Summer School 2027 to appear soon
Summer School “Digital tools for Humanists” 2027
In the frame of the Summer Schools organized by the University of Pisa, under the direction of the “Laboratorio di Cultura Digitale” (Laboratory for Digital Culture, see site in Italian), the tenth edition of the Summer School “Digital Tools for Humanists” will be held in Pisa from May 24 to May 29 2027, both in presence and online via Microsoft Teams.
The School is addressing all those interested in getting basic and working knowledge of some of the digital tools available today to scholars in many different fields of the Humanities. Given the success of the 2026 edition and the continued relevance of the topics covered, the 2027 edition will focus again on basic tools for Natural Language Processing (NLP), Digital Philology, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and the use of AI in those fields.
“AI tools accelerate the analysis and interpretation of large textual and historical corpora in NLP and digital philology, revealing linguistic patterns, semantic relationships and historical insights. In GIS, they enhance the integration and analysis of textual and spatial data, enabling the discovery of geographical patterns and the visualization of historical changes.”
The paragraph above is the new (2026) answer of ChatGPT (without any editing) to the prompt “summarize in two sentences the advantages and benefits of using AI tools in the fields of NLP, digital philology and GIS”. It really captures the essence of the use of AI in those fields, and hopefully some of those benefits will become more apparent during the School.
The School will maintain its character of being “practice oriented”, and all the afternoons will be dedicated to hands-on laboratories. The minimum requirement for enrolling in the School is a Bachelor degree, in any discipline. Graduate students and professionals in the Humanities, such as PhD students, librarians, teachers, researchers, archivists are the perspective participants of the School. In order to get the maximum benefit from the School, it is recommended to all attendees to bring their own Personal Computer. No specific pre-requisites are requested, except for some familiarity in the use of computers and, of course, a good interest in Digital Humanities.
Digital Tools for Humanists – Fundamentals and AI will be held from May 24 to May 29 (go to program). The registration fee for attending the School is 500 Euros (go to registration procedure). Italian school teachers may use the Carta del Docente to cover part of the registration fee. The School is registered on the Sofia platform. The University of Pisa, upon request, will issue a certificate of 3 credits (ECTS, the European Credit Transfer System). It will be the responsibility of the attendees to have this certificate recognized at their own Institution.
The School is under the auspices of CLARIN-IT, the Italian node of CLARIN, the ERIC Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure, aiming to make digital language resources available to scholars, researchers, students and citizen-scientists from all disciplines, especially in the humanities and social sciences, through single sign-on access.
The School is also under the auspices of AIUCD, the Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Culture, of AIPH, the Italian Association od Public History and of CISPH, the Interuniversity Centre for Research and Development of Public History
The number of participants at the Schools is limited, and registrations will be accepted until there are available seats.
DEADLINE: April 14th 2027