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CeRch Seminar: Founders & Survivors: Tasmanian Convict Life Courses in Historical Context
by kcl - cerch 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below the details of next week's CeRch seminar: Date: Tuesday, 4th March 2014, from 6.15pm to 7.30pm (GMT) Location: Anatomy Museum Space, 6th Floor, King's College London (Strand Campus) http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/strand/Strand.aspx Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cerch-seminar-founders-survivors-tasmanian-con… The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles. All the best, Valentina Asciutti Abstract: Founders & Survivors is a multi-university and public collaborative project that is building a transnational and inter-generational data set of life courses generated from the UNESCO recognized convict records of Tasmania. This paper outlines the technical history of the project: mass digitization and archiving online of over 100,000 images; manual scholarly transcription; TEI standard XML data library based on automated and manual record matching and linkage; crowdsourcing using Google Docs to manage over 60 online volunteer genealogists; re-constitution of amalgamated life courses and record linkage; development of customized genealogical database for population and family analysis (Yggrasil); export to statistical programmes (SPSS, Stata). Three grants from the Australian Research Council have funded this work, and the outcomes have been (1) Hamish Maxwell-Stewart's nominal dataset of around 70,000 Tasmanian convicts using Deborah Oxley's transcriptions of the probation era, amplified by full transcriptions of 1 in 25 convicts and linkages to later criminal records (at the University of Tasmania); and (2) the Life Course project run by the authors which has completed life courses researched for all convicts from 91 convict shiploads, creating a reference population of 12,068 men (around 25% of the total) and 5,549 women (around 40% of the total), with another 6188 (at last count) from random ships (at the University of Melbourne). The proportion of convicts researched for life before, during and after sentence, marriage, fertility and death is around 37% of the total number of convicts for whom adequate records have survived. This sample is big enough to enable significant analysis on all-cause and cause-specific mortality; fertility; the life course effects of insult accumulation; temperament and survival; early life influences and intergenerational effects. None of this would have been possible without the combination of information technology, digitized archives, customized software and the thousands of hours of labour donated by volunteers, to the equivalent value of AUD 4 million! Speakers: 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). ?

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This week's Manuscript Road Trip
by Lisa Fagin Davis 22 Feb '14

22 Feb '14

Manuscripts lost and manuscripts found at Connecticut College... http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/manuscript-road-trip-los… - Lisa -- 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

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Lecture by Johanna Drucker, Queen Mary University of London 25 March
by E Poleg 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

Dear Digital Medievalists, A lecture on 'Visualizing Temporality: Modelling Time from the Textual Record' may be of interest. It will take place at Queen Mary on 25 March. For more details see attachment. Best Eyal Dr Eyal Poleg Lecturer in Material History School of History Queen Mary University of London e.poleg(a)qmul.ac.uk

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Digital Networking Even - Queen Mary, University of London, 21 March 2014
by E Poleg 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Dear Digital Medievalists, Registration is now open for a Digital Networking event at Queen Mary, University of London. Supported by the British Academy, the day will bring together early career scholars interested in developing Digital Humanities projects. It will combine targeted networking sessions and group workshops, with presentations by guest speakers designed to address the practicalities of running digital projects and to provide advice on grant applications. For more details see the attached PDF, and circulate widely! Best Eyal Dr Eyal Poleg Lecturer in Material History School of History Queen Mary University of London e.poleg(a)qmul.ac.uk

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PhD Studentship at Calgary
by Murray McGillivray 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

I have just been granted funding for a PhD student in digital medieval literary or linguistic (OE, ME) studies, to commence September 2014 or January 2015. The student will be fully funded for four years. The "Eyes High" scholarship itself is worth $25K Cdn per year for a Canadian applicant, $30K Cdn per year for a non-Canadian. That amount will be reduced to an $8K top-up per year if the student wins, as is expected, major external funding such as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellowship. The funding from the "Eyes High" scholarship would also be supplemented with funding from my own grants and/or with teaching assignments in my department, for somewhere in the area of an additional $15K per annum. The doctoral project would need to be in the general area described above, and would ideally complement or be part of my own ongoing editorial projects, especially the Online Corpus of Old English Poetry or its planned Aelfrician extension, the probable target of my next research grant application. A strong background in digital humanities work is very desirable but lack of one is not necessarily a deal-breaker for a highly-qualified candidate. Turn-around is very tight. I will need an expression of interest by 20 February in order to consider anyone as a candidate; this should include a CV and if possible transcripts of your academic record. Applicants need to have a completed Masters degree by the time of taking up the studentship. My candidate needs to be submitted to our university approvers by 10 March. Please do feel free to pass this information along to anyone (and any listservs) you think might be interested. I'm happy to answer questions about this (private mail, please, not the list) but will be travelling for part of the next week so may not be as prompt as you would like in replying. Murray McGillivray University of Calgary

