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Ninth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies
June 21-23, 2021
Saint Louis University
Saint Louis, Missouri
The Ninth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies<https://www.smrs-slu.org/> (June 21-23, 2021) is a convenient summer venue in North America for scholars to present papers, organize sessions, participate in roundtables, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of the Symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation into all topics and in all disciplines of medieval and early modern studies.
The plenary speakers for this year will be David Abulafia, of Cambridge University, and Barbara Rosenwein, of Loyal University, Chicago.
The Symposium is held annually on the beautiful midtown campus of Saint Louis University. On campus housing options include affordable, air-conditioned apartments as well as a luxurious boutique hotel. Inexpensive meal plans are also available, although there is a wealth of restaurants, bars, and cultural venues within easy walking distance of campus.
While attending the Symposium participants are free to use the Vatican Film Library, the Rare Book and Manuscripts Collection, and the general collection at Saint Louis University's Pius XII Memorial Library.
The Ninth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies<https://www.smrs-slu.org/> invites proposals for papers, complete sessions, and roundtables. Any topics regarding the scholarly investigation of the medieval and early modern world are welcome. Papers are normally twenty minutes each and sessions are scheduled for ninety minutes. Scholarly organizations are especially encouraged to sponsor proposals for complete sessions.
For more information go to: https://www.smrs-slu.org/
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Call for proposals for Video Lightning Talks to be posted to the SIMS YouTube Channel as part of the 13th Annual (Virtual) Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, November 18-20, 2020
In the early spring of 2020, as the world shut down, scholarship and teaching were thrown into a virtual, online world. In the hands-on world of manuscripts studies, students, teachers, researchers, librarians, and curators lost physical access to the very objects upon which their work centered. But we were ready. Thanks to world-wide digitization efforts over the past twenty years, scholars at all levels and around the world have, by all counts, virtual access to more manuscripts and manuscript-related metadata than even a generation ago and are benefited by a broad array of digital tools, technologies, and resources that allow them to locate, gather, analyze, and interrogate digitized manuscripts and related metadata.
This is the topic that the 2020 Schoenberg Symposium will be focused on. Along with the Symposium, we are issuing invitations for Lightning Talk videos to be posted as a series to the SIMS YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/SchoenbergInstitute/)
Videos must be five minutes long or shorter, and may present any project relating to manuscript studies in the digital age.
Submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/6zJqNUgFgwbCxsyq5
Deadline for submitting applications is October 28
Applicants will be notified by November 4
Lightning Talk videos must be five minutes or shorter. Longer videos will be shortened before being posted online.
Videos must be submitted to SIMS by November 11
The symposium is Free and is open to the public! For more about the symposium, including registration, visit the website here: https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs-symposium13
Thanks and we look forward to reading your proposals!
Dot
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Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian
Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com<mailto:dot.porter@gmail.com>
Penn Manuscripts on Tumblr: http://upennmanuscripts.tumblr.com/
MESA: http://mesa-medieval.org
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On behalf of organisers of the DH section
by Katerina Hornickova
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Call for papers in the fields of Image processing and Information
technologies in Digital Humanities
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 2021 11th
International Conference “Advanced Computer Information Technologies”
that will be held on September 15-17, 2021 in Deggendorf, Germany.
https://acit.wunu.edu.ua/
Within the framework of the session Specialized Information and Computer
Systems, two sections, Image processing and Information technologies in
Digital Humanities, are open to digital humanities scholars. Paper
submission deadline is 18th February 2021.
The conference proceedings has previously been indexed in Web of Science
and other IEEE systems. The indexing is renewed on a yearly basis.
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With the usual apologies for any cross-posting.
The final piece of the jigsaw puzzle has been slotted into place regarding the provenance of the language and writing system for digital Medieval manuscript MS408. A new paper, titled 'Reintroducing a vanished Romance language' is available here: https://www.academia.edu/44261539/Reintroducing_a_vanished_Romance_language
Enjoy and please disseminate to other scholars who may benefit.
Kindest regards,
Dr. Gerard Cheshire.
Research Associate.
University of Bristol.
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Dear Gianluca,
Did you intend to send this announcement to the DM google group, which is for the DM Executive Board, or the DM-l list? This is a common mistake, so I wanted to ask.
