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First CFP for El’Manuscript-2020 (Freiburg, Germany * 13–17 September 2020)
by Alexey Lavrentev 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

Dear colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. Textual Heritage and Information Technologies El’Manuscript-2020 Freiburg, Germany 13-17 September 2020 http://elmanuscript2020.uni-freiburg.de/ First Call for Papers We are pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for the El’Manuscript-2020 international conference on the creation and development of information systems for storage, description, processing, analysis, and publication of medieval and early modern handwritten and printed texts and documentary records. Any person involved in the creation or application of these resources — including researchers; instructors; staff of libraries, museums, and archives; programmers, and undergraduate and graduate students — is welcome to participate. El’Manuscript-2020 is the eighth in a series of biennial international conferences entitled “Textual Heritage and Information Technologies” that brings together linguists, specialists in historical source criticism, IT specialists, and others involved in publishing and studying our textual heritage. Along with the lectures, a summer school will be part of the conference, which will allow practitioners to become familiar with various technologies, approaches and methods for working with manuscripts. The working language of the 2020 conference is English. In the philological sections, talks in Russian are welcome, but should be accompanied by slides in English. Papers presented at the conference will be published in a volume of proceedings and on the textualheritage.org website. The working language of the 2020 conference is English. In the philological sections, talks in Russian are welcome, but should be accompanied by slides in English. Papers presented at the conference will be published in a volume of proceedings and on the textualheritage.org website. *Conference topics* 1. The physical document – Material and technology ● Codicology ● Instrumental analysis ● Visual observation of documents ● Recognition of relevant features of historic book binding techniques ● Water mark data base ● DNA analysis ● … 2. The script – Recognition and analysis ● Palaeography ● Photographing ● Visualization ● Digitisation 3. Handwritten Text Recognition, Optical Character Recognition 4. ● … 5. The text – its processing and presentation ● Textology and textual criticism ● Digital editions ● Digital publishing ● Text markup formats ● Lemmatization and morphological markup ● … 6. Beyond document, script, and text – analytics and interpretation ● Digital libraries and databases ● Corpora ● Storage formats and long term storage ● Lexicography ● Data mining and statistics ● Written cultural heritage and Artificial Intelligence ● Navigation and access ● Web technologies ● Open science ● … *General Information* *Conference dates*: 13-17 September 2020 *Venue*: University of Freiburg *Postal Address*: Slavisches Seminar, Werthmannstr. 14, 79098 Freiburg, Germany *Organization Committee Chair*: Prof. Dr. Achim Rabus, Prof. Dr. Viktor A. Baranov, Prof. Dr. Heinz Miklas, Prof. Dr. Aleksandr M. Moldovan *Contact person*: Dr. Christine Grillborzer *E-mail* (Organization Committee): elmanuscript2020(a)slavistik.uni-freiburg.de *Conference Website*: www.elmanuscript2020.uni-freiburg.de *Abstract submission* Abstracts are limited to 200 words and should include the following information: ● Paper title; ● 5-7 keywords; ● Author’s (authors’) first and last names; ● Affiliation (institution); ● Educational status or degree obtained (student, postgraduate student, PhD, professor, etc.) Deadline for abstracts: 29 February 2020** *Reviewing*: The abstracts submitted to the conference will be peer-reviewed. The reviewers’ comments will be transmitted to the authors. Notifications of acceptance by the Program Committee will be sent by email by the end of April. The accepted abstracts will be published before the conference. *Registration* opens May 1 and ends June 30 2020. *Registration fee*: The organisation committee is making every effort to keep the registration fee for the conference to a minimum. The precise fee will be announced by January 2020. *Scholarships*: A limited number of (partial) scholarships for participants from non-Western countries will be available. We will circulate information on how to apply for these scholarships in due course.<http://www.elmanuscript2020.uni-freiburg.de/wordpress/2019/07/11/hallo-welt/>

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Viking and Medieval Norse Studies
by Haraldur Bernharðsson 26 Nov '19

26 Nov '19

**Please share with anyone interested** [cid:DD50DF50-1CA1-48F9-894C-55898D43D148] The University of Iceland offers two international graduate programs in medieval studies, taught in English: (1) Medieval Icelandic Studies, a three-semester (90 ECTS) graduate program, with two semesters' (60 ECTS) worth of course work and one semester's worth (30 ECTS) master's thesis. The summer semester is the thesis semester, which means that the program can be completed in 13 months. See https://english.hi.is/medieval_icelandic_studies (2) Viking and Medieval Norse Studies, a four-semester (120 ECTS) graduate program run in cooperation with the University of Oslo in Norway, Aarhus University and Copenhagen University in Denmark. The first year--60 ECTS' worth of course work--take place in Iceland, but the third semester is spent either in Oslo, Aarhus, or Copenhagen, completing 30 ECTS of courses. The fourth semester is devoted to writing the master's thesis, and can be spent in Iceland or Oslo. See http://oldnorse.is/ Deadline for applications: February 1, 2020. Questions? Email oldnorse(a)hi.is<mailto:oldnorse@hi.is> **Please share with anyone interested** --------------------- Haraldur Bernharðsson, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medieval Studies University of Iceland -- The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies Árnagarði við Suðurgötu IS-101 Reykjavík I C E L A N D + 354 525-4023 / +354 891-7511 - haraldr(a)hi.is<mailto:haraldr@hi.is> - https://uni.hi.is/haraldr/en/ - Skype: haraldur_bernhardsson --------------------- Viking and Medieval Norse Studies Program: http://oldnorse.is/

