Courses
The courses for the 2026/27 winter semester will be published in mid-September in the annotated, dynamic course catalog. There you will find the lecturer, course title, date and location, as well as a description of the course content. The courses are assigned to modules.
Please note that information may still be added or changed until the start of the semester.
Note: For technical reasons, Prof. Alexander Lasch is always listed as the instructor. The actual instructor is indicated at the beginning of the course title. Any missing information will be added throughout September.
You can use the course catalog to create your own schedule. Please remember to register for exams via Selma by the deadline.
Exam Registration
Exam registration via Selma ( including registration for modules and courses) begins on November 15, 2026, and ends on January 25, 2027.
Here you’ll find instructions on how to use Selma.
Start of the Semester: In the winter semester 2026/27, in-person and/or online courses begin on October 12, 2026.
Examples from the curriculum
lecture series
Every winter semester, the lecture series “Fundamentals and Application-Oriented Methods of Digital Humanities” takes place . All faculties within the division, as well as the DRESDEN-concept partner institutions, participate in the series.
| October 13, 2026 | Alexander Lasch (SLK): Introduction |
| October 20, 2026 | Mario Baumann (SLK): The Sacred Sound of Antiquity: Sensory Archaeology Using the Example of a Digital Model of Hagia Sophia |
| October 27, 2026 | Angela Dreßen (PhF): The Semantic Web and Art-Historical Research Data (working title) |
| November 3, 2026 | *canceled* Orit Halpern (SLK): Planetary AI |
| November 10, 2026 | Anne-Marie Lachmund (SLK): AI and Schools—Toward a New Culture of Assignments and Exams / or AI and Lesson Planning |
| November 17, 2026 | Simon Meier-Vieracker, Jan Langenhorst (SLK): Keywords: Quantitative Methods of Contrastive Text Analysis |
| November 24, 2026 | Natalja Menold (PhF): Surveys in the Age of AI |
| December 1, 2026 | Anja Binanzer, Marie Hempel (SLK): Experimental research on multilingualism |
| December 8, 2026 | Andreas Spengler (EW): Education and (Post-)Digitality—Perspectives from Media Education |
| December 15, 2026 | Martin Munke (SLUB): Digital Humanities and Citizen Science—Collaborative Research in the Digital Age |
| January 5, 2027 | Jacob Franke and Martin Zavesky (SKD): SKD Digital |
| January 12, 2027 | Ilja Labischinski, Svetlana Yakutina (SMB): Artificial Intelligence and Colonial Provenance: Experiences from a Pilot Project on AI-Assisted Transcription |
| January 19, 2027 | Ira Spieker, Katharina Schuchardt (ISGV): Digitizing Archival Treasures. The Margarethenhütte Corporate Archive as a Treasure Trove for Cultural Studies... |
| January 26, 2027 | Simon Razniewski (ScaDS.AI): Epistemic Twins: Reconstructing What Large Language Models Know |
| February 2, 2027 | Juan Garcés & Kay-Michael Würzner (SLUB): DH Internships at the SLUB. A Look Back and a Look Ahead |
| 14.10.2025 | OSL 1 |
Alexander Lasch (SLK): Introduction |
| 21.10.2025 | TexLab / T3 |
Mario Baumann (SLK): The sacred sound of antiquity: Sensual archaeology using the example of a digital model of the Hagia Sophia |
| 28.10.2025 | OSL 1 |
Stefan Beckert (PhF): Field report: Digital edition of historical texts with machine text recognition, AI and TEI:XML |
| 04.11.2025 | OSL 2 | Steffen Kailitz and Nicole Husemann (HAIT): Democracy, forms of autocracy - and is there something in between? Classifying and visualizing forms of political rule worldwide from 1900 to today with the data set Varieties of Political Regimes |
| 11.11.2025 | SLUB KLEMPERER | Kay-Michael Würzner (SLUB Dresden): Digital Humanities and Libraries: A beautiful friendship? |
