dm-l October 2021

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Curso ONLINE de la UNED sobre Humanidades Digitales
by Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Dig itales (LINDH) 24 Jun '22

24 Jun '22

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Estimados compañeros, Os hacemos llegar un curso de verano organizado por el Laboratorio de Humanidades Digitales de la UNED<https://linhd.uned.es/>. El curso lleva por título Creación de un proyecto en Humanidades Digitales basado en el análisis de textos: modelado y procesamiento<https://extension.uned.es/actividad/idactividad/24581> y se celebrará del 28 al 30 de junio. Puede realizarse presencialmente o en línea (en directo o en diferido), tiene una duración de 20 horas y será eminentemente práctico. La investigación en Humanidades Digitales no ha dejado de crecer en los últimos años y son cada vez más los proyectos de historiadores, filólogos, o antropólogos que utilizan la tecnología para el análisis de corpus literarios en busca de patrones, la construcción de mapas digitales interactivos para una mejor visualización de los resultados de sus investigaciones, o la geolocalización de enclaves a los que se añaden capas de información multimedia, entre otras muchas posibilidades. Los humanistas digitales tienen un futuro prometedor en un área en crecimiento en el que se requieren perfiles profesionales mixtos y flexibles, capaces de organizar y etiquetar objetos digitales; así como gestionar su visualización y preservación en un entorno digital. Sin embargo, para desarrollar la investigación en esta área se ha de disponer de ciertos conocimientos técnicos tales como los que se abordan en el curso que os presentamos. El objetivo del mismo es diseñar un proyecto de humanidades digitales, desde el modelado del dominio hasta la creación de resultados y su diseminación, haciendo uso de lenguajes de programación, técnicas de modelado y visualización provenientes del mundo de la inteligencia artificial. Comenzaremos con una aproximación al mundo de las Humanidades Digitales y las problemáticas que surgen para el análisis de textos. Después, nos acercaremos a las metodologías y técnicas para resolver esos problemas mediante el modelado semántico y la perspectiva de los datos enlazados y lenguajes de marcas. Asimismo, se presentarán nuevos paradigmas computacionales relacionados con la Inteligencia Artificial como el procesamiento de textos, la estilometría, el deep learning, etc., y su aplicación. Para finalizar, se representarán los resultados obtenidos. Podéis obtener más información sobre el mismo y matricularos en este enlace.<https://www.fundacion.uned.es/actividad/idactividad/24581> Un cordial saludo Beatriz Tejada Carrasco Subdirectora de Planificación, Calidad y Comunicación Biblioteca UNED C/ Paseo de la senda del rey, 5 28040 Madrid Teléfono: 91 398 61 67 email: btejada(a)pas.uned.es AVISO LEGAL. Este mensaje puede contener información reservada y confidencial. Si usted no es el destinatario no está autorizado a copiar, reproducir o distribuir este mensaje ni su contenido. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que lo notifique al remitente. Le informamos de que sus datos personales, que puedan constar en este mensaje, serán tratados en calidad de responsable de tratamiento por la UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA (UNED) c/ Bravo Murillo, 38, 28015-MADRID-, con la finalidad de mantener el contacto con usted. La base jurídica que legitima este tratamiento, será su consentimiento, el interés legítimo o la necesidad para gestionar una relación contractual o similar. En cualquier momento podrá ejercer sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, supresión, oposición, limitación al tratamiento o portabilidad de los datos, ante la UNED, Departamento de Política Jurídica de Seguridad de la Información<https://www.uned.es/dpj>, o a través de la Sede electrónica<https://sede.uned.es/> de la Universidad. Para más información visite nuestra Política de Privacidad<https://descargas.uned.es/publico/pdf/Politica_privacidad_UNED.pdf>.

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Open and Inclusive Access to Research Symposium, November 8-11 (http://openandinclusiveresearch.org/)
by O'Donnell, Dan 25 Oct '21

25 Oct '21

Open and Inclusive Access to Research Symposium, November 8-11 (http://openandinclusiveresearch.org/) Open and Inclusive Access to Research is a four day virtual symposium with the goal of bringing experts and early career research professionals together in a bilingual (Spanish-English) workshop environment. This event will enable attendees from many regions to exchange knowledge and expertise about Open Research Practices in a strategic yet very hands-on manner, with workshops, debates and conversations with prominent speakers from both continents. The event is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada with additional support from the Sloan-funded Reimagining Educational Practices for Open (REPO) project, Force11, Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), Centro Argentino de Información Científica y Tecnológica (CAICYT-CONICET), the University of Lethbridge, and the DOAJ. http://openandinclusiveresearch.org/sponsors/ Registration is free and available at http://openandinclusiveresearch.org/ . Questions regarding the event can be directed to the organizers, Gimena del Rio Riande, gdelrio.riande(a)gmail.com, or Daniel O'Donnell, daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca. [U of Lethbridge Logo] Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English and Member of the Academic Staff of the University Library President, University of Lethbridge Faculty Association<http://ulfa.ca> Editor, Digital Studies/Le champ num<http://digitalstudies.org/>érique <http://digitalstudies.org/> University of Lethbridge<http://uleth.ca/> 4401 University Drive West Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Tel. +1 (403) 329-2377 http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell @danielPaulOD<https://twitter.com/DanielPaulOD>

