Dear Digital Medievalists,
Digital methods are by definition at the border of Medieval Studies. This bold statement is primarily justified by the observation that the application of digital methods is triggered by a research community outside Medieval Studies, i.e. Computer Science and New Media Studies. Therefore, in its interdisciplinary nature digital medieval studies is a border-crossing discipline and breaks up traditionally developed scholarly silos and institutional borders. The experimentation with and application of new methods and technologies challenges traditional perceptions and research approaches. Another kind of digital boarders are "metadata borders". For example, digital cataloging standards create unintended, and sometimes intended borders and boundaries, that prevent data-sharing and linking.
In the light of this proposition the Digital Medievalist will take the opportunity of next years' general IMC theme ("Borders") to discuss cutting edge and "border-crossing" digital methods and technologies and/or borders and boundaries caused by digital methods. Topics may include current research in machine learning, computer vision, 3D modeling, IIIF, multispectral imaging, Handwritten Text Recognition, Linked Data and distant reading, etc. Machine learning, for instance, poses specific problems for Medieval Studies, as its success depends on the availability, findability, reusability, and accessibility of large amounts of data. Similar issues exist with the application of other digital methods to medieval material and the session(s) "Digital Borders of Medieval Studies" will be the place to present and discuss them.
The Digital Medievalist community invites the submission of proposals for 20-minutes papers covering a topic relating to the session title and focusing on the application of digital methods and technologies for current and future research in the field of Medieval Studies.
Please send your proposal (300 Words incl. a short CV) to dm.imc2020(a)gmail.com by Sept. 15th.
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Roman Bleier
Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
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- Lisa
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Executive Director
Medieval Academy of America
6 Beacon St., Suite 500
Boston, Massachusetts 02108
Phone: 617 491-1622
Fax: 617 492-3303
Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org
Dear all,
This is to let you know that the spring of 2019 issue of Digital Philology
(vol. 8, n. 1) was published a couple of weeks ago. Its a special issue on
Modernities and Global Medievalisms, guest-edited by Candace Barrington
and Louise dArcens. It includes contributions by Shirin Khanmohamadi, Wendy
Laura Belcher, Louise D'Arcens, Clare Monagle, Clare Veal, Lynn Ramey, David
Neville, Sahar Amer, Jonathan deHaan, Maxime Durand, Brandon Essary, Rob
Howland, Mubbasir Kapadia, Felix Kronenberg, Brett E. Shelton, Barbara
Vance, Sara V. Torres, Christine Chism, and Michael Kleiner, as well as
reviews by Neil Cartlidge and Jesús R. Velasco. Check it out:
<http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/40685> http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/40685.
With best wishes for the new academic year,
Albert
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Albert Lloret, Associate Professor
Director of Spanish and Catalan Studies
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Betreff: H-Digital-History: CFP The Digital Middle Ages in Ireland and
Beyond (A Roundtable), ICMS Kalamazoo 2020
Datum: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:01:51 -0400
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Greetings Georg Vogeler,
A new item has been posted in H-Digital-History. CFP The Digital Middle
Ages in Ireland and Beyond (A Roundtable), ICMS Kalamazoo 2020 by Vicky
McAlister CFP The Digital Middle Ages in Ireland and Beyond (A
Roundtable), ICMS Kalamazoo 2020, May 2020, Western Michigan University
Sponsored by the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS)
This session will discuss how scholars and students can use digital
technologies to achieve a more nuanced understanding of medieval
culture. At ICMS “Kalamazoo” in 2019 ASIMS sponsored the very successful
Digital Castles roundtable. Particularly enlightening discussion during
this session centered on the ways we can use the digital humanities to
engage students in our work as scholars. Consequently, we would like to
broaden the scope and appeal of a digital humanities session proposed
for Kalamazoo 2020. While the geographic focus is on Ireland, we
particularly welcome proposals that discuss medieval Ireland’s
connections with the wider world. This panel considers innovative
approaches towards better understanding, through digital means, the
material culture of medieval Ireland. As so many of 2019’s attendees (as
well as the majority of ASIMS members) are based at teaching focused
institutions, we plan to particularly emphasize how digital projects can
be accomplished on a budget and at a distance from the geographic area
of study. Presentations will be of less than ten minutes’ duration, with
ample time for audience participation and discussion. Another benefit of
the session’s approach is its multidisciplinarity, reflecting approaches
from history, manuscript studies, archaeology, art history and
literature. This session will therefore provide a venue for an exciting
interdisciplinary dialogue, framed within the digital humanities.
