NEW SERIES: "Peer-Beratung zur erfolgreichen Antragstellung" // August 2025
5. August 2025, 10.30-13.00 Uhr – Online-Vortrag und Workshop
Web conference link:
https://webconf.hrz.uni-giessen.de/b/jan-6t1-ygz-nqi
Prof. Patryk Żywica: AI and the Digital Humanities – New Horizons
The application of artificial intelligence methods in the humanities—particularly in literary studies, intellectual history, and cultural analysis—opens up new analytical and methodological possibilities. This presentation will outline selected areas where AI tools are currently being employed in digital humanities research, with particular attention to recent developments at the intersection of computational and humanistic inquiry.
Examples will include the construction of multilingual text corpora and the use of advanced natural language processing (NLP) models for semantic and syntactic analysis of texts. Special emphasis will be placed on distant reading techniques, which enable the exploration of themes, emotional patterns, and discursive change across large literary datasets. Developments in stylometry, including the use of deep learning for style analysis and authorship attribution, will also be presented.
The presentation will also highlight AI applications relevant to the analysis and preservation of historical and archival materials, such as AI-supported optical character recognition (OCR), the extraction of structured information from texts, and the visualization of conceptual, character, and institutional networks through knowledge graphs. The potential for computer-assisted reconstruction of missing or damaged fragments of historical texts will also be discussed.
This talk is intended as a survey of current trends in the use of AI in humanities research. The examples discussed will illustrate how digital tools can complement traditional scholarly methods, supporting content analysis, archival accessibility, stylistic comparison, and the mapping of cultural and literary networks.
RCSC Workshop | Research Funding after the PhD: The DFG Grant Application (Eigene Stelle)
16.05.2023, 13:00-16:00 | GCSC (SR 109)
Dr. Alexander Scherr (postdoctoral researcher at the Department of English, JLU, and associated postdoc at GCSC) will hold a workshop on May 16th, with the aim to introduce the Eigene Stelle as a funding scheme for postdocs and to provide practical guidance for the application process. Attendees who are already working on a DFG application are welcome to join, as are postdocs and advanced PhD candidates who consider doing so as a future possibility. For more information, please contact Prof. Dr. Jan Rupp (RCSC).
17.01.2023, 14:00-17:00
The Eigene Stelle – a DFG grant – is an attractive (albeit competitive) funding option for researchers after the PhD. It is attractive not only because it can serve to finance an individual position (for example, for a postdoctoral researcher) for at least 3 years. Its appeal is also due to the fact that successful funding applications are a major asset on the academic job market and increasingly important for researchers who consider a professorial career.
The workshop aims to introduce the Eigene Stelle as a funding scheme and provide practical guidance for the application process. Attendees who are already working on a DFG application are welcome to join, as are postdocs and advanced PhD candidates who consider doing so as a future possibility.