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The Normans in the South Conference - Oxford, Jun.-Jul. 2017 - Registration Details
by Emily A. Winkler 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

The Normans in the South Mediterranean Meetings in the Central Middle Ages Friday 30 June – Sunday 2 July, 2017 St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford By some accounts, 1017 marked the advent of the Norman presence in Italy and Sicily, inaugurating a new era of invasion, interaction and integration in the Mediterranean. Whether or not we decide the millennial anniversary is significant, the moment offers an ideal opportunity to explore the story in the south, about a thousand years ago. To what extent did the Normans establish a cross-cultural empire? What can we learn by comparing the impact of the Norman presence in different parts of Europe? What insights are discoverable in comparing local histories of Italy and Sicily with broader historical ideas about transformation, empire and exchange? The conference draws together established, early-career and post-graduate scholars for a joint investigation of the Normans in the South, to explore together the many meetings of cultural, political and religious ideas in the Mediterranean in the central Middle Ages. The three-day conference features 80 speakers from around the world, and three parallel strands of sessions: ‘Conquest and Culture’, ‘Art and Architecture’ and ‘Power and Politics’. *Secure your place: register by 31 May 2017 at* http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/conferences-events/history- faculty/history-faculty/the-normans-in-the-south- mediterranean-meetings-in-the-central-middle-ages *Meal bookings optional; conference dinner places limited;* *early booking strongly recommended.* *Conference Website and Programme* www.haskinssociety.org/Normans-in-the-South <http://www.haskinssociety.org/Normans-in-the-South> *Keynote Speakers* Professor Graham Loud (University of Leeds) Professor Jeremy Johns (University of Oxford) Professor Sandro Carocci (University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’) *featuring a short highlight talk by* Professor David Abulafia (University of Cambridge) *Queries* Please contact the conference organizer: Dr Emily A. Winkler (emily.winkler(a)history.ox.ac.uk) *Sponsorship* The Haskins Society St Edmund Hall, Oxford The John Fell OUP Fund (Oxford) The Khalili Research Centre for the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH) Dr Emily A. Winkler John Cowdrey Junior Research Fellow in History St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/users/emilywinkler Lecturer in Early Medieval History Balliol College and Faculty of History, University of Oxford https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/dr-emily-winkler Teaching Fellow, Department of History University College London http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/emily-winkler/emily-wink… Vice-President for the UK and Europe The Haskins Society http://www.haskinssociety.org/

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Call for Papers: Workshop on Corpus-based Research in the Humanities (CRH)
by Eleonora Litta Modignani Picozzi 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

