**Call for Nominations to DM Board 2017-2019**
Digital Medievalist will be holding elections at the end of June 2017 for four positions to its Executive Board. Board positions are for 2-year terms and incumbents may be re-elected (for a maximum of three terms in a row). Members of the Board are responsible for the overall direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist’s many projects and programmes. This is a working board, and so it would be expected that you are willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities, like editing the journal, organising conference sessions, administering website, facebook group and news feeds, or maintaining a technical infrastructure - and there is room for any initiative you would like to take to foster the communication on digital methods in medieval studies.
For further information about the Executive and Digital Medievalist more generally please see the DM website, particularly:
https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/board-roles/https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/election-procedures/https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/bylaws/
We are now seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual elections. In order to be eligible for election, candidates must be members of Digital Medievalist (membership is conferred simply by subscription to the organisation’s mailing list, dm-l) and have made some demonstrable contribution either to the DM project (e.g. to the mailing list, or the wiki, etc.), or generally to the field of digital medieval studies.
If you are interested in running for these positions or are able to recommend a suitable candidate, please contact the returning officers, Dominique Stutzmann (dominique.stutzmann [at] irht.cnrs.fr) and Lynn Ransom (lransom [at] upenn.edu), who will treat your nomination or enquiries in confidence. The nomination period will close at 23:59 UTC on Thursday, 15 June. Elections will be held by electronic ballot from Thursday, 22 June 2016, closing at 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, 7 July 2016.
Best wishes,
Dominique Stutzmann and Lynn Ransom
** EXTENDED DEADLINE: 25 June 2017 **
---- First International Workshop on Resources and Tools for Derivational Morphology (DeriMo2017) ----
CALL FOR PAPERS
The First International Workshop on Resources and Tools for Derivational Morphology (DeriMo2017) will be held in Milan (Italy) on 5 and 6 October 2017, at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (http://derimo2017.marginalia.it/).
DeriMo2017 concludes the Word Formation Latin (WFL) project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 658332-WFL. The project is based at the Centro Interdisciplinare di Ricerche per la Computerizzazione dei Segni dell’Espressione (CIRCSE: http://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/circse-home?rdeLocaleAttr=en), at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.
Submissions are invited for presentations featuring high quality and previously unpublished research on the topics described below. Contributions should focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational.
Proceedings will be published, open-access, in time for the workshop.
MOTIVATION AND AIMS
Until very recently, in the areas of Language Resources and Natural Language Processing (NLP), derivational morphology has always been neglected if compared to inflectional morphology. Yet the recent rise of lexical resources for derivational morphology have demonstrated that enhancing textual data with derivational morphology tagging can lead to strong outcomes.
First, it organises the lexicon at higher level than words, by building word formation based sets of lexical items sharing a common derivational ancestor.
Secondly, derivational morphology acts like a kind of interface between morphology and semantics, since core semantic properties are shared at different extent by words built by a common word formation process.
In the lively area of research aimed at building computational resources and tools for ancient languages, the WFL project fills a gap in the variety of those available for Latin, connecting lexical items on the basis of word formation rules. For a work-in-progress version of the resource, please visit http://wfl.marginalia.it.
This workshop wants to be both an opportunity for the presentation of WFL to the wider community, and a place where confrontation with other scholars engaged in the treatment of derivational morphology for different languages (either modern or ancient) can arise, and potentials for the cross-linguistic sharing of techniques and methods can be discussed.
TOPICS
The Workshop on Resources and Tools for Derivational Morphology aims at covering a wide range of topics.
In particular, the topics to be addressed in the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following:
- resources for derivational morphology
- connecting the derivational morphology level of annotation in language resources with other levels of linguistic analysis (e.g. semantic, syntactic…)
- (NLP) tools for the semi-automatic creation of resources for derivational morphology
- (NLP) tools including components of derivational morphology
- empirically based comparative and multilingual studies on derivational morphology
- empirically based diachronic studies on derivational morphology
- query tools for derivational morphology resources
- theoretical issues in derivational morphology.
INVITED SPEAKER: Pius ten Hacken (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadlines: always midnight, UTC ('Coordinated Universal Time'), ignoring DST ('Daylight Saving Time'):
- Deadline for paper submission: 25 June 2017
- Notification of acceptance: 24 July 2017
- Final, camera-ready, version of paper: 10 September 2017
- Workshop: 5-6 October 2017
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION
We invite to submit long abstracts describing original, unpublished research related to the topics of the workshop. Abstracts should not exceed 6 pages (references included).
