Dates for summer semester 2025
4 April Opening night: Library night/ Games night
05.30 p.m. – 7.00 p.m. – Research Dilemma Game with Bettina Bock, Sebastian Barsch
from 19.00 p.m. – Drinks and Snacks
from 19.30 p.m. – Open Science Games Night
GAMES NIGHT: Complete program
14 April - Accessible research: Fair, diamond, open, free
with Martine Grice (Institute for Linguistics – Phonetics)
Preparation:
Andringa, Sible, Maria Mos, Catherine van Beuningen, Paz González, Jos Hornikx & Rasmus Steinkrauss. 2024. Diamond is a scientist’s best friend: Counteracting systemic inequality in open access publishing. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 13.
https://dujal.nl/article/view/18802
5 May - Open Science at DFG: Position Paper, Funding and Framework Conditions.
with Angela Holzer (Programme Director, DFG)
Preparation:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. 2022. Open Science as Part of Research Culture. Positioning of the German Research Foundation. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7194537.
12 May - Beyond the gold standard: Transparency in qualitative corpus analysis
with Nathan Dykes (Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Preparation:
Marchi, Anna, and Charlotte Taylor. "If on a winter’s night two researchers…: A challenge to assumptions of soundness of interpretation." Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines 3.1 (2009): 1-20.
26 May - Reproducibility when working with large language models: A hallucination?
with Nils Reiter (Digital Humanities und Sprachliche Informationsverarbeitung, IDH)
Preparation:
Simone Balloccu, Patrícia Schmidtová, Mateusz Lango, and Ondrej Dusek. 2024. Leak, Cheat, Repeat: Data Contamination and Evaluation Malpractices in Closed-Source LLMs. In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 67–93, St. Julian’s, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
https://aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-long.5/
16 June - Let's talk about language - and its role for replicability
with Xenia Schmalz, Anna Yi Leung (both Self Learning Systems Lab, University of Cologne) & Johannes Breuer (GESIS—Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne)
Preparation:
Schmalz, Xenia, Johannes Breuer, Mario Haim, Andrea Hildebrandt, Philipp Knöpfle, Anna Yi Leung & Timo Roettger. 2025. Let’s talk about language—and its role for replicability. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. Palgrave 12(1). 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04381-2.
23 June (5.45 p.m.) - Reproducibility in the teaching of digital humanities: Lessons from Programming Historian
with Marie Flesch (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Université Paris Cité)
Preparation:
Website Programming Historian: https://programminghistorian.org/