ESU 2021

Die 11th European Summer University in Digital Humanities „Culture & Technology“ fand vom 03.–13.08.2021 online statt (organisiert von Leipzig aus).

Workshops

  1. Alex Bia (University Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain): XML-TEI document encoding, structuring, rendering and transformation (2 weeks)
  2. Carol Chiodo (Harvard University, USA) / Lauren Tilton (University of Richmond, USA): Hands on Humanities Data Workshop – Creation, Discovery and Analysis (2 weeks)
  3. Jan Horstmann (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany) / Marie Flüh (University of Hamburg, Germany) / Mareike Schumacher (University of Hamburg, Germany): Digital Annotation and Analysis of Literary Texts with CATMA 6 (2 weeks)
  4. Bernhard Fisseni (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany) / Andreas Witt (University of Mannheim, Germany): Corpus Linguistics for Digital Humanities. Introduction to Methods and Tools (2 weeks)
  5. Maciej Eder (Polish Academy of Sciences / Pedagogical University, Cracow, Poland) / Jeremi Ochab (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland): Stylometry (2 weeks)
  6. Simone Rebora (University of Basel, Switzerland) / Giovanni Pietro Vitali (University College Cork, Ireland): Distant Reading in R. Analyse the text & visualize the Data (2 weeks)
  7. David Joseph Wrisley (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE) / Randa El Khatib (University of Victoria, Canada): Humanities Data and Mapping Environments (2 weeks)
  8. Katarzyna Anna Kapitan (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) / N. Kıvılcım Yavuz (Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas, USA): Manuscripts in the Digital Age: XML-Based Catalogues and Editions (2 weeks)
  9. Yael Netzer (Ben Gurion University, Israel): Digital Archives: Reading and Manipulating Large-Scale Catalogues, Curating and Creating Small-Scale Archives (2 weeks)
  10. Barbara Bordalejo (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) / Peter Robinson (University of Saskatchewan, Canada): Making an edition of a text in many versions (2 weeks)
  11. Kristin Bührig (University of Hamburg, Germany) / Juliane Schopf (University of Hamburg, Germany): Transdisciplinary research cycles – from technical possibilities to posing questions in the humanities (1 week / 1st week)

Lectures

02.08.2021 19:30–20:30 Nuria Rodríguez Ortega (University of Málaga, Spain): „Reordering Priorities in the Poscovid Age: Human-Centered Technologies and Digital Humanities“

04.08.2021 19:30–20:30 Gerhard Heyer (Leipzig University, Germany): „Changing Contexts – Changing Meaning: A Sketch of Semantic Seismography“

Why does for some words the context of usage change? Often we can identify phases of intensive context changes in which clues to possible causes can be found. Examples of such phases are: controversial discussions in which the proponents or opponents of a position use central words in completely different contexts; punctual events such as natural disasters, historical events or technological changes, in which not only new words are introduced but at the same time old words are used in new contexts; cyclical events such as „Olympia“, in which the location of the event and the names of the actors acting or affected change in a time cycle determined by the event. For the recognition of context changes, the lecture introduces the measure of context volatility. This makes it possible to quantify the rates of context change of words in a diachronic corpus over a given period of time and to identify exploratively those words whose context of use has changed conspicuously over this period. Normalising the rate of change, words of different frequency classes can also be compared with each other. Compared to the pure frequency analysis, low-frequency words can thus also be included in the analysis, for example, for the detection of weak signals, which are often indicated by early changes in the context of usage of low-frequency words. In addition to the highly volatile words, words whose contexts of usage change little over a longer period of time can also be identified, for example, because they are part of a formulaic language in a technical or legal context, or because they represent a political or social consensus in the period under consideration.

06.08.2021 19:30–20:30 Cristina Marras (CNR-ILIESI, Rome, Italy): „Between language and philosophy: Metaphors as conceptual design in DH modelling“

Models and modelling as explicit exploratory and empirical strategies of inquiry have been increasingly recognised and adopted in science and scholarship, and the role of models in exploring rather than measuring, predicting or explaining is being reconsidered. Modelling in Digital Humanities (DH) has been at the intersection of several long term areas of inquiry in the humanities and cultural studies, including debates and theorisations around the meaning and mechanics of representation, abstraction, signification, fictionality, translation, and learning. In DH modelling is considered one of the core research practices, and explicit models are extensively required in order to operationalise research questions, this includes representation of objects of study in the form of data to process, in order to make objects and observations computable, as well as to analyse, transform and visualise data. The epistemological impact of information technology and software engineering in research, calls for a shift from models as static objects to the dynamic process of modelling. Underlying the discussion are a number of philosophical and epistemological questions, including for example the understanding of the relationship between knowledge and information modelling in a way compatible with the methods of cultural-historical studies adequately reflected in the machine-supported information. The rapid co-evolution of technology and learning is offering new ways to represent and model knowledge. I therefore present some examples from the history of philosophy and from some DH projects in order to discuss how metaphors themselves are models of knowledge and define the schemata within which knowledge and specific concepts operate. I propose to consider modelling as a creative and highly pragmatic process in which metaphors assume a central role and act as conceptual design where meaning is negotiated through the creation and manipulation of external representations combined with a figurative use of languages.