If you did send it to the google group by mistake, I would suggest resending to the dm list at dm-l(a)uleth.ca<mailto:dm-l@uleth.ca>.
Best,
Lynn
Lynn Ransom, Ph.D.
Director, Digital Medievalist<https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/> (2020-2021)
Curator of Programs, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies<schoenberginstitute.org>
Project Director, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts<https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/pages/SDBM%20Name%20Authority>
Co- Editor, Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies<mss.pennpress.org>
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
215.898.7851
From: 'Gianluca Valenti' via Digital Medievalist <DMedievalist(a)googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 9, 2020 10:23 AM
To: "DMedievalist" <DMedievalist(a)googlegroups.com>
Subject: DM News post
Name: Gianluca Valenti
Email: gianluca.valenti(a)uliege.be<mailto:gianluca.valenti@uliege.be>
Article Title: Job advertisement NLP and relational databases
Post type: Job Vacancy
Post: Dear all,
I, Gianluca Valenti, working at the Arts Faculty of Liège, am looking for a computer scientist/digital humanist for a one-year project in Liège. The candidate should have experience/familiarity with relational databases and NLP. You can find the call for applications here: https://www.academia.edu/44261624/Invito_a_presentare_candidature_per_un_po…. The call is in Italian because the knowledge of the language (at least at a B1 level) is essential, the corpus being of Italian texts of the Renaissance. It would be nice if you could share the job advertisement with your potentially interested contacts. If you have any question, you can write me at gianluca.valenti(a)uliege.be<mailto:gianluca.valenti@uliege.be>
Kind regards,
Gianluca Valenti
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Dear friends,
Penn Libraries' new Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship and the Price Lab for Digital Humanities at Penn has just posted this position: https://wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/upenn/careers-at-penn/job/Van-Pelt…
This position is not discipline-specific, but in addition to the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Penn has a strong Medieval Studies program, so a DH medievalist might feel well at home here.
Best,
Lynn
Lynn Ransom, Ph.D.
Director, Digital Medievalist<https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/> (2020-2021)
Curator of Programs, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
schoenberginstitute.org<http://www.schoenberginstitute.org/>
Project Director, The New Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/
Co- Editor, Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
mss.pennpress.org<https://mss.pennpress.org/home/>
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
215.898.7851
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Dear all,
The Biblissima team is pleased to announce its main achievements over the last few months.
1. The iconography of manuscripts from French libraries in the Biblissima Portal:
The data from Initiale, the catalogue of illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages maintained by the IRHT-CNRS, can now be consulted in the Biblissima Portal [1], thus joining those of the Mandragore database (Bibliothèque nationale de France). More than 306,000 records of illuminations and decoration elements can be consulted through a common interface, representing at this stage a corpus of approx. 230,000 digital images accessible via IIIF protocols. For more details, read this Twitter feed [2]. The Portal home page offers a thematic entry point [3] into this large iconographic corpus.
2. Publication of a repository of quotations for ancient manuscripts and printed works:
Biblissima's shelfmarks authority file has been published on data.biblissima.fr<http://data.biblissima.fr>, the Biblissima authority data platform [4]. To date, it references nearly 200,000 shelfmarks from various catalogues and databases from Biblissima's partners, progressively integrated into the Portal since 2017, and from the datasets aggregated into the IIIF-Collections search engine. The creation of this authority file responds to the need to unambiguously and uniformly identify manuscripts and printed books thanks to a stable and unique URI identifier that acts as the indispensable pivot for aggregating metadata about the same object.
3. Enrichments of the IIIF-Collections of Manuscripts and Rare Books search engine:
IIIF-Collections, the search platform for digitised manuscripts and rare books, aggregates data from 17 digital libraries and allows a federated search on more than 75,000 records [5]. The last two datasets that have been processed and integrated this month come from the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe and the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto.
We remain open to any collaboration on shared entity files in the fields covered by Biblissima, and for the integration of new resources in its Portal.
The Biblissima Team.
