digital Societies: A Technosocial and Metapragmatic Perspective December 17 | 10-11 CET Ylva Biri (University of Helsinki) Expertise and Engagement in YouTube informational videos: Case studies on the finance advice genre Join the Zoom room: https://tinyurl.com/talkddi
Last talk of the 2025 season on December 17 (maybe add it to your calendar?)
This time, we are giving the floor to the DD&I co-chair
@ylvabiri.bsky.social: "Expertise and Engagement in YouTube informational videos: the finance advice genre"
Everyone is welcome! Feel free to share 🐦🐦🐦
Call for Papers 💥DEADLINE EXTENSION!💥 Our Call for Papers will now close on 19th December 2025! We look forward to receiving your proposals and seeing you all next June! Submit your abstract here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal...
14.11.2025 09:42 — 👍 12 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Join us for the next DH Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Uhrig (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) on Digital Linguistics & Big Data. His research spans cognitive linguistics, Construction Grammar, collocation, corpus & computational linguistics, lexicography, and large multimodal datasets with data science & ML methods.
10.11.2025 13:07 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Part of the Digital Humanities series of lectures, Digital Humanities in Focus: Methods, Applications, and Perspectives, held at the University of Rostock.
A lecture today by Prof. Anastasia Glawion.
The lecture will be held online via Zoom. More info: www.germanistik.uni-rostock.de/forschung/di...
Hard to believe this was almost a month ago – it was great to meet so many talented and thoughtful people! #DHSS2025
18.10.2025 15:55 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you're a cis person who wants to be kind to your trans and nonbinary friends right now, please do not forward us links to stories about trans people being abused, having their rights taken away, or living in fear. We already know. A friendly "hey I hope you're OK" is much more helpful. 💖
23.09.2025 00:24 — 👍 1595 🔁 348 💬 15 📌 17
“The true value of #corpuslinguistics is the combination of quantitative scale & qualitative depth”
@gavinbrookes.bsky.social gave us so much to think about this morning
#DHSS2025
Sabine Lang leading a discussion where participants interpret 14th century sculptures.
The excursion to Germanisches Nationalmuseum (who very generously gave our group free admission) is in full swing, with @sabinelang.bsky.social leading the tour. First stop: 14th century sculptures from Nuremberg. #DHSS2025
24.09.2025 14:42 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Now @nfdykes.bsky.social is setting out to make connections between close & distant reading
#DHSS2025
@rc21project.bsky.social
Photo from the back of a seminar room. The slide shows a network of word overlap in a topic model.
In today's extended network analysis session with @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social, we're covering topics from fanfiction to war discussions #DHSS2025
23.09.2025 09:48 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Anna Foka giving a keynote. The slide concerns "inclusive simulation imaginaries", which are described as socially, ethically, and future focused. An image on the slide depicts an iceberg, saying we're just at the tip
Anna Foka giving a brilliant keynote on "AI and Heritage: Critical perspectives on AI for the Archives, Libraries and Museum sector" – and of course, I was especially happy about the opportunity to quickly revive my Swedish reading skills on some of the slides showing ongoing projects ☺️
#DHSS2025
Sneak peak into next week‘s tour at the #GermanischeNationalmuseum in #Nürnberg: the sculptures show Mary and the Archangel Gabriel in the Annunciation (stone, circa 1360) @dhssfau.bsky.social #digitalhumanities
The summer school starts tomorrow 🥳
Ausschnitt aus einer Speisekarte: Sehr verehrter Gast, wir bedanken uns für Ihren Besuch und wünschen Ihnen einen guten „Nachhauseweg“. Das letzte Wort ist aus unklaren Gründen in Anführungszeichen gesetzt.
Eigentlich hatte ich ja nicht vor, heute bedroht zu werden /j
20.09.2025 16:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Explore the workshops and sessions offered by DHSS for next week’s Summer School!
*Sessions are shown in the order of the official schedule which you can find it on our website.
Registration is closed, planes are booked, and preparations are in their final stage.
Check out the full program and stay tuned!
How can concordances help us study gender in 19th-century fiction?
In just a couple of weeks, @nfdykes.bsky.social represents #RC21 at #DHSS2025 to explore with participants how FlexiConc contributes to #DataGenderSociety!
go.fau.de/1cadb
If you're a registered participant, we're expecting to email you more details tomorrow.
If you missed this year's event, stay tuned for future events!
