30.3078, Summer Schools: Digital Caucasiology / Georgia
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Subject: 30.3078, Summer Schools: Digital Caucasiology / Georgia
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Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:39:58
From: Jost Gippert [gippert at em.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: Digital Caucasiology / Georgia
Digital Caucasiology
Host Institution:
Coordinating Institution: Goethe University Frankfurt
Website: http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/digcauss.htm
Dates: 01-Oct-2019 - 08-Oct-2019
Location: Batumi, Adjara, Georgia
Focus: Caucasiology in the digital age, including both theoretical and practical issues concerning various branches of the Humanities (besides linguistics, philology, literary studies, history, anthropology, juridical, social and political sciences, etc.); topics: creation of corpora, creation of electronic dictionaries, data annotation, search and visualization.
Minimum Education Level: MA
Special Qualifications:
MA students can apply if their MA studies will be finished before October, 2020. English language skills are required.
Description:
The universities of Batumi (Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgia),
Frankfurt / Main (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany), and Jena
(Friedrich Schiller University, Germany) jointly organize two consecutive
summer schools on „Digital Caucasiology“, one in Batumi, October 1–8, 2019,
and one in Frankfurt, October 1–8, 2020. The two summer schools are
consecutive, which means that applicants will have to apply for participation
in both of them (cf. registration instructions below). There is no
registration fee but advanced registration is compulsory for the selection
process of the participants as their number is limited (45 participants).
The primary concern of the summer schools is to close the gap that exists
between Caucasian countries and the Western world with regard to the use of
digital resources in the Humanities concerning the Caucasus, its languages,
peoples, and history, with the aim to establish fruitful cooperations in the
production, development, and exploitation of such resources. The summer
schools address early career researchers from both the Caucasian region and
the West.
The summer schools will not only deal with text corpora and their linguistic
exploitation but with resources to be used by Humanities subjects in a broader
range. The application of digital research technologies in the Humanities
requires a profound understanding of fundamental issues of one's own
discipline in a cross-disciplinary context. Interdisciplinarity therefore
represents an essential feature and at the same time the thematic framework of
the two summer schools on “Digital Caucasiology", which are meant to bring
together early career researchers in fields as different as linguistics,
literary studies, history, anthropology, juridical, social and political
sciences with specialists from computational Humanities, with the aim to
explore the common grounds of the formation and exploitation of digital
resources and thus to ensure that the participants (graduate and doctoral
students and post-docs) from different disciplines gain a comprehensive
overview of key aspects of the practical use of electronic resources and tools
and to develop an interdisciplinary perspective.
The working language of the summer schools is English.
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Applied Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
General Linguistics
Language Documentation
Lexicography
Ling & Literature
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Translation
Typology
Writing Systems
Subject Languages: Abkhazian
Adyghe
Armenian
Armenian, Classical
Armenian, Middle
Azerbaijani, North
Bats
Dargwa
Georgian
Georgian, Old
Laz
Mingrelian
Ossetic
Svan
Udi
Tuition: 0 USD
Tuition Explanation: There is no registration fee. Travel and accommodation of accepted
participants will be covered by a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation.
Registration: 15-Aug-2019 to 09-Sep-2019
Contact Person: Anastasia Kamarauli
Fax: +49 69 798 22873
Email: a.kamarauli at web.de
Apply by Email: a.kamarauli at web.de
Registration Instructions:
Applicants have to send in (via e-mail to the Anastasia Kamarauli by Sept. 9,
2019) their CV (one page), a motivation letter (max. 300 words) explaining
their fields of interest and their expectations for the summer schools, a copy
of their last university diploma, and a list describing their activities
concerning Caucasiology and their knowledge in digital methods.
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