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“Culture & Technology” – European Summer University in Digital Humanities

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“Culture & Technology” – European Summer University in Digital Humanities (ESU DH C & T) 28th of July – 07th of August 2015, University of Leipzig http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/

As the application phase closes soon (31st of May 2015) we would like to draw your attention (again) to the various types of support which are available for participants of the European Summer School (see: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/480):
The German Accademic Exchange Service (DAAD) offers very generous support to up to 17 alumni / alumnae of German universities. Also former Erasmus-students or student / researchers of Universities of Applied Science, Art or Music Schools qualify as alumni / alumnae as long as they have spent altogether 3 months of their life at academic institutions in Germany.
The University of Leipzig through its International Centre makes available up to 10 bursaries for members of its Eastern European partner universities.
CLARIN-DE makes available up to 13 fellowships which cover tuition fees. If funding allows an allowance of up to € 200 will be granted to cover costs of living.
The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria (etcl), in conjunction with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute offers up to 5 tuition fellowships for international graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
As ESU DH C & T is a member of the International Digital Humanities Training Network courses taken at the Summer University are eligible for transfer credit towards the University of Victoria Graduate Certificate in DH (http://english.uvic.ca/graduate/digital_humanities.html).

The Summer University takes place across 11 whole days. The intensive programme consists of workshops, public lectures, regular project presentations, a poster session and a panel discussion. The workshop programme is composed of the following thematic strands:
XML-TEI encoding, structuring and rendering
Methods and Tools for the Corpus Annotation of Historical and Contemporary Written Texts
Comparing Corpora
Spoken Language and Multimodal Corpora
Python
Basic Statistics and Visualization with R
Stylometry
Open Greek and Latin
Digital Editions and Editorial Theory: Historical Texts and Documents
Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Building Thematic Research Collections with Drupal
Introduction to Project Management
Each workshop consists of a total of 16 sessions or 32 week-hours. The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 10. Workshops are structured in such a way that participants can either take the two blocks of one workshop or two blocks from different workshops.

The description of all workshops can be found at http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/481 in at least two languages. Short bios in at least two languages are available of most workshop leaders at http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/488.

Applications are considered on a rolling basis. The selection of participants is made by the Scientific Committee together with the experts who lead the workshops.

Participation fees are the same as last year.

The Summer University is directed at 60 participants from all over Europe and beyond. It wants to bring together (doctoral) students, young scholars and academics from the Arts and Humanities, Library Sciences, Social Sciences, Engineering and Computer Sciences as equal partners to an interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and experience in a multilingual and multicultural context and thus create the conditions for future project-based cooperations and network-building across the borders of disciplines, countries and cultures.

The Summer University seeks to offer a space for the discussion and acquisition of new knowledge, skills and competences in those computer technologies which play a central role in Humanities Computing and which determine every day more and more the work done in the Humanities and Cultural Sciences, as well as in publishing, libraries, and archives, to name only some of the most important areas. The Summer University aims at integrating these activities into the broader context of the Digital Humanities, which pose questions about the consequences and implications of the application of computational methods and tools to cultural artefacts of all kinds.

In all this the Summer University aims at confronting the so-called Gender Divide , i.e. the under-representation of women in the domain of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Germany and Europe. But, instead of strengthening the hard sciences as such by following the way taken by so many measures which focus on the so-called STEM disciplines and try to convince women of the attractiveness and importance of Computer Science or Engineering, the Summer University relies on the challenges that the Humanities with their complex data and their wealth of women represent for Computer Science and Engineering and the further development of the latter, on the overcoming of the boarders between the so-called hard and soft sciences and on the integration of Humanities, Computer Science and Engineering.

As the Summer University is dedicated not only to the acquisition of knowledge and skills, but wants also to foster community building and networking across disciplines, languages and cultures, countries and continents, the programme of the Summer School features also communal coffee breaks, communal lunches in the refectory of the university, and a rich cultural programme (thematic guided tours, visits of archives, museums and exhibitions, and communal dinners in different parts of Leipzig).

For all relevant information please consult the Web-Portal of the European Summer School in Digital Humanities “Culture & Technology”: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ which will be continually updated and integrated with more information as soon as it becomes available.

