With apologies for cross-posting
1. NUME, Research Group on the Latin Middle Ages, organizes the IV Cycle of Medieval Studies, June 2018.
2. The goal is to offer a broad overview of the current situation of Italian and international medievalist studies. Issues which are related to many different aspects of the medieval period (V-XV century) can be addressed: history, philosophy, politics, literature, art, archeology, material culture, new technologies applied to medieval studies and so on;
2.1 Contributions with two or more speakers are accepted;
2.2 Contributions will be structured in specific panels.
3. The conference will be held from 3rd to 7th June 2018 at the Auditorium Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, via Folco Portinari, 5 (Florence, Italy).
4. Participation proposals must have abstract format, in Italian or English, not exceeding 300 words. They will have to be sent, along with a CV, by January 15, 2018 at the following e-mail address:
info(a)nuovomedioevo.it
5. Proposals will be evaluated by the Review Board on the basis of quality, interest and originality. The judgment of the Commission will be unquestionable.
6. The Commission will notify the convocation for the speakers considered suitable by February 1, 2018.
7. The selected speakers will be asked to prepare an oral intervention, accompanied by any images or videos, not exceeding 15 minutes (+5’ discussion time). Contextually, they will be asked to send a paper of their contribution for the Conference Proceedings by April 1, 2018.
8. Speakers will be required a participation fee of 100€, which, in addition to supporting the activities of the NUME Research Group, will entitle to 2 free copies of the Conference Proceedings.
9. The Conference program will be published by April 30, 2018.
10. The deadlines set out in this notice must be strictly observed, otherwise the contribution will be excluded from the call.
Further information at: www.nuovomedioevo.it
Global Digital Humanities Symposium at Michigan State University
March 22-23, 2018
We are committed to bringing a wide-ranging and diverse group of
participants and presenters for our conference. To further this end, there
will be funds available to assist or offset the costs of travel. Further
details will be forthcoming soon, but please email us [dh(a)msu.edu] with any
questions or clarification.
*Call for Proposals* Deadline to submit a proposal: Friday, December 15,
11:59pm EST
msuglobaldh.org
Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to extend its
symposium series on Global DH into its third year. Digital humanities
scholarship continues to be driven by work at the intersections of a range
of distinct disciplines and an ethical commitment to preserve and broaden
access to cultural materials. The most engaged global DH scholarship, that
which MSU champions
<http://cplong.org/2016/10/critical-diversity-in-a-digital-age/>, values
digital tools that enhance the capacity of scholarly critique to reflect a
broad range of literary, historical, new media, and cultural positions, and
diverse ways of valuing cultural production and knowledge work.
Particularly valuable are strategies in which the digital form manifests a
critical perspective on the digital content and the position of the
researcher to their material.
With the growth of the digital humanities, particularly in under-resourced
and underrepresented areas, a number of complex issues surface, including,
among others, questions of ownership, cultural theft, virtual exploitation,
digital rights, endangered data <http://endangereddataweek.org/>, and the
digital divide. We view the 2018 symposium as an opportunity to broaden the
conversation about these issues. Scholarship that works across borders with
foci on transnational partnerships and globally accessible data is
especially welcome.
Michigan State University has been intentionally global
<http://www.isp.msu.edu/about/about-isp/> for more than 60 years, with over
1,400 faculty involved in international research, teaching, and service.
For the past 20 years, MSU has developed a strong research area in
culturally engaged, global digital humanities. Matrix
<http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/>, a digital humanities and social science
center at MSU, has done dozens of digital projects in West and Southern
Africa
<http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/portfolio_categories/africa-related-projects/>
that have focused on ethical and reciprocal relationships and capacity
building. WIDE <http://wide.msu.edu> has set best practices for doing
community engaged, international, archival work with the Samaritan
Collections, Archive 2.0
<http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/portfolio-item/samaritan-archive-2-0/>. Today
many scholars in the humanities at MSU are engaged in digital projects
relating to global, indigenous, and/or underrepresented groups and topics.