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Digital Dante Days, Venice & online, 15-16 November 2021
by Franz FISCHER 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear digital medievalists, We are pleased to announce the Digital Dante Days to be held in Venice and online, 15-16 November 2021. This two-day international symposium will deal with key questions related to the past and current state of digital scholarship on the work of Dante Alighieri. Participants will discuss the achievements and challenges of Digital Dante Studies in Italy and abroad. A special session will be dedicated to the Second Edition of Prue Shaw's Digital Edition of Dante’s Commedia. Please find the full programme below. The event will be held both in presence at Auditorium Santa Margherita in Venice, and online. Link for the access in presence: https://forms.gle/Zf2syQ9AAbqkK8za9 Link for registration online: https://bit.ly/3AjBsat Poster: https://apps.unive.it/server/eventi/53578/a3_digital_dante_days_2021(1).pdf Leaflet: https://apps.unive.it/server/eventi/53578/pieghevole_digital_dante_days_202… All info at https://www.unive.it/data/agenda/2/53578 On behalf of the organizing committee, Franz Fischer PROGRAMM Day 1: Monday 15 - 2.30-4.00 PM Opening Gennaro Ferrante (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) Current Results and Further Developments of the Dante Portal at Federico II University Elena Spadini (Université de Lausanne) and Sonia Tempestini (Università della Svizzera italiana) Boccaccio lettore e scrittore della Commedia. Variantistica digitale Simone Marchesi (Princeton University) The IMAP-PDP Project: Toward a Visual Annotation of the Divine Comedy 4.15-6.30 PM Special Session on the Second Edition of Prue Shaw’s Digital Edition of Dante’s Commedia Prue Shaw (University College London), Lino Leonardi (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Peter Robinson (University of Saskatchewan) and Emiliano Degl’Innocenti (CNR) First Conclusions Michelangelo Zaccarello (Università di Pisa) Day 2: Tuesday 16 - 2.30-4.00 PM Gabriella Albanese (Università di Pisa) and Paolo Pontari (Università di Pisa) Il Vocabolario Dantesco Latino (VDL): lessicografia e cultura digitale per lo studio delle opere latine di Dante Carlo Meghini (ISTI-CNR), Daniele Metilli (ISTI-CNR) and Gaia Tomazzoli (Sapienza Università di Roma) Per una biblioteca digitale dell’opera di Dante: dall’esperienza di HDN alla creazione di LiDa Tiago Tresoldi (Uppsala Universitet) Bayesian Phylogenetic Methods and the Tradition of the Divine Comedy 4.30-6.30 PM Francesco Mambrini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano) and Rachele Sprugnoli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano) UDante. L’opera latina di Dante nella LiLa Knowledge Base Final Lecture Barbara Bordalejo (University of Lethbridge) Textual Evolution and the Construction of the Edited Text Organisation: Franz Fischer, Agnese Macchiarelli, Tiziana Mancinelli, Antonio Montefusco, Elena A. Vivan Iniziative Dantesche 2021 - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia - Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici and Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities -- Franz Fischer Direttore, Venice Centre for Digital & Public Humanities (VeDPH) Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Università Ca' Foscari Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà Dorsoduro 3484/D - 30123 Venezia Tel.: +39 041 234 6266 (ufficio), +39 041 234 9863 (segreteria del centro) https://www.unive.it/vedph https://www.i-d-e.de/ https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/

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CfP: Machine Learning and Data mining for Digital Scholarly Editions
by Bleier, Roman (roman.bleier＠uni-graz.at) 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear list members, we are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the conference Machine Learning and Data mining for Digital Scholarly Editions organised by the Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (IDE - Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing) together with the University of Rostock, the University of Graz and the Know-Center Graz. CfP: https://www.i-d-e.de/call-for-papers-ml-dse/ All the best, Roman Bleier

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Programme for 'Who Has Access to Digital Humanities? Diversity and Inclusivity in Digital Humanities in Ireland and the UK'
by Tupman, Charlotte 15 Oct '21