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Call for Participants: Roots & Routes Summer Institute
by E. Natalie Rothman 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

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Fwd: [SHARP-L] 2014 CSDH/SCHN Outstanding Contribution Award|Le Prix de contribution exceptionnelle CSDH/SCHN 2014
by Daniel O'Donnell 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

FYI. If you know of Canadian projects or projects with Canadians participating in the lead and want to nominate them, the contact information is below. I was on the committee that put this award together and a goal is to really find a way of recognising the things in DH that are crucial to the field but not always easy to reward or otherwise recognise. It is also very much intended /not/ to be a career award--i.e. it can be awarded to anybody at any career stage and it should be for the contribution, not the career that lead up to the contribution (or lack of a career). -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [SHARP-L] 2014 CSDH/SCHN Outstanding Contribution Award|Le Prix de contribution exceptionnelle CSDH/SCHN 2014 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:26:06 +0000 From: Dean Irvine <Dean.Irvine(a)Dal.Ca> Reply-To: <sharp-l(a)list.indiana.edu> To: csdh-schn-members-request(a)lists.csdh-schn.org <csdh-schn-members-request(a)lists.csdh-schn.org> Please find below a snippet of a call for nominations from the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanitiés numériques. Full details available online at the links below. Deadline for nominations is *15 March 2014*. Dean Irvine Vice-President, CSDH/SCHN Chair, CSDH/SCHN Outstanding Contribution Award Committee ************************* [version française suit] Call for submissions for the 2014 CSDH/SCHN Outstanding Contribution Award This award is given for an exemplary project or publication by a Canadian researcher, or a researcher at a Canadian institution, or a team based at Canadian institution. It recognizes a major contribution to the field of digital humanities, broadly conceived, by a Canadian researcher or team of researchers, or a researcher or team based at a Canadian institution, in the form of a recent scholarly publication or published software or tool contribution. For more information, please visit our site: http://csdh-schn.org/2014/02/11/contribution-nominations/ Appel à candidatures pour le Prix de contribution exceptionnelle CSDH/SCHN 2014 Description : Ce prix est remis pour un projet ou une publication exemplaire par un(e) chercheur(e) canadien(ne), ou un(e) chercheur(e) dans une institution canadienne, ou une équipe basée dans une institution canadienne. Ce prix est une reconnaissance pour une contribution significative dans le domaine des humanités numériques, conçue en grande partie par un(e) chercheur(e) canadien(ne), ou un(e) chercheur(e) dans une institution canadienne, ou une équipe basée dans une institution canadienne sous la forme d’une publication savante, d’un logiciel publié, ou d’une contribution sous forme d’outil récent. Pour plus d'information, veuillez consulter notre à http://csdh-schn.org/2014/02/11/contribution-nominations/ Dean Irvine Director/Directeur, Editing Modernism in Canada/L’édition du modernisme au Canada (EMiC/EmaC) Department of English Dalhousie University 6135 University Avenue Halifax, NS B3H 4P9 email: dean.irvine(a)dal.ca <mailto:dean.irvine@dal.ca> @irvined @EMiC_project

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This week's Blog: Riverside
by Lisa Fagin Davis 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

This week, the Manuscript Road Trip gets a tour of the Inland Empire: http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/manuscript-road-trip-the… - Lisa -- 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

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R: Re: Historical Image Overlays for the St Chad Gospels
by pmorpurgo＠libero.it 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