---- Workshop on Corpus-based Research in the Humanities (CRH) with a special focus on space and time annotations ---- ** Vienna (Austria) January 25-26, 2018 ** web: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ac/crh2/ <http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ac/crh2/> The Workshop on "Corpus-based Research in the Humanities" (CRH) brings together those areas of Computational Linguistics and the Humanities that share an interest in the building, managing and analysis of text corpora. The edition of this year has a specific focus on time and space annotation in textual data, backed by a keynote speaker with special interest in this aspect of corpus management. The second edition of CRH will be held in Vienna (Austria) on January 25th-26th 2018 and will be hosted Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna and Technische Universitaet Wien. The series of the CRH workshops continues that of the workshop on "Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities" (ACRH), the three editions of which were held respectively in 2011 (Heidelberg, Germany), 2012 (Lisbon, Portugal) and 2013 (Sofia, Bulgaria). The first CRH was held in Warsaw (Poland) in 2015. Submissions of long abstracts for oral presentations and posters (with or without demonstrations) featuring high quality and previously unpublished research are invited on the following TOPICS: - specific issues related to the annotation of corpora for research in the Humanities (annotation schemes and principles), with special interest in space and time annotations - corpora as a basis for research in the Humanities - diachronic, historical and literary corpora - use of corpora for stylometrics and authorship attribution - philological issues, like different readings, textual variants, apparatus, non-standard orthography and spelling variation - adaptation of NLP tools for older language varieties - integration of corpora for the Humanities into language resources infrastructures - tools for building and accessing corpora for the Humanities - examples of fruitful collaboration between Computational Linguistics and Humanities in building and exploiting corpora - theoretical aspects of the use of empirical evidence provided by corpora in the Humanities This year, CRH will have a SPECIAL TOPIC concerning time and space annotation in textual data. Submissions with this focus are especially encouraged. Contributions reporting results from completed as well as ongoing research are welcome. They will be evaluated on novelty of approach and methods, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. The proceedings will be published in time for the workshop. They will be co-edited by Andrew Frank, Christine Ivanovic, Francesco Mambrini, Marco Passarotti and Caroline Sporleder. MOTIVATION AND AIMS Research in the Humanities is predominantly text-based. For centuries scholars have studied documents such as historical manuscripts, literary works, legal contracts, diaries of important personalities, old tax records etc. Large amounts of such documents exist and are increasingly available in digital form. This has a potentially profound impact on how research is conducted in the Humanities. Digitised sources allowing scholars to analyse texts quicker and more systematically. Digital data can also be (semi-)automatically mined: important facts and interdependencies can be detected, complex statistics can be calculated. Analysis of locations and time in documents is often crucial to understand and visualize trends. Results can be visualised and presented to the scholars, who can then delve further into the data for verification and deeper analysis. Digitisation encourages empirical research, opening the road for completely new research paradigms that exploit `big data' for humanities research. Digitisation is only a first step, however. In their raw form, electronic corpora are of limited use to humanities researchers. Corpus annotation can build on a long tradition in (corpus) linguistics and computational linguistics but the true potential of such resources is only unlocked if corpora are enriched with different layers of linguistic annotation (ranging from morphology to semantics, including location and time). The CRH workshop aims at building a tighter collaboration between people working in various areas of the Humanities (such as literature, philology, history, translational studies etc.) and the research community involved in developing, using and making accessible different kinds of corpora. A gap exists between computational linguists (who sometimes do not involve humanists in developing and exploiting corpora for the Humanities) and humanists (who sometimes just aren't aware that such corpora do exist and that automatic methods and standards to build and use them are today available). Over the past few years a number of historical annotated corpora have been started, among which are treebanks for Middle, Early Modern and Old English, Early New High German, Medieval Portuguese, Ugaritic, Latin, Ancient Greek and several translations of the New Testament into Indo-European languages. The experience of these ever-growing set of projects can provide many suggestions on the methodology as well as on the practice of interaction between literary studies, philology and corpus linguistics. INVITED SPEAKERS - Tara L. Andrews, University of Wien, Austria (http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/htdocs2/site/arti.php/91079 <http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/htdocs2/site/arti.php/91079>) - James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, MA, USA (http://jamespusto.com/ <http://jamespusto.com/>) IMPORTANT DATES Deadlines : - Abstract submission: 8 October 2017 - Notification of acceptance: 5 November 2017 - Final version of paper: 3 December 2017 - Workshop: 25-26 January 2018 INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION We invite to submit long abstracts describing original, unpublished research related to the topics of the workshop as PDF. Abstracts should not exceed 6 pages (references included) and written in English. Submissions have to be made via the EasyChair page of the workshop at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crh2 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crh2> (requires prior registration with EasyChair). The style guidelines can be found here: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/forschung-institute/biblio/academiae-corpora/ac/crh2/… <http://www.oeaw.ac.at/forschung-institute/biblio/academiae-corpora/ac/crh2/…>. Reviewing will be double-blind; therefore, 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 program committee. Submitted abstracts can be for oral or poster presentations (possibly with demo). There is no difference between the different kinds of presentation both in terms of reviewing process and publication in the proceedings (the limit of 6 pages holds for both abstracts intended for oral and poster presentations). The authors of the accepted abstracts will be required to submit the full version of their paper, which may be extended up to 10 pages (references included). PRESENTATIONS The oral presentations at the workshop will be 30 minutes long (25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussion). Depending on the number of submissions, a poster session might be organised as well. SPECIAL SOCIAL EVENT On the night of 25 January, the TU WIen organizes their TU-Ball at the imperial Hofburg (http://www.tu-ball.at/en/home/ <http://www.tu-ball.at/en/home/>). Participants may take part in this unique festivity (details later). Do not miss such an opportunity to participate in this highlight of the Viennese ball season! PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Francesco Mambrini (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin, Germany) Marco Passarotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy) Caroline Sporleder (University of Göttingen, Germany) PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS John A. Bateman (Germany) Gerhard Budin (Austria) Giuseppe Celano (Germany) Arianna Ciula (UK) Giovanni Colavizza (Switzerland) Maud Ehrmann (Switzerland) Andrew Frank (Austria) Emiliano Giovannetti (Italy) Stefan Th. Gries (USA) Dag Haug (Norway) Leif Isaksen (UK) Christine Ivanovic (Austria) Mike Kestemont (Belgium) Puneet Kishor (Germany) Dimitrios Kokkinakis (Sweden) Sandra Kübler (USA) Werner Kuhn (USA) Yudong Liu (USA) Melanie Malzahn (Austria) Roland Meyer (Germany) Willard McCarty (UK) John Nerbonne (The Netherlands) Julianne Nyhan (UK) Michael Piotrowski (Switzerland) Geoffrey Rockwell (Canada) Matteo Romanello (Germany) Rainer Simon (Austria) Neel Smith (USA) Uwe Springmann (Germany) Martin Thiering (Germany) Sara Tonelli (Italy) Martin Wynne (UK) Amir Zeldes (USA) LOCAL ORGANISATION Hanno Biber Andreas Dittrich Andrew Frank Katharina Godler Christine Ivanovic

