CENTRAL is a partnership between five renowned Central European universities, all located in the capitals of their home countries: Berlin, Budapest, Prague, Vienna, and Warsaw.

In person: Room 4.28, Kolingasse 14-16, 1090 Vienna

This workshop brings together a multidisciplinary team of art historians, literary scholars, performance and media studies scholars and historians. It will provide an opportunity to map the digital research landscape in Cultural Studies and Cultural Heritage Studies in the various countries of Central and Central Eastern Europe, a task long overdue in this fragmented field. Scholars with expertise in digital humanities (DH) along with students in various phases of their training will reflect on the status of DH in their respective countries, projects of international relevance and share recent best practices in computational methods. By setting students and doctoral candidates in dialogue with each other and enabling collaborative work, the project encourages the emergence of new projects, in both teaching and in research, with a transnational and transdisciplinary scope. Secondly, the project will address the context of computational methods in Cultural Studies and Cultural Heritage Studies. These include historical reflection on how computer technology and digitalisation has challenged scholarship in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS), in-cluding but not limited to accessibility and research ethics. While potential access to data in-creased, a breakthrough is needed in research and, primarily, in teaching culture that would ena-ble scholars to make use of such possibilities in a digital environment where the abundance and fragmentation of information might easily be a drawback instead of an advantage. This requires a careful investigation of the newly emerging digital methods and their effects for analogue scholar-ship. The project will coordinate cross-disciplinary research agendas aiming to understand the metahistory of digitalisation in Central Europe. 

Preliminary programme

Thursday 17 February 2022

12:00  Lunch; Oasia, Schlickgasse 2, 1090 Wien

13:30 

• Welcome, introduction to the project idea and purpose
• Pitch presentation of research projects (5 minutes each in maximum)
• Roundtable discussion
• Break

15:00  Training session (MAXQDA data analysis: text analysis; own laptop required))

18:00  City Walk and Dinner; Xpedit, Wiesingerstraße 6, 1010 Wien

 

Friday 18 February 2022

10:00  Welcome, introduction to the second day

10:30  Training session (Tara Andrews; digital and computational methods in historical science)

12:00  Lunch; Café Stein, Währinger Straße 6-8, 1090 Wien

13:30  

      • Planning of further steps
      • Take home messages
      • Any other business

15:00  End of meeting

 

Contact person:

Assistant professor Ondřej Daniel, PhD, Charles University, Prague

ondrej.daniel@ff.cuni.cz

CENTRAL partners: 

Dr. Dean Vuletic, Vienna University

dean.vuletic@univie.ac.at 

Dr. Tamás Scheibner, Eötvös Loránd University

scheibner.tamas@btk.elte.hu Workshop participants

Dr. hab. Robert Kulmiński, Warsaw University

r.kulminski@uw.edu.pl Workshop participants

Elisaveta Dvorakk, Humboldt-University Berlin

elisaveta.dvorakk@hu-berlin.d