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Introducing DM’s Student and Early-Career Sub-Committee
by Alberto Campagnolo 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

Dear Digital Medievalist Members If you recall, a couple of years ago, we ran a community survey to better understand our constituency, and its interests and expectations. We have used the survey results to guide our decisions and better represent the DM community. A significant issue that was highlighted by the survey was a certain lack of participation by part of (post-)graduate students and early career researchers. We have decided to tackle the problem by instituting a new subcommittee of students and early career scholars to work in parallel to the Executive Board, aiming at engaging with their peers and help the board in its activities. We have invited 8 outstanding and enthusiastic candidates to be part of this first instalment of the subcommittee. I will work as a liaison between the two boards to guarantee active communication and collaboration between the two boards. If the experiment will be successful—and I am confident it will!—we would like to call on the community once more to update the bylaws and make the subcommittee an official branch of DM, with regular calls for nominations and elections, as it is for the Executive Board. Allow me, therefore, to introduce the members of the subcommittee (in alphabetical order): Hannah Busch: PhD candidate studying the application of Artificial Intelligence for the study of medieval Latin palaeography, at Huygens ING, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Nathan Daniels: PhD candidate in History at Johns Hopkins University, studying Parisian guilds, urban space and topography, with related interests in digital editions of historical texts, linked open data, and mapping. Selina Galka: currently finishing the Joint-Masters-Degree in German Medieval Philology and studying the MA “Digital Humanities” at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz. Tessa Gengnagel: PhD candidate at the University of Cologne, with a background in History and Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and an interest in digital scholarly editions of non-textual materials. James Harr, III: PhD student focusing on medieval media studies, petitionary networks, and material semiotics in the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media program at North Carolina State University. Aylin Malcolm: PhD candidate studying medieval literature and science, including digital editions of scientific manuscripts, at the University of Pennsylvania. Caitlin Postal: PhD student caught between medieval literature, material culture, temporality, and digitality at the University of Washington. Daniela Schulz studied History and English in Cologne, with a focus on medieval history, and also received some training in what’s now commonly called “Digital Humanities”. She is writing a doctoral thesis focusing on the digital edition of an early medieval Roman law text. Alberto Campagnolo <https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/executive-board/#AC>

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Position announcement: 2 x 12 months at IRHT for HOME (History of Medieval Europe) project
by Dominique Stutzmann 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

**feel free to share with any interested parties and lists** *Two open positions for 12 months at Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT, Paris)* (1) http://bit.ly/320McJy Ingénieur-e d'études en traitement de données textuelles sur les cartulaires médiévaux (H/F) (2) http://bit.ly/323Yyk2 Ingénieur-e de recherche en traitement de données textuelles sur les cartulaires médiévaux (H/F) For the European research project HOME - History of Medieval Europe (https://www.history-of-medieval-europe.eu/), we are seeking two colleagues for the Humanities team in IRHT (Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes). Position (1) is mainly concerned with textual data management (structuring, modelling, annotating), more details at http://bit.ly/320McJy. Position (2) is mainly concerned with historical data analysis, enhancing the output of AI-based image analysis (act segmentation in cartularies, named entity recognition and linking) and using these large data sets to produce new scholarly research. More details at http://bit.ly/323Yyk2 Job description is in French. A minimal knowledge of French is required, but applications may be written in English. Application deadline: 21/11/2019 Best wishes, Dominique -- M. Dominique Stutzmann Chargé de recherche Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (CNRS, UPR 841) Responsable de la section de Paléographie latine

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AIUCD 2020 - provisional programme
by Franzini Greta 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