15 Oct '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear All, Please find below the final programme and link for registration. We hope you'll be able to join us. Who has Access to Digital Humanities? Diversity and Inclusivity in Digital Humanities in Ireland and the UK 22 October 2021, 09:30-15:30 Please register for a place at the virtual event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-has-access-to-digital-humanities-tickets… The convenors of an Arts and Humanities Research Council/Irish Research Council funded project to undertake research and consultation towards the implementation of a permanent Digital Humanities association for the UK and Ireland (see list of team members at https://dhnetwork.org/) invite submissions from individuals to co-create an event relating to DH and inclusion. One of the dreams of information and communication technologies is that of equitable and open access to information, to services, and to opportunities. We know, of course, that this is only true on the surface, and that technological systems tend to recreate the inequities of the cultures and societies that build them. As such, the dream of the digital humanities as a ‘big tent’ (that is, capacious, broad and inclusive) is also one that we need to constantly query and challenge if the field is to have a claim to being inclusive and diverse. This is a particularly pressing issue as we explore the potential for a regional DH network to support the use and promotion of DH methods in the UK and Ireland. Programme 09:30 Welcome to the event, Jennifer Edmond 09:45 - 11:00 Session 1: Digital Humanities and Access to Cultural Heritage Moderator: Natalie Harrower * Tinashe Mushakavanhu, 'African Digital Humanities and archiving gaps' (10-minute presentation) * Adam Stoneman and Paul Mulholland, 'Making cultural participation and citizen curation accessible' (10-minute demonstration taster session) * Valeria Carrillo Garza, 'The COVID19 crisis and small museums in the UK' (10-minute presentation) * Kyle Ramsy, 'Using open access software to make acoustic reconstruction more accessible' (5-minute pre-recorded presentation) * Kenna Hernly, 'The Museum Challenge' (5-minute provocation) Discussion (35 minutes) 11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE break 11:30 - 12:45 Session 2: Access to Places and Spaces; Networks and Communities Moderator: Rianna Walcott * Samya Brata Roy, 'Making networking accessible for Early Career Researchers' (8-minute presentation) * Nabeel Siddiqui, 'Travelling through DH: what Big Tent?' (8-minute presentation) * Anna-Maria Sichani and Tiago Garcia Sousa, '"So close, yet so far away": European DH professionals in post- Brexit Britain' (8-minute panel taster session) * Nicholas Bowskill, 'Post-Autonomy and 'Groups in the Mind'' (8-minute workshop taster session) * Vicky Garnett, 'Accessibility Lessons from Lockdown' (8-minute presentation) Discussion (30 minutes) 12:45 - 2:00 LUNCH Break 1:15 - 2:00 Lunchtime Breakout sessions * Adam Stoneman, 'SPICE curation platform' (Demonstration) * Anna-Maria Sichani and Tiago Garcia Sousa, '"So close, yet so far away": European DH professionals in post- Brexit Britain' (Panel discussion) * Nicholas Bowskill, 'SharedThinking and 'Making Groups Visible'' (workshop) 2:00 - 3:15 Session 3: Structuring for Inclusivity Moderator: Alex Gil * Kristen Schuster, 'Gender, labour and personal information spaces' (15-minute presentation) * Chris Houghton, 'Bringing DH to the masses' (15-minute presentation) * Sharon Webb, 'The Sussex Humanities Lab' (15-minute presentation) Discussion (30 minutes) 3:15 - 3:30 Closing remarks, Charlotte Tupman ------ Discussion paper on Communicating the Value and Impact of Digital Humanities in Teaching, Research and Infrastructure Development Members of this list might also be interested to know that the draft of the Network's second discussion paper, on communicating the value and impact of DH, is open for comments until 29th October. We would very much welcome your thoughts: https://osf.io/z8v9c/ Best wishes, Charlotte -- Dr Charlotte Tupman Research Fellow in Digital Humanities Director of Global, Department of Classics and Ancient History College of Humanities University of Exeter EX4 4QH Tel. +44 (0)1392 72 4243 Please note that I will be unable to answer calls to this number at present, although I should be able to retrieve voicemail. <https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/staff/tupman/> <https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/staff/tupman/>https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/staff/tupman/ Co-Investigator of the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network<https://dhnetwork.org/> I will usually be able to respond to emails Tue-Fri. Please note that although my working pattern means that I might send you an email outside of normal office hours, I do not expect a response outside the hours of your own working pattern. If your email relates to an application for funding, please send initial enquiries to digitalhumanities(a)exeter.ac.uk and a member of the team will normally respond within three working days. This email and any attachment may contain information that is confidential, privileged, or subject to copyright, and which may be exempt from disclosure under applicable legislation. It is intended for the addressee only. If you received this message in error, please let me know and delete the email and any attachments immediately. The University will not accept responsibility for the accuracy/completeness of this email and its attachments.

