European Summer University in DH, 28/7-7/8 2015, Leipzig
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"Culture & Technology" - European Summer University in Digital
Humanities 28th of July - 07th of August 2015, University of Leipzig
http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/
We are happy to announce that interested persons can already create an
account with the ConfTool <https://www.conftool.net/esu2015/> of the
European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology"
and that application for a place will start the 28th of February 2015.
This year the Summer University is realised together with CLARIN-D, one
of the two infrastructure projects for the humanities funded by the
German State Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and the Humboldt
Chair in Digital Humanities of the University of Leipzig.
Not only the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of
Victoria (etcl) http://etcl.uvic.ca/ and the German Accademic Exchange
Service (DAAD) <https://www.daad.de/en/> offer generous support to
participants of the European Summer University in Digital Humanities,
but also the University of Leipzig http://www.zv.uni-leipzig.de/en/ ,
which through its International Centre
http://www.zv.uni-leipzig.de/en/university/uni-international/international-centre.html
makes available bursaries for members of its Eastern European partner
universities (please see:
http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/480).
The Summer University is directed at 60 participants from all over
Europe and beyond. It wants to bring together (doctoral) students, young
scholars and academics from the Arts and Humanities, Library Sciences,
Social Sciences, Engineering and Computer Sciences as equal partners to
an interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and experience in a
multilingual and multicultural context and thus create the conditions
for future project-based cooperations and network-building across the
borders of disciplines, countries and cultures.
The Summer University seeks to offer a space for the discussion and
acquisition of new knowledge, skills and competences in those computer
technologies which play a central role in Humanities Computing and which
determine every day more and more the work done in the Humanities and
Cultural Sciences, as well as in publishing, libraries, and archives, to
name only some of the most important areas. The Summer University aims
at integrating these activities into the broader context of the Digital
Humanities, which pose questions about the consequences and implications
of the application of computational methods and tools to cultural
artefacts of all kinds.
In all this the Summer University aims at confronting the so-called
Gender Divide, i.e. the under-representation of women in the domain of
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Germany and Europe.
But, instead of strengthening the /hard sciences/ as such by following
the way taken by so many measures which focus on the so-called STEM
disciplines and try to convince women of the attractiveness and
importance of Computer Science or Engineering, the Summer University
relies on the challenges that the Humanities with their complex data and
their wealth of women represent for Computer Science and Engineering and
the further development of the latter, on the overcoming of the boarders
between the so-calledhardand soft sciencesand on the integration of
Humanities, Computer Science and Engineering.
The Summer School takes place across 11 whole days. The intensive
programme consists of workshops, public lectures, regular project
presentations, a poster session and a panel discussion. The workshop
programme is composed of the following thematic strands:
XML-TEI encoding, structuring and rendering
Methods and Tools for the Corpus Annotation of Historical and
Contemporary Written Texts
Comparing Corpora
Spoken Language and Multimodal Corpora
Python
Basic Statistics and Visualization with R
Stylometry
Open Greek and Latin
Digital Editions and Editorial Theory: Historical Texts and Documents
Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Building Thematic Research Collections with Drupal
Introduction to Project Management
Each workshop consists of a total of 16 sessions or 32 week-hours. The
number of participants in each workshop is limited to 10. Workshops are
structured in such a way that participants can either take the two
blocks of one workshop or two blocks from different workshops.
Information on how to apply for a place in one or two workshops can be
found at: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/
http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ .
Preference will be given to young scholars of the Humanities and Social
Sciences 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 with good arguments what
they hope to learn from the summer school.
Applications are considered on a rolling basis. The selection of
participants is made by the Scientific Committee together with the
experts who lead the workshops.
Participation fees are the same as last year.
For all relevant information please consult the Web-Portal of the
European Summer School in Digital Humanities â?oCulture & Technologyâ?:
http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/
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
Institut für Romanistik
Universität Leipzig
Beethovenstr. 15
D-04107 Leipzig
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~burr http://www.uni-leipzig.de/%7Eburr
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