This week, the Manuscript Road Trip meets the Spanish Forger:
http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/manuscript-road-trip-the…
- Lisa
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Lisa Fagin Davis
Acting Executive Director
Medieval Academy of America
17 Dunster St., Suite 202
Cambridge, Mass. 02138
Phone: 617 491-1622
Fax: 617 492-3303
Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org
From Barbara Bordalejo (and me):
> Dear colleagues,
>
> GO::DH and RedHD are organising a conference and series of workshops
> on 19-20 May (Workshops) and 21-23 May (conference).
>
> The deadline for proposals is January 20th.
>
> Paper proposals should be submitted via the easy chair system.
> Instructions can be found here:
> http://humanidadesdigitales.net/index.php/encuentro2014/encuentro2014-en
>
> We are also organizing two days of workshops for the 19^th and 20^th
> of May, immediately before the conference.
>
> If you would like to offer a workshop on any aspect of Digital
> Humanities, please contact me privately with your ideas. We are
> interested both in workshops for users and developers. Some examples
> of workshops that might be offered are: Omeka, Phyton, TEI, WordPress,
> Juxta and Web design for DHers among others. But other topics are
> certainly welcome.
>
>
>
> BB
>
>
Hi all,
As you may or may not have heard, the University of Lethbridge's mailing
lists have been under what seems to have been intended as a sustain DoS
attack (actually its not clear what the point of the attack was other
than to be annoying): tens of subscription requests a minute from a
limited number of addresses to all publicly available pages. The result
is that list administrators have been overwhelmed by noise from their
subscription pages (I just trashed 2k requests from the last few days).
Lost in that noise have almost certainly been some real requests.
Indeed, when I just checked now (the DoS seems to have calmed down), the
majority of requests looked legitimate: real email addresses and real
names that seemed to match the email addresses in the names boxes.
If you know somebody who tried to join dm-l in the last two months, or
if you recommended to somebody that they join dm-l in that time, could
you check with them to see if they were ignored or rejected (you get an
email when you are subscribed). And if they were, ask them to try
resubscribing?
The URL is here: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
Because it isn't 100% clear that the problem has stopped (our IT
department is supposed to be working on installing a captcha to prevent
automatic signups but hasn't done it yet), they should bother me
personally if they can't get on this time.
Thanks and apologies for this inconvenience.
-dan
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Professor of English
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Canada
+1 403 393-2539
Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting.
We are pleased to announce some fascinating talks coming up in the Spring Term 2014 Centre for e-Research seminar series. Seminars are held fortnightly on Tuesdays during term time at 6.15pm (unless otherwise stated) in the Anatomy Museum, on the 6th floor, King's College London, Strand Campus. Seminars are followed by drinks and nibbles.
The first seminar of this series is next week, on Tuesday 21st January, with Paolo Gerbaudo speaking on "Info-viz and political activism". More details and abstract below.
Also below, is the full programme for this term, with further details at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2013-14.aspx. <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2013-14.aspx.>
All the best,
Valentina Asciutti
21st Jan: Info-viz and political activism. Paolo Gerbaudo (King's College London)
Abstract: Info-visualisation is a practice that has been widely utilised in contemporary digital culture, in order to get to grips with the complex patterns emerging from huge sets of data. Among the different categories utilising info-viz, including programmers, marketers, financial analysts, security personnel, and government advisors, also activists have found in info-viz a powerful visual language to get to grips with the complexity of social grievances and economic problems in a highly complex and globalised world. In my presentation I will look at the political positioning of info-visualisation as a radical political language in collectives such as Bureau d-Etudes and RTMark, as well as drawing on my own work infondoalmar.info. I will discuss the extent to which info-viz can constitute a platform for radical politics, and look at some possible lines of future development of these practices.
Speaker bio: Paolo Gerbaudo (1979) is lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at King's College London. He has worked as a reporter for the Italian Left newspaper Il Manifesto and has been involved in anti-corporate, global justice and ecologist campaigns. His current research focuses on the use of new media and social media by social movements and emerging digital parties. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets (2012), a book analysing social media activism in the popular protest wave of 2011, from the Arab Spring, to the indignados and Occupy Wall Street. He has a PhD from Goldsmiths College, where he worked under the supervision of Professor Nick Couldry. He has previously taught at Middlesex University and the American University in Cairo. He is currently the convenor of the Digital Culture and Political Protest module at King's College London.
The event is free of charge but registration is required.
Eventbrite link for registration:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cerch-seminar-info-viz-and-political-activism-…
Spring Term (2014)
* 21st Jan: Info-viz and political activism. Paolo Gerbaudo (King's College London)
* 4th Feb: Exploring very large collections of texts by creating structured unbiased samples. Pieter Francois (Oxford)
* 18th Feb: Let's consider some new technologies for musicians, music learners, and music teachers. Anita Pincas (Institute of Eduction)
* 4th March: Founders & Survivors: Tasmanian Convict Life Courses in Historical Context. Professor Janet McCalman (Centre for Health & Society, University of Melbourne), Dr Rebecca Kippen (Centre for Health & Society, University of Melbourne), Ms Sandra Silcot (Centre for Health & Society, University of Melbourne), Dr Len Smith (Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University).
* 25th March: Network analysis and distant reading on a Latin corpus. Thibault Clerice (King's College London) and Anthony Glaise (UFR de Grec, Paris IV - Sorbonne)
This week, the Manuscript Road Trip reaches the Pacific Ocean...
http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/manuscript-road-trip-the…
- Lisa
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Lisa Fagin Davis
Acting Executive Director
Medieval Academy of America
17 Dunster St., Suite 202
Cambridge, Mass. 02138
Phone: 617 491-1622
Fax: 617 492-3303
Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org
Dear all, with apologies for cross-posting,
The SBL program group "Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies and Early Jewish and Christian Studies" would like to advertise a call for papers for its sessions at the International SBL meeting, jointly with the European Association of Biblical Studies, in Vienna from 6-10th July 2014.
We expect papers on:
(1) The creation and structuring of digital data representing the texts and artefacts relevant to Biblical Studies, Early Jewish Studies and Early Christian Studies
(2) The digital analysis of said data (linguistics, stylometrics, stemmatology, network analysis, etc.), the presentation, rendering and visualisation of data and its analysis, and critical analysis of the social and cultural aspects of the digitisation of research and society in relation to the aforementioned texts and artefacts.
For more information and to submit a proposal, please see the following webpage (mind the wrap):
http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?Meetin…
The unit chairs can also be contacted there, although I too will be happy to respond to any questions. The deadline is 4th February 2014.
Many thanks,
Hugh Houghton
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Marie de France
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04 Jan '14
This week, the Manuscript Road Trip finds a Welshman in Reno...
http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2014/01/03/manuscript-road-trip-a-w…
- Lisa
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Lisa Fagin Davis
Acting Executive Director
Medieval Academy of America
17 Dunster St., Suite 202
Cambridge, Mass. 02138
Phone: 617 491-1622
Fax: 617 492-3303
Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org