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Announcing VCEditor, a tool for modeling and visualizing physical collation of books ins codex format
by Alberto Campagnolo 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. The VisColl team at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania, are pleased to announce the launch of VCEditor. Use VCEditor to model and visualize medieval manuscripts and books in codex format in general. We welcome your feedback! https://vceditor.library.upenn.edu<https://vceditor.library.upenn.edu/> [viscoll-collations-mode-01.png] VCEditor is based on the VisColl specification https://viscoll.org<https://viscoll.org/> and is adapted from the VisCodex application by @oldbooksnewsci (https://github.com/utlib/VisualCollation). For help, see our 'How to page' (https://viscoll.org/help/) and the project Wiki (https://github.com/KislakCenter/VisualCollation/wiki). Please share the news and let us know how we can improve this for your needs! Thank you, Alberto Campagnolo

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Observatory of Written Heritage | "Low Countries" - Meeting 2021
by Lucien Reynhout 13 Oct '21

13 Oct '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. (Apologies for cross-posting) Observatory of Written Heritage | "Low Countries" (owhlc.hypotheses.org<http://owhlc.hypotheses.org/>) Meeting 2021 Brussels, KBR (Royal Library of Belgium), 23rd and 24th November 2021 Organized by [cid:image001.jpg@01D7C013.B883B570] Funded by [https://intranet.kbr.be/doc/logos/logoBelspoEN.jpg] Over the course of the Middle Ages and the first Renaissance, what was called the 'Low Countries' (BeNeLux, Northern France, Northern-Western Rhine Regions) developed an original written culture. The essential part of what has been preserved of this important heritage has fortunately survived in the libraries and manuscript collections of our regions, sometimes abroad. Over the last few years, important survey and recovery projects have been started. However, not all the heritage collections have been identified or explored, especially in the private and ecclesiastical libraries. Moreover, not all the pre-modern sources useful for the study of this written heritage have yet been identified, surveyed or edited. To facilitate these scholarly activities, we must call on information technologies and particularly on digital humanities for inventory, research, preservation and enhancement of this heritage. Relevant technologies include managing metadata, digitization, electronic editions, data mining, virtual libraries and virtual digital museology or digitally restoring medieval books. However, all these initiatives have not yet necessarily been surveyed, and they are still not all accessible from a central point of information. Moreover, many manuscripts and the relevant sources that document their history are still poorly known to scholars working in this field. It therefore seems timely and opportune to make an assessment of the initiatives and to establish a research community around the written heritage of the historical Low Countries and the application of digital humanities to this field. An 'observatory of written heritage', comparable to Biblissima and in close collaboration with this pioneering French portal in the field, would be a good approach to creating a synergy between keepers of the historical collections, expert librarians, academic scholars and teachers and digital humanities researchers. In order to launch this contact group's activities, a webinar has already been organized in May 2021. Now that the relaxation of the Covid-19 rules allow for in-person meetings, we are able to organize a meeting on 23rd and 24th November. This will not be a conference, but working groups deliberating on the need of such a network, the expectations for it, and the possible activities it could undertake in the next future. If you are a librarian, an archivist, a written heritage preservation or digitization specialist, a Digital Humanities specialist, a researcher or a teacher involved in the field of written cultures of the area in question, and if you are a representative of your institution, unit, laboratory, etc., you are friendly invited to participate in the working days (there may be several participants for each institution, depending on their skills). !!! Due to Covid health measures in Brussels-Capital Region, access might be made conditional on presentation of a 'Covid Safe Ticket' !!! REGISTRATION FORM <https://forms.gle/ksjh97nY9zVBhxpXA> (please CTRL + click to open) PROGRAM Tuesday, November 23rd 10:00 Welcome Coffee 10:30 Opening Speeches Lunch Time 13:00 Working Groups (Metadata and Cataloguing, Preservation and Heritage Management, Digitization, Research, Education and Training in Written Heritage and Digital Humanities, Virtual Museology and Enhancement of Written Heritage, etc.). 15:00 Visit of KBR Museum Wednesday, November 24th 09:30 Presentation of the Working Groups Summaries (1) 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 Presentation of the Working Groups Summaries (2) Lunch Time 13:30 General Discussion 15:00 Closing Drink

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A database of the early medieval manuscripts of Isidore's Etymologiae
by Evina Steinova 13 Oct '21