This symposium, which will include a mixture of presentation types,
welcomes 300-word proposals related to any of these issues, and
particularly on the following themes and topics by *Friday, December 15,
11:59pm EST:*
- Critical cultural studies and analytics
- Cultural heritage in a range of contexts
- DH as socially engaged humanities and/or as a social movement
- Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance,
especially in a postcolonial context
- DH responses to crisis
- How identity categories, and their intersections, shape digital
humanities work
- Global research dialogues and collaborations
- Indigeneity – anywhere in the world – and the digital
- Digital humanities, postcolonialism, and neocolonialism
- Global digital pedagogies
- Borders, migration, and/or diaspora and their connection to the digital
- Digital and global languages and literatures
- The state of global digital humanities community
- Digital humanities, the environment, and climate change
- Innovative and emergent technologies across institutions, languages,
and economies
- Scholarly communication and knowledge production in a global context
*Presentation Formats:*
- 3-5-minute lightning talk
- 15-minute presentation
- 90-minute workshop
- 90-minute panel
*Proposal form*: http://www.msuglobaldh.org/submit-a-proposal/
Kristen Mapes
Digital Humanities Coordinator
College of Arts and Letters
Michigan State University
kristenmapes.com
kmapes(a)msu.edu
kmapes86(a)gmail.com
The editors of Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania are pleased to make the following announcements:
* The Fall 2017 issue is out! A list of contents and article abstracts are available here: https://mss.pennpress.org/current-issue-abstracts
* The Spring 2018 special issue will be devoted to the Galen Palimpsest Project. Don't know what this project is? Subscribe to find out!
* We are seeking submissions for the Fall 2018 issue and beyond. Peer-reviewed articles for Fall 2018 are due soon (next week at the latest), but non-peer reviewed Annotations can be submitted up to February 1, 2018.
* Thanks to a generous agreement with the University of Pennsylvania Press, all Articles and Annotations in Manuscript Studies are made available on an open access basis after one year from the date of publication. Articles and Annotations from the 2016 Spring and Fall issues are now available for downloading and sharing on Penn's Scholarly Commons repository. To access the pdfs, go to: http://repository.upenn.edu/mss_sims/
Manuscript Studies brings together scholarship from around the world and across disciplines related to the study of pre-modern manuscript books and documents. This peer-reviewed journal is open to contributions that rely on both traditional methodologies of manuscript study and those that explore the potential of new ones. We publish articles that engage in a larger conversation on manuscript culture and its continued relevance in today's world and highlight the value of manuscript evidence in understanding our shared cultural and intellectual heritage. Studies that incorporate digital methodologies to further understanding of the physical and conceptual structures of the manuscript book are encouraged. A separate section, entitled Annotations, features research in progress and digital project reports.
For more information and to subscribe, go to http://mss.pennpress.org. For direct inquiries, please don't hesitate to contact the editors at sims-mss(a)pobox.upenn.edu<mailto:sims-mss@pobox.upenn.edu> .
The University of Iceland offers two international graduate programs in medieval studies:
(1) Medieval Icelandic Studies, a three-semester (90 ECTS) graduate program, with two semesters' (60 ECTS) worth of course work and one semester's worth (30 ECTS) master's thesis. The summer semester is the thesis semester, which means that the program can be completed in 13 months.
See http://english.hi.is/school_of_humanities/faculty_of_icelandic_and_comparat… <http://english.hi.is/school_of_humanities/faculty_of_icelandic_and_comparat…>
(2) Viking and Medieval Norse Studies, a four-semester (120 ECTS) graduate program run in cooperation with the University of Oslo in Norway, Aarhus University and Copenhagen University in Denmark. The first year--60 ECTS' worth of course work--take place in Iceland, but the third semester is spent either in Oslo, Aarhus, or Copenhagen, completing 30 ECTS of courses. The fourth semester is devoted to writing the master's thesis, and can be spent in Iceland or Oslo.
See http://oldnorse.is/ <http://oldnorse.is/>
Both programs are designed specifically for international students. The language of instruction is English.
Application deadline: February 1st, 2018
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Haraldur Bernharðsson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medieval Studies
University of Iceland -- The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
Árnagarði við Suðurgötu
IS-101 Reykjavík
I C E L A N D
+ 354 525-4023 / +354 891-7511
- haraldr(a)hi.is <mailto:haraldr@hi.is>
- https://uni.hi.is/haraldr/en/ <https://uni.hi.is/haraldr/en/>
- Skype: haraldur_bernhardsson
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EVT 2 beta 1, aka "The Halloween release", is available for download
with many new features: improved support for critical editions (critical
apparatus also available in a dedicated text frame, apparatus fontium,
support for multiple recensions), initial support for named entities,
initial support for a working area, and more. As for previous versions
the starting point is a TEI P5 document holding your critical or
diplomatic edition, support for the latter is still incomplete since the
EVT 1 features porting is currently under way.
