Professors Ray Siemens and Graham Jensen are at PUCRS to participate in the 1st Digital Humanities Symposium at PUCRS
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On Wednesday, April 2, the PUCRS Office for International Cooperation welcomed professors from Canada’s University of Victoria (UVic), Ray Siemens and Graham Jensen. The visitors are at PUCRS at the invitation of professor Bernardo Moraes Bueno and will participate in the 1st Digital Humanities Symposium at PUCRS, which represents the consolidation of the partnership with the Laboratory of Digital Humanities, coordinated by the School of Humanities professor.
The professors from the Canadian institution coordinate the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) for over 20 years, considered a reference in the field. Through Capes PrInt, Bueno has already been to the University of Victoria and has an established relationship of collaboration with the researchers.
During their visit to PUCRS, Siemens and Jensen took part in a tour of the Campus, seeing spaces like the Main Library, the Science and Technology Park, and the School of Humanities.
During the 1st Digital Humanities Symposium at PUCRS, which takes places this Thursday, April 3, professor Ray Siemens will deliver the lecture titled The Digital Humanities: Some Approaches and Examples, and professor Graham Jensen presents the lecture called A Multilingual Space for Open, Collaborative Scholarship: The Humanities and Social Sciences Commons. More information about the event at this link.
