Hi
Yasmin and I are very interested in this summer school.
I think we can go, if there is funding for 3th world researchers.
Did ADHO has this kind of suport?
Your
Luis
On 3/15/15, Alex Gil <colibri.alex@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> Heather asked me to pass this around to our group. They will love
> applications from all over the world.
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> From: heather froehlich <hfroehlich.mailinglist@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:08 AM
> Subject: Call for participants: Lancaster Summer School in Corpus Methods
> for the Humanities
> To: globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca
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> *Lancaster Summer School in Corpus Methods for the
> Humanitieshttp://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/summerschool/humanities.php
> <http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/summerschool/humanities.php>Lancaster University,
> UK14th to 17th July 2015 *
> quantitative results to qualitative analysis; Foundational techniques -> Call for Participation
>
> We are pleased to announce the first Lancaster Summer School in Corpus
> Methods for the Humanities. This free-to-attend summer school is taught by
> an interdisciplinary group of Lancaster University scholars from
> departments including History, English and Creative Writing, Linguistics
> and English Language, and Computing and Communications.
>
> Across the Arts and Humanities, a number of parallel trends are developing
> new methods, especially digital methods, for reading text and texts. We see
> this in the form of the Digital Humanities enterprise, but also in renewed
> interest in different forms of Distant Reading.
>
> Thus there exists a growing need for advanced digital-methods training for
> Arts and Humanities researchers. Meanwhile, a set of effective tools and
> techniques have been developed within the discipline of Corpus Linguistics
> which can answer this methodological need, allowing jointly
> qualitative-quantitative analyses which go beyond statistical summary to a
> critical engagement with text and context.
>
> The Lancaster Summer School in Corpus Methods for the Humanities has been
> inaugurated to help explore and extend the benefits of these approaches for
> researchers, particularly PhD students and other junior researchers, in
> arts and humanities fields.
>
> Programme
>
> The programme consists of a series of intensive two-hour sessions, some
> involving practical work, others more discussion-oriented.
>
> Topics include: : Introduction to corpus linguistics; Corpus tools and
> techniques; Collecting corpus data; Foundational techniques - linking
> keywords; Foundational techniques - collocation; Studying social history
> with corpora - prostitution in the 17th century; Using corpora in early
> modern Literary Studies; Spelling variation - problems, analysis and
> solutions; Studying conceptual history using EEBO-TCP; Exploring
> Shakespeare's language with corpus techniques.
>
> Speakers include, Alison Findlay, Stephen Pumfrey, Jonathan Culpeper, Ian
> Gregory, and Tony McEnery.
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> This is one of five co-located Lancaster Summer Schools in
> Interdisciplinary Digital Methods; see the website for further information:
>
> http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/summerschool
>
> Who can attend?
>
> This event is aimed at junior humanities researchers - especially PhD
> students and postdoctoral researchers. Anyone with an interest in the
> analysis of large-scale textual resources - will find this summer school of
> interest.
>
> How to apply
>
> The Summer School is free to attend, but registration in advance is
> compulsory, as places are limited.
>
> The deadline for registrations is Sunday 7th June 2015.
>
> The application form is available on the event website:
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> http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/summerschool/register.php#humanities
>
> as is further information on the programme.
>
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Luis Rondón Paz
www.cartacuba.net
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