09.08.2021 19:30–20:30 Glen Worthey (HathiTrust Research Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA): „Elective Affinities: The Library in Digital Humanities, and Digital Humanities in the Library“

The library profession’s deep history, rich culture, and well-developed professional practices have served remarkably well as they adopt, adapt to, and develop novel methods in support of the digital humanities. But this relationship is profoundly mutual, and the affinities between library practice and DH practice lead in both directions. Not only has modern digital scholarship influenced the library world: traditional library values and practices continue to inform and enhance the evolution of DH work. This talk will celebrate and elaborate on some of the profound elective affinities between librarianship and the digital humanities.

11.08.2021 19:30–20:30 Chao Tayiana Maina (African Digital Heritage, Kenya): „Cultivating empathy within digital heritage collections – Reflections on digital interventions“

The process of historical inquiry provides researchers the opportunity to ask, locate and analyse history through multiple lenses. Within this inquiry emerges the central role of empathy within historical practice. The ability to not just relate with a person, event or circumstance but rather to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for the circumstances and context surrounding a particular event or period in time. When working with archives, particularly colonial archives this process of inquiry and empathy formulation is inextricably linked to unpacking the colonial gaze. As more and more institutions and audiences gravitate towards sharing and accessing archives online, how do we go beyond the obvious to extract from these records that which is unseen and unsaid but still there in plain sight? More so, can widespread digital access, digital dissemination bring with it a more critical approach to analysis of archives from the colonial period. History is hiding everywhere – This talk will explore the ways in which digital tools can shape the process of historical inquiry and by so doing formulate pathways towards historical empathy and critical analysis of colonial archives.

13.08.2021 19:30–20:30 Ray Siemens, Randa El Khatib, Luis Meneses, Graham Jensen, Caroline Winter (University of Victoria, Canada): „Open, Social Scholarship as a Foundation for Digital Humanities“

This talk traces intersections of work in open access and open scholarship movements, the digital humanities‘ methodological commons and community of practice, grassroots teaching and training initiatives, contemporary online practices, and public facing „citizen scholarship,“ with a practice-oriented mandate. Open social scholarship involves creating and disseminating research and research technologies to a broad audience of specialists and active non-specialists in ways that are accessible and significant to everyone; those who subscribe to its practice engage it across research, service, and teaching activities — examples of which will be noted and considered among the initiatives of the recently-established Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI).

Project session

Tuesday 03.08.2021 – 17:30–19:00 „Libraries, Archives and the Digital Humanities“

  • Horstmann, Jan / Müller, Christiane: „Digital Laboratory and Virtual Research Space“
  • Ayan, Erdal / Nuhbalaoglu, Derya / Açar, Serhat / Yazgan Uslu, Nesibe / Tokdemir Demirel, Elif: „Digital Humanities (in) Turkey & A Re-digitization Project: Serially Published Short Stories in Turkish Daily, Cumhuriyet“
  • Pataricza, Dóra: „From class registers to memorial walls – Sources used for the reconstruction of deportation lists“

Thursday 05.08.2021 – 17:30–19:00 „Style and topics in literature and a critical view on objectivity“

  • Haggin, Patience Elizabeth: „Finding Ortese’s Voice for Ferrante Fans: A Stylometric Study of ‚Neapolitan Chronicles'“
  • Vivó Capdevila, Emilio Pedro: „Idealism, Racism, and Colonialism: Hispanidad in the Francoist Literature on Equatorial Guinea and the Philippines“
  • Farinola, Augustine: „Postphenomenology, Textual Hermeneutics, and the Question of Objectivity“

Tuesday 10.08.2021 – 17:30–19:00 „Audiovisional, multilingual, and multimodal data“

  • Wamprechtshammer, Anna / Arestau, Elena / Isard, Amy: „Generic and discipline-specific approach to the quality of audiovisual, annotated language data in the BMBF Project QUEST“
  • Ngue Um, Emmanuel: „Interfacing low-scale multilingualism in Africa“
  • Utescher, Ronja: „Exploring Referential Relations in Naturally Occurring Multimodal Texts about Historical Buildings“

Thursday 12.08.2021 – 17:30–19:00 „Towards a fuller understanding of medieval texts, text transmission, and intellectual practices“

  • Milazzo, Marta: „Honominy and double names in medieval French romance (12th – 15th centuries)“
  • Cappelli, Chiara: „Critical edition of Roman de Philomena„
  • Moors, Sofie: „Description of my project CONSTRAINED, A Comparative Study of the Influence of Formal Aspects of a Text on the Material Transmission of Middle Dutch Literature“
  • Baneu, Maria Alexandra: „A presentation of the ERC Starting Grant NOTA“

Poster session

  • Ayan, Erdal: „Exploring Institutional Networks of Artists in Kaunas and Survival Kit Biennials“
  • Denis, Iris: „Inauthentic Authority: the Transmission and Reception of Pseudo-Epigraphic Patristic Sermons in Early Medieval Homiliaria Compiled 500-800“
  • Ditmajer, Nina: „Scholarly Digital Edition of the Foglar’s hymn book“
  • Kramarić, Martina: „Retro-digitization and Interpretation of Croatian Grammar Books before Illyrism“
  • Lorenz, Tom-Niklas: „Liturgical Fragments of Medieval Iceland (1056–1402)“
  • Paulino, Joana Vieira: „Digital Humanities Lab – Institute of Contemporary History from NOVA FCSH, Portugal“