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Simon
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From: British Academy [mailto:britishacademy@email.britac.ac.uk]
Sent: Wed 08/08/2007 02:43
Change to British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme
The timetable for applications for British Academy Postdoctoral
Fellowships has been brought forward in order to provide for earlier
announcements, to give universities more time to plan to integrate
Postdoctoral Fellows …
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The process will be conducted over two stages instead of one, in order
to reduce the burden on HEIs. The deadline for outline submissions is
15 October 2007 for awards to be taken up from September 2008.
Institutions are required to countersign outline applications but need
provide no further information at this stage. Applicants will be
notified of the outcome in December 2007, and those who successfully
pass the initial selection stage will be invited to submit full bids by
the deadline of 28 February 2008. Institutions are required to provide
detailed information, including a complete statement of support and the
financial appendix showing Full Economic Costs (FEC), only at this
second stage. Awards will be announced in May 2008.
Details and application forms are available from
www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/pdfells.html
<http://email.britac.ac.uk/_act/link.php?mId=A815780558610958641686&tId=1199…>
Contact: Research Posts Department 020 7969 5265 or email:
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The British Academy
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Simon Mahony
Research Associate
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London
Kay House
7 Arundel St
London WC2R 3DX
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980
simon.mahony(a)kcl.ac.uk
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX
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Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Work in Progress
Seminar, Summer 2007
Friday 10th August at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street,
London
Stuart Dunn (King's College London)
Space as an artefact: understanding past perceptions and uses of space
with and without computers
ALL WELCOME
This work in progress seminar will examine current thinking on human
uses and perceptions of space in the past. In particular, it will
provide an …
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Methods Network workshop entitled 'Space/Time: Methods in Geospatial
Computing for Mapping the Past'.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk or
Simon.Mahony(a)kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html
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Dr Gabriel BODARD
(Epigrapher & Digital Classicist)
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London
Kay House
7, Arundel Street
London WC2R 3DX
Email: gabriel.bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/http://www.currentepigraphy.org/
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Call for Papers for the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May
8-11, 2008, Kalamazoo, Michigan
The Medieval Academy of America Committee on Electronic Resources invites
submissions to the following sponsored session:
"Digital Media and Peer Review in Medieval Studies"
Medievalists are increasingly turning to digital media both to produce new
types of scholarship such as encoded texts and non-bookish digital projects
(e.g. archives and interactive electronic resources) and …
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increase the efficiency of traditional forms of scholarship such as critical
editions. There is not yet widespread agreement, however, regarding how
this new work should count for academic promotion, and many scholars working
in these new media find that there are few established avenues for getting
their work peer reviewed. At the same time, we are witnessing rapid and
widespread changes in how we use print texts (e.g. often in scanned,
searchable copies), and many traditional publishers of print journals and
monographs are under enormous financial pressures from declining sales and
print runs, thereby further limiting access to peer review and opportunities
for publication. How can we, as a community, bring scholarship, publishing,
and the need for peer review into balance?
Please email abstracts (not to exceed 300 words) to Timothy Stinson (
stinson(a)jhu.edu). Please include name, professional/university affiliation,
and contact information.
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Apologies for cross-posting
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Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007
Friday 3rd August at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street,
London
Melissa Terras (University College London)
'Can computers ever read ancient texts?'
Researchers in the Centre of the Study of Ancient Documents, and the
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford (and now UCL
SLAIS), have been attempting to build a system to aid …
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reading damaged and deteriorated texts, specifically those from
Vindolanda. But to what extent can computers ever hope to "read"
ancient texts, and how can computers aid (not replace) historians in
propagating readings from hard to read documentary material?
ALL WELCOME
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk or
Simon.Mahony(a)kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html
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Simon Mahony
Research Associate
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London
Kay House
7 Arundel St
London WC2R 3DX
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980
simon.mahony(a)kcl.ac.uk
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX
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Mapping the Past – geospatial computing in history and archaeology
We would like to invite you to join an online discussion group that
deals with the application of geospatial computing in the fields of
archaeology and history:
http://www.arts-humanities.net/mapping_past
This group originated from the AHRC ICT Methods Network workshop
'Space/Time: Methods in geospatial computing for mapping the past' held
in Edinburgh earlier this week:
http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/act24.…
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After two days of lively discussion, we concluded that it would be
interesting to continue the exchange of ideas beyond the event itself –
and to invite other interested parties to join us. As we did some live
blogging during the workshop, you can get an idea of the questions and
problems we discussed. A more formal report, papers and presentations
will be published later.
