*Apologies for cross-posting*
The database "Regesta Pontificum Romanorum" has been launched at the
beginning of this week. In the near future there will be a regest for every
papal contact prior to the year 1198. Please visit www.papsturkunden.de.
As of now just 282 regesta of the Bohemia-Moravia have been released, but
there will be coming more soon.
Best regards
Thorsten Schlauwitz
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Thorsten Schlauwitz M.A.
wiss. Mitarbeiter an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
BMBF-Projekt "Schrift und Zeichen. Computergestützte Analyse von
hochmittelalterlichen Papsturkunden. Ein Schlüssel zur Kulturgeschichte
Europas"
This week, the Manuscript Road Trip finds an old friend in Iowa:
http://wp.me/p3RUQ3-de
- Lisa
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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
[Apologies for cross-posting]
The DIXIT ITN is offering 12 fellowships for Early Stage Researchers (not
yet doctors, having obtained a Master degree in the past 4 years, and NOT
having spent more than 12 months in the host country during the past 3
years).
One of those 3-year fellowships is based at the EHESS Lyon (ESR 5), under
my general supervision*. See here for more information:
http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/esr.html#c18481
The research project is designed to be carried out as a PhD thesis and
includes the following tasks:
- Preparation of a digital edition of a medieval work (preferably a
collection of biblical *distinctiones*).
- Assessment & evaluation of methods and tools for digital scholarly
editing.
- Assessment of, and proposition for the ergonomy and usability of digital
scholarly editions.
If you are interested, please follow the procedure described in the link
above, and do not hesitate to get in touch with me for more information.
Warning: the deadline for application is Dec. 10th 2013!!
Best regards,
Marjorie Burghart
CIHAM UMR 5648 - EHESS Lyon (France)
* please note that, while I am supervising the EHESS part of the DIXIT
project, the actual supervision of the fellow's PhD will be done by the
person best suited to the topic chosen.
Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting.
Please find below the details of next week's CeRch seminar:
They're reading our minds: humanities research and digital thinking with CENDARI
Kate Macdonald (Ghent University) and Alessandro Salvador (University of Trento), Visiting Researchers at the Centre for e-Research, King's College London
Date: Tuesday, 26th November, 2013 from 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM (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-theyre-reading-our-minds-humanit…
All the best,
Valentina Asciutti
Abstract:
The Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archive Infrastructure (CENDARI) provides and facilitates access to existing archives and resources in Europe for the study of medieval and modern European history (specifically the First World War period) through the development of an ‘enquiry environment’. As part of this project, the Centre for e-Research is currently hosting two visiting researchers: Kate Macdonald and Alessandro Salvador, who are investigating how CENDARI can assist their own research work. At tonight's seminar Kate Macdonald and Alessandro Salvador will discuss their ongoing research, within the context of CENDARI.
Kate Macdonald’s presentation will outline a methodology and early findings from reading British popular fiction magazines published for the entirety of the First World War, looking for depictions of the war-wounded ex-soldier, and the civilian who had been impaired by disease, congenital causes, or industrial injury. This stream of cultural production at this time has never been investigated before, yet it presents important evidence for how the ordinary reader regarded, or was expected to regard, physical impairment at a time when the demographics of the physically impaired were changing dramatically, and new technologies were changing treatments, rehabilitation, and living with impairment. This is part of a wider project investigating such depictions during and after WW1 and up to 1939, exploring the hypothesis that some kinds of disability were more deserving than others. She will discuss her role in the CENDARI project as a case study and guinea-pig for exploring humanities research processes.
Alessandro Salvador: My contribution will focus on the main topic of my research and the reasons and goals of my current work within the CENDARI project. I am currently in the final stage of a research about demobilization and reinstatement into civilian life of the Italian-speaking soldiers enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I. In particular, I researched the activities of the Italian government in managing a group of Italian-nationals belonging to an enemy State within a complex series of events that started in 1915 and finished in 1921. This topic represented a challenge for archival research, as the sources are spread throughout archives in Italy, Russia, Austria and UK. This brought to the idea of creating an online research guide in which archival information can be gathered and made public for researchers needing to access sources on this topic. Thus, my current work mostly deals, as pilot project, with Italian sources. My contribution will give a brief introduction to the topic and the problematic issues in order to explain the kind of data I am collecting, the way of organizing them and what advantages I expect that this project will offer to researchers.
Bios:
Kate Macdonald teaches British literary history and poetry at Ghent University, and is the author of several books, chapters and articles on British publishing culture from 1880 to 1950.
Alessandro Salvador studied contemporary history in Trieste and Trento, obtaining his Ph.D. in 2010. After a period as exchange scholar (DAAD Program) at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, he obtained a post-doc position at the University of Trento. Currently he is part of a research group on WWI involving the University and the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento.
