Courses
The courses for the summer semester 2026 will be published in the annotated, dynamic course directory at the beginning of March. You will find the lecturer, title of the course, date and location, as well as a commentary on the content of the course. The courses are assigned to the modules.
Please note that information can still be added and changed until the start of the semester.
Note: For technical reasons, Prof. Alexander Lasch is always listed as the lecturer. You will find the actual lecturer at the beginning of the course title. Missing information will be added in the course of September.
You can put together your own timetable from the course catalog. Please remember to register for examinations with Selma by the deadline.
Exam registration
Exam registration via Selma (including registration for modules and courses) begins on May 15, 2026 and ends on July 3, 2026.
You can find instructions for using Selmahere .
Start of the semester: In the winter semester 2026, the (face-to-face) and/or online courses start on 13 April 2026.
Examples from teaching
Lecture series
The lecture series Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of Digital Humanities takes place every winter semester. All faculties of the department as well as the DRESDEN-concept partner institutions are involved in the event.
| 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 an impression of the teaching and learning content in the recordings of the lecture series "Fundamentals and application-oriented methods of digital humanities" and in the accompanying podcast.
Partner forum
The students of the Master's degree program "Digital Humanities" report on their internships at the partner forum and also present ideas and approaches for their Master's theses.
| 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
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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 |