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PhD studentship in Ghent: Medieval Latin and stylometry
by Burghart Marjorie 17 Jul '15

17 Jul '15

FYI! Best regards, Marjorie Burghart THE HENRI PIRENNE INSTITUTE FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES AT GHENT UNIVERSITY (BELGIUM) HAS A POSITION AVAILABLE FOR: A PhD RESEARCHER (FULL-TIME PREDOCTORAL RESEARCHER) Project description Collaborative Authorship in Twelfth-Century Latin Literature: A Stylometric Approach to Gender, Synergy and Authority Stylometry, a subfield of Digital Humanities, offers new methods for segregating different writing styles. So far, stylometry has been especially popular in authorship attribution studies. This project will approach issues of collaborative authorship in twelfth-century Latin literature with stylometric methods. In the Middle Ages, authors seldom worked alone when conceiving their treatises, letters or narratives. A new text could be the result of drafts on wax tablets copied by professional scribes, of processes of dictation and subsequent correction, etc. An authority like Bernard of Clairvaux, one of the most prolific and influential medieval authors, is known to have been surrounded by a team of secretaries. For his sermons and letters in particular, a number of his collaborators were even trained in imitating his writing style, thus facilitating Bernard's work of final editing or correcting. In the case of the remarkably few medieval female authors known to us, the role of secretaries is even more intricate. Women writers such as the German nun Hildegard of Bingen were considered unlearned and incapable of independently writing down their visionary experiences, even if their visions were accepted as being divinely inspired. These women therefore had to be assisted by male collaborators, often also serving as their spiritual directors. The precise nature and implications of such (cross-gender) collaborations remain a topic of scholarly debate. With a number of selected, experimental case studies, concentrating on Bernard of Clairvaux and his secretaries, Hildegard of Bingen and her collaborators, Suger of Saint-Denis and his chancery, and Abelard and Heloise, this project aims to contribute to the debate about individual and collective creativity in the Middle Ages, and to extend the usual application of stylometric methods to new cultural-historical questions that go beyond mere authorship attribution. This research project is funded by the Special Research Fund (BOF) of Ghent University. Directors: Prof. Jeroen Deploige (Ghent University), Dr. Mike Kestemont (University of Antwerp), Prof. Wim Verbaal (Ghent University) Professional environment Medieval studies at Ghent University cover a wide range of subjects and methodological approaches. Intensive exchanges within the Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies and with the international academic community create a stimulating environment for innovative research. For more information, see http://www.ugent.be/pirenne The collaborator will also be associated with the CLiPS Research Centre (Computational Linguistics & Psycholinguistics) at the University of Antwerp, in order to be immersed in the stylometric research carried out at this institute. For more information, see: http://www.clips.ua.ac.be. Qualifications of the candidate - A Master's degree in History, Literature, (Computational) Linguistics or Medieval Studies. Students who are currently preparing a master’s thesis and will graduate as a Master before 1 October 2015 are also welcome to apply. - Excellent study results. - Experience with reading and analyzing Latin texts, preferably of the medieval period. - Strong interest in the expanding field of Digital Humanities, and computational text analysis in particular. Willing to be trained intensively in stylometric research during the course of the PhD project. - Active knowledge of English and/or French and ability to read scholarly literature in the major academic languages. Willing to learn basic Dutch during the employment at Ghent University (introductory courses are available). - Commitment to prepare, and finish, a doctoral dissertation as outlined in the project text within four years. - An intellectually curious, analytical, responsible, and proactive personality, able to work autonomously as well as in a team. Offer - A four-year contract as a full time academic staff member, attached to the History Department at Ghent University (scholarship starting from around 1800 euro net/month; 1 year + 3 additional years after positive evaluation). - Opportunity to gain a PhD in four years, supervised by the three project directors. Given the multidisciplinary nature of the research to be conducted, the PhD can be in Literature, Linguistics or History, depending on the preference of the candidate and the emphases developed in the research. - Extensive opportunities for engaging with national and international research groups. - Opportunity to follow an individualized PhD programme at the UGent Doctoral School of Arts, Humanities and Law, including language courses. Start of the project: negotiable (but between 1 October 2015 and 1 July 2016). How to apply Feel free to contact prof. Jeroen Deploige for any further information or questions. If you are considering applying for this position, you are also invited to request the full project description. If you are interested in joining us, please send a copy of your diploma, your CV, a one-page summary of your master’s thesis and a cover letter describing your interest in the project before 28 August 2015 to prof. Jeroen Deploige (jeroen.deploige(a)ugent.be).

