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St. Augustine´s Confessiones: Online Reading Group starts on 8. September
by Emilia Żochowska 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Dear All, Let me invite you to join a new teaching project, which can become a refreshing alternative to your everyday Serious Academic Activities. On 8. September starts the reading group focusing on St. Augustine´s Confessiones. It is hosted by Collegium Volatile, a free study community. We work online, the course is hosted by Course Sites (Blacboard). St. Augustine´s Confessiones is said to be the model autobiography, a source of inspiration for memoir authors through the ages: but it is also a travel log - a diary of Augustine´s journey into his own mind and memory, a journey he made in time and space. It has always been a bestseller. Everyone has read it. Have you? Do you think it´s still relevant today, after 1600 years? Would it be a model or a provocation? In this reading group we focus on studying the text in its historical and philosophical context. Confessiones is our main source. We spend 3 weeks reading the book and studying its historical background. During the next 5 weeks we focus on particular themes discussed in the book: Confessiones as an Autobiography, Augustine and his Rome (or rather "Romanitas"), Love and Friendship, "Kingdom of Dissimilitude", Conversion. The group is guided by Dr Emilia Zochowska, PhD in medieval history (SDU, Odense, 2010), M.A. and Licence in medieval theology (UKSW, Warsaw, 2005 and 2008). Join us! And if you have any students, friends or colleagues interested in St. Augustine, please let them know about the course. This course uses CourseSites. Please visit the course webpage to enroll: https://www.coursesites.com/s/_AugConf. You can find more details about Collegium and this course at: http://collegiumvolatile.com With very best regards, Emilia Zochowska PS. Collegium Volatile is a free study community. We teach those who want to learn.We share knowledge and teaching experience. We do not offer diplomas. Follow us: http://Facebook.com/collegiumvolatile, http://twitter.com/CollegiumVolati

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Interdisciplinary Workshop "Scholarly Editions in the Digital Age: Text and Music"
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

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Geospatial/Geodetic mapping of MSS
by Dan Mosser 23 Aug '12

23 Aug '12

Thanks to all who have replied (off list, I think) to my query about linguistic mapping of Middle English MSS. Dan O'Donnell asked for a sample of the markup. The DIMEV is an xml-based project. I haven't added mapping information as yet, but here is a straightforward example of the MS file with the <lang> entry: <item xml:id="PhilUPEng8"> <loc>Philadelphia</loc> <repos>University of Pennsylvania</repos> <desc>MS Codex 218 [formerly Eng. 8; <i>olim</i> Stonor Park]</desc> <lang><biblio key="LALME">LALME</biblio> LP 559 (<place country="England" county="Isle of Ely">Ely</place>: Hand A, ff. 1-146v); LP 551 (<place country="England" county="Lincolnshire">Lincs</place>: Hand B, ff. 147-195v)</lang> </item> The LALME and LAEME keys are linked to full entries in the bibliography. I'm waiting for my coder to fit some time in for the style-sheet updates for this information. Since I haven't, as yet, constructed a tagging structure for the mapping coordinates, I'm happy to have suggestions. Dan mentioned KML and Google maps, and that might be an easy way to proceed. ˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜ Dan Mosser dmosser(a)vt.edu Office: Shanks 229 Snailmail: Director of Graduate Studies English Department 0112 Shanks Hall 180 Turner Street NW Blacksburg, VA 24061 VOICE: (540) 231-7753 FAX: (540) 231-5692 http://www.dimev.net http://www.gravell.org http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/Mosser/wiz/dwmcv/mossercv.html

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Geospatial mapping of Middle English MSS
by Dan Mosser 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

I don't even know if I'm deploying the correct terminology, but here goes. I have been adding linguistic information to the Digital Index of Middle English Verse (www.dimev.net) from the Linguistic Atlases of Late and Early Medieval English. Their references are to a grid, which doesn't seem to be useful in the long term (if I'm wrong about this, please say so). What we would like to do, or collaborate with somebody to do, is add geospatial coordinates for the anchor and localized texts with the aim of linking them to a mapping program (Google or something else). Is anyone already doing this in the digital-medieval world, or does this wheel need inventing by someone. Naively, Dan ˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜ Dan Mosser dmosser(a)vt.edu Office: Shanks 229 Snailmail: Director of Graduate Studies English Department 0112 Shanks Hall 180 Turner Street NW Blacksburg, VA 24061 VOICE: (540) 231-7753 FAX: (540) 231-5692

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Call for Papers: Cultural, Textual, and Material Heritage in the Digital Age: Projects and Practices
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

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Call for Participants: New Digital Paradigms in Anglo-Saxon Studies
by Digital Medievalist » News: robertordt 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

