Lectures

Every day after the close of the workshops a lecture directed not only at the participants of the Summer School, but also at other academics and students will be given. These lectures will revolve around topics like

• the impact of the technological development on the Humanities and their dealing with contents and artefacts,
• the relationship between the Humanities, Computer science and Engineering,
• the creation of European networks in order to be able to face the needs of young scholars for inter- and trans-disciplinary qualifications

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

Tapio Seppänen 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 is the director of Leipzig University Library and Professor of Philosophie at the Institute for Cultural Studies of Leipzig Universiy.
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 is an historian of philosophy and teaches Medieval philosophy at the University of Bologna. 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 is a member of the Faculty of Economics and Management Science of the University of Leipzig, where he is the chair of information systems/software engineering at the Information Systems Institute. 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.