ESU "Culture & Technology", 23 - 31 July 2012 University of Leipzig
Craig Bellamy
From: Elisabeth Burr
Sent: April-13-12 5:26 PM
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ESU "Culture & Technology", 23 - 31 July 2012 University
of Leipzig - http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/
We are happy to announce that registration for the European
Summer School „Culture & Technology” will open the 16th of
April.
Supported by the Association for Literary and Linguistic
Computing the Summer School will take place at Leipzig
University, Germany, from the 23rd to the 31st of July 2012.
The Summer School is directed at 60-75 participants from all
over Europe and beyond. Students in their final year, graduates,
postgraduates, doctoral students, and post docs from the
Humanities, Engineering and Computer Sciences, as well as
academics, librarians and technical assistants who are involved
in the theoretical, experimental or practical application of
computational methods in the various areas of the Humanities, in
libraries or archives, or wish to do so are its target audience.
The Summer School aims to provide a stimulating environment for
discussing, learning and advancing knowledge and skills in the
application of computer technologies to the Arts and Humanities,
in libraries, archives, and similar fields. The Summer School
seeks to integrate these activities into the broader context of
the Digital Humanities, where questions about the
consequences and implications of the application of
computational methods and tools to cultural artefacts of all
kinds are asked. It further aims to provide insights into the
complexity of humanistic data and the challenges the Humanities
present for computer science and engineering and their further
development.
The Summer School takes place across 9 whole days. The intensive
programme consists of workshops, daily public lectures, regular
project presentations and poster sessions. The public lectures
will seek to handle questions posed by the development of
Virtual Research Infrastructures for the Humanities from the
perspective of the Humanities, their own ways of working and
their specific types of data. The workshop programme will be
composed of 5 to 7 thematic strands. At the moment of writing
the following workshops are being planned:
- Computing Methods applied to DH: XML Markup and Document Structuring
- Stylometry
- Query in Text Corpora
- Art history and the critical analysis of corpora
- Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of multimodal human-human / human-machine communication
- TextGrid
- Project Management
Each workshop consists of a total of 15
sessions or 30 week-hours. The number of participants in each
workshop is limited to 15.
Information on how to apply for a place in one of the workshops
can be found at: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/.
Preference will be given to young scholars of the Humanities who
are planning, or are already involved with, a technology-based
research project and who submit a qualified project description.
Young scholars of Engineering and Computer Sciences are expected
to describe their specialities and interests in such a way that
also non-specialists can follow, and to support what they hope
to learn from the summer school with good arguments.
The Summer School will feature also two round table discussions
focusing on Virtual Research Infrastructures which serve the
Digital Humanities, and on Digital Humanities Summer Schools.
All questions regarding the programme of the Summer School, the
selection of the participants as well as the selection of
projects for eventual publication are handled by the
international scientific committee of the European Summer School
composed of:
· Jean Anderson, University of Glasgow (Great Britain)
· Alex Bia, Universidad Miguel Hernández in Elche (Spain)
· Dino Buzzetti, Università di Bologna (Italy)
· Elisabeth Burr, Universität Leipzig (Germany)
· Laszlo Hunyadi, University of Debrecen (Hungary)
· Jan Rybicki, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Kraków (Poland)
· Corinne Welger-Barboza, Université Paris 1 –
Panthéon-Sorbonne (France)
For important dates and other relevant information please
consult the Web-Portal of the European Summer School “Culture
& Technology”: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/
which will be continually updated and integrated with more
information as soon as it becomes available.
Elisabeth Burr
Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr
Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft
Institut für Romanistik
Universität Leipzig
Beethovenstr. 15
D-04107 Leipzig
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~burr