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Major new Medieval and Renaissance manuscript project funded by Digging into Data Challenge
by Toby Burrows 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

Mapping Manuscript Migrations: Digging Into Data For The History And Provenance Of Pre-Modern European Manuscripts Hundreds of thousands of pre-modern European manuscripts have survived until the present day. As the result of changes in their ownership over the centuries, they are now spread all over the world. Collectively they constitute a great cultural and scholarly treasure. There are many sources of data relating to them, and new sources continue to proliferate in the digital environment. This project will link disparate datasets from Europe and North America to provide an international view of the history and provenance of these manuscripts. The aggregated data will enable researchers to analyse and visualize these topics at scales ranging from individual manuscripts to thousands of manuscripts. Our research will address their origins and movements, and the collectors and owners involved in their history. We will be able to show how these manuscripts have traveled across time and space to their current locations, where they continue to find new audiences. The project will run from 2017 to 2019, as part of the Digging into Data Challenge, which is funded by 16 funding bodies in 11 countries through the Trans-Atlantic Platform. The Principal Investigators are: Toby Burrows, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, AHRC/ESRC Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University, Finland, AKA Lynn Ransom, University of Pennsylvania, United States, IMLS Hanno Wijsman, Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, France, ANR https://diggingintodata.org/awards/2016/project/mapping-manuscript-migratio…

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Expectations of Digital (Textual) Editions: A Short Questionnaire
by Greta Franzini 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

** With apologies for cross-posting ** *Expectations of Digital (Textual) Editions: A Short Questionnaire (20 questions, 15 minutes max).* Do you use and/or build digital (textual) editions? If so, please consider filling-in this short questionnaire, which aims at collecting information about what users expect or want from a digital edition. *QUESTIONNAIRE URL*: https://opinio.ucl.ac.uk/s?s=48797 The questions build upon the feature list provided by the /Catalogue of Digital Editions/ [https://github.com/gfranzini/digEds_cat and https://dig-ed-cat.eos.arz.oeaw.ac.at/], and the answers obtained from this questionnaire will be examined against the editions currently contained in the /Catalogue/. The information you provide will help us compare the user needs of the community with the digital editions that have been built by the community. *The questionnaire contains 20 questions and is completely anonymous. We don’t ask for demographic information such as age, gender, ethnicity or religion. * The compiled results of the survey will be made available online via the /Catalogue of Digital Editions/ websites and the questionnaire's institutional address (University College London). They will also be discussed in Greta Franzini's PhD thesis. The questionnaire should take *no more than 15 minutes to complete and closes on 30th April 2017*. Please share it with colleagues and friends who might be able to contribute! For further information about this questionnaire or about how the data will be used, please contact Greta Franzini at g.franzini.11(AT)ucl.ac.uk Thank you very much for taking time to fill-in this questionnaire. We truly value the information you provide. Greta Franzini, Prof. Melissa Terras and Simon Mahony -- Greta Franzini MPhil CELTA PhD Student UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Department of Information Studies University College London Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT Country of residence: Germany Email: g.franzini.11(a)ucl.ac.uk Twitter: @GretaFranzini UCL profile: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/gretafranzini ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Greta_Franzini