**With apologies for cross-posting**
6th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the
Digital Age
November 21-23, 2013
Thinking Outside the Codex
In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of
Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies at the
University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the 6th Annual Lawrence J.
Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's
symposium will encourage participants to "think outside the codex" and turn
the tables on traditional approaches to manuscript study. We will explore
such topics as how format shapes and limits interpretation, use, and
production of manuscripts and how technologies have changed and challenged
traditional methods of scholarship. We are especially considering instances
of and responses to failure in the history of manuscript production and
scholarship. In doing so, we hope to provoke new questions and forge new
approaches to the study of the pre-modern book.
To kick off the event, a reception and the keynote address will be held
Thursday evening, November 21, at the Free Library of Philadelphia. This
year's keynote speaker will be Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C.
Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English and of
Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and Director of the History of
the Material Text Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania. The symposium
begins Friday morning at the newly renovated Special Collections Center of
the University Pennsylvania Libraries. Speakers include:
* Benjamin Albritton, Stanford University
* Benjamin Fleming, University of Pennsylvania
* Martin Foys, King's College, London
* Evyn Kropf, University of Michigan
* David McKnight, University of Pennsylvania
* Kathryn Rudy, University of St. Andrews
* Robert Sanderson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
* Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University
* Marie Turner, University of Pennsylvania
* Elaine Treharne, Stanford University
In addition, four workshops will be held throughout the symposium to offer
hands-on exploration of problems and issues related to the study of
manuscripts in the digital age.
The Handwritten and the Printed: The limits of format and medium in
Japanese premodern books
Leaders: Julie Davis and Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania
Demo Workshop for T-Pen: Transcription for paleographical and editorial
notation
Leader: James Ginther, Saint Louis University
Scholarship Outside the Codex: Citation-based digital workflows for
integrating objects, images and text without making a mess
Leader: Christopher Blackwell, Furman University
Of Apples and Apple Pie: Exploring the relationship between raw data and
digital scholarship
Leaders: Dot Porter and Doug Emery, University of Pennsylvania
For more information and to register go to:
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium6.html
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Lynn Ransom, Ph.D.
Project Manager, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
215.898.7851
http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/schoenberg
This week, the Manuscript Road Trip visits Minnesota...
http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/manuscript-road-trip-mon…
- Lisa
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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
** Apologies for cross-posting **
The Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) offers
12 Marie Curie fellowships to early stage researchers (ESRs) for a
period of 3 years and 5 Marie Curie fellowships to experienced
researchers (ERs) for a period of 12 to 20 months.
Fellowships are now open for applications. For details visit:
http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellows.html
Please circulate widely!
About DiXiT:
DiXiT (Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network) is an
international network of high-profile institutions from the public and
the private sector that are actively involved in the creation and
publication of digital scholarly editions.
DiXiT offers a coordinated training and research programme for early
stage researchers and experienced researchers in the multi-disciplinary
skills, technologies, theories, and methods of digital scholarly editing.
DiXiT is funded under Marie Curie Actions within the European
Commission's 7th Framework Programme and runs from September 2013 until
August 2017.
For more information visit the DiXiT website:
http://dixit.uni-koeln.de
APPLICATION
Academic Requirements:
Early-Stage Researchers must be in the first 4 years of their research
careers and not yet have a doctoral degree. This is measured from the
date when they obtained the degree which would formally entitle them to
embark on a doctorate, irrespective of whether or not a doctorate is
envisaged.
Experienced Researchers must be in possession of a doctoral degree or
have at least 4 years of full-time equivalent research experience. At
the time of recruitment by the host organisation an experienced
researcher must also have less than 5 years of full-time equivalent
research experience.
It should be noted that an individual researcher may not be recruited
first as an ESR and subsequently as an ER in the same project.
Marie Curie ITN mobility requirement:
Researchers can be of any nationality. They are required to undertake
trans-national mobility (i.e. move from one country to another) when
taking up their appointment. One general rule applies to the appointment
of researchers:
At the time of recruitment by the host organisation, researchers must
not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc)
in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 months in the
3 years immediately prior to the reference date.
Short stays such as holidays and/or compulsory national service are not
taken into account.
Application process:
Please note that applications from any qualified applicants, regardless
of gender, ethnicity or country of origin are welcome if they meet the
eligibility requirements.
Applicants should send their applications directly to the institution
hosting the desired fellowship. Applications for more than one post are
welcome -- however, multiple applications should be indicated via the
obligatory DiXiT application form (which has to be submitted separately
from the application documents send to the hosting institution).
Application deadline:
The deadline for applications is the 10th December 2013.