13 Oct '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear DM community, In April this year, I informed you about the beta launch of the Innovating Knowledge database. This database contains information about all surviving and identified early medieval manuscripts transmitting the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville, fully or partially. Today, I am glad to inform you that the final version of the database was released at: db.innovatingknowledge.nl<http://db.innovatingknowledge.nl/>. Introduction to the database and explanatory texts can be found at the Innovating Knowledge website<https://innovatingknowledge.nl/?page_id=33>. This final version describes 478 manuscripts, giving us for the first time a good overview of how popular and widespread work the Etymologiae was in the early Middle Ages. It is almost certainly not the final count as new witnesses of Isidore's text from the early Middle Ages continue to be identified. The database can be, hopefully, curated for at least a few more years and new manuscripts can be added to it. If more funding can be secured for the database, one day it can be hopefully expanded to contain also post-1000 manuscripts of the most important medieval Latin encyclopaedia. The final version of the database also contains images of 270 of the manuscripts. As a novel feature, the database has an integrated Mirador viewer, which allows you to open and browse through all manuscripts equipped with a IIIF manifest (there are 264 of them) directly via the database. We also improved our free text search and filters and added two new formats (XML and Excel) to download options. Together with the database, the project also releases the data behind the database for reuse by other projects. They can be found here<https://zenodo.org/record/5564441>. I sincerely hope the Innovating Knowledge database will be a welcomed addition to the tools available to the Digital Medievalist community. We at the Innovating Knowledge project also welcome any tips for new manuscripts to include into the growing list of early medieval witnesses of the Etymologiae and also any corrections and additions of the extant entries in the database. Best wishes, Evina Steinova https://homomodernus.net/ https://evinasteinova.academia.edu/ Postdoctoral Researcher NWO VENI project Innovating Knowledge<http://innovatingknowledge.nl> Huygens ING, Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam

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Postdoc position, Digital Humanities / History, University of Vienna
by Tara L Andrews 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. (Apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, The Digital Humanities group within the Institute for History at the University of Vienna is seeking a post-doctoral assistant. This is a full-time position, to start in February 2022 and limited to six years; it includes independent teaching responsibilities of up to 4 SWS (~two classes per semester). Our group has a strong profile in digital methods for historical research, and a particular emphasis on the medieval period in a variety of different regions; current projects within the group include a study of ethical issues around use of linked open data in GLAM institutions, a digital prosopography of medieval Georgia, a new edition of the Peterborough Chronicle, continuing work on the Armenian-language Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, and most recently an ERC-funded project, RELEVEN, that focuses on the eastern and northern parts of the Christian world in the eleventh century and how we can manage the historical data generated from our sources for this period. We welcome applications from anyone who has completed their doctorate (or will have the diploma in hand before February), and who combines digital methods with the (worldwide) medieval era in their research. For more details about the job and how to apply, please visit https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/flow/bew_ausschreibun…. Best wishes, Tara Andrews -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tara L Andrews Digital Humanities Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien Universitätsring 1, A-1010 Wien

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Reminder: SIMS Online Lecture Series This Friday! Growing a Research Network: Approaches to Global Book History
by Ransom, Lynn 07 Oct '21

07 Oct '21

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Suspicious emails should be forwarded to phishing(a)uleth.ca. There is still time to register for next week's SIMS Online Lecture. We look forward to seeing you there! * Growing a Research Network: Approaches to Global Book History Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Institute for Advanced Study, and Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto Friday, October 15, 2021, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT (via Zoom) The Book and the Silk Roads approaches the "book" in a capacious way: it is a writing surface, taken from the natural world, hand-crafted to bear textual records. Books can be rolls, leaves, screenfolds, codices, tablets, and even standing stones. To reveal their meanings, to read their diverse texts and scripts alongside their materials, physical structures, and layers of accretions, we need to marshal innovative, interdisciplinary approaches and a collaborative methodology, embedded within a global perspective. Over the past year and a half, we have worked to transform our understanding of the human past and its nonhuman contexts by establishing a wide range of research partnerships, laying the groundwork for a global history of the book. In this talk, we will offer an overview of The Book and the Silk Roads that 1) summarizes the lessons learned during the pandemic, as our project has pivoted in a nimble way to accommodate increased use of online environments and limitations on research travel; 2) outlines some of our research findings, from birchbark Kashmiri manuscripts to palimpsests from Sinai; and 3) describes our increasingly substantial public humanities focus, including our upcoming exhibition at the Aga Khan Museum, Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads. Click here for more information and the link to registration<https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/growing-research-networ…>. **To receive the SIMS newsletter for regular monthly updates on SIMS programs, events, and news, sign up here<http://eepurl.com/hJY9vP>.**

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