The language of the workshop is English. All abstracts must be submitted in well-checked English.
Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format only. Submissions have to be made via the EasyChair page of the workshop at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=derimo2017. Please, first register at EasyChair if you do not have an EasyChair account.
The style guidelines to follow for the paper can be found here: http://derimo2017.marginalia.it/index.php/CfP/authors-kit.
Please, note that as reviewing will be double-blind, the abstract should not include the authors' names and affiliations or any references to web-sites, project names etc. revealing the authors' identity. Furthermore, any self-reference should be avoided. For instance, instead of "We previously showed (Brown, 2001)...", use citations such as "Brown previously showed (Brown, 2001)...".
Each submitted abstract will be reviewed by three members of the programme committee.
The authors of the accepted abstracts will be required to submit the full version of their paper, which may be extended up to 12 pages (references included).
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
The oral presentations at the workshop will be 30 minutes long (25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussion).
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Eleonora Litta Modignani Picozzi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy)
Marco Passarotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy)
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Mark Aronoff (USA)
Piermarco Bertinetto (Italy)
Jim Blevins (UK)
Giovanni Gobber (Italy)
Nabil Hathout (France)
Dag Haug (Norway)
Gerd Haverling (Sweden)
Andrew Hippisley (USA)
Claudio Iacobini (Italy)
Sandra Kübler (USA)
Rochelle Lieber (USA)
Silvia Luraghi (Italy)
Cerstin Mahlow (Germany)
Francesco Mambrini (Germany)
Fiammetta Namer (France)
Renato Oniga (Italy)
Sebastian Padó (Germany)
Renáta Panocová (Slovakia)
Vito Pirrelli (Italy)
Lucie Pultrová (Czech Republic)
Jan Radimský (Czech Republic)
Savina Raynaud (Italy)
Benoît Sagot (France)
Magda Ševčíková (Czech Republic)
Andrew Spencer (UK)
Pavel Štichauer (Czech Republic)
Marko Tadić (Croatia)
Zdeněk Žabokrtský (Czech Republic)
Digital Classicist London 2017
Institute of Classical Studies
Fridays at 16:30 in room 234*, Senate House south block, Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HU
(*except June 16 & 23, room G34)
ALL WELCOME
Seminars will be screencast on the Digital Classicist London YouTube
channel, for the benefit of those who are not able to make it in person.
Discuss the seminars on Twitter at #DigiClass.
RSS feed
Jun 2 Sarah Middle (Open University)
Linked Data and Ancient World Research: studying past projects from a
user perspective
Jun 9 Donald Sturgeon (Harvard University)
Crowdsourcing a digital library of pre-modern Chinese
Jun 16 Valeria Vitale et al. (Institute of Classical Studies)
Recogito 2: linked data without the pointy brackets (*G34*)
Jun 23 Dimitar Iliev et al. (University of Sofia St. Kliment Ohridski)
Historical GIS of South-Eastern Europe (*G34*)
Jun 30 Lucia Vannini (Institute of Classical Studies)
The role of Digital Humanities in Papyrology: Practices and user needs
in papyrological research
& Paula Granados García (Open University)
Cultural Contact in Early Roman Spain through Linked Open Data resources
Jul 7 Elisa Nury (King's College London)
Collation Visualization: Helping Users to Explore Collated Manuscripts
Jul 14 Sarah Ketchley (University of Washington)
Re-Imagining Nineteenth Century Nile Travel and Excavation for a Digital
Age: The Emma B. Andrews Diary Project
Jul 21 Dorothea Reule & Pietro Liuzzo (University of Hamburg)
Issues in the development of digital projects based on user
requirements. The case of Beta maṣāḥǝft
Jul 28 Rada Varga (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Romans 1by1: Transferring information from ancient people to modern users
Full programme and abstracts:
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2017.html
This series is focussed on user and reader needs of digital projects or
resources, and assumed a wide definition of classics including the whole
ancient world more broadly than only the Greco-Roman Mediterranean. The
seminars will be pitched at a level suitable for postgraduate students
or interested colleagues in Archaeology, Classics, Digital Humanities
and related fields.
Digital Classicist London seminar is organized by Gabriel Bodard, Simona
Stoyanova and Valeria Vitale (ICS) and Simon Mahony and Eleanor Robson
(UCL).
