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Conference Session Call for Papers: Markup as Theory of the Text (Final Call)
by Herdsman Caedmon 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

(apologies for cross posting) Call for papers, Markup as theory of text. TEI Members Meeting, 1-3 November, 2007, University of Maryland. http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/events/teiconference/index.html This session will look at digital markup from the point of view of its underlying theoretical assumptions and implications. Some questions we are interested in considering: 1) What are the theoretical implications of digital markup for editors, paleographers, book historians, literary critics, linguists, etc. Are they different from, similar to, or of a completely different order from previous print practice? 2) Are markup schemas theories of the structure of a text in the way that linguistic theories are theories of language or literary theories are theories about literature? Do they/should they have theoretical lives of their own? 3) Does electronic markup change the way we look at text? We are open to other understandings of the topic and papers do not need to concentrate specifically, exclusively, or at all on the TEI. They can be broad ranging or concentrate on specific smaller issues. Please email abstracts to daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca by March 30th. -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Chair, Text Encoding Initiative <http://www.tei-c.org/> Director, Digital Medievalist Project <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> Associate Professor and Chair of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox: +1 403 329 2378 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 Homepage: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Department Chair and Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Chair, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/ Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox +1 403 329-2377 Fax +1 403 382-7191 Email: daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca WWW: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Chair, Text Encoding Initiative <http://www.tei-c.org/> Director, Digital Medievalist Project <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> Associate Professor and Chair of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox: +1 403 329 2378 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 Homepage: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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DM Election Results
by Dot Porter 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Dear All, I am very pleased to welcome the following colleagues to the Digital Medievalist Executive Board: *Arianna Ciula, King's College London *Dan O'Donnell, University of Lethbridge *Peter Robinson, University of Birmingham *Torsten Schassan, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel There were 26 total votes, or 8% of the DM listserv membership. The slate was strong and the election was quite close. Thanks very much to all the candidates and to these individuals for being willing to serve. Dot Porter -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-9549 ##### Editorial Assistant, REVEAL Project Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments porter(a)vis.uky.edu ***************************************

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Fwd: 20.533 cfp: Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts 2007
by Abdullah Alger 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

FYI ----- Forwarded message from willard(a)LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU ----- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:59:47 +0100 From: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty(a)kcl.ac.uk>)" <willard(a)LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU> Reply-To: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty(a)kcl.ac.uk>)" <willard(a)LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU> Subject: 20.533 cfp: Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts 2007 To: humanist(a)Princeton.EDU Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 20, No. 533. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist(a)princeton.edu Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:57:59 +0100 From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty(a)kcl.ac.uk> Subject: CFP: Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts 2007 From: Michael Fraser <mike.fraser(a)computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:49:47 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) From: Lou Burnard <lou.burnard(a)computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> CALL FOR PROPOSALS doing digital: using digital resources in the arts and humanities DRHA07 : Dartington College of Art : 9 - 12 September 2007 Bringing together creators, practitioners, users, distributors, and custodians of Digital Resources in the Arts and Humanities Over the last decade the annual Digital Resources for the Humanities and= Arts (DRHA) conferences have constructed an unusual kind of meeting place: a= space in which researchers, curators, and distributors of digital resources could meet and share perspectives on their complementary agendas. Last year, that forum was expanded to include participants from the creative and performing arts, giving the event a new flavour and a new direction. This year, the conference aims to explore further major issues at the interface between traditional humanities scholarship and the=20 creative arts, by focussing on their differing or complementary approaches to the deployment of digital technologies. Can the Arts and the Humanities=20 share expertise? Are they divided by a common tongue? To what extent are they developing common technical solutions to different problem areas? As in=20 previous years, the conference will articulate these questions by showcasing the very best in current practice across the widest spectrum of digital applications in the arts and= humanities and by fostering informed but accessible debate amongst professionals. The Programme Committee for DRHA07 is now soliciting imaginative and provocative contributions for the conference addressing such topics as: * the benefits and the challenges of using=20 digital resources in creative work, in teaching and learning, and in scholarship; * the challenges and opportunities=20 associated with scale and sustainability in the digital arena; * new insights and new forms of expression=20 arising from the integration of digital resources in the arts, humanities, and sciences; * social and political issues surrounding=20 digital resource provision in the context of global ICT developments; * the implications of "born-digital"=20 resources for curators, consumers, and performers; * training methods and best practice for digital arts and humanities practitioners. Other themes include: interactivity and performance; digital media in time= and space; integration and deployment of existing digital resources in new contexts; policies and strategies for digital deployment, both commercial= and non-commercial; cataloguing and metadata aspects=20 of resource discovery; digital repositories; Web 2.0 and other new technologies; encoding standards; intellectual property rights; funding, cost-recovery, and charging= mechanisms; digitization techniques and problems. Format: The conference will take up three intensive days, comprising presentation of academic papers and technical reports, performance and installation events, software and product=20 demonstrations, debates and training events. The atmosphere will be informal, the discussion energetic. Leading practitioners and representatives of key funding=20 agencies, such as the the Arts Council, the AHRC, the JISC, and the AHDS will=20 be amongst the participants. We hope that from this occasion a new consensus will emerge based on real life experience of the application of digital techniques and resources in the Humanities and Arts. Timetable: Proposals are now invited for academic=20 papers, themed panel sessions and reports of work in progress.Your proposal should be no smaller than 500 words and no longer than 2000; closing date for=20 proposals is May 2nd 2007. All proposals will be reviewed by an independent panel of reviewers, and notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 13th June 2007. All accepted proposals will be included in the Conference preprint volume, and will also= be considered for a post-conference publication. Cost: The all-in conference rate covering all=20 meals and accomodation as well as conference registration and proceedings will not=20 exceed =A3400. Reduced rates for early registration, and partial rates for one-day=20 or non-residential attendance will be announced shortly on the conference website. Further information: The conference web site at <http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07/>http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07/=20 will be regularly updated, and includes full details of the procedure for submitting proposals, the programme, and registration information. Bookmark it now! Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities=20 Computing | Centre for Computing in the=20 Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/.= =20 ----- End forwarded message -----

