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(Apologies for cross-posting, but feel free to forward!)<br><br>
<b>After having concluded the evaluation of the numerous applications
which reached us before the deadline a few places and bursaries are still
available. Therefore we publish this last call. We will accept
applications for these places and bursaries until the 10th of July 2012.
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Please note, participation at the school is not possible without an
invitation letter which will be send out only if the results of the
evaluation of an application are positive. Applicants are asked to inform
themselves if a certain workshop is still available.<br><br>
3rd European Summer School in Digital Humanities "Culture &
Technology" , 23 - 31 July 2012, University of Leipzig <br><br>
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<a href="http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/<br><br>
</a>Thanks to the generous support granted by the Volkswagen Foundation
to the Summer School <b>fees could be reduced</b> considerably and a
<b>bursary scheme</b> could be put into place.<br><br>
The Summer School is directed at 75 participants from all over Europe and
beyond. Students in their final year, graduates, postgraduates, doctoral
students, and post docs from the Humanities, Engineering or 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.
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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 <i>Digital
Humanities</i>, 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. <br><br>
The Summer School takes place across 9 whole days. The intensive
programme consists of workshops, daily public lectures, regular project
presentations, poster sessions and two round tables. <br><br>
The <b>workshops </b>while focusing on essential questions such as XML
Markup, the structuring of documents, the investigation and
categorisation of style via statistical methods and the analysis of
corpora, address also Art History from the perspective of Digital
Humanities, and provide an introduction to the employment of virtual
research infrastructures in Humanities research. A workshop will
demonstrate how the interdisciplinary investigation of multimodal
communication between humans and between humans and machines produces not
only a new theory of multimodal human / machine communication, but also
new theory and praxis of the annotation of video, audio, prosody, syntax
and pragmatics which plays such a central role in the remedialisation of
our cultural heritage. Likewise a workshop will be offered on project
management, which is becoming increasingly important as a result of the
tendency towards project-centred research in the interdisciplinary
Digital Humanities. The results of the individual workshops will be aired
in plenary sessions.
<ul>
<li>Computing Methods applied to DH: XML Markup and Document Structuring
(<b>fully booked</b>)
<li>Stylometry: Computer-Assisted Analysis of Literary Texts
<li>Query in Text Corpora
<li>Art history and the critical analysis of corpora
<li>Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of multimodal human-human /
human-machine communication
<li>TextGrid – a virtual research environment for the Humanities
<li>Large Project Planning, Funding, and Management <b>(fully booked</b>)
</ul>Each workshop consists of a total of 15 sessions or 30 week-hours.
The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 15.<br><br>
Information on how to apply for a place in one of the workshops and for a
bursary can be found at:
<a href="http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/</a>. <br>
A bursary can only be granted if the person in question is present at the
school all through the nine days.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
The call for the Summer School should also be intended as a call for
<b>project presentation</b>. We expect above all the young scholars who
participate in the Summer School to present their projects. Next to
projects of the participants of the Summer School advanced institutional
and / or funded projects by scholars from the Humanities, Computer
Science and Engineering will be presented.<br><br>
Please note that we are planning to publish the projects which have been
selected for presentation together with the lectures given by our
internationally renowned specialists.<br><br>
The public <b>lectures </b>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. <br><br>
The Summer School will feature also two <b>round table discussions</b>
focusing on Virtual Research Infrastructures which serve the Digital
Humanities, and on Digital Humanities Summer Schools.<br><br>
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:<br><br>
· Jean Anderson, University of
Glasgow (Great Britain) <br>
· Alex Bia, Universidad Miguel
Hernández in Elche (Spain)<br>
· Dino Buzzetti, Università di
Bologna (Italy)<br>
· Elisabeth Burr, Universität Leipzig
(Germany)<br>
· Laszlo Hunyadi, University of
Debrecen (Hungary)<br>
· Jan Rybicki, Uniwersytet
Jagiellonski, Kraków (Poland)<br>
· Corinne Welger-Barboza, Université
Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne (France)<br><br>
For all relevant information please consult the Web-Portal of the
European Summer School in Digital Humanities “Culture & Technology”:
<a href="http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/</a> which will be
continually updated and integrated with more information as soon as it
becomes available.<br><br>
We're pleased to announce that <a href="http://dhsi.org/">DHSI</a> (4-8
June 2012),
<a href="http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/">DH@Oxford</a> (2-6
July 2012),
<a href="http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/">DH@Leipzig</a>
(23-31 July 2012), and <a href="http://mith.umd.edu/dhwi/">DHWI</a> (7-11
Jan 2013) are working together to establish a network of DH training
institutes.<br><br>
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Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr<br>
Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft<br>
Institut für Romanistik<br>
Universität Leipzig<br>
Beethovenstr. 15<br>
D-04107 Leipzig<br>
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Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr<br>
Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft<br>
Institut für Romanistik<br>
Universität Leipzig<br>
Beethovenstr. 15<br>
D-04107 Leipzig<br>
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