Prof. Dr. Christof Schöch as speaker at the DH Training Day

of the Department für Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)

DH Training Day

Date:

22.11.2024

Place:

When: 22 November 2024, 9:15 AM to 6:45 PM
Where: Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61, Room 3.17

Registration is free, but the DHSS kindly asks all attendees to register in advance as places are limited.

Categories:

Event
This is an opportunity for postgrad students, early-career researchers, and scholars from within and outside the humanities to gain insights into current research in Digital Humanities (DH).

The focus of the day will be on textual data, fictional texts, and real-world contexts. The event will feature talks by three invited guest speakers along with presentations from the DHSS team.

Invited Speakers:

  • Gavin Brookes – Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Lancaster University, UK
  • Christof Schöch – Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Trier, Germany
  • James Tauber – Founder, Digital Tolkien Project, Boston, US

Invited Speakers

Event Programme:

  • 09:15 AM – 09:30 AM Welcome
  • 09:30 AM – 10:15 AM Michaela Mahlberg – Storytelling in DH: Fiction and the Real World
  • 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM James Tauber – The Digital Tolkien Project
  • 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Anastasia Glawion – Middle-earth Fanfiction: Interpretive Communities on a German-speaking Fanfiction Website
  • 11:45 AM – 12:15 PM Coffee Break
  • 12:15 PM – 01:00 PM Christof Schöch – Linked Open Data for Literary History
  • 01:00 PM – 01:45 PM Sabine Lang – Uncovering the History of Objects: Image Search in Auction Catalogues to Aid Provenance Research
  • 01:45 PM – 03:15 PM Lunch Break (+ SpaceLog App Data Collection[1])
  • 03:15 PM – 04:00 PM Gavin Brookes – Corpus Linguistics, Generative AI, and Discourses of Dementia
  • 04:00 PM – 04:45 PM Marianna Gracheva – Creative Nonfiction: The Language of ‚True Stories Well Told‘
  • 04:45 PM – 05:15 PM Coffee Break
  • 05:15 PM – 06:00 PM Nathan Dykes & Alexander Piperski – The RC21 Project: Methods and Tools for Concordance Reading
  • 06:00 PM – 06:45 PM Dominik Kremer & Andreas Wagner – Recording Active Storytelling on Site: Current Use Cases of the App SpaceLog (Includes Hands-on)
  • 06:45 PM Close

Keywords: Linked Open Data, Literary History, Dissemination and Community Building in the DH