MATLIT, 2017, vol. 5
VOX MEDIA: Sound in Literature
Editors: Osvaldo Manuel Silvestre (University of Coimbra)
Felipe Cussen (University of Santiago de Chile)
Call for Papers
The easiness by which the idea of literature translates into the idea of
text and the latter into “letters printed on paper” is probably to blame
for the one-sided version both common sense and critical belief constantly
show of the relation between readers and books: literature is something
that we read in silence. Better still, literature is a text that becomes a
book by means of an inscription process that becomes invisible itself,
since the materiality of the text is annulled as a result of what is being
transmitted by the former: ideas, meaning, in a word, contents.
And yet, there is no literature without a material inscription process
which turns each verbal sign into a thing belonging to the phenomenal
world, to be seen before being read and to be read in silence – or not. Or
else, in order to be spoken (another form of material inscription),
preceding and dispensing with the writing or coming immediately after it.
There are, it is well known, western and non-western literary narratives in
which Voice precedes writing. There are, also, some arguments supporting
this claim, although one might suspect a mild revisionist tone to some of
them. Nevertheless, this is not about searching for a privilege of the
Origin for the study of the sound dimension of literary phenomena, but
rather about admitting the relevance of such a field to a larger,
simultaneously modern and archaic, version of literature.
In the crossing of historical vanguards and changes in communication
technologies, literature has opened itself to the materialities of sound,
voice and performance. This process was accelerated and dramatized by both
mediation and technical reproduction up until the digital revolution, which
eventually led to the historical and technological specificity of the
post-digital state of affairs. The process further suffered the overlap of
massification, thus operating to a large extent on a scene of
“re-oralization”, although by then within the historical setting of a
“secondary orality”. From the more avant-garde to the more massified
environments, from Sound Poetry to the Spoken Word or Slam Poetry, without
overlooking the vast intermediary territory of “readings (or recitations)
of poetry”, it is safe to admit that the self-awareness that planet
literature has is also to encompass those ever-growing dimensions: phonetic
poetry, sound poetry, recordings of literary texts (either by its own
authors or other readers), setting of poems into music (especially in the
cases in which the voice is not turned into singing, thus sabotaging the
form of “song”), poetry and narrative live readings, spoken word, slam
poetry, rap.
MATLIT’s volume 5 is thus intent on exploring what we call literature as
VOX MEDIA: voice as a means for literature and the disturbances suffered by
the medium from the combined effect of performance and the technologies for
mediation, representation and reproduction. And also other instances, like
the tensions between the body and technology, audibility v. inaudibility of
text, sound and meaning, physical presence and/or absence of the authors,
and so forth. The goal is not only that of generating a catalogue or a
compendium of the contemporary effects of VOX MEDIA on the notion of
literature, but that of generating an archaeology for VOX MEDIA and for all
related phenomena repressed by their historical invisibility.
Submissions must be uploaded before *October 31, 2016*.
Prior to submission, authors have to register in the journal system:
http://iduc.uc.pt/index.php/matlit/login
Please see author guidelines: http://iduc.uc.pt/index.php/
matlit/about/submissions
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Dear colleagues,
It is a pleasure for me to announce the official release of our Virtual ResearchEnvironment EVI-LINHD www.evilinhd.com
EVI-LINHDis a cloud platform free and open-source to create Digital Humanities projectswhich contains a XML-TEI digital edition tool and processing model based oneXist, a space to create digital libraries using Omeka and the power ofWordpress to design beautiful websites for the projects. Users are able tocreate a project from the beginning to the end and share it with their teammembers.
The launchevent will take place on next Wednesday 19th October, at the Schoolof Economics of UNED, Sala Saenz Torrecilla, at 16:00h, and it will also bebroadcasted online.
Moreinformation about the event, free registration, agenda and links to broadcastcan be found here: http://linhd.uned.es/en/news/launch_evilinhd/
Please, feel free to send this information to all peoplethat could be interested,
Best regards
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Facultad deFilología, UNED
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13 October 2016
*Medieval Academy of America **Digital Humanities Prize *
*Deadline: October 15*
We are very pleased to announce that, beginning in 2017, the Medieval
Academy of America will add a Digital Humanities Prize to its suite of
publication honors, to be awarded alongside the Haskins Medal, the Brown
Prize, and the Elliott Prize. The annual Medieval Academy of America
Digital Humanities Prize will be awarded to an outstanding digital
research project in Medieval Studies created and launched within the
last five years. The Prize - an award of $1,000 - will be presented at
the Medieval Academy of America's Annual Meeting.
