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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A warm welcome to all our new students joining our department at FAU for the Winter Semester 2026/27! Whether you’re joining us for your Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Module Studies, we warmly invite you to our welcome events. More details in the link below: www.dhss.phil.fau.de/2026/10/09/w...

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Welcome to the New Semester!

A warm welcome to all new students joining the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS) at FAU for the Winter Semester 2026/27! Whether you’re joining us for your Bachelor’s, Master’...

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Digital Humanities Colloquium returns for the winter semester 2026/27! Researchers, students, and visiting scholars will come together to present ongoing work and completed projects, exchange ideas, discuss research, and receive feedback from colleagues and peers. Check out the new programme!

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Courses featured in this post: 🔎 Stilfragen by @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social & @luiseprager.bsky.social 🗂️ Data Collection in Digital Humanities by Prof. Anastasia Glawion 🎤 Poetry Slam: Text, Performance, Event by Prof. Dr. Anastasia Glawion & @cris-ortega.bsky.social @grk2806.bsky.social

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Courses this semester: Digital Literature and Methods 🔎 Stilfragen 🗂️ Data Collection in Digital Humanities 🎤 Poetry Slam: Text, Performance, Event Explore literature, performance and cultural data through critical and computational approaches. Full overview: www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2026/10/07/e...

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Explore our DHSS courses in the WiSe 2026/27

The new semester brings a wide range of courses across the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies. From literary analysis and digital cultural collections to programming…

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Courses featured in this post: 📚 Introduction to Digital Humanities, Essentials of Data Visualisations in Digital Humanities and Analysing Audiovisual Culture in Digital Humanities by Prof. Dr. Mila Oiva 📄AI Reading Club and Encoding Cultural Collections with Machine Learning by Dr. Tillmann Ohm

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

📚 Courses this semester at Images & Objects Explore Digital Humanities through data visualisation, audiovisual culture, AI, machine learning and digital cultural collections. Courses by @mila-oiva.bsky.social and @tillmannohm.bsky.social Course overview: www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2026/10/07/e...

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mila-oiva.bsky.social @mila-oiva.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Another exciting workshop upcoming on VIAN and TIB-AV-ANALYTICS tools for video analysis! Don't forget to register at avindh.org/year-round-w...

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

News from the Text and Language Lab 📣.

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

💡 FlexiConc Tutorial 1 is here! We explore the basic FlexiConc functinality, including Random Sort, linguistic annotation, Sentence Transformers, and the analysis tree. 🔗 Explore CLiC yourself: clic-fiction.com More FlexiConc tutorials coming soon!

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FlexiConc in CLiC: Tutorial 1

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our new research paper by Katrin Rohrbacher @katrohrbacher.bsky.social, Björn Nieth, Emmanuelle Salin , Bjoern Eskofier, and Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social, in a nutshell, accepted at #EMNLP2026 Read the full paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2609.02482

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mila-oiva.bsky.social @mila-oiva.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Amazing online workshop upcoming! Please register at: avindh.org/year-round-w...

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What exciting times ahead! @jtauber.com is also teaching two much-anticipated courses in the coming semester: Digital Tolkien Applying Python for Digital Humanities and Social Studies Two exciting opportunities to explore digital approaches to literature, language, and the humanities.

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Tillmann Ohm @tillmannohm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A truly fantastic conference #dh2026 has just ended in South Korea! In the last few days, my colleagues and I have presented our recent work from @dhssfau.bsky.social: @mila-oiva.bsky.social analyzed changing […]

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Congratulations to everyone involved on the amazing organization of this conference! @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🇰🇷 Our colleagues have just concluded a brilliant DH conference in Daejeon, and shared this photo with us from overseas. We're delighted to have such a strong presence there. @mila-oiva.bsky.social @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social @katrohrbacher.bsky.social @tillmannohm.bsky.social #DH2026

