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Nerea Fernández Cadenas is PhD candidate at the University of León in Spain. Her PhD research focuses on the so-called “numeric and illustrated Visigothic slates” and their possible relationship to rural contexts in Late Antiquity. This Thesis is being funded by the Spanish Government (FPU 16/06932).

She is also teaching classes in subjects related to Late Antiquity in which she is applying digital tools. As a result of this interest, she has published some research and giving talks about Digital Humanities and teaching.

The Society for the Medieval Mediterranean has given to her the opportunity of developing this Webinar about Digital Humanities, thanks to its annual “Simon Barton Postgraduate & ECR Conference Prize” which promotes grants to assist postgraduate students and early-career researchers with the financing of small conferences, symposia and workshops.

Contact details:

Twitter account: @Nereavsk

Email: nferc@unileon.es

Has a degree in History from the University of León and a Master's degree in Prehistory and Archeology from the University of Cantabria. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of León. His doctoral research, which is based on Archaeozoology, focused on the analysis of faunal assemblages of Roman period (I BC - III AD) at the site of Ad Legionem (León, Spain). Through this science, we can better understand the modifications and changes produced by the arrival of the Romans to the Iberian Peninsula and the relationship of human populations with the environment in different chronologies.

He has participated in several archaeological interventions with different universities. He has also published articles related to Prehistory and has been part for three years in the organizing committee of the "Congreso Internacional Mundo Hispánico" at University of León.

This Webinar about Digital Humanities gives us the chance to consolidate our academic career and to present the Human Sciences as an engine of social change and a link between the different disciplines that comprise them.

Has a degree in Information Science from the University Carlos III of Madrid. She completed her doctorate on “Knowledge Management and Transfer in the Organizations” and is currently writing her doctoral dissertation on the role of the academic library in digital humanities. She is in charge of the Library of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters in University of Leon from 2005, although she has been performing her activity in the field of archives and libraries for more than nine years. She takes part in the design and implementation of the open and institutional digital archive and she lectures on electronic resources and Open Access initiatives to university teaching staff

Contact details:

Email: buffl@unileon.es