**With apologies for cross-posting** Dear colleagues, The provisional programme of AIUCD 2020 has been published: https://aiucd2020.unicatt.it/aiucd-programma Please be reminded that Early Bird registration is available until 15th November: https://aiucd2020.unicatt.it/aiucd-registrazione-info-registrazione For queries, please write to: aiucd2020(a)unicatt.it<mailto:aiucd2020@unicatt.it> We look forward to welcoming you in Milan! Greta Franzini ----- Greta H. Franzini, Ph.D Postdoctoral Researcher LiLa: Linking Latin [ERC n. 769994]: https://lila-erc.eu +39 02 72342954 | greta.franzini(a)unicatt.it<mailto:greta.franzini@unicatt.it> | http://gretafranzini.com/ Institutional page: http://docenti.unicatt.it/eng/greta_franzini/ ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1159-5575 CIRCSE Research Centre: https://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/circse_index.html Facoltà di Scienze Linguistiche e Letterature Straniere Franciscanum Building, 2nd Floor, room 209 Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Largo Gemelli 1, 20123 Milan, Italy Digital Medievalist Journal: https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/ Umanistica Digitale Journal: https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD): http://www.aiucd.it/

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Reminder: CfP Growing Corpora. Byzantine Book Epigrams and Online Text Collections (deadline 15 November)
by Ilse De Vos 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

*With apologies for cross-posting* Dear colleagues, A friendly reminder that the deadline for submitting an abstract to partake in the 'Growing Corpora<https://www.dbbe2020.ugent.be>' conference (Ghent, 24-25 June 2020) is approaching. We encourage interested participants to send us their proposals by Friday 15 November. Please do not hesitate to specify whether you want to be considered for financial support<https://www.dbbe2020.ugent.be/practicalities/#Financialsupport>. Best wishes, Ilse De Vos (on behalf of the DBBE team<https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/pages/team>) Call for papers GROWING CORPORA Byzantine Book Epigrams and Online Text Collections ________________________________ Ghent, 24-25 June 2020 Since 2010, the Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams team (that is: we) have been growing an online corpus of metrical paratexts, several of which were previously unpublished or unknown altogether, and made them freely available to the scholarly community (that is: you). A new version of our database (https://www.dbbe.ugent.be<https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/>) was launched in June 2019. Exactly one year later, we are organising a two-day conference. Together with anyone interested in this particular genre of Byzantine poetry, we want to celebrate and reflect on what we have achieved so far and look ahead at what is – hopefully! – yet to come. Moreover, we want to stimulate communication and collaboration with other projects that are growing online corpora of texts. You can partake in two different types of sessions. In our demo sessions you can present your project and discuss your experiences in growing your online corpus (10-15 minutes). We are confident this will lead to a lively discussion on challenges we all face, such as data presentation, interoperability, and sustainability. In our thematic sessions you can present your research on Byzantine book epigrams (20 minutes). Possible topics include: * editing book epigrams; * theoretical reflections on the concept of book epigrams and other metrical paratexts; * book epigrams as a way to study the history of manuscripts; * visual aspects of book epigrams; * literary texts that function (or may have functioned) as book epigrams; * metre and language of book epigrams; * book epigrams in languages other than Greek. We especially welcome contributions inspired by the Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams. Confirmed speakers<https://www.dbbe2020.ugent.be/programme/> include Georgi Parpulov (University of Birmingham) and Andreas Rhoby (Austrian Academy of Sciences). Interested? Send us an abstract (up to 300 words, PDF) by 15 November 2019 (dbbe(a)ugent.be<mailto:dbbe@ugent.be>, subject “Growing Corpora – abstract”) and we will get back to you early December. Note that we want our conference to reflect who we are as a team<https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/pages/team>: welcoming and inclusive. Costs will be kept to a minimum and we are working hard to secure funding to support anyone for whom traveling might not be evident, including early career or independent scholars and carers of young children. For any further information, please visit our conference website (https://www.dbbe2020.ugent.be<https://www.dbbe2020.ugent.be/>).

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2019 Schoenberg Symposium_Happening this month!
by Ransom, Lynn 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce: The 12th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age November 21-23, 2019 Hooking Up The concept of linked open data is the holy grail of the digital humanities. Yet the problem of how to link information across platforms has existed since civilization began. As knowledge and learning expanded in pre-modern society, the problems associated with collecting, combining, and disseminating information inspired new approaches to and technologies for the material text. In the internet age, we continue to grapple with the same problems and issues. While technologies have changed, the questions remain the same. This year's symposium explores the connections between historic and current approaches to data linkage in regard to manuscripts and manuscript research. Hooking Up addresses the topic from a variety of angles and considers how the manuscript book operates as a vehicle for information retrieval and dissemination from the technology of the page and the textual apparatus of a book, to the library, and finally, the internet. We will also consider such questions as how medieval practices of memory shaped information retrieval and gathering, how did the technology of the manuscripts book-in all its many forms-facilitate or hinder information processing, how can medieval solutions inform modern technologies, and how do modern technologies illuminate medieval practices? The program will also feature sessions highlighting projects that are advancing linked data technologies for manuscript researchers, including the T-AP Digging Into Data Challenge project Mapping Manuscript Migrations<http://mappingmanuscriptmigrations.org/>. For more information and to register, go to http://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs-symposium12.

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