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reminder: call for papers - Aliento Conference 16-19 october 2017: Nancy-Paris
by Marie-Sol ORTOLA 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Dear Colleagues, The abstracts and proposals to the Aliento International Conference should be sent to us by March 30, 2017. We hope to see you then. Sincerely Marie-Sol Ortola Professeur des Universités (Univ. Lorraine, Nancy 2) Dépt d’études ibériques et ibéro-américaines LIS (Littératures, Imaginaire, Sociétés, EA 7035) Porteur du projet ANR ALIENTO www.aliento.eu 00 33 (0) 3 83 73 83 01 marie-sol.ortola(a)univ-lorraine.fr <mailto:marie-sol.ortola@univ-lorraine.fr> Marie-Christine Bornes Varol Professeur des Universités (Inalco) Département d’études hébraïques CERMOM Porteur du projet ANR ALIENTO www.aliento.eu 00 33 (0) 1 40 05 98 83 varol(a)noos.fr

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TODAY: Global Digital Humanities Symposium (3/16-17) Livestream Info
by Kristen Mapes 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

*Global Digital Humanities Symposium* *March 16-17, 2017* Union Building, Lake Huron Room Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan http://msuglobaldh.org/ *The event will be livestreamed at go.cal.msu.edu/globaldh <http://go.cal.msu.edu/globaldh>.* Follow along on social media at #msuglobaldh Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue its symposium series on Global DH into its second year. We are delighted to feature speakers from outside of the area as well as expertise and work from faculty at Michigan State University in this two day symposium. *Schedule* Thursday, March 16, 2017 - 12:00-12:30 - Opening Remarks - 12:30-2:30 - Lightning Talk Session - 2:45-3:45 - Cultural Memory, Identities, and Social Justice - Shifting Representations of Zulu Identities, from Analog to Digital, Liz Timbs, MSU - Humanizing Data –or- DH against archival violences, Anelise Hanson Shrout, Cal State Fullerton - Witnessing Hate: Case Studies in Data, Documentation, and Social Justice, Andrea Ledesma, Brown - 4:00-5:00 - De-coding and re-coding literary canons - Forgetting the Famines: the Kiplings and their Indian Interlocutors, Amardeep Singh, Lehigh University - Retelling the Story of Okonkwo: A Digital exploration of the Clash of Cultures in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Tunde Opeibi, University of Lagos, Nigeria - Towards a Platform for Studying and Analyzing Chinese Poetry, Chao-Lin Liu, Harvard - 5:15-6:45 - ARC Panel: Access, Data, and Collaboration in the Global Digital Humanities <http://www.msuglobaldh.org/uncategorized/announcing-advanced-research-conso…> Friday, March 17, 2017 - 9:00-10:00 - Keynote: Elizabeth LaPensee, MSU - 10:15-11:15 - Reconfiguring Narrative: Connectivities in Literary and Game Studies - Contending with Hegemonies, Exploring Linkages and Possibilities of Assertions in the Global South: A Study through Role Playing Computer Games, Siddhartha Chakraborti, Aligarh Muslim University - Hacking "el sistema": Digital Hyper-Punk Fiction in Latin America, Eduardo Ledesma, UIUC - Annotation, Bibliography, and Networks: Systems of Textual Classification for Premodern Chinese Texts, Evan Nicoll-Johnson, UCLA - 11:30-12:30 - Mapping and 3D Environments - Boundary-work: mapping borders, edges, and margins in “Fortress Europe, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Western Michigan - The $500 Challenge: 3D Modeling of Heritage Structures in Endangered or Developing Areas, William Spates, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, KK Birla Goa Campus - (lunch and workshop - not live-streamed) - 4:15-5:15 - Imagining the Past, Present, and Future of Digital Humanities(or Defining Digital Humanities: The Political and Ethical Stakes) - Archival Emanations and Contrapuntal Transformations: Digital Cultural Productions in Post-1965 Indonesia, Viola Lasmana, University of Southern California - Gaps and Silences: A Case Study in Web Archiving Diverse Content, Sigrid Anderson Cordell, Catherine Morse, Jo Angela Oehrli, Juli McLoone, Meredith Kahn, Michigan - Afrolatin@ Digital Humanities: Complex Global Interconections in Search of Social Justice, Eduard Arriaga, University of Indianapolis - 5:30-6:30 - Closing remarks and Keynote: Padmini Ray Murray, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology Kristen Mapes Digital Humanities Coordinator College of Arts and Letters Michigan State University kristenmapes.com kmapes(a)msu.edu kmapes86(a)gmail.com

