Introduction to Digital Humanities

Lecture Series

Summer Semester 2026

Every Tuesday 16:45–18:15, Hauptgebäude, Hörsaal 2, Tiefparterre, Stiege 5

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.

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Program


3. 3. 2026	Introduction Gabriel Viehhauser (Digital Scholarly Editing, University of Vienna)
10. 3. 2026	Large language model analysis and applications in Digital Humanities Vanja Karan (Digital Text Sciences, University of Vienna)
24. 3. 2026	„Das geht sich schon aus“ – Project management in the DH Thomas Jäger (Digital Scholarly Editing, University of Vienna)
14. 4. 2026	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. 2026	Half a century of modeling medieval meaning: What endures when technologies change Katherina Zeppezauer-Wachauer (University of Salzburg)
28. 4. 2026	Data Stewardship: Competences and Career Paths Monika Bargmann (University of Vienna)
5. 5. 2026	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. 2026	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. 2026	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. 2026	gotthelf-digital.ch: Ein Entwicklungsprojekt zwischen philologischen Standards, digitalen Bedingungen und Human Centered Design Christian von Zimmermann (University of Bern)
2. 6. 2026	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. 2026	The Agentic Turn and Next-Generation Handwritten Text Recognition Achim Rabus (Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Freiburg)
16. 6. 2026	Making Assumptions Explicit: AI and the Epistemic Foundations of Literary Studies Axel Pichler (Department of German Studies, University of Vienna)
23. 6. 2026	Projekt E-LAUTE: Neue Strategien zur digitalen Erfassung von Musik und Text vor 1600 Kateryna Schöning (Department of Musicology, University of Vienna)
30. 6. 2026	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)