Conference “New Technologies in Humanities Research”

Tallinn, September 3, 2007

A one day conference, gathering around 100 humanities scholars and national and European administrators responsible for formulating and implementing humanities policies, will be organised in Estonia on September 3rd 2007. The conference is sponsored by the EU FP6 ERA-NET project HERA - Humanities in the European Research Area.
The conference aims to inform the debate on a number of topics relating to the changes in humanities scholarship due to the incorporation of new technologies, e.g. the impact of new technologies on humanities research and the ethical research issues resulting from the use of new technologies.
A PhD students' poster session will be organized during the conference.

Proceedings of the conference will be published and posted on the HERA webpage by the end of the year.

Our conference can be followed online via Internet at mms://media.ttu.ee/avalik or http://media.ttu.ee/avalik.
 

NEW! Conference presentations and videos you can find at (see left meny) -> Programme - presentations and videos

 

About the HERA

HERA - Humanities in the European Research Area - is an EU 6th Framework Programme ERA-NET project aiming at strengthening the European voice in the Humanities. HERA brings together one pan-European and 13 national research funding agencies across Europe in order to coordinate research activities and thereby transcend historical limitations and develop new Europe-wide research agendas.

The main objective of HERA is to ensure that the European Research Area can fully benefit from key contributions consequent on humanities research. Because of the varied and yet essential nature of the field, a Europe-wide structuring initiative is particularly important for attaining such objectives. This aspiration will be accomplished through a number of supporting general objectives:

• to stimulate transnational research cooperation within the humanities
• to enable the humanities to play an appropriate and dynamic role in the ERA and within EU Framework Programmes
• to overcome fragmentation of research in the humanities
• to advance new and innovative collaborative research agendas
• to improve cooperation between a large number of research funding agencies in Europe
• to attract more funding to research in the humanities by raising the profile of the humanities

 

Call for PhD students Poster Session

Working language: English 

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE           

 

Not able to join us in Estonia?   Our conference can be followed online via Internet at mms://media.ttu.ee/avalik or http://media.ttu.ee/avalik.   The second possibility - a virtual conference via Skypecast. Everyone, who is interested in, can ask questions and talk with keynote speakers and participants of the conference. You just need to donwload Skype software and find Skypecast named "HERA Conference"   For free download and more information visit www.skype.com

 

Further information

Please contact by e-mail: margit@archimedes.ee