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Medieval books and quantitative methods
by Octave Julien 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

Summer school: « Le livre médiéval au regard des méthodes quantitatives » A summer school on the study of medieval books with quantitative methods will take place in Paris from the 12th to the 16th of June 2017. It is organized by the Lamop (Université Paris I), the IRHT, the Ecole nationale des Chartes and the University of Namur. During one week, participants will have the opportunity to learn about the use of quantitative methods in medieval book studies and to practice them with the best specialists. The full program and the application form can be found on http://lamop.univ-paris1.fr/menu-haut/seminaires/francois-foronda/#c628055. The deadline for application is April the 13th. Conferences and workshops will be in french. Registration is free of charge ; a few bursaries for travel and accomodation will be given depending on individual situations and needs. Octave Julien Docteur en histoire Enseignant-chercheur (Pireh / Lamop)

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CO:OPyright. Challenges and Practices of Copyright and Licensing of Digital Cultural Heritage (April 12 & 13, University of Graz, AT)
by Georg Vogeler 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

This might interest the digital medievalist community as well: -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: CO:OPyright. Challenges and Practices of Copyright and Licensing of Digital Cultural Heritage (April 12 & 13, University of Graz, AT) Datum: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 07:37:33 +0000 Von: Kerstin Muff <kerstin.muff(a)icar-us.eu> An: info(a)icar-us.eu <info(a)icar-us.eu> Dear colleagues, please be kindly invited to the conference CO:OPyright. Challenges and Practices of Copyright and Licensing of Digital Cultural Heritage April 12 & 13, 2017 University of Graz, RESOWI (Universitätsstraße 15) http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/de/veranstaltungen/coopyright/ The conference is hosted by the Centre for Information Modelling - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and the Institute of the Foundations of Law, Section 'Law and ICT' at the University of Graz (Austria). In the age of digital information technology and the constant availability of information through the Internet, it is not only important to have democratic access to knowledge, but also essential to consider the potential that lies in the critical production and expansion of knowledge. The CO:OP project - short for Community as Opportunity: the creative archives' and users' network<http://coop-project.eu/> - co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union aims to strengthen and promote the co-operation between institutions preserving our common cultural heritage and the general public. Of particular interest and concern to cultural heritage institutions are issues of copyright on, provision of and access to digitized material. There is a recognizable political drive in the European Union to facilitate public access to cultural heritage - and data in general - hosted at public institutions. However, the lack of legal harmonization and the often unclear national legislations on the use and provision of resources by public cultural heritage or scientific institutions has been prohibiting a much broader engagement between the general public and its own cultural heritage. The conference includes three pre-conference workshops and a full day of presentations by both legal experts and cultural heritage experts. Please find the detailed programme in the attached PDF or online at http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/de/veranstaltungen/coopyright/ Participation in the Conference and the Workshops is FREE, but registration is required. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/challenges-and-practices-of-copyright-and-lice… Cheerio, Kerstin Muff Mag. Kerstin Muff Project Management / Editor-in-chief "insights" ICARUS - International Centre for Archival Research Erdberger Laende 6/7 A - 1030 Vienna Tel./Fax: +43 (0)1 / 545 0 989 E-Mail: kerstin.muff(a)icar-us.eu<mailto:kerstin.muff@icar-us.eu>, Web: www.icar-us.eu<http://www.icar-us.eu/> -- ------------------------------------- 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> -- ------------------------------------- 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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NEH Institute reminder: application deadline approaching!
by Birnbaum, David J 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