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

At #DH2026 on 30 July, DHSS researcher @mila-oiva.bsky.social and @peterbroadwell.bsky.social from Stanford University will present “Detecting Perestroika in Poses from Soviet Newsreels, 1980 to 1990.” 🕟 16:30–18:00 📍 Session S062, Room 105 🏛️ Daejeon Convention Center @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The poster session at #DH2026 was full of delicious snacks *and* hope for the future of digital humanities. Yay! A random selection of the last four poster photos I took

Poster: from information to metaphor - tracking photographs in Chinese wartime magazines

Poster: MigraAnno, creating a topic-specific corpus from a large newspaper collection

Poster: Open tool registries! Resolving the directory paradox with Wikidata

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Anastasia Glawion @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Wonderful talk by Heejung Ryoh, analyzing the success of the National Museum of Korea in regaining visitors after the dip in visitorship after the pandemic #dh2026

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Anastasia Glawion @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

What a wonderful lecture by Maciej Eder! Took me back to the first ever lines of R code I wrote back in 2015 under the supervision of the then-student assistant Jasmin Bieber: of course it was a session on #stylo! Here are the slides: computationalstylistics.github.io/presentation...

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

🐈 Exciting news from #DH2026 in Daejeon! DHSS researcher @katrohrbacher.bsky.social presents “Letting the Cat Out of the Bag”: Towards the Automatic Detection of Animal Metaphors in Literary Texts. 🗓️ 30 July, 13:40–15:10 📍 Session S094, Room 108 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

DHSS at #DH2026 in #Daejeon! On 30 July, our colleague @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social will present “Nostalgia in alt-right social media: Truth Social” together with Mykola Makhortykh from the University of Bern. 🕘 09:00–10:30 📍 Session S101, Room 204–205 #DigitalHumanities #FAU

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

DHSS at #DH2026, Daejeon, 27 July! @mila-oiva.bsky.social co-organises AVinDH’s 10th-anniversary mini-conference; @tillmannohm.bsky.social presents in the Tool Cavalcade. Panel: @nolauren.bsky.social (Richmond), @michaelbourgatt.bsky.social (Lorraine) & Yumeng Hou (NUS). avindh.org/annual-adho-...

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Mariana @mariannagracheva.bsky.social , Sabine @sabinelang.bsky.social , and Nathan @nfdykes.bsky.social, we wish you all the very best. You will always be part of the DHSS family. Here are some highlights from the wonderful moments we shared together. (2/2)

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Moments of joy, relaxation, connection, and togetherness. 🌞 Our summer party was not only a wonderful time to celebrate together, but also a heartfelt opportunity to say goodbye to some of our colleagues as they leave the department to begin new journeys. (1/2)

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

⏳ Still time to apply - the deadline for applications is this Friday, 24 July

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

If you didn't get a chance to see @jannoreincke.bsky.social 's poster at #CADS2026 in Lancaster, here's a short video in which he walks through it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4US...

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CADS 2026 Poster Spotlight: Analysing Multimodal Narratives in Video Games

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Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Defended my PhD in computational linguistics! Huge thanks to @schtepf.bsky.social, @michamahlberg.bsky.social, @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social & @paulari.bsky.social, and to my colleagues from DHSS and Computational Corpus Linguistics for the Doktorhut with a working CQL query.

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The Text & Language Lab at #DH2026 in South Korea! On 30 July, @katrohrbacher.bsky.social presents “Letting the Cat Out of the Bag”: Towards the Automatic Detection of Animal Metaphors in Literary Texts. 🕐 13:40–15:10 📍 S094, Room 108 🏛️ Daejeon Convention Center

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Also on 30 July, at 16:30, @mila-oiva.bsky.social and Peter Broadwell present “Detecting Perestroika in Poses from Soviet Newsreels, 1980 to 1990.” We wish our DHSS colleagues and their collaborators an inspiring and successful #DH2026!

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

On 27 July, @mila-oiva.bsky.social will co-organise the Audiovisual & DH SIG Mini-Conference, where @tillmannohm.bsky.social will also present. On 30 July at 09:00, @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social and Mykola Makhortykh present “Nostalgia in Alt-Right Social Media: Truth Social.”

