(Digital) Humanities Revisited – Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age”!
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DEAR PARTICIPANTS! On behalf of the Volkswagen Foundation I am pleased to welcome you to our Herrenhausen Conference on “(Digital) Humanities Revisited – Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age”! As the largest private research funder in Germany we would like to establish our Herrenhausen Conferences as a platform for a lively and inspiring dialogue on timely and socially relevant research questions. There can be no doubt that the Digital Age poses a lot of challenges for the Humanities while by the same token offering manifold opportunities. We are very much looking forward to discussing the implications of the new, empirically driven 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. What kind of knowledge can we expect? What could be lost when relying solely on digitally driven methods? And what could be gained? It is our goal to bring together protagonists who embrace digital tools and those following and sustaining more traditional approaches, and we very much hope for a lively exchange of views and ideas between both parties. Our conference program allows ample time for discussion, and we offer workshops on December 6 to debate these issues in more detail. Please join the debate! To foster an exchange, we will summarize the conference in a report that will also be made available to the research community at large after the conference. Dear participants! It is a pleasure to have you here in Hanover, and to welcome you to Herrenhausen Palace. I do look forward to interesting debates on the challenges and opportunities of the Digital Age. Yours sincerely, Wilhelm Krull Secretary General, Volkswagen Foundation DECEMBER 5-7, 2013 (DIGITAL) HUMANITIES REVISITED – THURSDAY DECEMBER 5, 2013 CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES 2:00 P.M. WORDS OF WELCOME IN THE DIGITAL AGE AUDITORIUM Wilhelm Krull, Secretary General, Volkswagen Foundation HERRENHAUSEN CONFERENCE 2:15 P.M. KEYNOTE HERRENHAUSEN PALACE, HANOVER, GERMANY KNOWLEDGE DESIGN Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Harvard University PROGRAM 3:00 P.M. SESSION 1 DIGITAL HUMANITIES – WHAT KIND OF KNOWLEDGE CAN WE EXPECT? CHAIR Gerhard Lauer, University of Göttingen THE BIG DEAL ABOUT BIG DATA Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, University of Oxford LOSS AND GAIN ARE BROTHERS TWAIN: LARGE-SCALE TEXT PROCESSING FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES Iryna Gurevych, Technical University Darmstadt, German Institute for Educational Research, Frankfurt FROM RECORDING THE PAST TO PREDICTING THE FUTURE? ON THE ROLE AND RELEVANCE OF LINGUISTIC ABSTRACTION FOR CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS Detmar Meurers, University of Tübingen All academic titles have been omitted. We will offer simultaneous translation from German to English. FRIDAY DECEMBER 6, 2013 VISUAL ANALYTICS FOR THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES: 9:00 A.M. SESSION 2 COMBINING ANALYTICS AND VISUALIZATIONS FOR GAINING AUDITORIUM FROM ART TO DATA – WHAT’S THE IMPACT OF GOING DIGITAL? INSIGHTS INTO LINGUISTIC DATA CHAIR Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt University Berlin Daniel A. Keim, University of Konstanz LOOKING AT ONE MILLION IMAGES: HOW VISUALIZATION OF BIG 5:00 P.M. COFFEE BREAK CULTURAL DATA HELPS US TO QUESTION OUR CULTURAL CATEGORIES FOYER Lev Manovich, City University of New York 5.45 P.M. COMMENTING STATEMENTS ART, DATA, AND FORMALISM AUDITORIUM Thomas Anz, Philipps-University Marburg Julia Flanders, Northeastern University Horst Bredekamp, Humboldt University Berlin 10:00 A.M. COFFEE BREAK 6.30 P.M. LIGHTNING TALKS FOYER 7.15 P.M. POSTER SESSION 10:45 A.M. LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE HUMANITIES: FOYER AND APERITIF AUDITORIUM THE CHALLENGE OF TEXT UNDERSTANDING Manfred Pinkal, Saarland University 8.00 P.M. CONFERENCE DINNER FESTSAAL CHALLENGES AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN DIGITAL MUSIC STUDIES Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Stanford University 12:00 P.M. LUNCH FESTSAAL SATURDAY DECEMBER 7, 2013 1:30 P.M. WORKSHOPS 9:00 A.M. SESSION 3 SEMINAR ROOMS AUDITORIUM DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND THE PUBLIC CHAIR Hubertus Kohle, University of Munich 3:00 P.M. LIGHTNING TALKS AUDITORIUM Luis von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon University 3:50 P.M. POSTER SESSION STANDARD LICENSES AS A PATCH, BUT NOT A FIX FOYER AND COFFEE BREAK TO A COPYRIGHT SYSTEM UNSUITABLE FOR THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES John H. Weitzmann, Creative Commons Germany, iRights.Lab 4:40 P.M. PRESENTATION OF THE WORKSHOP RESULTS / PLENARY DISCUSSION THE HUMANITIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY Gregory R. Crane, Leipzig University 5:45 P.M. DINNER FESTSAAL 10:30 A.M. LIGHTNING TALKS 7:00 P.M. PUBLIC DISCUSSION 11:15 A.M. POSTER SESSION AUDITORIUM FÜR ALLE, VON ALLEN UND VOR ALLEM JEDERZEIT – FOYER AND COFFEE BREAK KULTUR IM DIGITALEN ZEITALTER (in German, translation to English available) DISCUSSANTS Bettina Wagner-Bergelt, Bavarian State Ballet Mercedes Bunz, Leuphana University Lüneburg Peter Weibel, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Jürgen Kaube, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung HOST Jürgen-M. Edelmann, Deutschlandradio Kultur 12:15 P.M. CLOSING PANEL DISCUSSION SPEAKERS & DISCUSSANTS AUDITORIUM Christoph Cornelißen, University of Frankfurt; Member of the DFG Senate Gregory R. Crane, Leipzig University THOMAS ANZ Manfred Nießen, German Research Foundation (DFG) HORST BREDEKAMP HOST CHRISTOPH CORNELISSEN Wilhelm Krull, Secretary General, Volkswagen Foundation GREGORY R. CRANE JULIA FLANDERS 1:30 P.M. LUNCH AND END OF CONFERENCE IRYNA GUREVYCH FESTSAAL DANIEL A. KEIM LEV MANOVICH VIKTOR MAYER-SCHÖNBERGER DETMAR MEURERS MANFRED NIESSEN MANFRED PINKAL JEFFREY T. SCHNAPP ELEANOR SELFRIDGE-FIELD LUIS VON AHN JOHN H. WEITZMANN THOMAS ANZ HORST BREDEKAMP PHILIPPS-UNIVERSITY MARBURG HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY BERLIN Thomas Anz, born 1948, studied modern German literature, linguistics and Horst Bredekamp, born 29 April 1947 in Kiel, Germany, studied art history, ar- sociology. He was awarded a doctorate in 1976, and in 1987 submitted his chaeology, philosophy and sociology in Kiel, Munich, Berlin and Marburg, where post doctoral dissertation in Munich. From 1990 till 1998 he was Professor for he received his Ph.D. in 1974. Since 1993 he has been a tenured Professor of Modern German Literature and Literature Communication in Bamberg. In 1998 Art History at the Humboldt University of Berlin and a permanent fellow of the he was appointed Professor for Modern German Literature in Marburg. From Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin). Among 2004 till 2007 he acted as Chairperson of the Deutscher Germanistenverband his awards are the Sigmund Freud Award from the German Academy for Lan- (Association of experts in German Area Studies). In winter semester 2009/10 guage and Poetry in Darmstadt, Germany (2001), the Aby M. Warburg Award Anz was a visiting professor in the excellence cluster Languages of Emotion at from the City of Hamburg, Germany (2005), and the Fritz-Winter Prize (2012). the Free University of Berlin. Main research interests: literary modernity, con- He is a member of several European academies and founder of the department temporary literature, history of literature, history of medicine, and post-18th “The Technical Image” at the Hermann von Helmholtz Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, century history of psychology, psychological esthetics, theory of Literature, and Berlin as well as The Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Em- literature critique. Since 1999 he is editor of the online journal literaturkritik.de, bodiment, Berlin. Among his numerous publications on pictorial scienceis his which he founded, and leader of the TransMIT-Zentrums für Literaturvermitt- “Theorie des Bildakts” (2010). lung in den Medien. He edited Handbuch Literaturwissenschaft (3 volumes), which appeared in 2007. CHRISTOPH CORNELISSEN GREGORY R. CRANE UNIVERSITY OF FRANKFURT LEIPZIG UNIVERSITY Christoph Cornelißen is Professor for Contemporary History (history of Europe Gregory Crane is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Digital Humanities at the since 1918) at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M.; previously Professor for Mo- University of Leipzig. He also teaches Classics at Tufts University. He has been dern and Contemporary History at the University of Kiel (2003-11) and the Uni- engaged in the applications – and implications – of digital technologies for versity of Düsseldorf (2011). Among the many offices he holds, he is Co-Chair- the study of the past since 1982. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Perseus man of the German-Czech and German-Slovakian Commission of Historians Digital Library. and a member of the Senate and Central Committee of the German Research Foundation. His most recent publications include: (as editor) Geschichtswis- THE HUMANITIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY senschaft im Geist der Demokratie. Wolfgang J. Mommsen und seine Generation, We have only just begun to process the shift from print to digital technologies – Berlin 2010; Il decennio rosso. Contestazione sociale e conflitto politico in Ger- we live very much in an incunabular society where our practices in a digital mania e in Italia negli anni Sessanta e Settanta (co-editors Brunello Mantelli space still often reflect the limitations and possibilities of a print world. In such and Petra Terhoeven), Mailand (Il Mulino) 2012. a world, to speak of Digital Humanities can be deceptive and deeply problematic, for the term can be used to isolate digital phenomena in a separate niche where it is distinct from, and may even appear marginal to, the rest of the Humanities. In fact, we all live in a digital world and all students of human literature, art, music, and culture must rethink from the ground up how we can now advance the lived intellectual life of society. How do we propose to deepen our understan- ding of the human record, to educate one another, and to disseminate our ideas? How can we better realize our obligations to society? We need a new culture of learning, one that integrates traditional, humanistic, humane, and human interactions between people with every useful technology and method available to us. We need a society that fosters life-long learners hungry to understand not only their own but all human cultures. 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