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International Seminar on Computer Text analysis and Philological Research
by Arianna Ciula 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

Message in Italian and English: Università di Siena Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia di Arezzo Dipartimento di Teoria e documentazione delle tradizioni culturali Corsi di Filologia latina medievale e umanistica, Informatica del testo, Storia della filosofia medievale Seminario internazionale ALLA CACCIA DEGLI AUTORI. L'analisi informatica al servizio della ricerca filologica: il caso delle "Epistolae duorum amantium". Mercoledì 28 marzo Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia di Arezzo Campus del Pionta, palazzina uomini aula 19 ore 14-18 Partecipano: CARLOS PEREZ GONZALEZ (Universidad de Burgos) REKA FORRAI (Central European University Budapest) GUIDO MILANESE (Università Cattolica di Milano) SYLVAIN PIRON (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) IRENE ZAVATTERO (Università di Siena). Coordina Francesco Stella (Università di Siena) Materiali di lavoro nel sito www.unisi.it/tdtc/digimed. ****************** University of Siena Facolty of "Lettere e Filosofia" in Arezzo Department of "Teoria e documentazione delle tradizioni culturali" Courses of Medieval and Humanistic Latin Philology and Technologies of Texts, History of Medieval Philosophy International Seminar on "Authors Hunting": Computer Text analysis to support the Philological Research: the case study of "Epistolae duorum amantium". Wednesday 28th of March Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia di Arezzo Campus del Pionta, palazzina uomini class 19 2pm-6pm Speakers: CARLOS PEREZ GONZALEZ (Universidad de Burgos) REKA FORRAI (Central European University Budapest) GUIDO MILANESE (Università Cattolica di Milano) SYLVAIN PIRON (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) IRENE ZAVATTERO (Università di Siena). Moderator: Francesco Stella (Università di Siena) More information is available at www.unisi.it/tdtc/digimed. -- Dr Arianna Ciula Research Associate Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS (UK) Tel: +44 (0)20 78481945 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch

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DM Election - thank you!
by Dot Porter 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote for the first elected Digital Medievalist Executive Board over the past four days. New board members will be announced shortly. -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-9549 ##### Editorial Assistant, REVEAL Project Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments porter(a)vis.uky.edu ***************************************