The link does not work! Piero M. >----Messaggio originale---- >Da: daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca >Data: 07/02/2014 20.30 >A: <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> >Ogg: Re: [dm-l] Historical Image Overlays for the St Chad Gospels > >You should write about this for Digital Medievalist, the journal. > > >On 14-02-07 09:52 AM, Endres, William F wrote: >> Dear Colleagues, >> >> I am happy to announce that I now have available for viewing images taken >> over the last 125 years for nine pages of the 8th-century St Chad Gospels: >> https://lichfield.as.uky.edu. These photographs include up to five images >> for a page, beginning with images taken in 1887 and concluding with images >> taken by my imaging efforts in 2010. Once you click a page's thumbnail, >> the viewer automatically loads a page's full set of images. Choose the >> ones you want to compare from the viewer's drop-down lists. You can adjust >> the transparency of the top image through the viewer's slidebar. >> >> I have also included a brief discussion and some preliminary findings from >> overlaying these images: https://lichfield.as.uky.edu/historical-images. I >> include an animated gif of an area that contains chipped pigment to >> provide one example of the aging (happily, these areas are rare). >> >> I continue to think through ways that digital efforts can not only >> increase access to medieval manuscripts and digitally preserve them, but >> also take advantage of prior photographic and scholarly efforts to enhance >> or integrate them with current digital efforts, increasing their value and >> what we can know. As always, any comments or suggestions are appreciated. >> >> All best, >> Bill >> >> > >-- >--- >Daniel Paul O'Donnell >Professor of English >University of Lethbridge >Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 >Canada > >+1 403 393-2539 > > >Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ >Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ >Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org >News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ >Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ >Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval >Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49320313760 >Discussion list: dm-l(a)uleth.ca >Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l >

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Writing Britain: CxP a reminder
by Orietta Da Rold 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

*With apologies for cross-posting* Dear Colleagues, This is just a note to remind interested scholars and students about the deadline for abstracts for the Writing Britain conference to be held in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge under the auspices of the Centre for Material Texts. Please submit your abstract by Thursday 20 February by following this link https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/conferences/writing_britain/… Alternatively, contact one of the organisers. Please, also do alert students about this event. The conference is generously sponsored by the Faculty of English and the University of Cambridge and the School of English at the University of Leicester. We are looking forward to welcoming many of you in Cambridge Orietta, Richard, Phil and Aidan. ************************************************************************** Writing Britain: 500-1500 University of Cambridge, Faculty of English, 30 June - 2 July 2014 Under the auspices of the Centre for Material Texts Writing Britain is a biennial event which aims to draw on a range of approaches and perspectives to exchange ideas about manuscript studies, material culture, multilingualism in texts and books, book history, readers, audience and scribes across the medieval period. The 2014 iteration of the Writing Britain Conference will take place in the English Faculty at the University of Cambridge under the auspices of the Centre for Material Texts. Some of the topics which we are keen to explore are literary and non-literary agencies and their significance and/or relevance in the medieval period across British medieval written culture in English, French, Latin, Norse and the Celtic languages. More broadly, we are interested in other questions such as: How did local writers, compilers and readers use writing to inscribe regional identity within broader conventions or, on the other hand, impress 'universal' practices and constructs on local populations? What were the different markets for books? Can we characterize their developments and differences? What new or existing methodologies can be employed to localise texts and books across Britain? What is the role of the Digital Humanities in the study of medieval book culture? Plenary speakers: Jonathan Wilcox (University of Iowa), Richard Beadle (University of Cambridge) and Simon Horobin (University of Oxford) We welcome proposals from scholars working on any aspects of British medieval written culture up to 1500. Please visit our conference web site in order to submit an abstract (300 words or fewer) for a twenty-minute paper. Please send your abstract by 20 February 2014. Abstracts from postgraduate students are welcome and graduate rates will be provided. For further information please visit the website where contact details of the organisers will also be available. Conference website: www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/conferences/writing_britain *********************************** Dr Orietta Da Rold University Lecturer in Literature and the Material Text: 1100 to 1500 Faculty of English 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP 01223 335089 Fellow of St John´s College Cambridge, CB2 1TP 01223 768181 od245(a)cam.ac.uk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Medieval Manuscripts Research Consortium" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mmrc-08+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mmrc-08(a)googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mmrc-08. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. *********************************** Dr Orietta Da Rold University Lecturer in Literature and the Material Text: 1100 to 1500 Faculty of English 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP 01223 335089 Fellow of St John´s College Cambridge, CB2 1TP 01223 768181 od245(a)cam.ac.uk *********************************** Dr Orietta Da Rold University Lecturer in Literature and the Material Text: 1100 to 1500 Faculty of English 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP 01223 335089 Fellow of St John´s College Cambridge, CB2 1TP 01223 768181 od245(a)cam.ac.uk

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