Please send your abstract to Vicky McAlister, Southeast Missouri State
University, vmcalister(a)semo.edu [1], by *Friday, September 6th, 2019.*
More information available at https://asims.org/kalamazoo/ [2]
[1] mailto:vmcalister@semo.edu
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Betreff: Roundtable "Digital Tools for Historical Research" at IMC in
Leeds, 6-9 July 2020
Datum: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 22:54:24 +0200
Von: David Zbíral <david.zbiral(a)mail.muni.cz>
An: Digital Medievalist <DMedievalist(a)googlegroups.com>
Dear colleagues and friends,
The Centre for the Digital Research of Religion at Masaryk University and
the “Dissident Networks Project” (DISSINET, https://dissinet.cz/) hosted at
this research centre are pleased to invite proposals for short presentations
(5 min.) of various digital tools for historical research (e.g.: software,
environments for the annotation of texts and digitized manuscripts, the
adaptation of general-purpose digital tools to historical research, etc.)
to be presented at a roundtable session on "Digital Tools for Historical
Research" at the International Medieval Congress 2020 in Leeds, UK (6-9
July 2020).
Each speaker should briefly present a tool and be prepared to answer
questions from the audience on its use and application. The speakers may be
connected with the developers of the tool, but this is in no way a
requirement. They need only know it well enough to be able to present it to
the audience and answer questions. Overall, the roundtable and subsequent
discussions are intended to create a space for networking between users and
potential users of such tools (and in some cases their developers).
The participants in any session of the congress, including this roundtable,
are expected to register for the congress and pay the registration fee and
their travel costs.
Please send brief informal proposals to David Zbíral at
david.zbiral(a)mail.muni.cz by September 15th at the latest. Any proposal
should contain the name of the tool or environment to be discussed, a short
description of the tool, information about its availability (licence), and
the address of a website where more information about the tool is available
(if applicable). A formal abstract is not required.
We look forward to your proposals!
All the best,
David.
Dr. David Zbíral
Associate Professor
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*Masaryk University | Faculty of Arts*
Department for the Study of Religions | Centre for the Digital Research of
Religion
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The EADH Executive Committee has extended the deadline to send proposals to
host the 2020 EADH Conference: the new deadline is 20th September 2019.
As with the first EADH conference held in 2018, the second conference will
strengthen the scientific, institutional and cultural relations between the
members of the DH communities in Europe and in the Mediterranean area. The
EADH Conference is organised in each year that the annual ADHO Digital
Humanities conference takes place outside of Europe. We are particularly
interested in proposals from institutions and regions that:
• have recently developed or are developing digital humanities
communities and organizations;
• have not previously hosted an ADHO or the EADH Digital Humanities
conference.
Please note that the lead applicant must be a direct member of the EADH or
of one of its Associate Organisations (currently AIUCD, DHD, DHN, CzADH and
DH Russia).
Organisation
EADH Conferences are co-organised by two committees:
The scientific organisation is conducted by a Programme Committee (PC) with
10 members and one Chair, appointed by the EADH Executive Committee. The
local organiser may appoint up to two members of the PC. The PC decides the
main theme of the conference, identifies and invites keynote speakers,
produces and issues the Call for Papers, manages the review process, and
decides the academic conference programme.
Logistical organization will be the responsibility of a Local Organisation
Committee, whose members and chair are appointed by the Local Organisers.
The EADH recommends the adoption of the conference management system
ConfTool for registering participants and including them in special events
such as the banquet, but payments may be processed outside ConfTool by the
local organiser if desired.
Time Period and Venue
Conference dates are decided by the Local Organiser, in consultation with
EADH. It is recommended that the conference takes place in the autumn of
2020. Other large DH-related conferences in Europe should be taken into
account when fixing the precise dates.
The venue must be an academic or cultural institution in the European area
in its broadest sense (including Russia and countries bordering the
Mediterranean). The hosting institution should be able to accommodate a
minimum of 300 delegates (including plenaries), at least three parallel
sessions, and a communicative poster session.
Bids
Bids should contain a preliminary budget and up to two pages describing the
motivations and logistical opportunities offered by the proposed venue.
Bidders must take into account the EADH diversity and inclusivity statement.
The venue for the 2020 conference will be decided by the EADH Executive
Committee on the basis of:
• academic and social impact of the conference for the LO;
• logistical adequacy of the venue;
• overall quality of the proposal.
Bids should be submitted to secretary(a)eadh.org no later than July, 1, 2019.
Structure of the Conference
The Conference should be a 2/3-day event, avoiding weekends. Workshops and
training events can precede the official conference days, depending on the
availability of the LO. Presentations will be organized in 90-minute slots.
The conference should have two keynote plenary talks.