Full announcement available here:
https://visualizationtechnology.wordpress.com/2017/10/31/evt-2-beta-1-avail…
As usual, the latest archive can be downloaded from SourceForge:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/evt-project/files/
Let us know what you think of this release! please send all comments,
suggestions, bug reports, etc. to evt.developers(a)gmail.com.
R
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Dip. di Studi Umanistici roberto.rossellidelturco at fileli.unipi.it
Universita' di Torino VBD: http://vbd.humnet.unipi.it/beta2/
EVT: http://bit.ly/24D9kdE VC: http://www.visionarycross.org/
Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre,
mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3)
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Sent on behalf of Caroline Archer-Parré ; replies to:
thevisualandthematerial(a)gmail.com
APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING
Centre for Printing History & Culture
CALL FOR PAPERS
Script, print and letterforms in global contexts:
the visual and the material
28-29 June 2018
Birmingham City University
Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2017
In this conference, we seek to explore the plurality of engagements
with, and interpretations of the printed and written word in various
writing systems and artefacts; whether handwritten, lithographed,
typographically printed, or digitally conjured. We invite both scholars
and practitioners, broadly in the areas of design, printing, publishing,
typography, print culture and book history, to bring critical
perspectives and present fresh approaches to the study and discussion of
the visual and material aspects of print in the diverse linguistic
contexts of the world.
The global history of text-based communication constitutes a
particularly exciting facet of material culture, given the myriad ways
in which its production, transmission, and consumption has been (and
continues to be) accomplished across cultural and political boundaries.
However, a critical engagement with script and print outside the western
world has remained relatively limited despite a burgeoning interest in
the interrelated areas of printing, publishing, design, and type
history. Studies of the ‘global’ and ‘regional’ cultures of print have
tended to accommodate summary accounts and generalisations in relation
to the material production of text in different languages and scripts,
most commonly grouped under the term ‘non-Latin’. The time is long
overdue for these narratives to expand, and address the rich variation
and particularity of global practices.
THEMES
Possible themes for the conference include, but are not limited to:
● Print, manuscript, and material culture from around the world;
● Global and transnational histories of printing, publishing,
technology, typography and type design;
● Cultural and political dynamics in the visual/material
representation of scripts and languages;
● Social, political, and economic aspects shaping printing and
publishing practices;
● Networks and exchanges between or within print and manuscript
communities: Including but not limited to business, cultural,
educational, and literary aspects;
● Connections and interactions between various actors and entities:
Including but not limited to, artists, designers, linguists,
manufacturers, readers, scholars, technologists, users,
assembly/production-line workers;
● Perspectives on technological change in the history of design,
printing, technology, and typography: Including but not limited to
innovation, adaptation, resistance, and use;
● Forms, formats, and usage of documents and publications composed in
global scripts: Including substrates besides paper; letters on stones,
wood, fabric, ceramics, or digital media.
PAPERS of twenty-minutes in duration are invited for this
international conference from independent researchers, established
scholars and postgraduate students, as well as artists, designers and
practitioners working in the fields of history, book history, printing
history, type design, typographic history and design, and print,
manuscript, and material culture.
TO APPLY please send a suggested title, synopsis (300-word abstracts)
and biographical details (up to 150 words) via a PDF or Word attachment
to thevisualandthematerial(a)gmail.com by12-noon GMT, 15 November, 2017.
VENUEFaculty of Arts, Design & Media, Birmingham City University, UK.
DATES Thursday 28 – Friday 29 June 2018.
MORE INFORMATIONand a downloadable call for papers
(
http://www.cphc.org.uk/events/2017/9/15/script-print-and-letterforms-in-glo…)
.
PUBLICATIONAll papers will be considered for publication in Printing
History and Culture a new CPHC book series published by Peter Lang Ltd.
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Professor Caroline Archer-Parré
Centre for Printing History & Culture
School of Visual Communication, Faculty of Art, Design & Media
Birmingham City University, Parkside Building, 5 Cardigan Street,
Birmingham B4 7BD
Telephone: 0121 331 5871
www.cphc.org.uk
@typetweet @PrintHistory
Co-director, Centre for Printing History & Culture
Chairman, Baskerville Society
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
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Dear Colleagues,
My university's IT department unhelpfully garbles URLS "for your
protection", with the result that my original announcement of "The Digital
Middle Ages" contained a broken link. Below I resend the announcement from
my Gmail address to avoid the garbling.
Sincerely,
David
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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to be able to announce the open-access publication of "The
Digital Middle Ages", a supplement to "Speculum: A journal of medieval
studies", published by the University of Chicago Press for the Medieval
Academy of America. The issue, under the guest editorship of David J.
