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CfP: WORDS – Medieval Textuality and its Material Display, Paris, June 30th – July 2nd 2016
by Franz Fischer 27 Nov '15

27 Nov '15

Dear digital medievalists, The following CfP might be of interest for some of you. Best, Franz --- CfP: WORDS – Medieval Textuality and its Material Display Paris, June 30th – July 2nd 2016 Closing date: 30th January 2016 WORDS Medieval Textuality and its Material Display Paris, June 30th – July 2nd 2016 Keynote Speakers: Eric Palazzo (Université de Poitiers) Geoffrey Koziol (University of California, Berkeley) For its 13th Annual Symposium to be held in Paris, the International Medieval Society invites abstracts on the theme of Words in the Middle Ages. The digital humanities, while altering the landscape of Medieval Studies as a whole, have most importantly overhauled the concept, appearance, and analysis of words and texts. Between the increasing use of paperless media forms and the rise in the number of digital collections, medievalists are seeking to adapt to these new means of producing knowledge about the Middle Ages. At the same time, scholars in this field are also trying to outline the methodological and historical issues that affect the study of words, which now simultaneously exist in the form of primary sources, codices, rolls, charters and inscriptions, digitally reproduced images, and the statistical and lexicographical data made possible by storage platforms and analytical tools. In parallel with the digital humanities, the 13th Annual IMS Symposium on WORDS aims to return to words themselves and to probe the intellectual, technical and aesthetic principles that underpin their use and social function in medieval graphical practices. By analysing the material and symbolic properties of a particular medium; the conditions in which texts become signs; and scribal expertise, this symposium will address questions that initially seem simple yet which define the very foundations of medieval written culture. What is a word? What are its components? How does it appear in a given medium? What is the relationship between word and text, word and letter, word and medium, word and reader? In a Middle Ages forever torn between economic and extravagant language, what is the status of the word and what kind of elements – visual or acoustic, linguistic or extralinguistic – does it contain? This IMS Symposium will thus explore (but is not limited to) four broad themes with a particular focus on medieval France, Francia and post-Roman Gaul: 1) Words and wording: medieval discourse on texts and writing; texts that reflect upon the act of writing (the poetic arts, prologues, colophons and signatures); the relationship between the writer (scribe, copyist, notary, stonecutter) and words, between copy and creation. 2) Words in and of themselves: the word between alphabetical symbol/grapheme and other symbols; images and sounds of words (nomina sacra, punctuation, poetic features); musical notation (naming/interpretation of neumes, litterae significativae); variations of meaning e.g. between mots and paroles; hierarchies of writing and of content. 3) Words and matter: the word and its format; the concept of the pagina, its definition, margins and limits, from manuscripts to inscriptions; the material turn and palaeography; writing and object, from book to amulet; the word beyond the text (images, heraldry, emblems, numismatics); impressions and the first printed texts, beyond the act of writing. 4) Beyond words: content-less words (pseudo-writing, pseudo-alphabets, pseudo-texts); word, name and identity; etymologies; word games and wordplay; the middle-ground between word and text (calligrams, anagrams, epigrams); the relationship between words and music (verse, prose etc. as expressed in melodies). Through these broad themes, we aim to encourage the participation of researchers with varying backgrounds and fields of expertise: historians, specialists in the auxiliary sciences (palaeographers, epigraphists, codicologists, numismatists) art historians, musicologists, philologists, literary specialists…By bringing together a wide variety of papers that both survey and explore this field, the IMS Symposium intends to bring a fresh perspective to the word in medieval culture. Proposals of no more than 300 words (in English or French) for a 20-minute paper should be e-mailed to communications.ims.paris(a)gmail.com <mailto:communications.ims.paris@gmail.com> by 30th January 2016. Each should be accompanied by full contact information, a CV, and a list of the audio-visual equipment that you require. Please be aware that the IMS-Paris submissions review process is highly competitive and is carried out on a strictly anonymous basis. The selection committee will email applicants in February to notify them of its decision. Titles of accepted papers will be made available on the IMS-Paris website. Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel costs and conference registration fee (35 euros, reduced for students, free for IMS-Paris members). The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (French/English) organisation that fosters exchanges between French and foreign scholars. For the past ten years, the IMS has served as a centre for medievalists who travel to France to conduct research, work, or study. For more information about the IMS-Paris and past symposia programmes, please visit our website: www.ims-paris.org <http://www.ims-paris.org/>. IMS-Paris Graduate Student Prize: The IMS-Paris is pleased to offer one prize for the best paper proposal by a graduate student. Applications should consist of: 1) a symposium paper abstract/proposal 2) an outline of a current research project (PhD. dissertation research) 3) the names and contact information of two academic referees The prize-winner will be selected by the board and a committee of honorary members, and will be notified upon acceptance to the Symposium. An award of 350 euros to support international travel/accommodation (within France, 150 euros) will be paid at the Symposium.

