DIGHUMLAB Launch 10 September 2012

To celebrate our launch, we invite you to join with us to explore the many adventures in Digital Humanities taking place in Denmark, in the Nordic region, and across the world. DIGHUMLAB.dk is an ambitious undertaking, for literature scholars, librarians, cartographers, game designers, linguists, journalists and archaeologists are just some of the many disciplines affected by work in the digital humanities and the tools, methods and audiences are growing exponentially in both Denmark and abroad. So your input is needed! We greatly appreciate and look forward to your attendance and involvement, so please bring both your questions and your ideas!

Speakers include:

• Minister for Science, Innovation and Higher Education Morten Østergaard
• Professor Patrik Svensson, HUMlab, Umeå University
• Professor Lorna Hughes, University of Wales Chair in Digital collections, National Library of Wales

Time and place

10 September 2012, from 12.00 to 17.30
Peter Bøgh Andersen Auditorium, Nygaard building
Aarhus University, 8200 Aarhus Denmark

(From central train station, Banegåardspladsen/Park Allé take bus 2A towards Skejby, stop Storcenter Nord).

Program

12.00                   Informal gathering and light food

12.30                   Rector Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen

12.35                   Danish Minister for Science, Innovation and Higher Education, Morten Østergaard

12.50                   Dean of Arts, Aarhus University and Head of DHL Steering Group Mette Thunø:
                           Presentation of Digital Humanities Lab.

13.00                   DIGHUMLAB 1: Professor Bente Maegaard: : Language Tools and CLARIN

13.15                   DIGHUMLAB 2: Professors Niels Ole Finnemann & Niels Brügger: NetLab

13.30                   DIGHUMLAB 3: Professor Johannes Wagner: Interaction and Design Studies

13.45                   Sally Chambers, Secretary General, DARIAH-EU Coordination Office

14.00                   Steven Krauwer, Executive Director, CLARIN ERIC

14.15                   Coffee break

14.30                   Professor Patrik Svensson, HUMlab, Umeå University

15.10                   Professor Lorna Hughes, University of Wales Chair in Digital collections,
                           National Library of Wales

15.50                   Coffee break

16.00                   Associate Professor Palmyre Pierroux, InterMedia, University of Oslo

16.30                   Professor Lily Díaz-Kommonen, Media Lab, Aalto University

17.00                   Open Floor Discussion and questions

17.30                   Light refreshments