Birnbaum, Sheila Bonde, and Mike Kestemont, is freely accessible at
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/spc/2017/92/S1.
Sincerely,
David
This might be of interest to some list members. The call is in German and
unfortunately only papers in German are accepted.
Call for Articles: Themenheft: Digitale Mediävistik
Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung
Der Mediävistenverband e.V. veröffentlicht seit 1996 die halbjährlich
erscheinende Zeitschrift „Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer
Forschung“. Für 2019 ist ein Themenheft mit dem Titel „Digitale
Mediävistik“ vorgesehen, das gemeinsam von Roman Bleier (Zentrum für
Informationsmodellierung, Universität Graz), Franz Fischer (Cologne Center
for eHumanities der Universität zu Köln), Torsten Hiltmann (Universität
Münster), Gabriel Viehhauser (Universität Stuttgart) und Georg Vogeler
(Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung, Universität Graz) herausgegeben
wird.
Bewerbungsfrist: 30. November 2017
Autorenkonferenz in Stuttgart: 13./14. September 2018
Abstract
Elektronische Informationstechnolgien sind dabei, die Arbeitsweisen der
mediävistischen Forschung grundlegend und nachhaltig zu verändern. Gerade
mediävistische Forschungsprojekte gehören zu den Motoren einer digitalen
Durchdringung der geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschung, und dies bereits
seit den Tagen des Jesuitenpaters Roberto Busa (1913-2011), dessen Index zu
den Werken des Thomas von Aquin als das erste Digital-Humanities-Projekt
überhaupt gilt.
Seither sind die Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf die Mediävistik
einerseits anhand der rasant steigenden digitalen Verfügbarkeit von Quellen
und Forschungsergebnissen spürbar. In stetig wachsendem Umfang kann in Form
hochaufgelöster Digitalisate, digitaler Archive und Editionen auf
Primärquellen zugegriffen werden, und die Palette von digitalen Methoden,
die in der mediävistischen Forschung zum Einsatz kommen, reicht von
Algorithmus-basierten Analyseverfahren historischer Textcorpora über
automatische Bilderkennung, Netzwerkanalyse und geographische
Informationssysteme, bis hin zur formalen Erschließung von Daten und
Informationen mit Technologien des Semantic Web. Andererseits verändert die
Anwendung digitaler Hilfsmittel und Methoden sowohl die Forschungsprozesse
als auch die Fragestellungen selbst. Daher gilt es, deren Nutzen und
Auswirkungen auf unser Verständnis vom Mittelalter zu beleuchten. Das ist
umso dringlicher, als eine inter- und transdisziplinär ausgerichtete
digitale Forschungspraxis in allen Bereichen der Mediävistik Einzug hält.
Das Themenheft soll anhand aktueller Forschungsprojekte einen Überblick
über die in der mediävistischen Forschung genutzten Methoden der Digital
Humanities geben und deren Einsatz in der Praxis diskutieren und bewerten.
Es soll damit eine Orientierung auf dem Gebiet der digitalen Mediävistik
bieten und zugleich vereinzelte Aktivitäten im deutschsprachigen Raum
zusammenführen. Vor allem aber soll es zur Reflexion anregen, welche neuen
Erkenntnisse über die Welt des Mittelalters mit Hilfe digitaler Methoden,
Werkzeuge und Ressourcen gewonnen werden können.
Die Beiträge können beispielsweise folgende Themenbereiche behandeln:
● Mediävistik und Computer Vision (Bilderkennung)
● Mediävistik und Netzwerkanalyse
● Mediävistik und geographische Informationssysteme
● Mediävistik und Semantic Web
● Digitale Erschließung und Präsentation von mediävistischen Daten und
Informationen
● Text-mining und automatische Sprachverarbeitung in der Mediävistik
Zeitplan:
30. November 2017
Frist für die Einsendung der Vorschläge
15. Januar 2018
Zusage an die Autoren
1. Juli 2018
Einsenden der ausformulierten und formatierten Beiträge zum Peer Review
13./14. September
Autorenkonferenz in Stuttgart
30. November 2018
Frist für die Abgabe der überarbeiteten Beiträge
Juni 2019
Erscheinen des Themenhefts
Bitte schicken Sie ihren Vorschlag für einen Beitrag als max. zweiseitigen
Abstract bis zum 30. November 2017 an Roman Bleier (roman.bleier(at)
uni-graz.at).