Typical presentations are:
• full papers for theoretical or highly relevant methodological or
technical issues;
• short papers to present research ideas, approaches and projects;
• panel or roundtable for one relevant topic discussed under different
perspectives by 5/6 presenters;
• posters. One session of the conference is reserved for short poster
presentations.
Bidders in coordination with the Programme Committee are encouraged to
propose alternative formats and innovative organization of the conference
in addition to this general framework.
Budget
The conference must be financially self-sustaining, but a backstop funding
from the EADH of up to €5,000 can be discussed. The EADH will also provide
bursaries for young scholars. The local organizers are expected to set six
levels of registration fees:
• faculty and staff with permanent contract, members of the EADH,
associate organizations, and other constituent organizations of ADHO;
• faculty and staff with permanent contract, non-members;
• faculty and staff with fixed-term contract, members of the EADH,
associate organizations, and other constituent organizations of ADHO;
• faculty and staff with fixed-term contract, non-members;
• students, members of the EADH, associate organizations, and other
constituent organizations of ADHO;
• students, non-members.
Local Organisers are expected to set member/non-member rates so that the
difference between member/non-member rates are higher than the EADH membership
costs. Registration fees are recommended not to exceed €300 for the highest
level of non-member fees to make the conference more accessible to the
community.
Social Programme
Local Organisers are expected to arrange a diverse social programme,
including a social dinner, that can contribute to the EADH community
building.
Synergies and Possible Sponsorship
Suggested collaborative activities range from hosting of workshops and
tutorials to co-organisation of the conference or financial support.
Private in-kind and financial sponsorship is welcome, provided that any
activity from sponsoring organizations is clearly distinct from, and does
not influence, the academic program.
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Fabio Ciotti
Department of "Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte" -
University of Roma "Tor Vergata"
DH2019 PC Co-Chair
Chief Editor "Umanistica Digitale" https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/
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Greetings, all,
You may be interested in my piece in today's online Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/14/why-do-people-keep-convin…
- Lisa
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Lisa Fagin Davis
Executive Director
Medieval Academy of America
6 Beacon St., Suite 500
Boston, Massachusetts 02108
Phone: 617 491-1622
Fax: 617 492-3303
Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org
Please find attached the program of the two days conference « Ménestrel à Montréal: Le numérique et les études médiévales: enjeux pédagogiques et formation par la recherche ».
Professor Kouky Fianu
University of Ottawa
Dear digital medievalists,
I am pleased to announce the opening of four postdoctoral research
fellowships at the Centre for Digital and Public Humanities of the
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici at Ca' Foscari Università di Venezia.
Please circulate widely!
The application must include the proposal of a research project in the
respective field:
1) digital textual scholarship, e.g.: the creation, extension and
enrichment of a digital textual resource (edition, collection, corpus)
or the development and enhancement of a software tool for the analysis
and publication of historical documents and literary texts;
2) digital art history, e.g.: the creation/extension of digital
resources for the study of artistic corpora (collections, archives) or
the software development/management of digital corpora (museums,
foundations, archives, estates) or the development of tools and
databases for image analysis and iconographic comparison;
3) digital and public history, e.g.: historical research carried out in
public, with the public and regarding the public, involving museums,
archives or heritage centers, applying methods of oral history, media
history or community history, related to public memory or public sources;
4) digital cultural heritage, e.g.: the development of a modular
environment of advanced technologies for the digitization of cultural
heritage materials, the analysis and visualization of data and metadata
and the creation of digital archives and virtual exhibitions.
Italian language skills are favourable but not required. Candidates
without Italian language skills are expected to acquire basic knowledge
during the fellowship.
Application deadline: 10 September 2019, at 12.00 pm (high noon Italian
time)
Interviews: 23-25 September 2019
Start: 1st November 2019
Duration: 12 months
The fellowships amount to Euro 19.367,00 per year gross to each
recipient. An extra amount aimed at covering actual research costs of
max. Euro 1.000,00 will be granted to the each fellow.
Full announcements in original Italian:
https://apps.unive.it/common2/file/download/assegni_ricerca/5d4959d431ace
Application guidelines, forms and details in Italian:
https://www.unive.it/data/12137/
Full announcements in English translation:
https://apps.unive.it/common2/file/download/assegni_ricerca/5d4959d432267
Application guidelines, forms and details in English translation:
https://www.unive.it/data/28825/
Best wishes,
Franz
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Prof. Dr. Franz Fischer
Direttore del Centro Digital & Public Humanities
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Università Ca' Foscari
Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà
Dorsoduro 3484/D - 30123 Venezia
Tel.: +39 041 234 6266 (ufficio), +39 041 234 9863 (segreteria del centro)
Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (member)
Digital Medievalist (editor-in-chief)
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