The Digital Initiatives Advisory Board (DIAB) of the Medieval Academy of
America will select the award-winning project based on DIAB's
established criteria for high-quality digital medievalist projects,
considering the following criteria, among others: quality of research
and contributions to Medieval Studies; goals and methodologies of the
project; design, presentation, and accessibility of the project;
sustainability of the project and compatibility of its metadata.
Nominations are now being accepted online and must be submitted by
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Dear Colleagues -
With apologies for cross-posting, but with particular encouragement for interested digital medievalists.
Innovative Modes and Tactics of Literacy in the Humanities
The Department of English at UCLA invites applications for an Assistant Professor or early Associate Professor specializing in innovative methodologies and approaches that address new or developing modes and tactics of literacy in the humanities. Approaches might include the study of new media formats, computational analysis and machine learning, or research on hypermedia, social media, critical data literacy, visual and aural literacies, techno-literacy, or the writing and reading of virtual worlds. We are especially interested in interdisciplinary scholarship linking the humanities to other areas of inquiry, and critical approaches addressing questions of political economy, social ecology, race, and gender.
Candidates should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, 20-page writing sample, and three letters of recommendation to Lowell Gallagher, Chair, Department of English, via the UCLA Recruit system at: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF02548. Application dossiers are due by November 15, 2016; interviews will be via teleconferencing. The position is subject to final administrative approval.
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see: UC Nondiscrimination and Affirmative Action Policy.
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Department of English
University of California, Los Angeles
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the beta release of the New Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM)<https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/about/>. Thanks to support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New SDBM is being redeveloped to allow you-the members of our user community-to help us build a finding aid for the world's manuscripts.
Members of our user community can now sign up to contribute data, including your own personal observations of a manuscript or group of manuscripts, and to engage with other users to facilitate research and conversations about current and historical locations of manuscripts and the data gathered in the process of recording this history.
The final release of the New SDBM is scheduled for April 2017. In the meantime, we invite you to sign up now at https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu to start contributing and testing new features and functionality. Your participation and feedback will help us build a better tool for your research.
New features currently available:
* New data model
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* Ability to enter and manage your own contributions, track your search history, bookmark, tag, and download search results
* Export the entire contents of the SDBM for your own use under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/>
* A growing VIAF-based Name Authority for individuals and institutions associated with manuscript production and trade to which users can contribute
* Google group for User feedback and discussion: new-sdbm-feedback-phase 2<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/new-sdbm-feedback_phase-2>.
New features coming soon:
* Public approval system for Entries, Manuscript Records, and Names
* Group activity workspace for collaborative projects
* Ability to advance from Contributor to Editor and Super-Editor via a user community approval system
* More refined and user-friendly interface
For more information, go to https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu or email us at sdbm(a)pobox.upenn.edu<mailto:sdbm@pobox.upenn.edu>.
Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting. Thank you all who participated in a recent survey about digitised Hebrew manuscripts at the British Library. We’ve had a fantastic response rate – and immensely value your feedback!
I’ve blogged about the survey and its results:
http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2016/10/what-do-you-think-about-our-di…
For your convenience, you can download a list (spreadsheet) of all digitised Hebrew manuscripts and all of our TEI XML catalogue records (ZIP file) from here: http://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts/records-viewer
Hopefully these are useful!
All the best,
Adi
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Charlotte Roueché, Valeria Vitale and Hafed Walda are delighted to announce the appearance online of the Heritage Gazetteer of Libya, produced by the Society for Libyan Studies and King’s Digital Laboratory
http://www.slsgazetteer.org/
Our aim is to provide a simple tool for identifying heritage sites in Libya - from all periods of history - and particularly their complex array of names. We very much hope that colleagues will find it useful.
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Department of Classics/Centre for Hellenic Studies
King’s College
London WC2R 2LS
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Dear colleagues,
It is a pleasure for us to announce that registration is open for ourDigital Humanities long courses. All programs are completely online and can befollowed from different parts of the world with flexible schedules. Courses areguided adapting to the students different profiles, and they include variousmaterials (texts, images, videos), offered through a web platform, where theyinteract with other students and professors.
This year we offer the following programs:
· ExpertoProfesional en Humanidades Digitales (3rd edition) 30 units,January-September 2017
· ExpertoProfesional en Edición Digital Académica (2nd edition) 30 units, January-September2017
· Análisisde Textos y Estilometría con R (¡new!) 6 units, January-May, 2017
Registration is open till 1st December and admissions arelimited. The courses will start in January 2017. Each of them consists of 30units, and will be taught completely online and in Spanish (even if they areopened to non-Spanish speakers)
We hope that this initiative will let users a deeper knowledge ofdigital humanities, digital scholarly editing, computational stylistics andstylometry. Please, feel free to circulate this message among all people thatcould be interested in following any of these programs.
