Medieval manuscripts at Miami University of Ohio, and an Ege trove in a private Cincinnati collection:
https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2018/04/04/manuscript-road-trip-mi…
- Lisa
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Lisa Fagin Davis
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
Dear All,
The new issue of Digital Philology is finally out! Guest-edited by Mark
Chinca and Christopher Young (University of Cambridge), DPh 6.2 is devoted
to "Medieval Studies and Digital Philology in the German-Speaking World." It
includes contributions by:
Martin Baisch (Universität Hamburg)
Hannah Busch (Universität Trier) and Philipp Hegel (Technische Universität
Darmstadt)
Veit Probst (Universität Heidelberg)
Astrid Breith (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
Ramona Fritschi (Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne)
Michael Stolz (Universität Bern)
Mark Chinca and Christopher Young (University of Cambridge)
Check out the TOC here: http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/38200
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Best,
Albert
Albert Lloret, Ph.D.
Managing Editor, Digital Philology
Associate Professor of Spanish and Catalan
Graduate Program Director, Spanish and Portuguese
University of Massachusetts Amherst
(Apologies for cross-posting)
Dear Colleagues,
A funded PhD position on Digital Human Science and Design is being offered
here at Stockholm University.
https://www.su.se/english/about/working-at-su/phd?rmpage=job&rmjob=5020&rml…
It is part of a newly formed Digital Human Science group, and we are
currently looking for a promising student to join our ranks. Please forward
this notice to anyone you might think interested. The application deadline
is just under a couple of weeks from now (15 April).
Regards,
Jeff Love
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Bað Þorsteinn þá eigi fela sik, "því at ek kann at gera þann hulinshjálm,
at mik sér engi." Goðmundr segir þat góða kunnáttu.
Thorstein told them there was no need for them to hide him. 'I can make
myself a helmet of invisibility so nobody can see me' he said. Godmund said
this was a useful skill to have. (Þorsteins Þáttr Bæjarmagns, ch. 5)
Dear colleague,
We are writing you this e-mail in the supposition that you might be interested in the International Conference "The Medieval Literary Canon in the Digital Age" that we are organizing at Ghent University from 17-18 September 2018. The Call for Papers is attached to this e-mail, and the confirmed speakers can be found below. For detailed information, please visit our website: www.mcda.ugent.be.
We would be very grateful if you would consider submitting a proposal with a provisional title by the 10th of May. Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us.
Sincerely,
ORGANISING COMMITTEE — J. De Gussem, E. De Paermentier, J. Deploige, V. Fraeters, M. Kestemont, W. Verbaal, D. Wouters
ACADEMIC BOARD — J. Deploige, M. Kestemont, L. Mortensen, F. Stella, K. van Dalen-Oskam, W. Verbaal, F. Willaert
___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Call for Papers
International Conference “The Medieval Literary Canon in the Digital Age”
Ghent University, 17–18 September 2018
We invite submission of abstracts for the international conference “The Medieval Literary Canon in the Digital Age,” to be held at Ghent University from 17-18 September 2018.
An often repeated promise of the digital humanities, in the wake of the “computational turn,” is that the wide availability and accessibility of historical texts would enable scholars to breach the restrictions of a literary canon. The present international conference wishes to explore how exactly the digital humanities can provide such insights for medieval studies, in which such a promise raises critical questions.
(1) In spite of the computational turn, much of the digital scholarship for the Middle Ages still seems to hinge on well-conserved and therefore well-known theological and literary authorities, whose texts have been reproduced continuously in subsequent editions and translations. To what extent does today’s computational research manage to escape the straitjacket of the traditional canon?
(2) Considering that in the past decades, medieval scholars have become increasingly sensitive to the materiality of textual transmission in the Middle Ages, the virtual, normative and reductive character of a digital environment are not always compatible to their research interests.
As the emancipation of the digital humanities from their merely supportive role is proclaimed increasingly, and as the tools for digital medieval studies proliferate (e.g. digital scholarly editing, computational stylistics, digital palaeography, digital stemmatology, ...), this conference welcomes papers —based on either case studies or broader research questions— that both problematize the specialized character of medieval literary production and demonstrate the potential for computational criticism to “breach” or “widen” the medieval canon through digital tools.
