Submitted by tomski on 18 October, 2019 - 11:27.
WA Distinguished Professors' Lectures Series features internationally renowned scholars visiting the Faculty of English to share their research and professional expertise with the faculty and students. This time we have the honour to host a world renown linguist, Professor William Kretzschmar (University of Georgia, Athens) who is staying with us as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences. He will deliver a lecture on Digital Humanities for Linguistics and Literature that will take place on October 18 (Friday), 2019, at 11:45 a.m. in Sala Górna, Collegium Heliodori.
Digital Humanities for Linguistics and Literature
by
Professor William Kretzschmar
Friday, October 18, 11:45 a.m.
Sala Górna, Collegium Heliodori
Using computers is not what distinguishes digital humanities from the traditional humanities. Instead, the digital turn of the last few decades has essentially changed what we expect in the humanities, especially for the study of literature and language. This talk will isolate what the properties of digital humanities have come to be, and will discuss how these properties make linguistics and literary study different from the past. The image of the humanities scholar alone in an ivory tower is no longer our model. Instead, we can now pursue a more collaborative pattern in which we make systematic observations and achieve more validatable, more reliable results. Examples from literary study and linguistics will illustrate the changes that digital humanities has achieved.