Please note that the four remaining ER fellowships will start at a later
date and the possibility of application will be announced accordingly.
For further details visit http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellows.html
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Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) <http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/>
(Substitute, Professorship on Digital Humanities)
Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing <http://www.i-d-e.de>
(Managing Director)
Postal: Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), Universität zu Köln,
Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D-50923 Köln
Office: Universitätsstr. 22, Attic floor right
Telephone: +49 - (0)221 - 470 3894
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Latest Publication: Patrick Sahle, Digitale Editionsformen -
http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften/s7-9-digitale-editionsformen
Further information: http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ahz26
<http://www.uni-koeln.de/%7Eahz26>
This week, the Manuscript Road Trip spotlights pre-1600 manuscripts in
Wisconsin...
http://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com
- Lisa
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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
*Apologies for Cross Posting*
IT Services at the University of Oxford would like to announce
that applications are now being accepted for a 20 month
experienced researcher fellowship position on the DiXiT project
funded as part of a Marie Curie Initial Training Network. The
post-holder must start on 1 April 2014 and will be responsible
for the analysis and improvements of technologies for the
creation and publication of digital scholarly editions. They will
be familiar with the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative
(TEI) and be skilled in using related technologies such as XSLT
to generate digital scholarly editions from TEI P5 XML source
files. The post-holder will contribute to the teaching at the
Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School and the DiXiT TEI
training workshop. For a full list of duties and criteria please
see the job description attached to the advert on the University
of Oxford recruitment website:
https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobs…
The EC funding for this position starts from £54,692 p.a.
(depending on employer deductions, personal circumstances, and
the exchange rate to be notified by the EC), which includes an
annual living allowance and a mobility allowance (to cover the
expenses associated with working in a different country).
*Eligibility Requirements:*
1) either be in possession of a doctoral degree, independently of
the time taken to acquire it, or have at least four years of
full-time equivalent research experience;
2) have less than five years of full-time equivalent research
experience;
3) not have lived in the UK for more than 12 months during the
past 3 years;
4) be willing, during the 20 month post, to undertake a 3 month
secondment to King's College London (United Kingdom) and a 3
month secondment to SyncRo Soft Ltd. (Romania).
*Application Process:*
Please note that applications from any qualified applicants,
regardless of gender, ethnicity or country of origin are welcome
if they meet the eligibility requirements. Applicants should
ensure they have completed both the following steps by midday on
11 December 2013:
1. Submitted a DiXiT project ER application to
dixit-info(a)uni-koeln.de see
http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellows.html for more information
2. Completed the University of Oxford online application process
from the job posting on the
https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobs…
website. Including having:
a. Uploaded a full C.V.
b. Provided contact details for two referees
c. Uploaded a covering letter demonstrating how you meet both
the essential/desirable criteria listed in the further
particulars and the eligibility requirements
d. Uploaded a copy of your DiXiT project ER application form
Informal enquiries concerning the post may be sent to Dr James
Cummings at james.cummings(a)it.ox.ac.uk. The interviews are
expected to be held on Friday 17 January 2014.
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Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings(a)it.ox.ac.uk
Academic IT Services, University of Oxford
We are delighted to announce the completion of the Sharing Ancient Wisdoms project: see http://www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/
Please ask your librarian to add any or all of the following items to your library catalogue:
Gnomological Material in Arabic and in Arabic-Spanish transmission\
SAWS edition, 2013
Texts established by Ines Dallaji, Lorenz Nigst, Christoph Storz, Elvira Wakelnig
ISBN 978-1-897747-27-8
Available at http://www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/library/arabicgnomol/
Arabic Philosophical Compendia and Excerpts of Arabic and Latin Philosophical Texts
SAWS edition, 2013
Texts established by Christoph Storz and Elvira Wakelnig
ISBN 978-1-897747-28-5
Available at http://www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/library/arabicphilos/
Apophthegmata et gnomae secundum alphabetum
SAWS edition, 2013
Annotated edition of Greek Gnomologia by Denis Searby, Måns Bylund, Pontus Österdahl, with English translation by Denis Searby
ISBN 978-1-897747-26-1
Available at http://www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/library/gnomologia/
Kekaumenos, Consilia et Narrationes
SAWS edition, 2013
Greek text, English translation and commentary by Charlotte Roueché, with further translations by H.G. Beck, J. Signes Codoner, G.G. Litavrin, M.D. Spadaro
ISBN 978-1-897747-29-2
Available at http://www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/library/kekaumenos-consilia-et-narrationes/
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Professor Charlotte Roueché
Centre for Hellenic Studies
King's College
London WC2R 2LS
fax + 44 20.7848 2545
charlotte.roueche(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk>
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