Full details on the topic and discussion of the conference are available on the conference website http://www.mcda.ugent.be.
The conference, to which we will accept 8 scholars in addition to the confirmed speakers (cfr. infra) will consist exclusively of plenary sessions, with ample time for discussion. The conference committee encourages proposal submissions by both established and junior researchers. Please send abstracts (ca. 300 words) and a five line biography via email to Jeroen De Gussem (jedgusse.degussem(a)UGent.be) by the 10th of May. Participants will receive a notification concerning the acceptance of their application by the end of May.
We expect from our applicants that they have the ability of covering their own travel costs. Accepted speakers are offered lunches and an invitation to our conference dinner. Accepted speakers from abroad (any country other than Belgium) will also be offered up to 3 hotel nights in Ghent.
The following invited speakers have confirmed their participation: Godfried Croenen (University of Liverpool) / Maciej Eder(Pedagogical University of Kraków) / Julie Orlemanski (University of Chicago) / Peter Robinson (University of Saskatchewan) / Karina van Dalen-Oskam (University of Amsterdam) / David J. Wrisley (New York University Abu Dhabi)
Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the organisers.
Sincerely,
ORGANISING COMMITTEE — J. De Gussem, E. De Paermentier, J. Deploige, V. Fraeters, M. Kestemont, W. Verbaal, D. Wouters
ACADEMIC BOARD — J. Deploige, M. Kestemont, L. Mortensen, F. Stella, K. van Dalen-Oskam, W. Verbaal, F. Willaert
*Global Digital Humanities Symposium*
*March 22-23, 2018*
Michigan State University
msuglobaldh.org
#msuglobaldh
Join in virtually! The event will be livestreamed at
http://go.cal.msu.edu/globaldh
Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue its
symposium series on Global DH into its third year. We are delighted to
feature speakers from around the world, as well as expertise and work from
faculty and students at Michigan State University in this two day
symposium.
*Program and Schedule (all times EDT)*
Thursday, March 22, 2018
- 1:00-1:30 - Opening Remarks
- 1:30-2:10 - Infrastructure for the Digital (Lightning Talks)
- Introducing the Oxford-BYU Syriac Corpus: An Archive for the
Preservation of Syriac Texts, James Walters, Rochester College
- Bringing Arabic-Language Scholarly Content Online: An
Investigation, John Kiplinger and Anne Ray, JSTOR
- The Humanities Scholars Today: New Directions for Academic
Libraries in Nigeria, Yetunde Zaid and Adebambo Oduwole, University of
Lagos and Lagos State University, Nigeria
- Digital Analysis of poetic themes in Mirza Ghalib, Syed Affan Aslam
and Abdul Wahid Khan, Habib University
- 3:00-3:40 - Pedagogy in/of the Digital (Lightning Talks)
- Mapping Lusofonia: Integrating GIS Instruction into Foreign
Language Curricula, Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros, Joshua Sadvari, and
Maria Scheid, Ohio State University
- Toward a Rubric-Based Assessment of Global Digital Tools and
Pedagogies: Taking a closer look at Mandarin Tone Learning Apps, Yilang
Zhao and Catherine Ryu, MSU
- Tuning in: A Digital Soundscape of Mandarin Chinese Tones, Benjamin
Fuhrman and Catherine Ryu, MSU
- Beyond the Classroom: Maps, Texts and Multimedia to Make Visible
the Afro Presence in Argentina, Marisol Fila, University of Michigan
- Storytelling and Social Media: Tackling the Digital Divide, Autumn
Painter and Marcy O’Neil, MSU
- 4:30-5:30 - Keynote, Lisa Nakamura, "Racial Empathy Machine:
Discourses of Virtual Reality in America After Trump"
- 5:30-7:30 - Reception
Friday, March 23, 2018
- 9:00-10:30 - Environmental DH Panel
- Supporting Research, Public Engagement, and Learning Through
Environmentally Focused Digital Humanities, Jamie Rogers, Florida
International University
- #EcoDH: Global Environmental Digital Humanities, Amanda Starling
Gould, libi rose striegl, Craig Dietrich, Ted Dawson, Max Symuleski, Duke
University, UC Boulder, Occidental College, and Vanderbilt
- 11:00-12:15 - Creating Community
- Colonial Pasts and Techno-Utopian Futures, Dhanashree Thorat,