| 18.11.2025 | OSL 1 | Simon Razniewski (ScaDS.AI): LLM Knowledge Analysis at Scale |
| 25.11.2025 | Makerspace / M2 | Natalja Menold (PhF): Survey Methodology and Computational Social Science |
| 02.12.2025 | OSL 2 | Angela Dreßen (PhF): Cultural Heritage Data |
| 09.12.2025 | OSL 1 | Verena Straub (PhF): Digital Art and Image Science |
| 16.12.2025 | OSL 1 | Anja Binanzer & Marie Hempel (SLK): Experimental Multilingualism Research |
| 06.01.2026 | OSL 1 |
Franz Meier (SLK): Italian language chronicles as Linguistic Linked Open Data |
| 13.01.2026 | OSL 1 |
Hauke Bartels (SLK, SI): On the digitization of the Sorbian cultural heritage |
| 20.01.2026 | OSL 1 | Martin Munke (SLUB Dresden): Digital Humanities and Citizen Science: Collaborative research under the conditions of digitality |
| 27.01.2026 | OSL 1 |
Chair of Educational Technology and Chair of Media Education (EW): Media Literacy and Media Education: Pedagogical Roles in the Digital Transformation / Powerlessness in the Classroom - Knowledge Advantage of Teachers over Students against the Background of the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) // (SPRINGER Ralf Christoph (EW) What do digital learning diaries teach us? An analysis of the learning status of students at the University School Dresden) |
| 15.10.2024 |
Alexander Lasch (SLK) & Juan Garcés: Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of Digital Humanities |
| 22.10.2024 | Mario Baumann (SLK): Parthenon Frieze digital: Reconstruction and Restitution in the Age of Virtual Media |
| 29.10.2024 | Anne-Marie Lachmund (SLK): Digital Reading |
| 05.11.2024 | Simon Razniewski (ScaDS.AI): Multi-Cultural Commonsense Knowledge Distillation from Text and LLMs |
| 12.11.2024 | Verena Straub (PhF): Digital Art and Image Studies |
| 19.11.2024 | Anke Langner (EW): Digitalization in school and education |
| 26.11.2024 |
Orit Halpern (SLK): The Resilience Doctrine: Managing the Future through AI |
| 03.12.2024 |
Natalja Menold (PhF): Data Science in Social Sciences |
| 10.12.2024 | Hauke Bartels (SLK): Digitization of writing (using the example of Lower Sorbian). From corpus texts to the digital library |
| 17.12.2024 | Angela Dressen (PhF): Cultural Heritage Data |
| 07.01.2025 | Yannick Frommherz, Jan Langenhorst, Simon Meier-Vieracker (SLK): Keywords: Quantitative approaches to contrastive text analysis |
| 14.01.2025 | Jan Heilmann (PhF): Digital indexing of late antique and early medieval manuscripts |
| 21.01.2025 |
Anna Mattern (PhF): Historical networks in nodegoat |
| 28.01.2025 |
Maren Hachmeister (HAIT): Interview research data in Oral-History.Digital |
| 04.02.2025 | Thomas Koehler / Nadine Schaarschmidt (EW): Media literacy and media education |
| 10.10.2022 | Alexander Lasch (SLK): Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of digital humanities |
| 17.10.2022 | Mario Baumann (SLK): Parthenon Frieze digital: Reconstruction and restitution in the age of virtual media |
| 24.10.2022 |
Peter Uhrig (ScaDS.AI): Big Data & AI for Multimodal Communication Research |
| 07.11.2022 | Anne Klammt (HAIT): Examples of spatial digital research in history and cultural studies |
| 14.11.2022 | Angela Dreßen (PhF): Cultural Heritage goes Digital: Museums and Research Data |
| 21.11.2022 | Stephanie Zloch, Mathias Herrmann and Martin Reimer (PhF / IfG): Digital media in historical culture and history education |
| 28.11.2022 | Anna-Maria de Cesare (SLK): Generating texts with large language models: from training data to textual outputs |
| 05.12.2022 | Anke Langner (EW): Digitalization in school and education |
| 12.12.2022 | Orit Halpern (SLK): Cybernetics or Histories of Neural Networks |
| 19.12.2022 | Kay-Michael Würzner (SLUB): Wikidata, Wikisource and Wiktionary: The Wikiverse as a working environment in the digital humanities |
