CFP: "Digital Humanities Autumn School“ in Trier and Luxembourg

The Trier Center for Digital Humanities and the Université du Luxembourg invite all interested to participate in the first Trier Digital Humanities Autumn School on “Methodological Intersections”. From 28 September to 3 October 2015, 20-30 (post)doctoral scholars will have the possibility to gain an insight into well-founded practices and potential developments within the field of Digital Humanities with the help of establsihed as well as innovative methods, projects, and tools. Amongst the more than 20 supervisors of the Autumn School are Tara Andrews, Fabio Ciotti, Claudine Moulin, Susan Schreibmann, and Manfred Thaller, establishing an international team from Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland. The scholars represent manifold disciplines and academic profiles of various European research facilities.

Deadline for applications: 17 August 2015. Participants will be chosen by 24 August.

The Autum School event is divided into two segments. The first part (28-30 September) contains on talks and round table discussions focusing in Digital Humanities methods and projects in the Humanities (philology, literary criticism, history, art history, etc.). Their theoretical foundations and interdisciplinary practices will be accessed and possible methodological intersections shall be reviewed critically.

In the following days (1-3 October), numerous workshops are on offer providing participants with a practical introduction to the usage of most employed tools (for digitizations, manuscript analysis and textencoding , textmining, geodata, XQuery, visualization, enhanced publications).

Since the Digital Humanities are still underrepresented on an institutional level, especially yound researchers are offered the possibility to enhance their spectrum of methods and get to know new digital technologies. Special about the Autumn School as part of the Digital Humanities Training Network is its focus on a methodologically critical assessment of practices in the Digital Humanities. Participants will have manifold possibilities to discuss their individual research interests and projects with experts in the international research network and gain valuable insight into the collaborative workings of the Trier Center for Digital Humanities. Alongside the scholarly practices, collaboration and positive group dynamics shall be enhanced through various social events.

For further information, please see DH Autumn School-Website.