University of Kansas
- Exploring Culture and Identity using Linked Open Data and the
Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA), Taylor Wiley
(presenting), Joshua Wells, Eric Kansa, Kelsey Noack Myers, and R. Carl
DeMuth, Indiana University South Bend, Open Context, and Indiana
University
Bloomington
- Digital Community Engagement at SIUE: How a Regional University can
have a Global Impact, Katherine Knowles and Benjamin Ostermeier, The IRIS
Center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
- Partnering for Digital Publishing: Resurfacing At-Risk Works of the
Small, Independent, Feminist Press, Jane Nichols and Elle Bublitz, Oregon
State University Libraries and Calyx Press
- 12:15-1:30 - Lunch (provided)
- 1:30-2:30 - Language and Meaning
- Mercator of the Trap: Black Orality and the Naming of Place in the Hip
Hop Soundscape, Melissa Brown, University of Maryland
- Visualizing Claude McKay’s Black Atlantic, Amardeep Singh, Lehigh
University
- Urban Language Topographies: Cites as Sites of Language
Maintenance, Michelle McSweeney, Columbia University
- 3:00-4:15 - Mapping and the Geo-Spatial
- West Hollywood Goes Global: Exploring Queer Identity on GeoCities,
Sarah McTavish, University of Waterloo
- Digital Tools, Grassroots Use: Open Source Mapping Communities and
Global Knowledge Production, Ned Prutzer, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
- Migrant Segregation in Victorian England: Geo-Spatial Technologies
and Individual-Level Data Harmonisation, James Perry, Lancaster University
- 4:45-5:45 - Keynote: Schuyler Esprit, “There, and In This Place”:
Caribbean Readers in Public (Digital) Spaces
- 5:45-6:00 - Closing remarks
Kristen Mapes
Digital Humanities Coordinator
College of Arts and Letters
Michigan State University
kristenmapes.com
kmapes(a)msu.edu
kmapes86(a)gmail.com
Dear all (with the familiar apologies for cross-posting),
I would like to let the list know of a tool that might relieve the textual critic of
a few grey hairs.
If you have tried making critical editions in LaTeX with the wonderful Reledmac
package (https://ctan.org/pkg/reledmac), you will know that it incorporates a
feature for handling references to one of several instances of a given word in
the same line. The challenge is that these potentially conflicting identical
words need to be annotated before the .tex file is compiled, and it is therefore
generally done manually. This is painstaking work, and even small changes in
layout may require a revision of the whole text to check for new potentially
ambiguous words.
So I am working on a script that does this for you.
It currently lives at https://github.com/stenskjaer/samewords. You can see more
in the documentation at http://samewords.readthedocs.io/.
I have worked on it intermittently for a longer period now, and it generally
runs well and handles stuff that I throw at it rather well. But it is still a
younger tool, and is therefore also still moving towards a 1.0 version. Although
I have tried putting it through as many different possible and impossible
scenarios as I can think of, there may still be some cases that it does not
handle correctly. So if you try it and find any problems, either in usability or
the results it spits out, please let me know, either via email or (preferably)
an issue on Github.
If you should have any other comments, feedback or thoughts, or just find the
solution useful I am of course all ears.
All the best,
Michael S. Christensen
[R&R] <http://representationandreality.gu.se/>
Michael Stenskjær Christensen<mailto:michaelsc@hum.ku.dk> • PhD-student<http://saxoinstitute.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/345119>
Representation and Reality<http://representationandreality.gu.se/> • University of Gothenburg<http://www.gu.se/english>
Department of Greek and Latin<http://saxo.ku.dk/> • University of Copenhagen<http://www.ku.dk/>
Version française en bas
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The second edition of the EDEEN Summer School on digital editions will take place from the 28th to the 2nd of June 2018 in Grenoble.
