Date:
Monday November 4, 2002

Location:
Residencia de Estudiantes

Coordinator:
José Antonio Millán

Organize:
Residencia de Estudiantes
Fundación Francisco Giner de los Ríos [Institución Libre de Enseñanza]

Contribute:
Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Information Society, Ministry of Science and Technology.

Humanists throughout the centuries had made a wise use of available technology such as printing, and correspondence, typography or indexing.

Our era has seen the advent of digital texts and images. Computers allow us to explore and connect them, and telecommunications facilitate its dissemination and consultation. But, what traces is this new situation leaving in the work of philosophers and philologists? What can the experts in art and history expect from it? In a word: what do computers contribute to the Humanities?

"The digital humanist" is a new line of action of the Residencia de Estudiantes in collaboration with Fundación Francisco Giner de los Rios [Institución Libre de Enseñanza]. It opens with this informative seminar on trends and outcomes for teaching and for research.

With examples from a wide range of disciplines and the participation of international experts, this seminar is an introduction to a field new to many people but decades old.