With best regards, Elisabeth Burr
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Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr
Französische / frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft
Institut für Romanistik
Universität Leipzig
Beethovenstr. 15
D-04107 Leipzig
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~burr

Cursos intensivos de idiomas @umnoticias

Servicio de Idiomas de la Universidad de Murcia– CURSOS INTENSIVOS JULIO 2015

Cursos intensivos para JULIO 2015.

– PREINSCRIPCIÓN: Del 20 MAYO al 3 de JUNIO 2015
– MATRÍCULA : Del 17 al 23 de JUNIO 2015 (Según colectivo de acceso)
– Realización curso: Del 29 de JUNIO al 24 de JULIO 2015

Para la PREINSCRIPCIÓN que es obligatoria para todos (CONTINUADORES SIDI y ALUMNOS DE NUEVO INGRESO), debe pinchar sobre el siguiente enlace para REALIZAR PREINSCRIPCIÓN ON-LINE: https://lince.um.es/lince/servlet/um.lince.ControlCursosLince?opcion=idiomas&idioma=I017 seleccionando después el idioma que desee.

Más información en http://www.um.es/idiomas/

Reunión de Consejo de Gobierno 29/05/2015

Reunón del Consejo de Gobienro de la U. de Murcia, 29 de mayo de 2015 a las 9:00 horas en primera convocatoria y media hora más tarde en segunda, en la Sala de Juntas del edificio Convalecencia, que se desarrollará conforme al siguiente

1. Aprobación, si procede, del acta de la sesión anterior, celebrada el día 30 de abril de 2015.

2. Informe del Sr. Rector

3. Aprobación, si procede, e informe de Convenios:

3.1. Tramitados a través de Secretaría General.

3.2. Tramitados a través del Vicerrectorado de Investigación.

4. Aprobación, si procede, de modificación de Reglamento de régimen interno de la Facultad de Química.

5. Aprobación, si procede, de adaptación del calendario académico en las Facultades de Veterinaria, Matemáticas, Informática y Ciencias del Deporte.

6. Aprobación, si procede, de la modificación del Reglamento de reconocimiento de créditos por realización de actividades universitarias (CRAU).

7. Aprobación, si procede, de asuntos varios del Vicerrectorado de Profesorado:

7.1. Sustituciones y bajas de profesorado para el curso 2014-2015.

7.2. Actuaciones en materia de Personal Docente.

7.3. Establecimiento de una prueba de conocimiento específica en pruebas selectivas de PDI contratado, para aquellas áreas que contengan materias de lenguas extranjeras y artes musicales y plásticas.

7.4. Plan de Ordenación Docente del curso 2015/2016.

7.5. Modificación de la valoración en POD de las enseñanzas en red.

7.6. Inclusión del TFG y TFM en la valoración de la actividad del profesorado

7.7. Actualización de los criterios para impartición de másteres.

7.8. Programa de intensificación de la actividad investigadora, mediante incorporación de profesores asociados para el apoyo de la actividad docente, en el marco de proyectos internacionales de investigación.

7.9. Comisiones de selección de plazas de profesorado contratado

7.10. Solicitud de exención de tareas docentes.

7.11. Solicitudes de prórroga de excedencia voluntaria por interés particular con reserva de plaza (Art. 149.3 Estatutos de la Universidad de Murcia)

7.12. Solicitudes de permisos sabáticos especiales.

7.13. Solicitudes de permisos de Personal Docente.

7.14. Solicitud de prórroga de comisión de servicios.

8. Aprobación, si procede, de dispensa de incompatibilidad de matrícula (artículo 94.2 de los

Estatutos de la Universidad de Murcia).

9. Aprobación, si procede, de asuntos varios del Vicerrectorado de Formación e Innovación:

9.1. Cursos de posgrado, cursos, congresos, jornadas y seminarios que se acogen al catálogo de precios públicos.

9.2. Cursos de posgrado, cursos, congresos, jornadas y seminarios que no se acogen a catálogo de precios públicos y propuesta de precios públicos

10. Aprobación, si procede, de asuntos varios del Vicerrectorado de Planificación de Enseñanzas:

10.1. Oferta de enseñanzas para el curso académico 2015-2016.

10.2. Programación Conjunta de Estudios Oficiales de Grado en ADE y Grado en Derecho.

10.3. Criterios de acceso al grupo bilingüe del Grado en Educación Primaria.

10.4. Itinerarios de adaptación a Grados para el curso 2015-2016.

10.5. Supresión de incompatibilidades en el Grado en Estudios Franceses.

10.6. Procedimiento por el que se regula la declaración de equivalencia de los títulos extranjeros de educación superior al nivel académico de Doctor.

