Summer School 2026

Preliminary Programme (subject to change)

Sunday, 19 July 2026
16:00–17:30 Keynote Lecture: Prof. Asya Magazinnik, PhD
17:30 onwards Drinks & Joint Dinner

Monday, 20 July 2026
09:00–12:30 Functions and Programming in R, Dr. Cosima Meyer
12:30–13:30 Lunch
13:30–17:00 Github and Workflow, Dr. Cosima Meyer

Tuesday, 21 July 2026
09:00-12:30 Advanced Graphics in R, Prof. Dr. Melanie Sauter
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-17:00 Web-Scraping and Automated Data Collection, Dr. Rebecca Kittel

Wednesday, 22 July 2026
09:00-12:30 Introduction to Text-as-Data, Dr. Fabienne Lind
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-17:00 Word Embeddings, Dr. Fabienne Lind

Thursday, 23 July 2026
09:00-12:30 Free Morning
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-17:00 Introduction to Spatial Data, Prof. Jessica Di Salvatore
18:30-21:00 Joint Dinner with female professors from the University of Mannheim

Friday, 24 July 2026
09:00-12:30 Introduction to Spatial Data, Prof. Jessica Di Salvatore
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-17:00 Advanced Topics in Spatial Data, Tuğba Bozçağa, PhD

Saturday, 25 July 2026
10:00-16:00 Hackathon (work on own project!)
  Departure of participants