Dear colleagues, On Monday, October 20th at 5 pm the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (BAdW) will host Dr. Richard M. Stallman giving a talk about "Free Software and Freedom in the Digital Society" with ensuing discussion. Richard M. Stallman is founder of the Free Software Foundation ( https://fsf.org ) and the GNU project ( https://gnu.org ). He set a mark in the field of digital humanities (DH), in that: 1. he enabled development of entire free software-based suites for digital humanities. 2. die Creative Commons licenses came into existence as a derivation of the Free Software licenses developed by him (e.g. GPL). If we consider that digital humanities reflect the societal way we that consider and use digital technology, then 3. by being a prominent activist for Free Software, he also contributed to the DH. Moreover, He's a great orator and discussion partner. All interested colleagues are cordially invited to attend his talk. More information on: https://dhmuc.hypotheses.org/3567 You're welcome to propagate this URL and email. This event is being organized by the working group .dhmuc, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (BAdW), and the Speakers' Council of the Scientific Staff of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. The talk will be held in English and will take circa 2 hours. Cordially, Angelika Dreyer, Michele Martone, Eduard Meusel and Matthias Opel p.s.: If the term "Free Software" is new to you, you can consult this TED-talk by Stallman: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/20140407-geneva-tedx-talk-free-software-free-s... p.s.: A poster to the event, so that you can publicize the event locally: https://dhmuc.hypotheses.org/files/2025/10/dhmuc_Stallman_Poster.pdf p.s.: A biography of Dr Richard M. Stallman: Dr. Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and started the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, with or without changes. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux as the kernel, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award and the ACM Software and Systems Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as many doctorates honoris causa, and has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.