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DM elections day 4: eight hours to go!
by Dot Porter 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

A reminder to cast your vote for the first elected Digital Medievalist Executive Board. The election will end on March 25 at 6am, GMT. Eight hours to go! For more information on the Digital Medievalist and the DM Board, please refer to the Bylaws: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Bylaws Everyone subscribed to the Digital Medievalist Listserv is eligible to vote. The election will end on March 25 at 6am, GMT. We have four open slots and five names on the slate. You may vote for one, two, three or four names. If you submit five names all of your votes will be discarded, so please be careful. Write-ins are acceptable but count as one of your four votes. Winners shall be determined by straight count - the four nominees with the most votes will come to the Executive Board. Please send your ballots with "DM Election" in the subject line to dot.porter(a)gmail.com. Nominee biographies are also posted at http://james.cummingsfamily.org.uk/DMnom2007.html ************************************* Abdullah Alger: My name is Abdullah Alger and I am currently finishing my PhD thesis at the University of Manchester which examines the verbal parallels and punctuation of the poems in the Exeter Book. I have been interested in the use of IT and literary studies since my undergraduate degree at Washington State University where I graduated with a B.A. in English focusing on rhetoric and composition. At the moment, I am particularly interested in the use and abuse of manuscript digitization projects, as well as future trends in the field which might include the merging of text, image and concordance applications. Furthermore, I am also interested in formulaic theory, which explains my interest in concordances, but concerned with the extension of the theory's basic tenets to analyze and theorize hypertexts. Much of my interests lie in the development of information technology to help explain Anglo-Saxon textual culture, which I hope to develop further to include the early modern period, or the English Renaissance. ------------------------------------- Arianna Ciula: Dr. Arianna Ciula is Research Associate at Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London. She teaches a postgraduate course on Material Culture (Medieval manuscripts) in the MA of Digital Humanities and, in general, has been lecturing within undergraduates and postgraduate programmes on humanities computing and primary sources at the University of Siena-Arezzo. She is a member of various international digital communities (e.g. ALLC and ACH associations, Digital Medievalist, Digital Classicist) and has been an elected member of the TEI Technical Council for the term 2007-2009. She has collaborated to the organization of two conferences on issues related to humanities computing (DIGIMED - Digital Philology and Medieval Texts; CLiP - Computers, Literature and Philology). She graduated with BA (Hons) in Communication sciences (University of Siena, Italy) in 2001 and received an MA in Applied Computing in the Humanities (King's College London) in 2004. She completed her Ph.D. in Manuscript and Book Studies at the University of Siena in 2005. Her research interests focus, in general, on the debate and creation of digital resources related to primary sources. More specifically, she is interested in the integration of medieval palaeography and humanities computing, image-based research and textual technologies. ------------------------------------- Dan O'Donnell Daniel Paul O'Donnell is the current director of the Digital Medievalist project and was the Principal Investigator on its initial SSHRC grant. He is currently also Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative and the Department of English at the University of Lethbridge. He publishes primarily in Anglo-Saxon studies and Digital Humanities. His digital-and-print edition of the earliest known English poem, Cædmon's Hymn, was published by D.S. Brewer in 2005. He also writes a regular column on Humanities Computing for Heroic Age. ------------------------------------- Peter Robinson: Peter Robinson is Co-Director of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is developer of the textual-editing program Collate, used by many textual editing projects worldwide, and of the Anastasia electronic publishing system. He is director of the Canterbury Tales Project, and was editor of its first major electronic publication, The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM (Cambridge UP, 1996.) He acts as consultant on electronic publishing to many scholarly groups, and particularly Cambridge University Press. He has published and lectured on matters relating to computing and textual editing, on text encoding, digitization, and electronic publishing, and on Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. He is active in the development of standards for digital resources, as a past board member of the Text Encoding Initiative and as leader of the EU funded MASTER project. In 2000, he founded a new electronic publishing house, Scholarly Digital Editions, specializing in high-quality electronic publications. He has been active in Digital Medievalist almost since its inception: attending various panels, contributing to DM discussions, and writing an article for the first DM journal, and looks forward to the opportunity to serve the DM community as a board member. ------------------------------------- Torsten Schassan: I am accepting this nomination for the DM board as I want to support this initiative which I think is very useful and needed to bring together people and offer a platform for resources. My main fields of interest are digital editions as well as digitization and publication of medieval manuscripts. In a more general view I am interested in markup languages, the theory of representation of information, in database and GUI design. Currently I am preparing a digital edition of a medieval palimpsest manuscript at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuettel. Here, before that, I have been responsible for the adoption of TEI-P5 for the German medieval manuscript cataloguing system. I am part of the project team of the projects CESG and e-codices.ch, responsible for metadata and server administration. My educational background includes a M.A. in medieval and modern History, German literature and language and Philosophy, received at the University at Cologne, as well as teaching experience at the Computer Science for the Humanities (professorship) at the University at Cologne. -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-9549 ##### Editorial Assistant, REVEAL Project Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments porter(a)vis.uky.edu ***************************************

