Teaching overview – Spring semester 2027
Courses, workshops and programme meetings of Digital Humanities, University of Bern (FS 2027)
This page brings together everything Digital Humanities at the University of Bern offers in the spring semester 2027 (FS 2027): seminars and colloquia, the workshops of the Applied Digital Humanities modules, and the meetings for students in their final year and in the doctoral programme.
- Lecture period: 22 February – 4 June 2027
- Easter break: 26 March – 4 April 2027 (no teaching)
- Whit Monday: 17 May 2027 (no teaching)
- Registration: all courses are booked via KSL; the course number is given for each course. Course material is made available on ILIAS.
- Questions about the study programmes: Adrian Demleitner, head of study programmes (adrian.demleitner@unibe.ch)
There is no DH Lab in the spring semester. The final-year meetings take place as separate dates (see below).
Seminars and colloquia
| Course | Type | ECTS | Dates | Place | KSL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bots: Building and Evaluating Bots for Humanities Research | Colloquium (EN) | 6 | Mondays 10:00–12:00, from 8 March; full-day block Mon 3 May; no sessions 29 March (Easter) and 17 May (Whit Monday) | Unitobler (room tba) | 530331 |
| Analysing a City: Stadtgeschichte Aarau (Image and Text) | Seminar (DE) | 6 | Fri 30 April and Fri 7 May, 10:15–12:00 (online, Zoom) · Fri 14 May, 09:30–17:00 · Fri 21 May, 09:30–17:00 · Fri 28 May, 09:15–13:30 (presentations) | 14 May: Stadtmuseum Aarau; 21/28 May: Unitobler (room tba) | 530330 |
| Text Recognition: Working with Text Programmatically | Seminar (EN) | 6 | Wednesdays 13:00–17:00: 7 April, 28 April, 5, 12, 19, 26 May, 2 June | Unitobler (room tba) | 530332 |
Lecture with DH participation
| Course | Type | ECTS | Dates | Lecturers | KSL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BMZ Lecture (Bern Center for Medieval Studies) | Lecture (EN) | 3 | Thursdays 16:15–17:45 and 17:45–18:45, weekly | Annette Kern-Stähler, Christian Hesse, Michael Stolz, Cristina Urchueguía, Tobias Hodel | 530182 |
Applied Digital Humanities: workshops
The workshops belong to the submodules Publishing, Preserving, Presenting (PPP) and Project Management (ProjM). Each workshop is worth 0.5 ECTS and is booked individually in KSL. Registration closes on the Friday of the week before the workshop.
| Date | Time | Workshop | Submodule | Instructors | KSL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 17 March 2027 | 09:00–12:30 | Data Management I: Active Research Data Management | PPP | Ursula Loosli, Gero Schreier | 515972 |
| Wed 17 March 2027 | 13:30–17:00 | Data Management II: Publishing Data | PPP | Ursula Loosli, Gero Schreier | 515974 |
| Thu 18 March 2027 | 09:00–12:30 | Data Management III: Planning Research Data Management | ProjM | Ursula Loosli, Gero Schreier | 515975 |
| Wed 5 May 2027 | 09:00–13:00 | Publishing and Re-using Images: Introduction to the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) | PPP | Ursula Loosli | 516158 |
| tba | Open Access II | PPP | 530408 | ||
| tba | Introduction to HERMES | ProjM | 530409 | ||
| tba | Knowledge Management | ProjM | 530410 | ||
| tba | Project Organization | ProjM | 530411 |
The data management and IIIF workshops take place at the University Library Bern (room tba). Dates marked tba will be added here as soon as they are fixed.
Final year and doctoral programme
Meetings for students writing their Master thesis (Major and Minor) and for doctoral students.
| Date | Time | What | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 16 March 2027 | 16:00–17:15 | Final-year meeting: progress report | tba |
| Tue 20 April 2027 | 12:00–13:00 | Final-year meeting: status report | tba |
| Tue 20 April 2027 | 14:15–17:00, followed by an apéro | DHCH doctoral afternoon | tba |
| Tue 1 June 2027 | 14:00–17:15 | Final-year presentations (Major / Minor) | tba |
| Tue 31 August 2027 | full day | Master thesis defences, together with a doctoral exchange | tba |
Calendar at a glance
| Week of | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 March | Bots | ||||
| 15 March | Bots | Final year: progress report | PPP: Data Management I + II | ProjM: Data Management III | |
| 22 March | Bots | ||||
| 29 March | Easter break | ||||
| 5 April | Bots | Text Recognition | |||
| 12 April | Bots | ||||
| 19 April | Bots | Final year: status report · DHCH doctoral afternoon | |||
| 26 April | Bots | Text Recognition | Aarau (online) | ||
| 3 May | Bots (full day) | Text Recognition · PPP: IIIF | Aarau (online) | ||
| 10 May | Bots | Text Recognition | Aarau (Stadtmuseum Aarau) | ||
| 17 May | Whit Monday | Text Recognition | Aarau (Bern) | ||
| 24 May | Bots | Text Recognition | Aarau (presentations) | ||
| 31 May | Bots | Final-year presentations | Text Recognition | ||
| 30 August | Master thesis defences · doctoral exchange |
The weekly BMZ Lecture (Thursdays 16:15–18:45) is not shown in the calendar.
Last updated: 11 November 2026. Dates and rooms may still change; KSL is the binding source.