Campus Condorcet
8, cours des Humanités
93322 Aubervilliers CEDEX
biblissima.fr<https://biblissima.fr/> / @biblissima<https://twitter.com/biblissima>
[1] Biblissima Portal: https://portail.biblissima.fr/en
[2] Twitter feed announcing the Portal update with iconographic data: https://twitter.com/biblissima/status/1280485981544644609
[3] Iconographic Thesaurus (Initiale/Mandragore): https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/thb806db559f2abfe3bd6884def6909…
[4] Biblissima Authority Files: https://data.biblissima.fr/w/Accueil/en
[5] IIIF-Collections of Manuscripts and Rare Books: https://iiif.biblissima.fr/collections/
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The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 13th Annual (Virtual) Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age:
Manuscript Studies in the Digital Covid-19 Age
November 18-20, 2020
In the early spring of 2020, as the world shut down, scholarship and teaching were thrown into a virtual, online world. In the hands-on world of manuscripts studies, students, teachers, researchers, librarians, and curators lost physical access to the very objects upon which their work centered. But we were ready. Thanks to world-wide digitization efforts over the past twenty years, scholars at all levels and around the world have, by all counts, virtual access to more manuscripts and manuscript-related metadata than even a generation ago and are benefited by a broad array of digital tools, technologies, and resources that allow them to locate, gather, analyze, and interrogate digitized manuscripts and related metadata.
But in a Covid-19 Age, have these resources and tools been enough to continue manuscript research and study? Has scholarship and teaching been supported by these resources and tools in the ways that those who created them intended? Has access to these artifacts of our shared intellectual heritage become more open and equitable or are there still hurdles for scholarship around the world to overcome? Has a forced reckoning with digital tools, technologies, and resources spurred new questions or avenues of research or thrown up barriers? As creators and users of digital tools, technologies, and resources, have we learned anything since March about the success or failure of such projects? We will consider these questions and the opportunities and limitations offered by digital images and manuscript-related metadata as well as the digital and conceptual interfaces that come between the data and us as users. Our goal is to offer a (virtual) space to discuss lessons learned since March and how those lessons can push us to better practice and development of strategies in the future.
The symposium will take Wednesday, November 18 to Friday, November 20. Each day will consist of a 90-minute session with papers in the morning, followed by a 90-minute panel discussion led by invited moderators in the afternoon. All sessions will be recorded and made available after each session.
Two events will be held conjunction with the symposium:
* Scholarly Editing Covid`19-Style: Laura Morreale will lead a 3-day crowd-sourcing effort to transcribe, edit, and submit for publication an edition of Le Pelerinage de Damoiselle Sapience, from UPenn MS Codex 660<https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3cr5nc34> (f. 86r-95v).
* Virtual Lightning Round: Pre-recorded 5-minute lightning round talks featuring digital projects at all stages of development, from ideas to implementation. Want to feature your digital project? Submit your proposal here<https://forms.gle/aW4eRSr8fKtU6kPq8> by Friday, October 28, to be considered.
For program information and to register, go to: https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs-symposium13. Registration is free and open to the public but required. A Zoom link for all three days will be provided upon registration.
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'Just an Illusion': Beowulf Book Beautiful
Elaine Treharne
Thursday 24th September, 18h00 (BST)
https://research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/virtualspeakerseries202020211.html
Professor Elaine Treharne<https://english.stanford.edu/people/elaine-treharne> from Stanford University and Stanford Text Technologies<https://texttechnologies.stanford.edu/> will join us for the first in this year's ATNU visiting speaker series, via zoom. Elaine's talk promises a lively discussion on textual representation, beautiful books and, just as a sample text, Beowulf. Join us on the 24th of September at 18h00 (BST) from wherever you are in the world. See the abstract below for more information, and don't forget to register to receive the joining link<https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=9147398>. The talk is open to all.
Abstract:
I am interested in three things, all of which center on textual wholeness; my example—'Beowulf'—is simply a case study of a larger theory about representations of TEXT. I’ll ask: i) What can we say about Beowulf in the context of London, British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius A. xv—a book beautiful, without doubt; ii) How did nineteenth- and twentieth-century editors and writers try to make of Beowulf a book beautiful? iii) And finally, what can we say about a bodiless Beowulf?— ‘Beowulf Beyond’: the poem in the digital era, beyond the confines of print.
I’ll examine editions of Beowulf in a variety of media, including facsimile, digitized, and digital instantiations of the work. This will allow us—as a collaborative—to reflect upon whether or not any edition can ever be considered more than an illusion: that which is, in essence, an incorrect experience.
Register for zoom link at: https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=9147398
Many thanks,
James