SUMMER SCHOOL: CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY
"...An additional strength of the Arts which is consistently overlooked is that precisely those students are following Arts degrees who are so eloquently absent in IT and engineering departments: female students. The Arts themselves make little of this potential and prefer to watch as, from all sides, female students are coaxed and encouraged to desert the Arts in order to take up their studies in the natural sciences and technology. The real task of the Arts, however, ought rightly to consist in tackling this so-called Gender Divide in a more sensitive and farsighted manner, by integrating IT content into degree courses and enabling / empowering students to employ computational methods in their studies..." Deadline for applying to the course: June 15, 2010.
"...The Arts would in this way be able to contribute convincingly to the breaking down of the division between supposedly 'hard' (male) and 'soft' (female) academic disciplines, rather than continuing to sustain such an artificial divide by default.
It is true that during the last three decades a discussion around computer applications and computational methods has developed inside the humanities on a whole, but they are nevertheless hardly ever included in study plans. Furthermore, the question of what happens at the intersection of computing tools with cultural artefacts of all kinds, of how computational methods and tools are used to create new knowledge, of how the objects of study challenge these methods and tools and of how questions have to be formulated if they are to be analyzed by applying computational methods, is rarely asked.
Last but not least, there is still hardly any dialogue between the disciplines although the use of computers or digitalization processes and needs, as shown by Humanities Computing and the Digital Humanities,question more and more the traditional borders between the disciplines, between theory and practice, between technological implementation and research considerations and ask not only for specific tools but also for trans-disciplinary methodologies.
This lack of consciousness, of inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches, as well as the missing teaching of future-oriented and sustainable patterns of thought and methods has negative effects above all when it comes to young scholars, not only in the Humanities but also in Engineering and Computer Sciences..."
Application is done via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.net/esu2010/ by creating an account and handing in a curriculum vitae and a letter of motivation (300-500 words). People who would like to present their own project hand in a short description of the project as well. Application by Email cannot be accepted.
Notwithstanding the extension of the deadline, the organizers aim at starting the selection process in the next few days so that people who have already handed in their documents can be notified of the result around the 16th of June and can start to organize their journey.
People should only register for the Summer School once they have been attributed a place in one of the workshops.
All the necessary information can be found on the multi-lingual Web-Site of the Summer School.
Please, read the information carefully.
If you have any questions please contact theorganizers at: esu2010 [at] uni-leipzig [dot] de.
For further information and to apply, please go here