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Dr Gabriel BODARD
Reader in Digital Classics
Institute of Classical Studies
University of London
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
E: gabriel.bodard(a)sas.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)20 78628752
http://digitalclassicist.org/
Dear colleagues,We are pleased to inform you that from July 3rd to 5th, 2017, LINHD UNED will host the 4th DH@Madrid Summer School: “Semantic Technologies and Linguistic Tools for Digital Humanities”.This year’s DH Summer School is also part of the activities led by the ERC POSTDATA project. The course is sponsored by the CLARIN-ERIC European infrastructure and brings together a varied group of leading international experts in Digital Humanities, Natural Language Processing and language technologies.Our Summer School will be of special interest for humanists focused in digital research methods applied to the humanities. It can be followed online or delayed, and in face-to-face classroom mode.Discounts are available for students, unemployed people and members of Spanish DH associations.More information and registration: http://linhd.es/en/p/dh-summer-2017-lang-en/ Elena González-Blanco & Gimena del RíoLINHD --- Queridos amigos,Nos complace anunciaros que del 3 al 5 de julio de 2017 se llevará a cabo en la UNED el curso de verano de este año: “Tecnologías semánticas y herramientas lingüísticas para Humanidades Digitales”.
Este curso, que cuenta con la colaboración de importantes expertos internacionales en Humanidades Digitales, tecnología semántica y procesamiento del lenguaje, constituye la cuarta edición de la DH@Madrid Summer School. Este año cuenta además con dos importantes patrocinadores, pues forma parte de las actividades del proyecto ERC POSTDATA, y además está patrocinado por la infraestructura europea CLARIN. Está dirigido a todos aquellos interesados en métodos digitales de investigación aplicados a las humanidades, y centrado principalmente en personas con formación humanística. El curso de este año se centra en la enseñanza de herramientas y tecnologías del lenguaje, en general, y más particularmente en tecnologías semánticas que puedan utilizarse en proyectos de investigación. Puede seguirse de forma presencial, semipresencial, o completamente online en directo o en diferido desde cualquier lugar del mundo.Los estudiantes, miembros de asociaciones hispánicas de HD y personas en paro cuentan además con descuentos especiales.
Más información en: http://linhd.es/p/dh-summer-2017-es/ ¡Os esperamos!Elena González-Blanco y Gimena del RíoLINHD
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Betreff: Application: «Mirabile» Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation
Fellowships in Digital Humanities, deadline July 15, 2017 Datum: Sat, 20
May 2017 08:34:54 +0000
Von: Micrologus <micrologus-microloguslibrary(a)unil.ch>
An: Micrologus <micrologus-microloguslibrary(a)unil.ch>
Application: «Mirabile» Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation Fellowships in
Digital Humanities, deadline July 15, 2017
Mirabile. Digital Archive for Latin Medieval Culture
www.mirabileweb.it
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Professor Dr. Georg Vogeler
Chair for Digital Humanities
Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung -
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
Universität Graz
A-8010 Graz | Elisabethstraße 59/III
Tel. +43 316 380 8033
<http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at> - <http://gams.uni-graz.at>
Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e.V. <http://www.i-d-e.de>
International Center for Archival Research ICARus <http://www.icar-us.eu>
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Professor Dr. Georg Vogeler
Chair for Digital Humanities
Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung -
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
Universität Graz
A-8010 Graz | Elisabethstraße 59/III
Tel. +43 316 380 8033
<http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at> - <http://gams.uni-graz.at>
Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e.V. <http://www.i-d-e.de>
International Center for Archival Research ICARus <http://www.icar-us.eu>
Dear all,
(apologies for cross-posting)
The new collaboration between RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) and
the University of Rochester that is now named "Rochester Cultural Heritage
Imaging, Visualization, and Education" ("R-CHIVE") will be holding a small
conference on 6/19-20th (6/19 at RIT, Tuesday 6/20 at the UR). The
conference is intended to stimulate interest in the growing and important
field of imaging to recover cultural heritage. The general areas of focus
of the conference are best practice for imaging of cultural heritage and
how studies of materials (parchment, papyrus, and ink) can help in the
imaging and image processing. Confirmed speakers include Ira Rabin of
Federal Institute for Material Research and Testing in Berlin and the
Center for the Studies of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg,
Chet Van Duzer, NEH-Mellon Fellow at the U.S. Library of Congress, and
Michael Phelps of the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library.
Everyone who is interested in the field is invited to attend. The
conference has a small registration fee of $10 for students and $30 for
faculty and staff to cover costs. Register at the "Conference" tab at
www.r-chive.net
Feel free to contact Helen Davies (hdavies2(a)ur.rochester.edu ) with any
questions.
