Researchers at the new Center for Philology and Digitality aim to bridge the gap between the humanities, computer science, and the digital humanities.
The career of American Studies scholar Georgiana Banita has not followed the traditional path; she thinks and works flexibly on a project-by-project basis. In “Security for All,” she explores the controversial practice of predictive policing.
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have the potential to significantly influence political debates. This suggests a new study by researchers from the University of Passau.
An interdisciplinary team led by ethicist Professor Karoline Reinhardt and computational linguist Professor Annette Hautli-Janisz from the University of Passau is investigating a phenomenon in AI hallucinations that has received little attention to date: when large language models produce moral fallacies that deviate significantly from human values.
The new AI tool “Palaeographicum” is revolutionizing research into the cultures of the Ancient Near East: It identifies individual variations of cuneiform signs—a huge step forward for academia.
The TyMin research project, a collaborative venture between the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) and Otto Friedrich University Bamberg, will kick off in early April 2026. Led by Prof. Dr. Jana Costa (LIfBi) and Dr. Caroline Rau (University of Bamberg), the project, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), will spend the next three years investigating how profound pedagogical convictions can be systematically measured. In this way, the project will contribute to the long-term development of teacher training.
Around 100 years ago, Ljuba Metzl translated a famous Baroque drama from Latin into German. But her achievement has been suppressed from history.
How do you research a region that is virtually inaccessible to visitors? The podcast “Remote Chay” shows how scientists are using new methods to gain insights into a closed-off region of China.
How do we deal with the translation and adaptation of concepts of knowledge, culture and law across different languages, societies, or systems? The international conference "Navigating Epistemic, Cultural, and Legal Translations: Processes, Hierarchies, Spaces" of the Leibniz ScienceCampus (LSC) "Europe and America in the Modern World" addresses this topic at the University of Regensburg. The conference, with high-profile researchers from around the world, marks the end of the first funding phase (2019-2025) and the beginning of the second phase (2024-2028) of the LSC.
Major milestone reached in digital Cuneiform studies: researchers from Mainz, Marburg, and Würzburg present an innovative tool that offers many new possibilities.
