The 8th International Summer School on Digital Humanities has been opened at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University on the topic: "Digital Kartvelology and Caucasiology". In the course of one-week school, Georgian and foreign professors have been delivering lectures on digital Kartvelology and Caucasiology as a new direction and theoretical framework, as well as on modern research methods and tools necessary for creating multidisciplinary resources.
Within the framework of the summer school, an international workshop on Documentary and Corpus linguistics has been held. The training is led by European expert Jost Gippert, director of the Empirical Linguistics Department, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, German, and Diana Forker, professor at the University of Jena and Head of the Department of Caucasus Studies
and others.
One of the highlights of the event is the presentations of the BSU ongoing projects "Digital Archives of Linguoculturology" and "Tao".
About 50 undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students from various universities of Georgia, USA, France, UK, Germany, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, are participating in the summer school.
In the practical block, the students will prepare and present certification presentations, which will be assisted by experienced tutors.
8th International Summer School is financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of Ajara AR and is jointly organized by the Digital Humanities Center at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University and the Empirical Linguistics Department at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
| Back |