Best regards,
Elena González-Blanco García and Gimena del Rio
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Elena González-Blanco
Directora del Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitalesde la UNED
Dpto. de LiteraturaEspañola y Teoría de la Literatura, Despacho 722
Facultad de Filología,UNED
Paseo Senda del Rey 7
28040 MADRID
tel. 91 3986873
http://linhd.uned.eshttp://filindig.hypotheses.org/www.uned.es/personal/elenagonzalezblanco
@elenagbg
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**disculpas por posiblesduplicaciones**
Estimados compañeros:
Desde el Laboratorio de Innovación en HumanidadesDigitales de la UNED anunciamos que ya está abierto el plazo de matrícula para nuestrosTítulos Propios a distancia de Humanidades Digitales. Se pueden cursarcompletamente online y desde cualquier lugar del mundo con flexibilidadhoraria. Se trata de cursos guiados de manera personalizada en los que losalumnos trabajan con diferentes modalidades (material textual, gráfico, videos)y en los que, a través de la plataforma del curso pueden ir trabajando con losprofesores y dialogando con ellos y sus pares
Este año ofrecemos lossiguientes programas:
· ExpertoProfesional en Humanidades Digitales (3ª edición) 30 créditos,enero-septiembre de 2017
· ExpertoProfesional en Edición Digital Académica (2ª edición) 30 créditos,enero-septiembre de 2017
· Análisisde Textos y Estilometría con R (¡nuevo!) 6 créditos, enero-mayo de 2017
El plazo de matrícula estáabierto hasta el 1 de diciembre y las plazas son limitadas. Los cursoscomenzarán en enero de 2017. Todos ellos se cursarán íntegramente a distancia,online y en español (aunque están abiertos a estudiantes no hispanohablantes).
Esperamos que estainiciativa, que permitirá un acercamiento a las humanidades digitales y a laedición digital y el tratamiento automatizado de textos con las últimastecnologías, resulte de su agrado. Por favor, les rogamos que lo difundan entretodas aquellas personas que puedan estar interesadas.
Saludos cordiales,
Elena González-Blanco García y Gimena del Rio
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Elena González-BlancoGarcía
Directora del Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitalesde la UNED
Dpto. de LiteraturaEspañola y Teoría de la Literatura, Despacho 722
Facultad de Filología,UNED
Paseo Senda del Rey 7
28040 MADRID
tel. 91 3986873
http://linhd.uned.eshttp://filindig.hypotheses.org/www.uned.es/personal/elenagonzalezblanco
@elenagbg
AIUCD 2017 Conference: Call for papers
The Reverse Telescope: Big Data and Distant Reading in the Humanities
Rome, 26-28 January 2017
General information
The Associazione per l'Informatica Umanistica e le Culture Digitali (AIUCD) is pleased to announce the sixth edition of its annual conference and invites all interested scholars to submit a proposal.
The AIUCD 2017 Conference will be held from January 26th to 28th in Rome, Italy, and it is organized by DigiLab (Sapienza University), in collaboration with the DiXiT Marie Curie network (Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training). The DiXiT workshop “The educational and social impact of Digital Scholarly Editions” is planned before the Conference. AIUCD 2017 will also host the third edition of the EADH Day, on January 25th.
The AIUCD 2017 Conference will take place at Sapienza University, Palazzo delle ex Vetrerie Sciarra, via dei Volsci 122, Rome.
For more information, please visit the Conference website http://aiucd2017.aiucd.it/ or send an email to aiucd2017(a)gmail.com
Conference Topics
The main topic of the AIUCD 2017 Conference is the use of big data methods, cultural analytics and distant reading in the Humanities. We would like to explore the methodological and epistemological impact of these methods, their application in the different fields of the Humanities and on various kinds of media and digital resources, their effects on our comprehension of cultural and historical phenomena and, finally, their consequences and repercussions on the social and public perceptions of the Humanities.
We therefore encourage proposals on (but not limited to) the following topics:
a.. Methodological and epistemological aspects of distant reading in the Humanities
b.. Distant reading, close reading and scaled reading: relations and interactions between hermeneutical tradition, quantitative analysis and new computational methods
c.. Interaction and integration of methods of statistical/quantitative analysis and formal logic methods, semantic web technologies and linked data
d.. Quantitative and stylometry analysis, topic modelling and clustering for literary texts, archival documents and cultural objects
e.. Authorship attribution and automatic text classification
f.. Applications and experimentations of data mining methodologies in historical, artistic and archaeological research
g.. Network analysis and sentiment analysis applied to the Humanities
h.. Interaction between Natural Language Processing technologies and data mining
i.. Computational analysis of multimedia resources: images, audio and video
j.. Methods and techniques of visualization and their impact on knowledge transfer in the Humanities
k.. Problems and strategies for sustainability of data produced during research activities in terms of persistence, provenance and authenticity
l.. Cultural and social impact of humanity research produced with computational methods
The deadline for submitting proposals is November 15th (midnight). Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 15th.