| 09.01.2023 | Marianne Kneuer (PhF): Does gender make a difference? Political participation on social media |
| 16.01.2023 | Yannick Frommherz, Jan Langenhorst & Simon Meier-Vieracker (SLK): Keywords: Quantitative approaches to contrastive text analysis |
| 23.01.2023 | Jan Heilmann (PhF): Digital indexing of late antique and early medieval manuscripts |
| 11.10.2022 | Alexander Lasch (SLK) Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of digital humanities |
| 18.10.2022 | Mario Baumann (SLK) The scent of the text? Potentials - and limits - of digitally supported literary text analysis: an example from classical philology |
| 25.10.2022 | Hermann Diebel-Fischer (ZIH // ScaDS.AI) Data and research ethics |
| 01.11.2022 | Kay-Michael Würzner (SLUB) From text object via digital full texts to research data |
| 08.11.2022 | Natalja Menold (PhF) Data Science and Survey Research |
| 15.11.2022 | Orit Halpern (SLK) History of Smartness |
| 22.11.2022 | Simon Meier-Vieracker (SLK) Data-driven methods in corpus linguistics: From ngrams to word embeddings |
| 06.12.2022 | Anna-Maria De Cesare (SLK) Romance corpora and (POS-)tagging |
| 13.12.2022 |
Kerstin Schankweiler & Verena Straub (PhF) |
| 20.12.2022 | Hauke Bartels (SLK // SI) Digitization of literature: From corpus texts to the digital library |
| 10.01.2023 | Marianne Kneuer (PhF) Basics of digital research in political science |
| 17.01.2023 | Anke Langner (EW) Digitally supported teaching and learning in the university school |
| 24.01.2023 | Andreas Rutz (PhF // ISGV) Digitality and region. Resources, infrastructures and projects for digital regional studies in Saxony |
You can get a sense of the teaching and course content from the recordings of the lecture series “Fundamentals and Application-Oriented Methods of the Digital Humanities” and the accompanying podcast.
Partner Forum
Students in the “Digital Humanities” master’s program share experiences from their internships at the Partner Forum and also present ideas and approaches for their master’s theses.
| 17.04.2026 | Introduction |
| 24.04.2026 | Arrangements and planning |
| 08.05.2026 |
Tessa Pohle: Digital transformation (SKD + Dr. Martin Zavesky) + Master's thesis topic |
|
15.05.2026 |
tba |
| 22.05.2026 | Tobias Ehrmeier: University Archives Leipzig + Master's thesis topic |
| 05.06.2026 | Liesa Fellmann / Shihao Li: ANIMA (IXLAB + Eliane Christ) |
| 19.06.2026 |
Preparation summer party Summer party |
| 26.06.2026 | Charlotte Meißner: Exp. Eye tracking research (LMLab + Marie Hempel) + Master thesis topic |
| 03.07.2026 |
Jan Koeckenmeister: Age and digital change. Creation of a website for the presentation of research results |
| 10.07.2026 | tba |
| 02.05.2025 | Franziska Hinz (Barkhausen Institute) Alice Plaumann (Bach Archive) |
| 09.05.2025 | Emely Engelmann (HAIT) Anna-Magdalena Hofmann (HAIT) Laura Nagler (HALLE 14) |
| 16.05.2025 | Carolin Richter (SKD) Kay Zeisig (ISL) |
| 23.05.2025 | Carolin Alice Schenk (ISL) Chantal Ross (SLUB) |
| 30.05.2025 | Johanna Maaß (Saxon State Office for Museums) Juana Dreher (VERSO) |
| 06.06.2025 | Organization summer festival |
| 20.06.2025 | Summer party |
| 27.06.2025 |
Emily Reich (VERSO) |
Friday, 11:10-12:40 | T3 in the SLUB TextLab
|
10.05.2024 |
Postponed Sabine Hollmann | P: VERSO gGmbH | MA: Visualization of metadata (esp. geodata) |
| 31.05.2024 |
Raila Röhricht | P: SLUB | MA: Gastronomy of the 80s |
| 07.06.2024 |
Svetlana Yakutina | P: ISGV | MA: Sentiment analysis of travelogues |
| 14.06.2024 | Karina Söhl | P: BBAW | MA: Digitization of corpus manuscripts |
| 21.06.2024 | Jingyi Yu | P: HAIT| MA: Automatic analysis of tools in the current DH literature Henrik Selle | P: HAIT Paul Zimmermann | P: HAIT | MA: Layout analysis |
| 28.06.2024 |
Stefanie Backasch | P: USD | MA: Whisper: Automatic real-time audio transcription |