Vorlesungen

Jeden Tag findet im Anschluss an die Workshops eine Vorlesung statt, die sich nicht nur an die TeilnehmerInnen der Sommeruniversität richtet, sondern auch für andere AkademikerInnen und für Studierende offen steht. In diesen Vorlesungen sollen thematisiert werden:

• die Auswirkungen der technologischen Entwicklung auf die Geisteswissenschaften und ihren Umgang mit Inhalten und Artefakten,
• das Verhältnis zwischen Geisteswissenschaften, Informatiken und Ingenieurwissenschaften,
• die Vernetzung auf europäischer Ebene, um der von NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen benötigten inter- und transdisziplinären Qualifizierung Rechnung tragen zu können.

Prof. Dr. Tapio Seppänen "Multimedia applications and transdisciplinary cooperation"

Tapio Seppänen ist Professor für Medizinisch orientierte Biotechnologie an der University of Oulu (Finnland). He received his MSc degree in electrical engineering in 1985 and his Doctor of Technology in computer engineering in 1990 from the University of Oulu, Finland. After a few years of postdoc research, he moved on to the Technical Research Centre of Finland and worked there on multimedia systems for six years. In 1999 he went back to the University of Oulu to work as a professor of information technology. Currently he is a professor of biomedical engineering at the same university. He teaches and conducts research on biomedical signal processing and multimedia signal processing. His research topics include cardiovascular signal processing, EEG signal processing, digital watermarking, multimedia processing and pattern recognition applications. He has contributed to more than 350 scientific publications.

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Johannes Schneider "How new Media bring total change to our Libraries"

Ulrich Johannes Schneider ist Professor für Philosophie am Institut für Kulturwissenschaften der Universität Leipzig und Direktor der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig (Deutschland).
Some of his main publications are: Philosophie und Universität: Historisierung der Vernunft im 19. Jahrhundert (Philosophy and University: Historisation of reason in the 19th century), Michel Foucault, Kultur der Kommunikation: Die europäische Gelehrtenrepublik im Zeitalter von Leibniz bis Lessing (Culture of communication: The European „Republic of Scholars“ in the age of Leipzig and Lessing). He is the editor of books like
Seine Welt wissen: Enzyklopädien in der Frühen Neuzeit (To know ones world. Encyclopedias in the early modern times), Kulturen des Wissens im 18. Jahrhundert(Cultures of knowledge in the 18th century), Ein Kosmos des Wissens: Weltschrifterbe in Leipzig  (In Pursuit of Knowledge. 600 Years of Leipzig University).

Prof. Dr. Dino Buzzetti "Digital Humanities: Where do they come from and where are they heading for?"

Dino Buzzetti ist Professor für die Geschichte der mittelalterlichen Philosophie an der Università di Bologna (Italien).
Some years ago he participated in a research project on the teaching of logic in Bologna in the 14th century and the direct study of manuscript textual traditions led him to face the problem of editing medieval texts in digital form. At the same time he began giving courses on the digital representation of historical documents at the newly constituted faculty of the Preservation of the Cultural Heritage in Ravenna and was involved with the activities of the first TEI committee on the encoding of manuscript sources.
Digital text representation and digital editorial practices have been since his main concern in the field of digital humanities and he now teaches a course on humanities computing to philosophy students in Bologna.
Since 2006 he serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. Among his publications, 'Digital Representation and the Text Model,' in New Literary History (2002) and, with Jerome McGann, 'Critical Editing in a Digital Horizon,' in the MLA book, Electronic Textual Editing (2006).

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Eisenecker "Humanities and Computer Science: A Personal View"

Ulrich Eisenecker ist Professor für Softwareentwicklung für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung an der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Leipzig (Deutschland). Before he was professor for computer science at the Universities of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern (location Zweibrücken) and Heidelberg. He spent nearly a decade in industry,  notably Mannesman Kienzle and Daimler-Benz. Beyond software development he is interested in cooperations between research and industry and cross-discipline research.