Official languages of the AIUCD 2017 Conference are Italian and English. However, it is possible to present in other languages if you provide English slides or an English handout.
Proposals categories and submission
Proposal must be sent in the form of an extended abstract that specifies the category (see below for details) using the ConfTool web-page: http://www.conftool.net/aiucd2017
Proposals are invited for the following categories:
1. long paper (30 min: 20/25 min + 10/5 min for Q&A): the paper should discuss innovative methodologies and their theoretical basis, experiences of analysis and applications that are methodologically significant within a discipline; presentations devoted to present a specific tool or resource are acceptable only if they include a thorough critical discussion of the methodologies used and/or a theoretical evaluation of the results obtained;
2. short paper (15 min: 10/12 min + 5/3 min for Q&A): the paper should present a mature research product or a research project;
3. panel (45 or 90 min, including Q&A): in the panel, a series of presentations (max 6) should address a topic from the theoretical and the methodological points of view; or give a critical assessment of the grounding, methods and results of a research project; and
4. poster: mainly for presenting an ongoing project or the technical details of a tool or a digital resource.
The conference proposals will be selected through single blind peer review by scholars in the Humanities, Computer Science and/or Digital Humanities. At the end of the evaluation process, the Program Committee may decide to move an accepted proposal to a different category of presentation.
To submit a proposal, please sign in ConfTool (http://www.conftool.net/aiucd2017). When submitting a proposal, authors must specify keywords from those suggested by the tool, in order to facilitate the review process.
Proposals structure and formats
Proposals must clearly present the goals of the paper, give a brief state of the art, specify and discuss the chosen methodology and, if appropriate, the results obtained or expected. Proposals should include a short bibliography. Dimensions vary depending on the type of proposal:
a.. Long paper proposals should be at least 1000 words + bibliography;
b.. Panel proposals should be at least 500 words + 200 words for each of the presentations + bibliography;
c.. Short paper and poster proposals should be at least 800 words + bibliography;
When submitting the proposal, it is required to include a short abstract (300 words) in ConfTool. For their proposal, authors must use the templates found at the following addresses:
a.. Word: http://aiucd2017.aiucd.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/abstract_template.docx
b.. ODT: http://aiucd2017.aiucd.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/abstract_template.odt
Valid formats are DOCX, DOC, ODT and PDF.
Official languages of the AIUCD 2017 Conference are Italian and English, but it is possible to submit a proposal also in the following languages: French, German and Spanish. In latter case, it is mandatory to provide the short abstract in ConfTool in English.
Posters should be in Italian or English and in the A1 portrait (841mm x 594mm) format. Posters will be displayed in a dedicated space at the Conference venue; display panels will be provided. Please bring your poster printed, as we are unable to provide a printing service.
Personal laptop computers may be used at the poster display area. Should your presentation include a laptop, please inform the organizing committee on acceptance of your proposal.
Specific poster slams sessions (max 2 minutes for each poster) will be scheduled in the Conference programme.
“Giuseppe Gigliozzi” Conference Bursary Awards
AIUCD will offer three bursaries awards of 250 € for early-career scholars (student and non tenured lecturers) presenting papers (long or short) at the conference. Eligible scholars can apply selecting the specific check-box at the bottom of the abstract's submission form in ConfTool. Candidates papers will be selected by reviewers.
Prior to the conference, the AIUCD Board will make a preliminary review of all papers proposed by the reviewers, then will verify their eligibility and compile a preliminary list of a maximum of 10 papers. Then a panel of reviewers is recruited from AIUCD board members, program committee members, program session chairs, and other experienced participants attending the conference. During the course of the conference, one or more reviewers will unobtrusively attend and observe each candidate presentation and make recommendations to the Board. Winners will be selected by the Board at the end of the conference, and the results will then be communicated during the General Assembly.
Please note that no more than one winner can be based at the organizing institution.
International Programme Committee
Fabio Ciotti (chair) - Università di Roma Tor vergata
Gianfranco Crupi (co-chair e organizzatore locale) - Sapienza Università di Roma
Stefano Asperti - Sapienza Università di Roma
Marina Buzzoni - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Franz Fischer - Universität zu Köln
Mariella Guercio - Sapienza Università di Roma
Tiziana Mancinelli - Universität zu Köln
Cristina Marras - CNR ILIESI
Monica Monachini - CNR ILC
Elena Pierazzo - Université Grenoble Alpes
Massimo Riva - Brown University
Geoffrey Rockwell - University of Alberta
Francesco Stella - Università di Siena
Francesca Tomasi - Università di Bologna