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Have you ever wondered what actually happens behind the scenes of our project? While we are a mathematics-related project, we don’t really spend our days only solving equations or calculating. Instead, our daily work, as one can see through our presentations and publications, revolves around philology, history and digital humanities: We are creating a digital…

By Franziska Putz When taking an innovative approach to something that has never been done this way before, it is essential to have support. The same applies when working on a topic for a long time — a fresh perspective can always help to see things clearer. To gain new viewpoints on our project work…

By Gregor Kodym From 20th to 21th November 2025, I had the opportunity to participate in the workshop ‘Promovieren in der Germanistik’ (Doctoral Studies in German Studies), organised by the Austrian Society for German Studies (ÖGG) in Graz. Over two consecutive days, several doctoral students specialising in various areas of German-language-research discussed the conditions, challenges…

By Franziska Putz Many examples of medieval reckoning start out with an introduction that is almost reminiscent of a modern joke: ‘Two knights, three priests and four virgins walk into a bar …’ In the case of the annual Austrian conference for doctoral students of medieval studies, the “3. Nachwuchstagung Österreichische Mediävistik”, it went a…

By Gregor Kodym This year’s International Medieval Congress, in which our team participated together with Edith Kapeller from the Klosterneuburg Abbey Library and former team member Bernhard Bauer from the Faculty of Humanities (University of Graz), took place from 7th to 10th  July in Leeds, UK. Right from the start, our trip was all about…

By Franziska Putz Talking about oneself is rarely a comfortable thing. Even less so if you’re standing high up on a podium and have to promote your own work and ideas in front of a crowd full of people not knowing anything about it. Yet this is precisely what makes up a big part of…

By Norbert Orbán When you approach a field of research that has not been studied much from certain perspectives, you are confronted with a number of challenges. Due to the lack of comparative projects, there is a certain absence of a blueprint on how to deal with specific issues. The ARITHMETIC project serves as a…