Why do we need Digital Humanities?

15th Decembre 2014 at 5 pm for invitation PhD Wioletty Miskiewicz (visiting professor of University of Warsaw/ CNRS) PhD Sophie David from CNRS gived a lecture titled: Why do we need Digital Humanities?

Monday 15^th December at 5 pm

UW Main Campus, Old Mathematic Centre building, lounge 106.

26/28 Nowy Świat Street, Warsaw

 In the first part of my presentation, I will talk about my professional experience, where I will demonstrate that two aspects, both meeting people and also chance have been at least as important as training and scientific interest when one wants to find meaning in a career. In the second part, I will try to pinpoint the main dates and decisions which have structured French policies about digital infrastructures for Social and Human Sciences. Although the landscape is complex, major achievements have also been made. And in the third part, I will present the very beginning of a piece of my research, which focuses on the notion of research objects and tries to document what is new when Humanities got digital. I will use some linguistic properties of the “object” type in order to build an observatory where different projects from different disciplines (Linguistic, Archaeology, History, etc.) can be compered. I will show what properties are especially affected with digital use.~ Sophie David

Sophie David – has been a tenured CNRS researcher (in linguistics) since 1992. Her research focusses on lexical semantics and Natural Language Processing. From 2003 to 2008, she was the deputy director of MoDyCo, ad she worked at the Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin) as a project coordinator (2008-2010). In January 2011, she joined the TGE Adonis, now Huma-Num, where she is the head of the international department. She is involved in different European Projects and particularly in DARIAH (www.dariah.eu; www.dariah.fr), for which she has worked on various (legal, financial, organisational and scientific) aspects regarding the establishment of DARIAH ERI. She is the National Coordinator for France and has several responsibilities at the DARIAH level.

A lecture was a part of series lecture, conference and workshops titled: Digital Humanities: Project, People, Theory organised by DELab UW.