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New articles on Digital Medievalist 10
by Franz Fischer 27 Nov '15

27 Nov '15

Dear digital medievalists, We are happy to announce the publication of two new articles in the Journal of Digital Medievalist, issue 10 (2015): "From 'anhelitus' to 'hanellissement': Cross-referencing in the Anglo-Norman dictionary" by Katariina Nara-Zanotti: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/10/nara/ "Alliteration and character focus in the York Plays" by Richard Khoury and Douglas Hayes: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/10/khoury/ Digital Medievalist operates a policy of rolling release, meaning that articles are published as soon as they are available. In the same issue (10) the article by Ludger Zeevaert on "Easy tools to get to grips with linguistic variation in the manuscripts of Njáls saga" has previously been published July 10th, 2015: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/10/zeevaert/ Digital Medievalist welcomes submissions of articles on digital and technological topics in the field of medieval studies: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/1.1/submission/ Best wishes, Franz Fischer digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/ facebook.com/group.php?gid=49320313760 twitter.com/digitalmedieval -- Dr. Franz Fischer Cologne Center for eHumanities Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, D-50923 Köln Telefon: +49 - (0)221 - 470 - 4056 Email: franz.fischer(a)uni-koeln.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de http://www.i-d-e.de http://www.thomasinstitut.uni-koeln.de http://dixit.uni-koeln.de http://guillelmus.uni-koeln.de http://confessio.ie

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CFP: El'Manuscript-2016
by Lavrentev Alexey 22 Nov '15

22 Nov '15

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Programme for AIUCD 2015 conference now available online
by Roberto Rosselli Del Turco 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

[Apologies for cross-posting] Dear all, the programme for the fourth annual AIUCD conference ("Digital humanities and cultural heritage: what relationship?") is now available at the URL http://www.aiucd2015.unito.it/node/12. The invited speakers are evenly spread among the three days of the conference: our keynote speaker will be Franco Niccolucci, Scientific Director of VAST-LAB (PIN-Università di Firenze), coordinator of several European research projects in the Digital Cultural Heritage area; we will also have as invited speakers Leif Isaksen, Senior Lecturer in History (Digital Humanities) at Lancaster University, Caterina Bon, Direttore Generale della Direzione Generale “Educazione e Ricerca” of MiBACT, and Davide Porporato, researcher in Antropologia at Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale. In the AIUCD website, at the address http://www.umanisticadigitale.it/iscrizione-al-convegno-aiucd-2015/ you can pay the registration fee for the AIUCD2015 conference. The fees are differentiated for associates of AIUCD and not, and senior and junior situations. Senior applies to people with a permanent job, junior to students or people without a permanent job. You choose according to your situation. Warm greetings from the organizing committee, we hope to meet you in Turin in December! R -- Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it Dipartimento di Studi rosselli at ling.unipi.it Umanistici Then spoke the thunder DA Universita' di Torino Datta: what have we given? (TSE) Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre, mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3)

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Workshop. "Digital Scholarly Editions: From Analogue Material to Digital Publication"
by gimena del rio riande 18 Nov '15

18 Nov '15

[apologies for cross-posting] Workshop. "Digital Scholarly Editions: From Analogue Material to Digital Publication" Organized by the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab @UNED / Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales (LINHD-UNED) and the Research & Development Department of the Göttingen State and University Library Date December 14th–16th Venue Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Madrid, Spain) Information This workshop will deal with theoretical problems regarding the digitization process, text encoding (TEI), digital storage and publication of digital texts, and it will discuss topics of interest with regard to current developments in the Digital Humanities, such as the ones related to infrastructure and long-term preservation. It will offer the opportunity to work on two hands-on sessions with the new version of the TextGrid Editor and its tools applied to the digital edition of the Cancionero Musical de Palacio and other Castilian medieval texts. Participants are invited to bring their own materials to discuss mark-up and edition problems. The languages of the workshop will be English (mainly) and Spanish, and it may be followed live or deferred. How to register and more information on our website: https://www.fundacion.uned.es/actividad/idactividad/10854 Best regards Gimena del Rio Riande (CONICET-LINHD) and Elena González Blanco (LINHD-UNED) Gimena del Rio Investigadora. Seminario de Edición y Crítica Textual (SECRIT-IIBICRIT CONICET) http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/ Marcelo T. de Alvear 1694 (1060). Buenos Aires - Argentina (54)-11-4129-1158 http://aahd.com.ar/

