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DIGITAL HUMANITIES: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES<BR>
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TUESDAY 22 MARCH 2011, 11.30AM-1PM,<BR>
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY<BR>
HEDLEY BULL LECTURE THEATRE (HB 1)<BR>
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Two leading international figures in the digital humanities discuss future<BR>
research directions in this ground-breaking field.<BR>
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Sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, in association with<BR>
the National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. This free<BR>
event is open to the public. No booking required.<BR>
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Professor Ray Siemens (University of Victoria, Canada)<BR>
'Enacting a Vision for the Future of Digital Humanities'<BR>
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Dr Patrik Svensson (Umeå University, Sweden)<BR>
'The Digital Humanities as a Trading Zone'<BR>
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RAY SIEMENS is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor<BR>
of English at the University of Victoria with cross appointment in Computer<BR>
Science. Editor of several renaissance texts and founding editor of the<BR>
journal Early Modern Literary Studies, he has written numerous articles on<BR>
computational methods and literary studies and is co-editor of Blackwell’s<BR>
Companion to Digital Humanities and Companion to Digital Literary Studies.<BR>
Chair, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations’ Steering Committee, he<BR>
is also incoming Vice President of the Canadian Federation for the<BR>
Humanities and Social Sciences.<BR>
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PATRIK SVENSSON is Director of HUMlab at Umeå University, Sweden, where he<BR>
is Senior Lecturer in humanities and information technology. He is author<BR>
and editor of books in English and Swedish including on language education,<BR>
linguistics and digital technology. Svensson has a long-term interest in the<BR>
intersections between technology, learning, collaboration, innovation and<BR>
creativity in the humanities. His recent articles in Digital Humanities<BR>
Quarterly, OHumanities Computing as Digital Humanities’ and OThe Landscape<BR>
of Digital Humanities’, survey the international field.<BR>
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ENQUIRIES Email paul.arthur@anu.edu.au or kylie.brass@humanities.org.au,<BR>
Phone 02 6125 2676</SPAN></FONT>
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