The Summer School is aimed at PhD students, early careers, all who might be interested in understanding what Digital Humanities actually are in practice, and/or those who wish to deepen their knowledge and competence on the subject. For this second edition, participants will be able to choose between two different levels of class: a level 1 ”Structuring the text” stream, for which no previous knowledge is required, and a level 2 ”Representing the text” for which some previous experience is needed (participation at the 2017 edition of EDEEN or similar).
For Level 1 the courses on offer include:
- Introduction to Digital Humanities
- HTML and CSS
- XML
- TEI
- GIS
- Relational databases.
For Level 2 the courses on offer include:
- Advanced TEI
- JavaScript and JQuery
- XLST
- Digital Codicology and Palaeography
- XQuery
Teaching is in French and English: courses taught in French will include slides in English and vice versa.
More information on the website: https://edeen.sciencesconf.org<https://edeen.sciencesconf.org/>
Registration will open in a few days: stay tuned!
The EDEEN team
Elena Pierazzo, Anne Garcia-Fernandez, Elisabeth Greslou
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La seconde édition de l’école d’été éditions numériques EDEEN aura lieu du 28 mai au 2 juin 2018 à Grenoble.
L’école d’été vise un public de doctorant·e·s, jeunes chercheuse·eur·s et tous ceux qui veulent comprendre ce que ce sont les Humanités Numériques par la pratique ou bien qui désirent approfondir leurs connaissances. Pour cette seconde édition, les participants pourront choisir le parcours de niveau 1 - “Structuration du texte”, pour lequel il n’y a pas de pré-requis, ou le parcours de niveau 2 - “Représentation du texte”, pour lequel des pré-requis sont nécessaires (participation à la formation de 2017 ou d’autres formations similaires).
Les cours offerts incluent pour le niveau 1 :
• Introduction aux Humanités numériques
• HTML et CSS
• XML
• TEI
• SIG
• Base de données relationnelles
Les cours offerts incluent pour le niveau 2 :
• TEI avancée
• JavaScript et JQuery
• XLST
• Codicologie et Paléographie numérique
• XQuery
Les cours seront en français ou en anglais. Les enseignements dispensés en français auront les diapositives en anglais et vice versa.
Plus d’infos sur le site: https://edeen.sciencesconf.org<https://edeen.sciencesconf.org/>
Les inscriptions ouvriront dans quelque jours.
L’équipe de EDEEN
Elena Pierazzo, Anne Garcia-Fernandez, Elisabeth Greslou
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Elena Pierazzo
Professeure d’italien et humanités numériques
Université Grenoble-Alpes - LUHCIE
Bureau Bâtiment 'Stendhal’ F307
BP 25 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9
Tel. +33 4 76828032
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
King's College London
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London
WC2B 5RL
** apologies for cross posting **
Dear members of the list,
this workshop organized by colleagues at the Université de Lausanne might
be of interest for some of you.
Best wishes,
Elena Spadini
*Call for Proposals*
*Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018 (COMHUM 2018)*
*Workshop date: June 4–5, 2018 Location: University of Lausanne,*
*Switzerland*
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It is often said that the digital humanities are “situated at the
intersection of computer science and the humanities,” but what does this
mean? We believe that the point of using computers in the humanities is
not just to automatically analyze larger amounts of data or to
accelerate research. We therefore prefer to understand digital
humanities as (1) the study of means and methods of constructing formal
models in the humanities and (2) as the application of these means and
methods for the construction of concrete models in particular humanities
disciplines. The central research questions are thus correspondingly (1)
which computational methods are most appropriate for dealing with the
particular challenges posed by humanities research, e.g., uncertainty,
vagueness, incompleteness, but also with different positions (points of
view, values, criteria, perspectives, approaches, readings, etc.)? And
(2) how can such computational methods be applied to concrete research
questions in the humanities?
