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“Text As Data” Spring School in Digital Humanities

March 31, 2025 - April 4, 2025, University of Potsdam, Campus »Am Neuen Palais«

The Spring School is aimed at students and early-career scholars* who are beginning to explore Digital Humanities (DH) and are interested in working with textual sources. While traditional hermeneutic approaches remain crucial in the humanities, computational methods offer additional perspectives for textual analysis. The Spring School aims to guide participants through the process of formulating a research question about a textual source and creating a corpus to developing a comprehensive research project.

The Spring School provides an introduction to several computational methods and offers an opportunity to dig deeper into ongoing projects. "Text as Data" features intensive discussions, workshops, and lectures tailored for students across all humanities disciplines who are interested in computational approaches to text.
The focus of the week-long Spring School lies in the following themes:

  • Data Collection and Corpus Creation
  • Topic modeling
  • Stylometry
  • Mapping of textual data
  • Network Analysis

Lecturers and workshop organizers are leading researchers from DH institutions in Berlin, Erlangen, Krakow, Potsdam, Prague, and Trier. The school is co-organised by the DH Network of the University of Potsdam and the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies of the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. 

Please submit your application until November 30th, 2024 via the following link.

We offer students a limited number of travel grants of max. 300 euro per person: You can apply for a travel grant here.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask our DH coordinator Daniil Skorinkin at skorinkin[at]uni-potsdam.de

* While this is the cohort we primarily have in mind, we are open to applications from everybody interested in digital methods in the humanities.