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 […]

🇰🇷 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

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

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

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

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...

🐈 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

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

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-...

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)

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

Prof Michaela Mahlberg@michamahlberg.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 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...

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...

CADS 2026 Poster Spotlight: Analysing Multimodal Narratives in Video Games

YouTube video by Digital Humanities and Social Studies - FAU

youtube.com

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.

Text and Language Lab@textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 4w ago

We are so delighted and proud to celebrate our colleague Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social on successfully defending his PhD thesis today at the DHSS Department! 🎉 Here are a few smiles, photos, and highlights from this special day. Congratulations, Nathan—we wish you every success in the future! 🥂

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

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.

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.

Text and Language Lab@textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 3w ago

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...

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

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. ✨

📣 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...

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.

Text and Language Lab@textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · last mo.

Before Dr. Hanna’s lecture at the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies @dhssfau.bsky.social, we had this brief interview with her. The computational discourse analysis, the focus of her lecture, and her experiences of academic life in the UK and Germany. youtu.be/lLXBtGwHji8?...

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.

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

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

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.

A busy week for the Text and Language Lab.

Text and Language Lab@textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Text and Language Lab at #CADS2026 Lancaster University! Researchers from Text and Language Lab will present a plenary lecture, conference presentations and a poster at the Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026, Lancaster University. 📅 23–25 June 2026 📍 Lancaster University (UK)

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

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

From DHSS student to doctoral candidate at FAU. @jannoreincke.bsky.social began his journey at FAU in 2017, studying Theater and Media Studies alongside Digital Humanities and Social Studies.

We are seeing wonderful engagement at the Digital Humanities and Digital Communication Summer School at UniMoRe, which focuses on the uses—and misuses—of AI.

Next up in the Digital Humanities Colloquium Join us on 10th of June, 4–6 PM for the talk by @mila-oiva.bsky.social “Operationalization of a visual cultural phenomenon” 📍 Room 00.026, Seminar Room 3 Nürnberger Straße 74, Erlangen We look forward to the talk and the discussion afterwards.