Text comparison and digital creativity
International Colloquium of the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (VKS-KNAW) and the Turgama Project at Leiden University.
A select company of 15 speakers will present papers on the materiality, authenticity and meaning of text in contemporary digital text scholarship. Following each cluster of presentations there will be time for lively debate.
Keynote speakers at the Colloquium are:
- David Crystal, Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales and a prolific author of books on language, language teaching, linguistics and Shakespearean literature. He is author of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (1990), the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (1995) and How Language Works (2006).
- Bella Hass Weinberg is Professor in Library and Information Science at St John's University and a recognised expert on indexing.
Registration and fees
Attending the Colloquium is subject to available places. Please register for the Colloquium 'Text Comparison and Digital Creativity' Colloquium with the registration form. The cost for the two-day Colloquium, including coffee, tea and lunch for both days, and the Colloquium banquet is EUR 150.
Motivation and further details
Motivation and further details (pdf)
Introduction to the colloquium
Discussion document (pdf): This discussion document targets some of the connections between the colloquium contributions, placing them within a wider framework of contemporary text comparison research and pointing to notable developments.
Programme
Final programme (pdf). This programme is conclusive, any last-minute changes will be reported at the Colloquium. The programme pdf includes links to the abstracts.
Organisers
The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (VKS-KNAW) is a programme of the KNAW that aims to support researchers in the creation of new scholarly practices. Turgama is a research project at Leiden University dealing with the computational analysis of ancient texts.
- Contact
- KNAW, tel. 020-5510747, martine.wagenaar@bureau.knaw.nl
- Locatie en tijd(en)
- KNAW, Kloveniersburgwal 29, 1011 JC Amsterdam