With best wishes,
Roman
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Roman Bleier
Centre for Information Modelling - ACDH
University of Graz
Kompetenznetzwerk Digitale Edition <http://www.digitale-edition.at/>
Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e.V. <http://www.i-d-e.de>
Digital Medievalist <http://digitalmedievalist.org>
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to be able to announce the open-access publication of "The Digital Middle Ages", a supplement to "Speculum: A journal of medieval studies", published by the University of Chicago Press for the Medieval Academy of America. The issue, under the guest editorship of David J. Birnbaum, Sheila Bonde, and Mike Kestemont, is freely accessible at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/spc/2017/92/S1.
Sincerely,
David
Apologies for cross-posting.
R
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Oggetto: Umanistica Digitale: the first issue of the new journal of
AIUCD is on-line & CfP
Data: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:37:37 +0200
Mittente: Fabio Ciotti <fabio.ciotti(a)UNIROMA2.IT>
Dear Colleagues,
AIUCD (Italian DH Association) is pleased to announce the publication of
the first issue of its new journal *Umanistica Digitale* (ISSN
2532-8816), available on-line at
https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/ <https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/>
This number features selected articles from AIUCD2015 Conference (guest
editor R. Rosselli del Turco) and an editorial introducing the journal.
Number two (selected papers from AIUCD2016 Conference) is under
preparation and will be published next Spring.
Is it now open the Call for Papers for number 3, to be published in
Autumn 2018: we accept original scientific articles(5-10.000 words),
reviews and event reports (1-3.500 words) in Italian and English on any
subject and sub-field of Digital Humanities. The works must be submitted
to the journal OJS website by April 30th 2018.
Details on format, style guides and editorial policy at
https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/about/submissions
<https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/about/submissions>
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Umanistica Digitale is the journal of the Italian Association of Digital
Humanities (AIUCD - Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la
Cultura Digitale). In keeping with the objectives of the Association,
Umanistica Digitale serves as a discussion venue for topics pertaining
to the Digital Humanities, ranging from the theoretical and
methodological foundations of computational models in social science to
the development and application of computational systems and digital
tools in the humanities; from the study of new phenomena in internet
cultures, to the analysis of changes happening in scientific
communication and in research infrastructures. Umanistica Digitale is a
scientific journal targeted at a specific community; nevertheless, it
aspires to become an open space, one that is accessible to as wide and
varied an audience as possible in order to enrich its primary audience.
The journal provides immediate open access to its content on the
principle that making research freely available to the public supports a
greater global exchange of knowledge. It releases its articles under the
terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Acceptance of articles for publication in Umanistica Digitale is subject
to single blind peer-review. Reviewers can be associate members of the
AIUCD association or invited external.
Editorial Staff
Editor in chief
Fabio Ciotti, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italia
Legal Representative Editor
Nicoletta Salvatori, Università di Pisa, Italia
Editorial Board
Marilena Daquino, Università di Bologna, Italia
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Università di Padova, Italia
Greta Franzini, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, Regno Unito
Tiziana Mancinelli, Cologne Centre for eHumanities (CCeH), Germania
Cristina Marras, ILIESI-CNR, Italia
Enrica Salvatori, Università di Pisa, Italia
Francesca Tomasi, Università di Bologna, Italia
Managing Editor
Marilena Daquino, Università di Bologna, Italia
International advisory board
Maristella Agosti, Università di Padova, Italia
Elisabeth Burr, Universität Leipzig, Germania
Dino Buzzetti, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII, Italia
Claire Clivaz, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Svizzera
Maria Guercio, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italia
Claus Huitfeldt, Universiy of Bergen, Norway
Christoph Jan Meister, Universität Hamburg, Germania
Monica Monachini, CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italia
Raul Mordenti, Università degli studi di Roma 'Tor Vergata', Italia
Tito Orlandi, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italia
Elena Pierazzo, Université Grenoble Alpes – GERCI, Francia
Riccardo Pozzo, Università di Verona, Italia
Manuel Ramirez Sanchez, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,
IATEXT, Spagna
Geoffrey Rockwell, University of Alberta, Canada
Desmond Schmidt, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Susan Schreibman, Maynooth University, Irlanda
Manfred Thaller, ret., Universität zu Köln, Germania
Karina Van Dalen, University of Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
Gian Maria Varanini, Università di Verona, Italia
Arsalane Zarghili, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques Fès, Marocco
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Fabio Ciotti
Dep. Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte
University of Roma "Tor Vergata"
President "Associazione Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale" (AIUCD)