Reminder: application deadline approaching! __ MAKE _YOUR_ EDITION: MODELS AND METHODS FOR DIGITAL TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP Call for applications: Summer 2017 NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities DEADLINES: Applications are due Tuesday, February 28, 2017. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by March 15, 2017. INSTITUTE DATES: July 10-29, 2017 Synopsis The University of Pittsburgh is pleased to invite applications to an NEH Advanced Institute in the Digital Humanities for summer 2017 entitled _Make YOUR edition: models and methods of digital textual scholarship_. The target audience for this workshop is digital textual scholars who are already comfortable editing their texts (in TEI XML or comparable alternatives); the goal of the Institute is to assist them in moving beyond textual editing to imagining, creating, and publishing research-driven, theoretically and methodologically innovative digital editions. Rationale Digital humanists already have access to workshops and tutorials to help them learn to transcribe, edit, and tag a text in preparation for publishing a digital edition. These training resources play a vital role in empowering editors to formalize and instantiate their interpretations as markup, so as to make them available for subsequent analysis. Nonetheless, sophisticated markup expertise alone is not enough to make an edition, and learning nothing more than tagging may leave scholars staring at their angle brackets and wondering what to do next. For some a solution like TEI Tapas provides an adequate next step, but for those who wish to ask new types of questions of their documents, and to produce new types of editions that enable new types of research, an understanding of how to turn a set of tagged texts into a customized edition that meets individualized research goals is crucial. Digital humanists cannot build editions that break new methodological ground solely on the basis of solutions prepared largely by others, and the focus of this Institute is on the creation of digital editions motivated by project-specific research questions and implemented from a perspective driven first by theory of edition, second by editorial methodology, and necessarily but less importantly by specific toolkits. In this respect we foreground not learning a particular programming language or technology or framework, but learning to think and act digitally about the process of creating a digital edition. Because tools and technologies come and go, the Institute emphasizes learning to translate original digital thinking about editions into implementations of those editions, rather than on ³tooling up² in the context of currently popular frameworks. In this respect, the Institute recognizes thinking digitally in ways driven by project-specific research goals as the most important feature of _sustainable Digital Humanities training and education_. Program The Institute will introduce textual and manuscript scholars to a powerful and broad-reaching skill set of digital methods and technologies, grounded in a context that prioritizes a research-driven theory of edition. The course moves in a three-week succession from novice to experienced level, and from base textual data to full digital publication of scholarly editions. The Institute assumes that participants will have meaningful prior experience in digital editing (in TEI XML or a comparable framework), but it makes no other assumptions about prior knowledge or skills. - An optional first-week _boot camp_ establishes basic infrastructure skills (operating comfortably at the command line, handling files, navigating file systems, sharing resources and code responsibly, running Python programs from the command line, etc.). - The second week allows participants to practice and advance their basic skills when they start combining digital textual scholarship theory (e.g., McGann 20041, Andrews 20122, Siemens 20123, Robinson 20134, Haentjens et al. 20155) with standard (e.g., XML, Python, Jupyter Notebooks) and advanced digital technologies (e.g., StemmaWeb, CollateX, Neo4j, Tinkerpop, eXist-db). - By the end of the third week, participants will be able to conceptualize from theory a perspective on digital textual scholarship and digital scholarly editions. They will also know how to go about planning and implementing such an edition by engaging programmatically and algorithmically with digital data, handling it computationally, and querying, analyzing, and transforming it into visualizations that transcend the digital translation of a text as a codex. The Institute will meet at the main (Oakland) campus of the University of Pittsburgh from Monday, July 10, 2017 through Friday, July 28, 2017 and will draw on an international faculty of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and teachers of digital philology from several collaborating institutions. On Saturday, July 29, 2017 there will be an optional pedagogical review of the Institute, designed to assist participants in organizing and conducting their own workshops at their home institutions. Instructors - Tara Andrews (Institute of History, University of Vienna) - David J. Birnbaum (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh) - Hugh Cayless (Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing [DC3], Duke University) - Ronald Haentjens Dekker (Huygens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) - Na-Rae Han (Department of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh) - Mike Kestemont (Department of Literature, University of Antwerp) - Leif-Jöran Olsson (Department of Swedish Language, University of Gothenburg) The instructors will be assisted