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers involved with
computational approaches in the humanities with the objective of
stimulating the research and exchange around innovative,
methodologically explicit approaches, to encourage discussion among
researchers and developers from different communities, and to help
bridging the divide that still exists between the different disciplines
involved in this field.
The program will consist of invited and contributed talks on
computational methods for and in the humanities. The official language
of the workshop is English. Contributions can be submitted in English or
French.
The workshop is organized by the Department of Language and Information
Sciences at the University of Lausanne, with the support of the Faculty
of Arts. The workshop underlines the commitment of the Department of
Language and Information Sciences to the computational dimension of the
digital humanities, including formal and mathematical methods.
Topics
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The topics of the workshop encompass formal and computational aspects
related to the development and use of computational methods in the
humanities (in particular the disciplines represented in the Faculty
of Arts of UNIL - such as literature, linguistics, history, history of
art, cinema studies, game studies).
Topics include, but are not limited to:
• Theoretical issues of formal modeling in the humanities
• Knowledge representation in the humanities
• Data structures addressing specific problems in the humanities
(including text and markup)
• Quantitative methods in the humanities
• Computer vision and image analysis in the humanities
• Spatial analysis in the humanities
• Network analysis in the humanities
Submissions
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We invite researchers to submit abstracts of 500 to 1000 words (1–2
pages, excluding references). Abstracts will be reviewed double-blind
by the members of the program committee, and all submissions will
receive several independent reviews. Abstracts submitted at review
stage must not contain the authors’ names, affiliations, or any
information that may disclose the authors’ identity.
Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present their
research at the workshop as a talk, and the abstracts will be
published in the book of abstracts of the workshop.
The abstracts must use the ACL 2017 format. Please strictly follow the
guidelines that will be published on the workshop Web site. Abstracts
must be submitted electronically in PDF format. For abstracts
submissions we use EasyChair:
[https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comhum2018]. For details
please consult the workshop Web site at
[http://www.unil.ch/llist/events/comhum2018].
Authors of accepted contributions will be invited, after the
conference, to submit a full paper version (6–16 pages), which, after
peer-review, will be published in an open-access, electronic
conference volume endowed with persistent identifiers (to be confirmed
soon).
Invited Speakers
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• Manfred Thaller
• (more to be confirmed)
Important Dates
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Deadline for submission of abstracts
April 16, 2018
Notification of acceptance
April 30, 2018
Workshop
June 4–5, 2018
Program Committee
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• François Bavaud
• Raphaël Ceré
• Barbara McGillivray
• Cerstin Mahlow
• Isaac Pante
• Davide Picca
• Michael Piotrowski (chair)
• Yannick Rochat
• Elena Spadini
• Sabine Süsstrunk
• Aris Xanthos
Further Information
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[http://www.unil.ch/llist/event/comhum2018] llist(a)unil.ch
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elenaspadini.com
PostDoc - UNIL
Centre de recherches sur les lettres romandes <http://www.unil.ch/crlr>
Dear colleagues,
Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG) at the University of
Helsinki is looking for a postdoctoral researcher in computer science
for a three-year fixed-term period in the area of human computer
interaction / interaction design or alternatively in data science.
One of the objectives of HELDIG is to develop cutting edge
interdisciplinary research groups, where computer scientists collaborate
with researchers in the humanities and social sciences to develop tools
and algorithms capable of tackling the complexity of humanities data and
research questions.
The successful candidate will become part of a multidisciplinary
research group that interacts with multiple national and international
projects inside the remit of digital humanities/computational social
sciences, investigating the complexities in data and process the
projects encounter, and then devising tools and algorithms capable of
tackling that complexity (please see more at http://heldig.fi/hssci).
For more information, see
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/postdoctoral-researcher-in-comput…
--
Jouni Tuominen, Coordinating researcher
Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG)
University of Helsinki and Aalto University
HELDIG: Room A130, Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40, Helsinki
Aalto: Room B126, Computer Science Building, Konemiehentie 2, Espoo
http://seco.cs.aalto.fi/u/jwtuomin/