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Integrating Digital Epigraphies (seminar)
by Gabriel Bodard 16 Jul '15

16 Jul '15

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015 Friday July 17 at 16:30 in room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Hugh Cayless (Duke University) Integrating Digital Epigraphies This presentation will also be streamed live at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIamtu1Z62wL5XRk2mE8HKw Integrating Digital Epigraphies (IDEs) is being developed as a Linked Data platform for digital epigraphy. The first round of development leverages data from partner projects including the PHI's Searchable Greek Inscriptions project, the SEG, the Claros concordance of epigraphical publication data, and epigraphy articles in JSTOR to develop a set of web services. Identifiers from any of the projects may be used to retrieve related data from any of the others. The goal of IDEs is not to be a portal or aggregator superseding partner projects, but a data hub that allows all of them to leverage each other’s work. ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk, Hugh.Bowden(a)kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn(a)kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony(a)ucl.ac.uk or Charlotte.Tupman(a)kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD Researcher in Digital Epigraphy Digital Humanities King's College London Boris Karloff Building 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL T: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 E: gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/

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Mapping the Medieval Countryside - A Digital Edition of the Inquisitions Post Mortem
by MLH 16 Jul '15

16 Jul '15

Dear Colleagues, We're delighted to announce that a major new resource is available in beta. Mapping the Medieval Countryside is a digital edition of the medieval English inquisitions post mortem (IPMs), currently covering the period 1418-1447. IPMs recorded the lands held at their deaths by tenants of the crown, and are the single most important source for the study of landed society in medieval England. Describing the lands held by thousands of families, from nobles to peasants, they are a key source for the history of almost every parish in England and many in Wales. Please explore at: www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk Best wishes, Matthew Holford Twitter: @MedievalIPM

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CFP Kalamazoo 2016_Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Sponsored Session
by Lynn Ransom 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

Call for Papers Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Sponsored Session at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 12-15, 2016 We seek proposals for the following session: Networks of Transmission: Histories and and Practices of Collecting Medieval Manuscripts and Documents This session will focus on the mapping of those networks of sale and purchase through which medieval manuscripts have been pursued and on the collectors and collecting that have catalyzed this transmission across the centuries. This session – like The Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts itself – is rooted in the belief that studying manuscripts’ provenance can have dynamic and profound effects not only on our understanding of these medieval materials as objects to be bought and sold but also on their texts through mapping their circulation and reception. We particularly welcome proposals that explore diverse topics from the role of digital technologies such as the SDBM in conducting provenance research, the relationship between institutional and private ownership of manuscripts, specific case studies of collecting practices, the transatlantic travels of medieval materials, collectors’ roles in the dispersal of libraries and the fragmentation of manuscripts, collectors and manuscript preservation, and how a manuscript’s provenance history can effect its value and collectability on the rare books market, to how collectors and the act of collecting can shape and influence interpretations of manuscript evidence. Please send proposals with a one-page abstract and Participant Information Form (www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html) to Lynn Ransom (lransom(a)upenn.edu ) by September 1, 2015.

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latest blogpost
by Lisa Fagin Davis 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

An update on the state of Digital Fragmentology in North America: https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/manuscript-road-trip-th… Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis 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

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documenting our own history in DH/DM
by Sara L. Uckelman 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

Dear all, The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources has just put up a new post on our blog that reflects on the practices of digital humanities/digital medievalism, specifically with respect to the importance of explicitly documenting who did what in the context of a given project. It was sparked by one of the talks at the "Middle Ages in the Modern World" conference in Lincoln last week, as well as by my own practices implemented in the running of the DMNES. I'd be interested in any feedback or counterpoints any of you might have: https://dmnes.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/digital-humanities-medievalism-and-t… Cheers, -Sara -- Dr. Sara L. Uckelman Department of Philosophy Durham University https://www.dur.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/?id=12928 The Dicitionary of Medieval Names from European Sources http://dmnes.org/

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DM-Board Election Results
by Alberto Campagnolo 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

We have the pleasure of announcing the results from the DM elections 2015. The tally for Digital Medievalist Executive Board Elections (term 2015-2017) has been computed and released: https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/e/DM_elections_2015-17 In alphabetical order the elected members of the community to the Board are: - Emiliano Degl’Innocenti - Els De Paermentier - Greta Franzini - Dominique Stutzmann We would like to thank the other candidates for standing and providing us with an outstandingly rich choice. Thank you for your participation! Best wishes to the new DM board, and the DM community as a whole, Alberto and Georg