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Workshop Automated Handwritten Text Recognition Transkribus
by Joris van Zundert 18 Nov '15

18 Nov '15

Dear list members, Apologies for possible cross posting. I'd thought colleagues in the field might be interested in the following workshop announcement. All the best --Joris van Zundert ==== WORKSHOP AUTOMATED HANDWRITTEN TEXT RECOGNITION TRANSKRIBUS AND THE ‘RESOLUTIONS OF THE DUTCH STATES-GENERAL’ (Den Haag, Netherlands, 25 November 2015) The workshop introduces Transkribus and is organized by Huygens ING, INL and the tranScriptorium project. Transkribus is developed in the EU funded project tranScriptorium, a research infrastructure for transcribing and automated text recognition of historical documents. Automated recognition of handwritten documents (HTR) is no longer wishful thinking but a real option. Whether it concerns medieval codices or modern archival documents, HTR is not only able to create an automated transcription, it also offers significantly improved search capabilities through new search methods (“keyword spotting”). Until recently, intensive efforts by specialized researchers have been the only way to make the content of the resolutions accessible. In the new project, alternative ways to make the content of the resolutions accessible for researchers and other users are explored. Huygens-ING carries out a number of pilot projects to clarify to which extent advanced ICT techniques and tools can reduce the dependency on manual labor. Working with HTR is one of these pilots. The workshop shows preliminary results of a training set of the 17th century resolutions of the Dutch Staten-Generaal (Estates General), of automated structuring of printed 18th century resolutions. Moreover, it also offers a hands-on Transkribus session for the participants. The transcripts of the *Resolutions of the States-General *consist of 200.000 pages of handwritten text that not only reflect the invention and early development of the new Dutch State, but also are a witness of the daily political activities of the “Hoogmogende Heren”. *Programme* Automated Handwritten Text Recognition – Transkribus and the project ‘Resolutions of the Dutch States-General’. Friday, 27 November 2015 The Hague. - 10.30-12.15 Lectures – This session offers an insight into the technology behind Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), introduces the Transkribus platform and will reveal the results of HTR applied to the resolutions of the Dutch Staten-Generaal. In addition, it shows the results automated structuring and interpretation of printed 18th century resolutions. - 10.00 Walk in, coffee and tea - 10.30 Introduction by Lex Heerma van Voss, director of the Huygens ING - 10.40 Véronica Romero (Universitat Politècnica de València) – Interactive Handwritten Text Recognition and indexing of historical documents: the tranScriptorum Project - 11.00 Ronald Sluijter (Huygens ING) – Introduction to the Resolutions of the Staten-Generaal - 11.10 Jesse de Does (Institute for Dutch Lexicology) – HTR on the hand-written Resolutions of the Staten-Generaal - 11.30 Walter Ravenek (Huygens ING)– Structure and interpretation of the printed Resolutions of the Staten-Generaal 1725 - 11.50 Günter Mühlberger (University of Innsbruck)- Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents – the READ Project. e-Infrastructure for Humanities Scholars, Archives, Computer Scientists and the Public. - 12.15 Lunch - 13.30 Hands-on session Transkribus During the second part the participants get the opportunity to try out Transkribus on their own laptops to get a sense of the stage the technology is in and what it can mean for their own work. For this goal we ask participants to install Transkribus beforehand. Instructions for this will be send to you prior to the meeting. 16.00 Drinks *Place* Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, The Hague (the Netherlands) *Links* - EU FP7 Projekt tranScriptorium: http://transcriptorium.eu/ - TRANSKRIBUS Plattform: http://transkribus.eu/ *Registration* Register via: congres(a)huygens.knaw.nl. Please indicate whether you intend to attend just the morning program or the hands-on session as well. The workshop is aimed at scholars who are involved in the transcription and editing of historical documents. The number of participants is limited, registrations will be accepted in the order of arrival. Registration deadline is 20 November 2015. Please bring your own laptop to the Workshop! ====