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New Methods Network online community forum: 'Tools and Methods for the Digital Historian'
by James Cummings 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

FYI -------- Original Message -------- Subject: New Methods Network online community forum: 'Tools and Methods for the Digital Historian' Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:06:03 +0000 From: AHRC ICT Methods Network <methnet(a)KCL.AC.UK> Reply-To: AHRC ICT Methods Network <methnet(a)KCL.AC.UK> To: AHDS-HISTORY(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK The AHRC ICT Methods Network, a UK initiative for the exchange and dissemination of expertise in the use of ICT for arts and humanities research, has just launched an online community forum on digital history: Tools and Methods for the Digital Historian (http://www.digital-historian.net) is the first of a set of integrated online communities related to Methods Network activities and resources and is a forum for open discussion of all issues relating to digital history. In particular we invite comments on a working paper by Neil Grindley (Methods Network) entitled Tools and Methods for Historical Research which we hope will become the basis of a community resource. We are keen on getting more input and would very much like to include your feedback in future versions of the paper. This paper contains sections on: Tools and Web Resources; Database Structures; Data Mining; Quantitative Methods; Visualization; and Geographical Information Systems. It may appeal to different types of readers in different ways. Some people might find this paper contains useful introductory material to digital tools and methods and may wish to explore a number of useful links to relevant websites. Those who already have a sophisticated understanding of the use of ICT tools for historical research might wish to use the contents of this paper as a jumping off point for discussing other areas of research that have not been referred to, or which have been mentioned and would benefit from additional elucidation. The paper can be downloaded from our website as a PDF: http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/resources/workingpapers.html Two topics in the new forum might be of particular interest to readers of the AHDS-History list and we would be keen on your input: http://www.digital-historian.net/viewtopic.php?id=4 this thread started as a discussion about electronic publishing and now features a discussion of the value of Web 2.0 for research http://www.digital-historian.net/viewtopic.php?id=12 this thread continues the discussion about electronic publishing and asks about tools and methods for electronic publishing platforms for researchers For all questions regarding 'Digital Historian' and Methods Network community building in general please contact our Senior Research Project Coordinator Torsten Reimer (Torsten.Reimer(a)kcl.ac.uk). -- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk

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DM elections day 3
by Dot Porter 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