by: - Gabrielle (Gabi) Keane (Senior Undergraduate Institute Assistant, University of Pittsburgh) - Kaylen Sanders (Junior Undergraduate Institute Assistant, University of Pittsburgh) Details Applications are invited for the full three-week Institute or, in the case of those who are already comfortable with the types of first-week topics described above, for just the second and third weeks. Applicants should already be proficient with digital textual editing in TEI XML or similar technologies, and should be seeking guidance and training in how to move their texts into innovative digital editions that will enable them to explore project-specific research questions. Evidence of meaningful prior hands-on digital textual editing experience is required, but prior experience in programming for textual exploration and publication is not. Applicants who do not have prior experience with the Python programming language must agree to complete a recommended free online introductory Python course before the beginning of the Institute, for which the Institute will maintain its own support and discussion board. For budgetary reasons, preference will be given to applications from within North America. Participants accepted to the Institute will receive a travel allowance, complimentary accommodation in single-occupancy dormitory rooms, and a complimentary meal plan in the University Dining Services in lieu of per diem. Access to the University libraries, computer labs, and networked digital resources will also be provided. Participants must bring their own laptops (Windows 710, Mac OS, or Ubuntu/Debian Linux). We welcome scholars at all career levels from advanced graduate students through senior faculty. Applications to the Institute should include the following: - A one- to two-page statement about how participation in the Institute will enhance the scholarly and professional goals of the applicant. This statement should describe the digital edition project that the applicant plans to pursue or undertake, with special attention to the research questions motivating the creation of that edition. Preference will be shown to applications that articulate a clear understanding of the textual research potential of digital scholarly editions. - A one-page description of the applicant¹s experience with textual editing. Prior experience in programming for text processing is neither required nor expected, but those who have such experience should describe it here. - Brief CV (maximum of two pages), concentrating on textual editing and Digital Humanities experience. - Indicate whether you are applying for the full three weeks or only for the second and third, and in the latter case please describe your background in the areas related to those described above as part of the ³boot camp² week. - Indicate whether you wish to participate in the optional one-day pedagogical review of the course on Saturday, July 29. - Participants are required to participate full-time in the Institute for the two or three weeks that they are in residence, and must confirm that they will not undertake other significant commitments during the Institute period. All application materials should be submitted by email as a single PDF file to djbpitt+neh(a)pitt.edu. The deadline for applications is Tuesday, February 28, 2017, and applicants will be notified by March 15, 2017. Questions may be directed to djbpitt+neh(a)pitt.edu. David J. Birnbaum, Institute Director Professor and Chair, Slavic Languages and Literatures Faculty Fellow, University Honors College Email: djbpitt+neh(a)pitt.edu _____ References 1. McGann, Jerome, 2004. ³Marking texts of many dimensions.² In Susan Schreibman, Raymond Siemens, and John Unsworth, eds. _A companion to Digital Humanities_. Oxford: Blackwell. 2. Andrews, Tara L., 2012. ³The third way: philology and critical edition in the digital age.² _Variants_ 10, pp. 6176. 3. Siemens, Raymond et al., 2012. ³Toward modeling the social edition: An approach to understanding the electronic scholarly edition in the context of new and emerging social media.² _Literary and linguistic computing_, 27(4), pp. 44561. 4. Robinson, Peter, 2012. ³Towards a theory of digital editions.² _Variants_ 10, pp.10531. 5. Haentjens Dekker, Ronald, Dirk van Hulle, Gregor Middell, Vincent Neyt, Joris van Zundert, 2015. ³Computer-supported collation of modern manuscripts: CollateX and the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project², _Digital scholarship in the humanities_, 30(3), pp. 45270. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This announcement has been posted to Humanist (http://dhhumanist.org/), Digital Classicist (http://www.digitalclassicist.org/), Digital Medievalist (https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/), TEI-L (http://www.tei-c.org/Support/index.xml#tei-l), WWP-Encoding (http://listserv.neu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=wwp-encoding), and DHUF Digital Humanities Flanders (dh_flanders(a)googlegroups.com). Please circulate.

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2 post-doc contracts for DH in Medieval Studies in Paris
by Marjorie Burghart 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

Dear all, This might be of interest to some of our members. The CNRS is offering 2 post-doctoral contracts (2 years, plus 1 optional year) for DH projects. Since the successful candidates wil be affected to the IRHT, a famous research centre in Medieval Studies (also Early Modern), this is of particular interest for Digital Medievalists: http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/actualites/humanites-numeriques-appel-candidatur… Best, Marjorie

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