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Digital Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD)
by rsebastia14＠gmail.com 18 Nov '15

18 Nov '15

Dear colleagues, It is a pleasure for us to announce that registration is open for the two courses offered by the Digital Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD): the “Experto professional en Humanidades Digitales” http://linhd.uned.es/p/titulo-propio-experto-profesional-en-humanidades-dig… in its second edition (specialization course in Digital Humanities), and the “Experto Profesional en Edición Digital Académica” http://linhd.uned.es/p/titulo-propio-experto-en-edicion-digital-academica/ (specialization course in Digital Scholarly Editing). Registration is open till 1st December and admissions are limited. The courses will start in January 2015 and will end in September. Each of them consists of 30 units, and will be taught completely online and in Spanish. We hope that this initiative will let users a deeper knowledge of digital humanities and digital scholarly editing. Please, feel free to circulate this message among all people that could be interested in following any of these programs. Best regards, Elena González-Blanco García Director of the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD)<http://linhd.uned.es/> Rosa Sebastià LINHD http://linhd.uned.es/

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Digital Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD)
by rsebastia14＠gmail.com 18 Nov '15

18 Nov '15

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CFP: Digital Approaches and the Ancient World
by Gabriel BODARD 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

Dear Medievalists, Please see the call for papers below, in which the "ancient world" is defined both geographically and chronoligically more widely than the classical Mediterranean, and so explicitly overlaps with what is generally considered mediaeval. In any case, as I@m sure you realize, a great many digital humanities methods applied to classical and mediaeval topics are likely to be of broad mutual interest. I hope therefore some of you might consider submitting to this issue. Please circulate this call widely. Many thanks, Gabby ======================================= *Digital Approaches and the Ancient World* A themed issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Editors: Gabriel Bodard (University of London) gabriel.bodard(a)sas.ac.uk Yanne Broux (KU Leuven) yanne.broux(a)arts.kuleuven.be Ségolène Tarte (University of Oxford) segolene.tarte(a)oerc.ox.ac.uk Call for papers: We invite colleagues all around the world and at all stages of their careers to submit papers on the topic of “Digital Approaches and the Ancient World” to a themed issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. The topic is to be construed as widely as possible, to include not only the history, archaeology, language, literature and thought of the ancient and late antique Mediterranean world, but also of antiquity more widely, potentially including, for example, South and East Asian, Sub-Saharan African or Pre-Columbian American history. Digital approaches may also vary widely, to include methodologies from the digital humanities and information studies, quantitative methods from the hard sciences, or other innovative and transdisciplinary themes. Papers will be fully peer reviewed and selected for inclusion based not only on their research quality and significance, but especially on their ability to engage profoundly both with classics/history academic readers, and scholars from digital or informatic disciplines. We are keen to see papers that clearly lay out their disciplinary and interdisciplinary methodological approaches, and present and interpret the full range of scholarly and practical outcomes of their research. We encourage the use of and direct reference to open online datasets in your papers. BICS is not currently an open access publication, but self-archiving of pre-press papers is permitted, and the editors believe in the transparency and accountability that comes with basing scientific work on open data. To submit an article to this themed issue, please send your full paper of 4,000–8,000 words in Microsoft Word doc, docx or rtf format, to <gabriel.bodard(a)sas.ac.uk>, along with a 150 word abstract, by January 31, 2016. You do not need to follow BICS style for the initial submission, but please note that the final version of accepted articles will need to be formatted to adhere to our style guide (http://www.icls.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/STYLE-V15.pdf). If you have any questions about this issue, please feel free to contact any of the editors informally. -- 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/

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British Patristics Conference 2016
by Hugh Houghton 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

[With apologies if you receive this message more than once] We are delighted to announce that the call for papers and, indeed, booking for very early birds, is now open for the Sixth British Patristics conference. The conference will be held at the University of Birmingham from Monday 5th to Wednesday 7th September 2016. Proposals are invited for papers on any aspect of patristic study. We are particularly keen to receive contributions on the reception of Pauline literature or commentaries more generally. As in previous years, we expect to organise two or three thematic sessions running in parallel. Proposals should be submitted with an abstract of up to 250 words through the conference website by 30th April 2016. The website, with all details and forms, is available at: http://tinyurl.com/patristics2016 We hope to welcome you to Birmingham next year! Best wishes, Hugh Houghton (on behalf of the organisers)

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