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CFP: K'zoo 2013
by Digital Medievalist » News: digitalmedievalistnews 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

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Position: Programmer and Digital Humanist (University of Munich)
by Stefan Baums 20 Aug '12

20 Aug '12

Dear friends and colleagues, the University of Munich is looking for an experienced Programmer and Digital Humanist to work on the Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra project in the Institute for Indian and Tibetan Studies. The initial term of appointment is until 31 December 2015, with the possibility of renewal. The application deadline is 31 August 2012, with a start date as soon as possible thereafter. For further details and the application procedure, please refer to the announcement on the University of Munich website: http://www.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/stellenangebote/technik/20120720074055… http://gandhari.org/tmp/programmer_and_digital_humanist.txt (English version) Best regards, Stefan Baums -- Dr. Stefan Baums Institute for Indian and Tibetan Studies Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

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DigiPal CfP: "Digital Approaches to Medieval Script and Image"
by Brookes, Stewart 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Dear all, Please find below our call for papers for our November symposium. Please note that even if you are unable to attend, we are still looking for submissions for a collection of essays as the follow-up to our in-the-works volume, "Digital Palaeography" (Ashgate). Thanks and all best, Stewart CfP: "Digital Approaches to Medieval Script and Image" DigiPal One-Day Symposium 22nd November 2012, King’s College London The DigiPal team (http://digipal.eu/) are delighted to invite submissions for their second symposium at King's College London. This year's theme is the implications of the increasing reliance of the scholarly community upon digital images and technologies. Bringing together art historians, palaeographers, medievalists and the Digital Humanities, the symposium will share theoretical approaches and methodologies and, crucially, test prevalent assumptions. -------------------------------- How to propose a paper -------------------------------- Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any relevant aspect of digital approaches to the representation of script and manuscript art. We would like to facilitate a wide-ranging debate and so welcome submissions from scholars whose primary experience is not with digitising images, or necessarily the medieval period. Possible topics could include: * the practical and theoretical consequences of the use of digital images * the relevance of art historical theories to the digital representation of medieval manuscripts * the problems and potentials presented by digital imaging technologies * palaeographical method for ‘Digital’ and ‘Analogue’ palaeography * reassessing the terminology used in manuscript studies and palaeography * reports from projects that make use of digitised images To propose a paper, please email a brief abstract (250 words max.) to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk<http://kcl.ac.uk/>. The deadline for the receipt of submissions is 10.23pm on Friday 14th September 2012 Please note that it is our intention to collect selected papers from the symposium as part of a forthcoming publication and so you may wish to submit an abstract even if you can't attend. Several papers from last year's symposium are being edited as part of our forthcoming volume, "Digital Palaeography" (Ashgate). ---------------- Registration ---------------- Registration will officially open from Thursday 20th September, but if you'd like to pre-reserve a place, then please let us know at your earliest convenience by emailing digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk<http://kcl.ac.uk/>. We look forward to hearing from you, Stewart Brookes and Peter Stokes -- Dr Stewart J Brookes Research Associate Digital Resource for Palaeography Department of Digital Humanities King's College London Room 210, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Blog: http://digipal.eu/

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DM Executive Roles
by Stokes, Peter 08 Aug '12

08 Aug '12

Dear all, After today's meeting of the Digital Medievalist Executive Board, I am pleased to announce that we have confirmed or appointed people to the following roles: Director: Peter Stokes Journal Editor-in-Chief: Malte Rehbein Journal Associate Editors: Dan O'Donnell, Orietta da Rold, Peter Stokes Conference Representatives: Dominique Stutzman, Takako Kato News Feed Administrators: Alexei Lavrentiev, Dominique Stutzman DM-L Administrators: Peter Stokes, James Cummings Infrastructure/Technical Support: Peter Stokes, Takako Kato This is in addition to other volunteers who are not appointed directly by the Board but who still make important contributions; a list of many (but not all) of them is available at <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/about/>. Indeed, I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has contributed to Digital Medievalist, but particularly the outgoing Board members, and above all our outgoing director, James Cummings, who has served on the Board since its inception and Directed very capably since 2009. Finally, can I remind everyone that the Board is always looking for new initiatives and ideas. If you have ideas of what DM could or should do, or if you want to arrange something under the auspices of DM yourself, then please do get in touch, preferably by e-mailing the following: - board(a)digitalmedievalist.org (for general issues), or - editors(a)digitalmedievalist.org (for the journal specifically) We have a lot of skill and a lot of ideas as a community, and I look forward to working with you all to realise them. Peter -- Dr Peter Stokes Senior Lecturer Department of Digital Humanities King's College London Room 210, 2nd Floor 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813 peter.stokes(a)kcl.ac.uk

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