10.7. Informe de Másteres Universitarios que inician proceso de extinción.

10.8. Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte.

11. Aprobación, si procede, de asuntos varios de Gerencia:

11.1. Transferencias de crédito (Expedientes 860/2015, 883/2015 y 1016/2015) y propuesta de transferencias de crédito (Expedientes 988/2015, 1017/2015, 1053/2015, 1079/2015, 1137/2015 y 1148/2015).

11.2. Gastos plurianuales:

11.2.1. Modificación del gasto plurianual autorizado con fecha 13/3/2015, el cual financiará el contrato de obras “Aulas y Laboratorios de prácticas de alumnos. Campus Ciencias de la Salud de la Universidad de Murcia”.

11.2.2. Solicitud gasto plurianual para la contratación de “Servicios de comunicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia en 2 lotes. Lote 1:

Telefonía y Lote 2: Enlaces”.

11.2.3. Suministro de energía eléctrica en la Universidad de Murcia mediante precios indexados al pool.

11.3. Actuaciones en materia de Personal de Administración y Servicios.

12. Aprobación, si procede, de las Normas de Ejecución del Presupuesto de la Universidad de

Murcia 2015.

13. Aprobación, si procede, de la modificación de las Instrucciones de Régimen Económico-
Presupuestario de la Universidad de Murcia.

14. Aprobación, si procede, de asuntos varios del Vicerrectorado de Investigación:

14.1. Convocatoria de Ayudas de Iniciación a la Investigación para 2015.

14.2. Convocatoria de Ayudas Complementarias a la Investigación para 2015.

15. Aprobación, si procede, de la propuesta de precios públicos del Colegio Mayor Azarbe correspondientes al curso académico 2015/2016.

16. Ruegos y preguntas.

Adam Kilgarriff: a selection of papers and talks

Some readings to remember one of the most indisputably influential corpus linguists in the 20 and 21st centuries.

Using corpora for language research

https://www.sketchengine.co.uk/documentation/attachment/wiki/AK/Papers/SkE_for_lingResearch2013.ppt?format=raw

Googleology is bad science

http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/Publications/2007-K-CL-Googleology.pdf

Grammar is to meaning as the law is to good behaviour. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 3 (2): 195-198.

http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/Publications/2007-K-CLLT-grammarlaw.doc

English as a medium of instruction, British Council report

emiBCouncil

 

This report presents the findings of a study which attempted to provide an initial picture of the rapidly
growing global phenomenon of English medium instruction (EMI). Our working definition of EMI was:
The use of the English language to teach academic subjects in countries or jurisdictions where the first
language (L1) of the majority of the population is not English.
The study was conducted by EMI Oxford (The Centre for Research and Development in English Medium
Instruction), a centre based in the University of Oxford’s Department of Education. The research
group included Professor Ernesto Macaro, Dr Catherine Walter, Julie Dearden and Ting Zhao.
The study was enabled thanks to the support of the British Council and the data were collected between
October 2013 and March 2014.

The broad aim was to map the size, shape and future trends of EMI worldwide. In order to meet
the challenge of researching a global phenomenon with limited resources it was decided that the
methodology of this initial and unique study would be to ask British Council staff in 60 countries to act
as ‘informed respondents’ for the countries in which they were resident. Open-ended questionnaires were
sent to these respondents and they were asked to provide information on the current state of EMI under
a number of headings. Further information on the methodology used is provided in the main report.
We obtained information on 55 countries.

The main conclusions are:
■ The general trend is towards a rapid expansion of EMI provision.
■ There is official governmental backing for EMI but with some interesting exceptions.
■ Although public opinion is not wholeheartedly in support of EMI, especially in the secondary
phase, the attitudes can be described as ‘equivocal’ or ‘controversial’ rather than being ‘against’ its introduction and/or continued use.
■ Where there are concerns these relate to the potentially socially divisive nature of EMI because
instruction through English may limit access from lower socio-economic groups and/or a fear
that the first language or national identity will be undermined.