In times of digitization, internet, and mobile communication, the humanities can build on new, empirically driven methods to gain new insights. What are the implications of this mode of knowledge production for the various disciplines subsumed under the term humanities, their methods and research objects, and for the role the humanities should and could play in society? In times of digitization, internet, and mobile communication, the humanities can build on new, empirically driven methods to gain new insights. But what are the implications of this mode of knowledge production for the various disciplines subsumed under the term humanities, their methods and research objects, and for the role the humanities should and could play in society?
This triad will be the focus of our Herrenhausen Conference “(Digital) Humanities Revisited – Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age“. Together with experts from the various fields of the humanities, the conference would like to facilitate a dialogue between protagonists who embrace digital tools and those following and sustaining more traditional approaches. Amongst others, we would like to discuss the following questions: What kind of knowledge can we expect? What could be lost relying solely on digitally driven methods? What are the opportunities offered by the digital technologies, and what kind of challenges do these developments pose for the humanities?
We invite researchers embracing digital humanities and scholars criticizing the digital tools to reflect on the recent and forthcoming developments, and to deliberate together about the future of the digital humanities.
Information on participating / attending:
We offer Travel Grants for young researchers. Applicants are required to apply until August 15, 2013.
Please register at http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/digitalhumanities
Date:
12/05/2013 14:00 - 12/07/2013 13:30
Registration deadline:
11/15/2013
Event venue:
Schloss Herrenhausen
Herrhäuser Straße 5
30419 Hannover
Niedersachsen
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Art / design, Cultural sciences, Information technology, Language / literature, Media and communication sciences
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
07/04/2013
Sender/author:
Anna Böhning
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event44236
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