Digital Humanities

The course aims to introduce the transversal and interdisciplinary field of Digital humanities and the methods and tools in this area available today to scholars in many different fields of the Humanities. After an initial historical framework on the characteristics and purposes of digital humanities, the course will focus in particular on the phases of data acquisition, management and return. National and international research projects will be examined.
[If useful, during the lessons, some experts may be invited to talk about specific matters].

The course aims to provide participants with an as organic as possible framework of Digital humanities. Starting from an initial frame that reconstructs the birth of this interdisciplinary field and the debate about its autonomous status, not always and not everywhere recognized, some areas of humanistic research will be examined which can draw inspiration for renewal from the application of IT tools and methods. Particular emphasis will be given to the acquisition, representation, management and output of data, also using a review of the numerous research projects and tools existing in Italy and abroad.
At the end of the course the participants will be able to consciously orient themselves in the complex of Digital humanities and to imagine possible applications according to the disciplinary sectors.
The teaching tools used will be various: slides, videos, personal readings, projects planning. Depending on the organizational needs, some lessons can be modulated as seminars with expert scholars called to dialogue in the classroom with the teacher and, above all, with the students.
Taking into account the character of the course, the comparison with the teacher must be continuous and constant.
Non-attending students will be able to use the tools made available by the teacher and to deepen the main topics through specific readings agreed with the teacher with which they will, of course, interact in the most appropriate ways (reception, exchange of e-mail messages, calls via Skype or other similar tools, etc.).