Funded by the University of Leipzig, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Summer School, which in its name links up consciously with an international video conferencing seminar which has been in place for two years now, is directed at an international audience. Students in their final year, graduates, postgraduates, doctoral students, postdocs, teachers, librarians and technical assistants from all over Europe who are involved in the theoretical, experimental or practical application of computational methods
in the various areas of the Humanities, in libraries and archives, or wish to do so are the target audience of the courses.

Further information at the Summer School website: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/

The Summer School addresses also expressively engineers and computer scientist who accept the challenge represented by the Arts and Humanities, who wish to obtain an insight into the application of, and work with, computational methods in the Humanities, and who wish to familiarise themselves with the special demands put on the soft- and hardware systems they develop by arts and humanities-related data.

The Summer School takes place across a whole week. The intensive programme consists of workshops, lectures and project presentations. The Summer School will close with a round table discussion on the challenges presented by technological developments and by the integration of the Humanities and ICTs.

Each workshop consists of a total of 15 sessions or 30 week-hours. The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 15. Applications for a place in a specific workshop will be made on the Portal of the Summer School.

Preference will be given to young scholars of the Humanities who are planning, or are already involved with, a technology-based research project and describe this project in a qualified way. 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 that they support their expectations from the Summer School with good arguments.

Thanks to the generous support granted by the Volkswagen Foundation to the Summer School, participants who have no possibility of applying for a refund from another institution can apply for a contribution to their travel and accommodation costs.

Important dates:

30.06.2009 Deadline for applications

10.07.2009 last day for the payment of registration fees

27.07.2009 Summer School starts

For further details, such as the schedule, planned workshops, venue, registration fees, accommodation ecc., see: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/

Prof. Dr. Elisabeth BurrOrganizer of the European Summer School
University of Leipzig
elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de

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