A reminder to cast your vote for the first elected Digital Medievalist Executive Board. For more information on the Digital Medievalist and the DM Board, please refer to the Bylaws: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Bylaws Everyone subscribed to the Digital Medievalist Listserv is eligible to vote. The election will end on March 25 at 6am, GMT. We have four open slots and five names on the slate. You may vote for one, two, three or four names. If you submit five names all of your votes will be discarded, so please be careful. Write-ins are acceptable but count as one of your four votes. Winners shall be determined by straight count - the four nominees with the most votes will come to the Executive Board. Please send your ballots with "DM Election" in the subject line to dot.porter(a)gmail.com. Nominee biographies are also posted at http://james.cummingsfamily.org.uk/DMnom2007.html ************************************* Abdullah Alger: My name is Abdullah Alger and I am currently finishing my PhD thesis at the University of Manchester which examines the verbal parallels and punctuation of the poems in the Exeter Book. I have been interested in the use of IT and literary studies since my undergraduate degree at Washington State University where I graduated with a B.A. in English focusing on rhetoric and composition. At the moment, I am particularly interested in the use and abuse of manuscript digitization projects, as well as future trends in the field which might include the merging of text, image and concordance applications. Furthermore, I am also interested in formulaic theory, which explains my interest in concordances, but concerned with the extension of the theory's basic tenets to analyze and theorize hypertexts. Much of my interests lie in the development of information technology to help explain Anglo-Saxon textual culture, which I hope to develop further to include the early modern period, or the English Renaissance. ------------------------------------- Arianna Ciula: Dr. Arianna Ciula is Research Associate at Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London. She teaches a postgraduate course on Material Culture (Medieval manuscripts) in the MA of Digital Humanities and, in general, has been lecturing within undergraduates and postgraduate programmes on humanities computing and primary sources at the University of Siena-Arezzo. She is a member of various international digital communities (e.g. ALLC and ACH associations, Digital Medievalist, Digital Classicist) and has been an elected member of the TEI Technical Council for the term 2007-2009. She has collaborated to the organization of two conferences on issues related to humanities computing (DIGIMED - Digital Philology and Medieval Texts; CLiP - Computers, Literature and Philology). She graduated with BA (Hons) in Communication sciences (University of Siena, Italy) in 2001 and received an MA in Applied Computing in the Humanities (King's College London) in 2004. She completed her Ph.D. in Manuscript and Book Studies at the University of Siena in 2005. Her research interests focus, in general, on the debate and creation of digital resources related to primary sources. More specifically, she is interested in the integration of medieval palaeography and humanities computing, image-based research and textual technologies. ------------------------------------- Dan O'Donnell Daniel Paul O'Donnell is the current director of the Digital Medievalist project and was the Principal Investigator on its initial SSHRC grant. He is currently also Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative and the Department of English at the University of Lethbridge. He publishes primarily in Anglo-Saxon studies and Digital Humanities. His digital-and-print edition of the earliest known English poem, Cædmon's Hymn, was published by D.S. Brewer in 2005. He also writes a regular column on Humanities Computing for Heroic Age. ------------------------------------- Peter Robinson: Peter Robinson is Co-Director of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is developer of the textual-editing program Collate, used by many textual editing projects worldwide, and of the Anastasia electronic publishing system. He is director of the Canterbury Tales Project, and was editor of its first major electronic publication, The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM (Cambridge UP, 1996.) He acts as consultant on electronic publishing to many scholarly groups, and particularly Cambridge University Press. He has published and lectured on matters relating to computing and textual editing, on text encoding, digitization, and electronic publishing, and on Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. He is active in the development of standards for digital resources, as a past board member of the Text Encoding Initiative and as leader of the EU funded MASTER project. In 2000, he founded a new electronic publishing house, Scholarly Digital Editions, specializing in high-quality electronic publications. He has been active in Digital Medievalist almost since its inception: attending various panels, contributing to DM discussions, and writing an article for the first DM journal, and looks forward to the opportunity to serve the DM community as a board member. ------------------------------------- Torsten Schassan: I am accepting this nomination for the DM board as I want to support this initiative which I think is very useful and needed to bring together people and offer a platform for resources. My main fields of interest are digital editions as well as digitization and publication of medieval manuscripts. In a more general view I am interested in markup languages, the theory of representation of information, in database and GUI design. Currently I am preparing a digital edition of a medieval palimpsest manuscript at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuettel. Here, before that, I have been responsible for the adoption of TEI-P5 for the German medieval manuscript cataloguing system. I am part of the project team of the projects CESG and e-codices.ch, responsible for metadata and server administration. My educational background includes a M.A. in medieval and modern History, German literature and language and Philosophy, received at the University at Cologne, as well as teaching experience at the Computer Science for the Humanities (professorship) at the University at Cologne. -- *************************************** Dot Porter, University of Kentucky ##### Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-9549 ##### Editorial Assistant, REVEAL Project Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments porter(a)vis.uky.edu ***************************************

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Conference Session Call for Papers: Markup as Theory of the Text (Second Call)
by Daniel O'Donnell 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

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DM elections day 2
by Dot Porter 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

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