This group is part of a new online community initiative called 'Digital
Arts & Humanities' that is being developed by the Methods Network and
partners and is hosted at King's College London:
http://www.arts-humanities.net
Please circulate this email to colleagues and friends who might be
interested!
Stuart Dunn, Leif Isaksen and Torsten Reimer
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Torsten Reimer
Senior Research Project Coordinator
AHRC ICT Methods Network
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX
+44 (0)20 7848 2019
Torsten.Reimer(a)kcl.ac.uk
http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk
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I've just added a Macintosh-specific version of Junicode 0.6.15. It
is functionally the same as Junicode for Windows/Linux, but perhaps a
little easier to install, and tested in Mellel and XeTeX on the
gorgeous MacBook that my department just bought for me. You must have
OS X 10.4 ("Tiger") or later if you want to see the pretty OpenType
things.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=158636
Peter
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Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007
Friday 27th July at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street,
London
Janice Siegel (Hampden-Sydney College, VA)
'The New AV Classics Database: a community-annotated resource'
ALL WELCOME
The newest incarnation of the much-expanded AV Classics Database is
about to become interactive (users will be able to post reviews of
items) and allows for easier, …
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for listed resources using an advanced Web 2.0 interface.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard(a)kcl.ac.uk or
Simon.Mahony(a)kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html
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Simon Mahony
Research Associate
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London
Kay House
7 Arundel St
London WC2R 3DX
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980
simon.mahony(a)kcl.ac.uk
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2R3DX
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FYI
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Research Assistant in the use of ICT in Archaeology
JISC-funded Research Project, VERA: Virtual Environments for Research
in Archaeology
Applications are invited for the part-time post of Research Assistant
in the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at UCL to
work on VERA: Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology. This
project will research the development and use of a virtual research
environment designed for archaeologists by the Roman Silchester
Project …
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The post will involve: conducting qualitative studies and recording,
analysing and writing up the results as part of a research team at
UCL, collaborating with the team at Reading University, collaborating
with archaeologists at Silchester, and collaborating with the wider
archaeological community utilising the data being produced from the
Silchester dig. We aim to discover how archaeologists are using
advanced technology, and how new systems can be better designed to
help them in their research. For further details on the project please
see: http://www.vera.rdg.ac.uk .
The post is available to start on 17 September 2007, with funding for
17 months (to 28 February 2009) on a part-time (50%) basis.
Appointment to Research Assistant will be at Grade 6 of the UCL salary
scales with a starting salary of £11,501 per annum (i.e. 50% of
£23,002 per annum), plus London Allowance of £1,286 per annum (i.e.
50% of £2,572 per annum).
Applications (e-mail or hard copy) including a covering letter and CV,
plus contact details of three referees, should be sent to Kerstin
Michaels, Departmental Administrator, School of Library, Archive and
Information Studies, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT,
k.michaels(a)ucl.ac.uk.
Interested candidates can also contact Dr. Claire Warwick
(c.warwick(a)ucl.ac.uk, tel. 020 7679 2548) or Dr. Melissa Terras
(m.terras(a)ucl.ac.uk, tel. 020 7679 7206). Further information on the
post can also be found at:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/circah/vera/
Interviews will be held on 22nd and 23rd August 2007.
We particularly welcome applicants from an ethnic minority as they are
currently under-represented within UCL at this level.
The closing date for applications is Monday, 13th August 2007.
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Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE
Lecturer in Electronic Communication
School of Library, Archive and Information Studies
Henry Morley Building
University College London
Gower Street
WC1E 6BT
Tel: 020-7679-7206 (direct), 020-7679-7204 (dept), 020-7383-0557 (fax)
Email: m.terras(a)ucl.ac.uk
Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/melissa-terras/
Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/
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Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk
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I didn't want to release a new version of Junicode till I had completed
the MUFI spec in the Regular face, but I needed to fix a bug. If you
have seen problems with the BoldItalic face in OpenOffice for Windows,
you may want to get the new version. Or pick it up if you are desperate
for MUFI abbreviations and punctuation that were not yet in 0.6.14. Or
if you have been dissatisfied with the look of F109, rounded d. This
release also contains a file, aelfric_job.pdf, that illustrates …
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typographical niceties especially for Old English (and Old Icelandic),
available if you use advanced applications like XeTeX and InDesign.
I forgot to release a source package for 0.6.14, but I will do that shortly.
Peter
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