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

DHSS at #DH2026! From 27–31 July, @mila-oiva.bsky.social , @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social and @tillmannohm.bsky.social will contribute to the Digital Humanities conference in Daejeon, South Korea, together with their research collaborators.

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Ismail Barakat @ismailbarakat.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Research posters are nothing new. What's different is how we present them: we are always working to communicate the research in a more engaging and accessible format.

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The talk will be held in German. We look forward to the talk and the discussion afterwards!

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Last colloquium for this semester! Join us today from 4–6 PM for a talk by Maximilian Würz, research associate at @grk2806.bsky.social : „Entstehungsbedingungen kurzer Erzählformen im 21. Jahrhundert. Eine quantitative Analyse.“ 📍 Room 00.026, Seminar Room 3 Nürnberger Straße 74, Erlangen

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Recapping our Text & Language Lab highlights from #CADS2026 at Lancaster: transdisciplinary corpus linguistics, parliamentary quotation, Austen fanfiction, waterscapes, and multimodal video-game narratives. Proud of the team and grateful for the inspiring conversations. ✨

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

📣 Job opportunity: We are looking for up to 5 outstanding postdoctoral or doctoral researchers in #DigitalHumanities to join us at the @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social Please share widely 🙏 ⏰ Deadline: 24 July 2026 For more info: www.fau-jobs.de/jobposting/6...

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Meet Dr. Hanna Schmück @hannaschmueck.bsky.social, who visited us last semester and delivered a brilliant lecture. The Text and Language Lab caught up with her for a brief interview, where she shares more about her work and insights.

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Next up in the Digital Humanities Colloquium Join us on 1st of July, 4–6 PM for the talk by @sabinelang.bsky.social “Future of DH” 📍 Room 00.026, Seminar Room 3 Nürnberger Straße 74, Erlangen We look forward to the talk and the discussion afterwards.

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andreaswagnr.bsky.social @andreaswagnr.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Last stop before heading home to @dhssfau.bsky.social at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg: saying goodbye to Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action on Monday. Grateful for an incredible stay! 🙏 #WaterDiscourse #Water #Fiction #CorporaAndDiscourse

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James K. Tauber @jtauber.com · 24/06/2026

Wonderful talk by @ismailbarakat.bsky.social at @dhssfau.bsky.social on research communication.

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Research communication potential and challenges

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Next up in the Digital Humanities Colloquium Join us today, 4–6 PM for the talk by @ismailbarakat.bsky.social “Potential and Challenges in Research Communications” 📍 Room 00.026, Seminar Room 3 Nürnberger Straße 74, Erlangen We look forward to the talk and the discussion afterwards.

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A busy week for the Text and Language Lab.

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

At the symposium Mapping the Canon: Quantitative Approaches to Literary History at TU Darmstadt, @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social and Julia Neugarten (Radboud University Nijmegen) will present: “A Genre of Our Own: Fanonization and the Omegaverse.” 📅 19 June 2026 🕒 10:30–12:00

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

📍 Room 00.026, Seminar Room 3 Nürnberger Straße 74, Erlangen

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Join us at the DHSS Kolloquium as Dr. Mikhail Tamm (Tallinn University) presents his latest research, "How Soviet News Imagined the Geography of the USSR and the World: An Experiment in Quantitative Corporal Analysis." 📅 June 17, 2026 ⌚ 4 - 6 PM Hosted by @mila-oiva.bsky.social

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

From student initiatives and campus media to science communication projects and a PhD, Janno’s journey shows how Digital Humanities at FAU can grow into a long-term academic path. Interested in joining DHSS? Applications for the MA Digital Humanities program are open until July 15. Learn more:

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Education

Das Department verwaltet mehrere Studiengänge. Dazu gehören der Bachelor-Studiengang Digitale Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften und der Master Digital Humanities.

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Janno’s research interests include theories and methods of Digital Humanities, multimodality, Game Studies, media studies, science communication, text and language, and corpus linguistics.

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