Introduction to Digital Humanities
Lecture Series at the University of Vienna
Summer Semester 2026
When: weekly every Tuesday from 10.3.2026, 16:45 - 18:15
Where: University of Vienna, Hauptgebäude, Hörsaal 2, Tiefparterre, Stiege 5
Registration: Not required.
Language: English and German
The department for Digital Philology cordially invites you to the lecture series ‘Introduction to Digital Humanities’ :
The goal of the lecture series is to provide an overview of the state of research and current theory, practice and methods in the digital humanities. Speakers from different areas of the humanities will show how the digital approaches they use open up new possibilities for their research.
Programme
- 10. 3. 26: Large language model analysis and applications in Digital Humanities
Vanja Karan (Digital Text Sciences, University of Vienna)
- 24. 3. 26: „Das geht sich schon aus“ – Project management in the Digital Humanities
Thomas Jäger (Digital Scholarly Editing, University of Vienna) - 14. 4. 26: Digital source editions from a historiographical background: Works in progress at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
Stephan Kurz, Dimitra Grigoriou (Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna)
- 21. 4. 26: Half a century of modeling medieval meaning: What endures when technologies change
Katherina Zeppezauer-Wachauer (University of Salzburg) - 28. 4. 26: Data Stewardship: Competences and Career Paths
Monika Bargmann (University of Vienna) - 5. 5. 26: Getting to the Bottom of Things. Leveraging Graphs for the Study of Material Culture in Medieval Images
Isabella Nicka, Peter Färberböck (Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture in Krems, University of Salzburg)
- 12. 5. 26: Computergestützte Textkollation, Visualisierung und Filterung der Kollationsdaten: eine Analyse der Textgeschichte des kroatischen Romans “Giga Barićeva” von Milan Begović (1876–1948)
Elias Bounatirou (Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Vienna) - 19. 5. 26: Mittelhochdeutsche Lieder und Sprüche digital edieren: Ein Bericht aus der Werkstatt der „Deutschen Lyrik des Mittelalters“ (LDM)
Manuel Braun (German Medieval Studies, University of Stuttgart) - 26. 5. 26: gotthelf-digital.ch : Ein Entwicklungsprojekt zwischen philologischen Standards, digitalen Bedingungen und Human Centered Design
Christian von Zimmermann (University of Bern) - 2. 6. 26 : Channelling the power of LLMs toward the study of antiquity: Initial results and future perspectives
Anna Dolganov (Austrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna) - 9. 6. 26: The Agentic Turn and Next-Generation Handwritten Text Recognition
Achim Rabus (Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Freiburg)
- 16. 6. 26: Making Assumptions Explicit: AI and the Epistemic Foundations of Literary Studies
Axel Pichler (Department of German Studies, University of Vienna) - 23. 6. 26: Projekt E-LAUTE: Neue Strategien zur digitalen Erfassung von Musik und Text vor 1600
Kateryna Schöning (Department of Musicology, University of Vienna) - 30. 6. 26: Born-digital Cultural Heritage from Historical PC’s to the Age of AI. Preservation, Forensic Analysis, Cultural Analysis and Interpretation
Thorsten Ries (Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at
Austin)