For a sneak peak of the kind of things we will be discussing at the
conference:
https://www.ted.com/talks/gregory_heyworth_how_i_m_discovering_the_secrets_…
Thank you,
Helen Davies
PhD Student
University of Rochester
Department of English
My latest blogpost, about an unstudied Book of Hours at the New Bedford
Public Library, also includes a step-by-step primer on working with
Books of Hours.
https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2017/05/06/manuscript-road-trip-th…
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
[Fwd from Prof Andreas Speer, Thomas Institut, University of Cologne]
Call for Papers (deadline: August 15, 2017)
English version below (and at http://kmt.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/10209.html)
French version: http://kmt.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/10210.html
German version: http://kmt.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/10208.html
41. Cologne Mediaevistentagung, September 10-14, 2018
The Library: Spaces of Thought and Knowledge Systems
In the digital era, the experience of what a library once was seems to
slip away slowly but unstoppably: the library meant access to a
substantial, yet limited amount of books, which were available only at a
certain place, at a certain time and under certain conditions. It was a
collection subject to certain criteria, which required a reasonable and
steady order to enable finding anything there. All of these limitations
concerning the immediate access to books are increasingly removed by
global search engines and comprehensive search algorithms. We experience
every day in which way our reading and working conditions are
practically altered by this. Which consequences this might have for our
conceptions of knowledge and research is, however, at best only vaguely
apparent.
Thus, making the Library topic of a Mediaevistentagung is supposed to
reveal some generalities regarding the relation between the library and
knowledge, which might facilitate our reflection on current changes as
well as on conditions and mechanisms of knowledge in general. This may
be achieved by studying the question of how libraries in their various
forms fit into and affected intellectual processes and their social and
material conditions. For this purpose – and according to the framework
of our conference –, we look upon a millennium in which libraries played
a crucial role in passing on knowledge across linguistic and cultural
borders. Libraries were places of thinking, writing, translating, and
copying.
A library is not merely a cluster of books which are waiting for their
users. Libraries are spaces of thought and institutions of organized
knowledge. They reflect the questions of their times and preserve them
for the future. Thus, they are privileged spaces of participation in
knowledge, to which we contribute with the books we write ourselves.
Early on, those knowledge carriers were treasured in places in which
they could be stored, studied, and reproduced. Those places were
archives of all kinds and, above all, libraries. According to their size
and conception, they have since granted access to a certain and at the
same time limited amount of knowledge carriers: may it be scrolls,
documents, manuscripts, books, microfilms or databases.
The concept of a library shows the interdependence of conceptual and
material culture, the interweaving of the history of knowledge and
institutional context conditions. At the outset of every considerable
movements of knowledge reception are books or text corpora. In this
context, libraries are spaces of thought which, on the one hand, reflect
concepts and, on the other, enable them in the first place. Many
knowledge systems originate from library practice, which can itself –
implicitly or explicitly – be an expression of a theoretically
established knowledge system, which again becomes accessible only
through this practical knowledge.
Thus, there is a broad basis for an interdisciplinary approach to the
conference’s topic. Without intending to be exhaustive, some questions
shall be addressed in the following.
(i) First, there is the question of how libraries emerge and decline:
Where do they exist? Who owns them? Who establishes them? How is the
material collected? Where do the books come from? What are their values?
How does the collection develop over time? How do storage, arrangement,
and utilization of the material take place? Who are the users? Which
rules must be followed in using the material? Who monitors this and how?
What do the users do with or to the books under certain circumstances,
e.g., read them, copy them, gloss them, damage them, steal them…? When
and how are catalogues prepared? According to which systems? Are
libraries at certain points purposely reconstructed? For which reasons?
What are the reasons for the loss of libraries?
(ii) In this context, the question of how contemporaries perceive and
describe libraries arises. For which purposes are they visited? Who is
allowed to visit them? Who is not? What does a visit to the library look
like? Is there an awareness of the specific features of a certain
library? Are there descriptions of experiences concerning a certain
library, its richness or its shortcomings?
(iii) Closely related to this is the image of a library: How are
libraries depicted in literary texts and paintings – actually existing
ones, on the one hand, and stereotype, fictional, or imagined ones on
the other? Which mental experiences (insight, epiphany, conversion,
boredom) are connected to libraries? What does the layout of a library
(e.g., chest, lectern, rooms, buildings) and of its books (e.g., covers,
illumination) tell us about their meaning and the perceptions of their
owners? And last, which perceptions and wishes shape the (actualized as
well as not actualized) planning of a library?
