[Antiquitas] Fwd: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] New Courses on Digital Philology at the University of Leipzig with student assistantships available

[Marja Vierros]

Hei,

huomio jatko-opiskelijat!

Yt,
Marja Vierros


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     Lähettäjä: Gregory Crane <gregory.crane at tufts.edu>
Vastausosoite: The Digital Classicist List <DIGITALCLASSICIST at jiscmail.ac.uk>
       Otsikko: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] New Courses on Digital Philology  
at the University of Leipzig with student assistantships available
Vastaanottaja: DIGITALCLASSICIST at jiscmail.ac.uk

Dear All,

We particularly hope that students who want to help advance the study  
of Greek and Latin in a digital, globalized world will consider coming  
to Leipzig for a semester or an academic year. There are a lot of  
exciting developments for Classics and for the Humanities, but the  
reinvention and restoration of philology can be viewed as a radical  
step, an assertion of deeply traditional values and transnational  
citizenship. If you are just starting out, you can develop skills to  
help a department thrive for the rest of your career. It is a great  
time to study Greek and Latin and to become a philologist and to help  
the textual record play its role in bringing the ancient world to life.

Greg Crane
Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Digital Humanities
Department of Computer Science
University of Leipzig

Professor of Classics
Tufts University


  New Courses on Digital Philology at the University of Leipzig

*October 2013 – January 2014: /Overview of Digital Philology/ (5 credits)*

*April – July 2014: /Current Topics in Digital Philology/ (10 credits)*

*[Please re-circulate]*

*Research assistantships for enrolled students are available to  
students enrolled in these classes  
<http://cts.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/job-opportunities/>*

The Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig  
is developing a sequence of English-language courses on digital  
philology that will begin in the Wintersemester and Sommersemester of  
the 2013/2014 academic year. The courses may be taken in sequence or  
individually. We particularly encourage participation by graduate  
students, not only from Leipzig but from elsewhere in Europe and  
beyond, who are preparing to begin careers as researchers, teachers or  
library professionals. A semester or an academic year at Leipzig can  
help you transform your career and to acquire the skills by which you  
can flourish in an intensively network, profoundly global intellectual  
world.

These courses are particularly unusual in that they are offered within  
a Computer Science department and provide students with an opportunity  
to connect more directly with experts in advanced technologies than is  
often feasible. Germany also is unusual in that Computer Science and  
the Humanities are both instances of /Wissenschaft/ — we do not face  
the boundaries between funding for research in the Humanities and in  
Computer Science that many in the English-speaking world face. If you  
wish to acquire the full range of skills needed for both teaching and  
research, these courses in this environment provide you with an  
excellent space in which to develop.

*Note:* particularly promising students enrolled in these classes will  
have an opportunity to work as research assistants, where they can  
apply the skills that they acquire in their classes. We particularly  
encourage ambitious students from outside Leipzig to consider this  
option to help support their stay.

An /Overview of Digital Philology/ (5 credits, Wintersemester)  
provides students with programming skills needed to work with text in  
a digital age. We particularly focus upon the integration of methods  
from computational and especially corpus linguistics, both of which  
fields are fundamental to the study of language and critical to all  
who wish to develop flourishing careers as teachers and researchers in  
philology. The course is organized so that students can also take /the  
Leipzig eHumanities Seminar/ (5 credits). In 2013, the course will  
focus particularly upon familiarizing students with XML and with the  
use of associated technologies (e.g., xslt, xquery).

While students who have taken the Overview of Digital Philology will  
be able to build on their knowledge in developing course projects, the  
Sommersemester course, /Current Topics in Digital Philology/ (10  
credits, Sommersemester), is open to anyone with advanced experience  
in either computer science or philology. Current Topics in Digital  
Philology provides a framework within which students of language from  
various backgrounds can develop projects informed by new advances in  
corpus and computational linguistics and in the digital humanities. In  
2014, students will develop skills in the use of Python to work with  
richly annotated linguistic corpora and then use these skills in  
course projects.

*Contact: teaching at e-humanities.net*

  [Please re-circulate]

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-- 
Dr. Marja Vierros
Visiting Research Scholar 2012-2013
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (NYU)
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New York, NY 10028


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Kreikan kieli ja kirjallisuus / Greek language and literature
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