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Sunoikisis DC - An International Consortium of Digital Classics Programs (seminar)
by Gabriel Bodard 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015 Friday July 10 at 16:30 in room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Monica Berti (Leipzig), Gregory R. Crane (Tufts & Leipzig), Kenny Morrell (Center for Hellenic Studies) *Sunoikisis DC - An International Consortium of Digital Classics Programs* Sunoikisis DC is an international consortium of Digital Classics programs developed by the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig in collaboration with the Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. Sunoikisis DC aims at reaching a global audience and offers collaborative courses that foster interdisciplinary paradigms of learning and allow students of both the humanities and computer science to work together by contributing to digital classics projects in a collaborative environment. The goal of this talk is to present the activities of the consortium and its results. ALL WELCOME The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk, Hugh.Bowden(a)kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn(a)kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony(a)ucl.ac.uk or Charlotte.Tupman(a)kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD Researcher in Digital Epigraphy Digital Humanities King's College London Boris Karloff Building 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL T: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 E: gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/

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DH@Madrid Summer School on Digital Scholarly Edition, 13-17 July, also online!
by Elena González-Blanco 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

**Apologies for cross-posting*** Dearcolleagues, Please,find attached the complete program and registration information for our DigitalHumanities Summer School at LINHD-UNED. This year it is devoted to DigitalScholarly Editing and it is sponsored by the Dixit Scholarly Editing Network. Thecourse can be followed presentially or virtually (completely online!). Dates:13-17th July 2015 Place: Salón de Actos Facultad de Económicas, UNED, Madrid –or your own computer… Moreinformation registration process and program: http://linhd.uned.es/en/p/summer_school_2015-2/ Discountsapply for any student and member of DH Associations! Best regards Elena González-Blanco Director of LINHD Dpto. de Literatura Española y Teoría de la Literatura,Despacho 722 Facultad de Filología, UNED Paseo Senda del Rey 7 28040 MADRID tel. 91 3986873 www.uned.es/remetca http://filindig.hypotheses.org/ http://linhd.uned.es www.uned.es/personal/elenagonzalezblanco @elenagbg ----- Queridos compañeros: Os escribo para informaros que quedan disponibles lasúltimas plazas para el curso de verano “Introducción a la Edición DigitalAcadémica” que impartimos la semana próxima en la UNED, organizado por elLaboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales (LINHD). Está avalado por lared europea DIXIT (Digital ScholarlyEditing) y puede seguirse presencialmente u online, en directo y en diferido. Fechas: 13-17 de Julio Lugar: Salón de Actos, Facultad de Económicas, UNED – o elordenador de tu casa… Más información y matrícula: http://linhd.uned.es/p/escuela-de-verano-introduccion-a-la-edicion-digital-… Descuentos a estudiantes de cualquier universidad y a los miembrosde asociaciones de humanidades digitales. Un saludo muy cordial, Elena González-Blanco Directora de LINHD Dpto. de Literatura Española y Teoría de la Literatura,Despacho 722 Facultad de Filología, UNED Paseo Senda del Rey 7 28040 MADRID tel. 91 3986873 www.uned.es/remetca http://filindig.hypotheses.org/ http://linhd.uned.es www.uned.es/personal/elenagonzalezblanco @elenagbg

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Pedagogical Value of Postgraduate Involvement in DH (seminar)
by Gabriel Bodard 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies seminar 2015 *The Pedagogical Value of Postgraduate Involvement in Digital Humanities Departmental Projects* Francesca Giovannetti, Asmita Jain, Ethan Jean-Marie, Paul Kasay, Emma King, Theologis Strikos, Argula Rublack, Kaijie Ying (King's College London) Friday July 3rd at 16:30, in Room 212, 26-29 Drury Lane, King's College London, WC2B 5RL (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2B+5RL) A team of postgraduate volunteers from the department of Digital Humanities at KCL has been involved in the development of the SNAP:DRGN project (http://snapdrgn.net/), allowing them to build upon skills acquired during their Masters Degree, including coding tasks with Python, RDF, SPARQL queries and improvements to the final HTML pages, as well as administrative tasks such as communicating and negotiating with potential contributors for the expansion of the dataset. This seminar will analyse the pedagogical value of this initiative for postgraduate students approaching the work world or further academic study. ALL WELCOME -- Dr Gabriel BODARD Researcher in Digital Epigraphy Digital Humanities King's College London Boris Karloff Building 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL T: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 E: gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/

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