(iv) Libraries, as text ensembles, are not necessarily bound to a
certain place or a specific material form. We reconstruct immaterial
libraries and, in doing so, investigate what an author might have read,
which sources were available to a reader, and what a nowadays lost
library might have looked like at a certain time. The digital era
further opens new possibilities for the creation of ideal libraries
that, concerning their claim to completeness and their presence, exceed
their historical paragons by far and thus open new, unprecedented
perspectives for research. At this, the reconstruction of the library of
an author does not only represent his intellectual cosmos, but also
provides an insight into his ways of doing research, his search for
specific texts, their selection and compilation as well as the observed
gaps, which were then filled by their own productions.
(v) Further, classifications, reading guides, lectionaries, and
establishing systems essentially belong to the library. Regarding, for
instance, the Aristotelian and Platonic text corpora (although these are
certainly not the only ones), it becomes apparent that libraries and
scientific classifications are closely linked. There are libraries for
scholastic and mystical theology, for physicians, lawyers, and
astronomers. That way, a canon is established, taught, transmitted,
transformed, and replaced.
(vi) Moreover, libraries are the basis for intertextuality. They thereby
demand certain skills of the reader. How is this particular knowledge
imparted? Do libraries feature a ‘common core’ for the discourse across
fields of expertise? To what extent do libraries influence the reading
and quoting habits of their users?
(vii) In terms of disciplinarity, the topic encompasses different
realms, which – according to the type of library considered – may occur
separately or in conjunction: monastic libraries, university libraries,
court libraries as well as the libraries of professors (e.g.,
Amplonius), of physicians (e.g., Arnaldus de Villa Nova), of academic
prelates (e.g., Nicholas of Cusa), of writers (e.g., Richard de
Fournival, who, among other things, composed a Biblionomia), of
councilmen, rabbis, and travelling scholars reflect the interests of
their users and the collectors. Various aspects also emerge by including
Byzantine culture, Jewish tradition, and the Islamic world, with their
often quite different conditions, for instance, the notable dominance of
private libraries.
(vii) Libraries have always been places of media transfer: form scrolls
to parchment to paper, from manuscripts to letterpress to digital
storage media. Transfer processes, however, always involve the danger of
losing something. Only rarely are collections entirely transferred from
one medium to another. Certain technical and social changes can be
observed through the prism of the library, such as the introduction of
paper, of letterpress, or of the increasing vernacular literature (also
in the sciences). How is this media change and transfer addressed? What
does it mean for the collection of a library?
Like always, the Cologne Mediaevistentagung aims at the broadest
possible interdisciplinary spectrum. Thus, we would like to invite
philosophers and theologians, historians and philologists, literary
scholars and cultural scientists, art historians and science historians,
and so on, to participate with a question from their field of expertise
or with an interdisciplinary issue in the 41. Cologne
Mediaevistentagung. It is our goal to challenge and reconsider habitual
perceptions and opinions and to thereby open up new perspectives.
Let me conclude by kindly asking for your topic proposals together with
a short abstract (of about 1 page), preferably to be send in by August
15, 2017 (thomas-institut(at)uni-koeln.de).
I would be delighted to welcome you personally at the 41. Cologne
Mediaevistentagung next year. Please feel free to forward this
invitation to colleagues who are not yet listed in our address file or
send us the address of those who are possibly interested.
Thank you very much!
I am looking forward to receiving your proposals and remain with kind
regards
Cologne, March 2017
Andreas Speer
Academic Direction and Organization:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Speer (andreas.speer(a)uni-koeln.de)
Lars Reuke, M.A. (lreuke1(a)uni-koeln.de)
Thomas-Institut der Universität zu Köln
Universitätsstraße 22
D-50923 KÖLN
Tel.: +49/(0)221/470-2309
Fax: +49/(0)221/470-5011
Email: thomas-institut(a)uni-koeln.de
www.kmt.uni-koeln.de │ www.thomasinst.uni-koeln.de
Dear colleagues,
The Digital Humanities group at the University of Vienna is looking for a new member! The post is for a Ph.D. candidate who has some experience of the current landscape of digital scholarly editions of text; the ideal candidate will have an interest in the use of digital editions for historical research. She or he will work in collaboration with several universities and institutions of higher education across Austria to build a national infrastructure for digital editions, as part of the KONDE (KOmpetenzNetzwerk Digitale Editionen) project.
This is a three-year post, at 75% FTE (which is the Austrian equivalent of full-time for doctoral candidates). The full job posting and instructions for how to apply can be found at the following URL:
https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/flow/bew_ausschreibun… <https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/flow/bew_ausschreibun…>
Please forward to anyone who may be interested!
Best wishes,
Tara Andrews
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tara L Andrews
Digital Humanities
Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien
Universitätsring 1, A-1010 Wien