New Paths in Digital Humanities with Fulbright Visiting Scholar Tamás Scheibner, Hungary


 Humanities Center     May 30 2019 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Langson Library Room 228

New Paths in Digital Humanities: Connecting Research, Teaching and the Market in a European Flagship Project

The COURAGE portal (http://cultural-opposition.eu/), which features an intelligent living database that describes and connects collections of counterculture and non-conformism under Communism in Eastern Europe, has received outstanding critical acclaim in Europe for its complex services for researchers, educators, archives and SMEs. Showcasing COURAGE will present pioneering practices that open new possibilities for the Humanities in professional community building, research database and learning platform development, and addressing the needs of the private sector that could potentially lead to investments in the Humanities.

Tamás Scheibner is currently a Fulbright Fellow at the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is an Assistant Professor in Literary and Cultural Studies at the ELTE University of Budapest, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of History at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Over the past three years, he was a leading researcher and investigator of the COURAGE project. His first book was about socialist realism in Hungary, and cultural Stalinization after the Second World War. His new book project concerns the history of Comparative Literature in the context of Cold War cultural diplomacy.