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Digital Humanities

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 Photo: Petrus Apianus, Astronomicum caesareum, Ingolstadt, 1540, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cologny, Copy digitsed at the Bodmer Lab.

 

The Digital Humanities combine the latest technology with research in the humanities and social sciences, bringing together subjects such as literature, history and the visual arts with computing research. This interdisciplinary area of study equips scholars in the Humanities with innovative and efficient research tools. It provides a means of transmitting knowledge through the web and offers new approaches to interactive and collaborative projects involving multiple people, institutions and fields.

The University of Geneva has launched a number of major projects in the Digital Humanities. According to an initial study on the impact of this area of study on the University (March 2013), projects have involved subjects such as historical cartography and travel literature, the medical humanities, e-learning, computational linguistics, art history, archaeology, online publishing and the creation of relational databases for historical and interdisciplinary archives. The Digital Humanities are also of interest to study groups working with new interactive teaching methods, such as the blended learning method.

You can find out more about some of our current projects below. If you’re leading a project in the Digital Humanities within our faculty, you can publish a summary of your research or results on our website (go to “Contact” and send us an abstract).

 

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