DigitalHumanities@Arts.Leuven, February 27-28 2012

The Leuven Arts Faculty hosts a double Digital Humanities event with Professor Andrew Prescott, recently appointed Head of the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College, London. His inaugural lecture, titled "An Electric Current of the Imagination", is available online at http://blogs.cch.kcl.ac.uk/wip/2012/01/26/an-electric-current-of-the-imagination/ (25 January, 2012).

Monday, February 27: Lecture by Andrew Prescott [Justus Lipsiuszaal - Lett. 08.16]

• 16:00: Lecture by Andrew Prescott (King's College) "Steampunk to Qubits: using technology in the Humanities"
• 17:00: Reception

Tuesday, February 28: Workshop and networking exploration [Museumzaal - MSI 02.08]

• 10:00: Presentation by David Skilton (Cardiff) on Humanities & ICT
• 10:30: Cases from the Leuven Arts Faculty
  • Tara Andrews (LECTIO), Digital Methods for investigating trnsmission patterns  of medieval texts
  • Mark Depauw (OE Ancient History / Trismegistos), Digital Platforms for people and records: Ancient Egypt and the Age of Extremes
  • Frank Van Eynde (CCL), CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure)
  • Luc Van Gool (ESAT), Leuven Camera Dome System
  • Bruno Vandermeulen (RICH), Perspectives for IMROD (Imaging Module for Multi-Spectral, Reflectance, or 3D)
  • Jan Baetens (MDRN), Writing Illustration Text
• 11:30: Q&A (with Andrew Prescott as expert chair)
• 12:30: Sandwich lunch with the participants