dm-l July 2014

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9 participants
15 discussions

CFP - Kalamazoo 2015: Textual and Manuscript Studies in Online Environments
by Albert Lloret 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

[With apologies for cross-posting] CFP - TEXTUAL AND MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University; May 14-17, 2015 Sponsored by _Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures_ Organized by Albert Lloret (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Jeanette Patterson (University of Virginia) Digital environments enable our studying and representing texts and manuscripts in radically enhanced ways. … [View More]

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Seminar: Retracing Theban Witness Networks in Demotic Contracts
by Stuart Dunn 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2014 Friday July 11th at 16:30, in Room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU *Silke Vanbeselaere (Leuven)* Retracing Theban Witness Networks in Demotic Contracts ALL WELCOME This paper focuses on the presence of witnesses in Demotic contracts during the Ptolemaic reign in Egypt. It will investigate the interpersonal links between the three main actor groups of these contracts: the scribes, the two … [View More]contracting parties and the witnesses. The first actors, i.e. the scribes, have been studied before and we saw them connected through family ties, revealing the profession of a contract scribe as a hereditary office associated with the Egyptian temples. In the second century BC two operational notaries were attested in Thebes: the notary of Amunrasonther and that of the prophets of Djeme. But what about the period before that? Can we retrace these notaries through network analysis or are we confronted with an organisation entirely different from the one in the following century? The contracting parties have always received a lot of attention from papyrologists as well, as they were often the protagonists of important archives. However, the third group of actors, the witnesses, have more or less been neglected so far. I will try to provide an answer to the crucial question of how these witnesses were chosen. Were they connected to the notarial and scribal offices, or can they be linked to one or both parties as family and/or acquaintances perhaps? Or were they chosen randomly, passers-by simply picked from the streets when needed? The online platform Trismegistos, which includes almost half a million attestations of individuals in Greek and Egyptian texts between 800 BC and AD 800, serves as a starting point for this research. Thanks to the interlock structure of the text and reference databases, a two-mode people-in-texts network can easily be extracted and converted into one-mode people-to-people networks of the contracting parties, the scribes and the witnesses. Firstly, before we can start interpreting these networks, we need to make sure that we have correctly identified the various actors appearing in our network. The visualisation of the data has proven to be a very useful new step in this process. Where before we were looking at the actors' fathers and the characteristics of the relevant texts, we now take the position of an actor in the – albeit preliminary – network into account as an extra factor to obtain a faster and more advanced identification. Secondly, subjecting these networks to social network analysis will contribute to our understanding of the relationships and interactions between witnesses, scribes and contracting parties as well as the functioning of the ancient notaries, not only in Thebes but in the whole of Ptolemaic Egypt. *The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.* For more information please see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014.html -- --------------------------------- Dr. Stuart Dunn Lecturer Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London, WC2B 5RL Email: stuart.dunn(a)kcl.ac.uk Tel. +44 (0)20 7848 2709 Fax. +44 (0)20 7848 2980 Blog: http://stuartdunn.wordpress.com [View Less]

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HASTAC 2015 Conference CFP Announcement
by Kristen Mapes 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

Michigan State University is pleased to host the HASTAC 2015 conference on May 27-30, 2015. The conference theme for 2015 is "Exploring the Art and Science of Digital Humanities." The Call for proposals is now available, and submissions from the Digital Medievalist community are highly encouraged. Call for Proposals: http://www.hastac2015.org/?page_id=20 *HASTAC 2015: Exploring the Art & Science of Digital Humanities* May 27-30, 2015 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI … [View More]

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Digital Medievalist Board Election => 14 to 27 July 2014
by Dominique Stutzmann 06 Jul '14

06 Jul '14

Dear All, Because of DH 2014 Lausanne (http://dh2014.org/) and IMC Leeds ( http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2014.html) being held at the same time as the scheduled DM-Board election, the latter is postponed to July 14th-27th, 2014. We will send a reminder when the vote is open. Best wishes, Ben Albritton and Dominique Stutzmann ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dominique Stutzmann <dominique.stutzmann(a)irht.cnrs.fr> Date: 2014-06-20 11:34 GMT+01:00 Subject: Call for … [View More]nominations To: "dm-l(a)uleth.ca" <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> Dear colleagues, Digital Medievalist will be holding elections at the end of June for four positions to its Executive Board. Board positions are for two year terms and incumbents may be re-elected (for a maximum of three terms in a row). Members of the Board are responsible for the overall direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist's many projects and programmes. This is a working board, and so it would be expected that you are willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities: the Board is currently organised with a Director, a Deputy Director, a Journal Editor-in-Chief, Journal Associate Editors, Conference Reprensentatives, Website and News Feed Admins DM-L Admins, Facebook Admin, Infrastructure/Technical Support, Returning Officers for Elections For further information about the Executive and Digital Medievalist more generally pleasesee the DM website, particularly: - http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/about/ - http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/bylaws/ and http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/byelaws/ We are now seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual elections. In order to be eligible for election, candidates must be members of Digital Medievalist (membership is conferred simply by subscription to the organisation's mailing list, dm-l) and have made some demonstrable contribution either to the DM project (e.g. to the mailing list, or the wiki, etc.), or generally to the field of digital medieval studies. If you are interested in running for these positions or are able to recommend a suitable candidate, please contact the returning officers, Ben Albritton (blalbrit(a)stanford.edu) and Dominique Stutzmann ( dominique.stutzmann(a)irht.cnrs.fr), who will treat your nomination or enquiries in confidence. The nomination period will close at 2359 UTC on Mon June 30 and elections will be held by electronic ballot through the whole of the week starting 7 July, 2014. Best wishes, Ben Albritton and Dominique Stutzmann [View Less]

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Seminar: Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy
by Gabriel Bodard 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2014 Friday July 4 at 16:30 in room 102 (Athlone), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU *Pietro Liuzzo (Heidelberg)* The Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE) and Linked Open Data ALL WELCOME The Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy aims to provide historians and the general public with a curated online multi-text edition which has high quality contents and related … [View More]

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