The Digital Medievalist Executive Board and Postgraduate Subcommittee are delighted to announce our first virtual symposium:

 

The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Medieval Studies: A Global Digital Medievalist Symposium

To be held 24 May, 11 June, and 21 June, 2021,

 

The era of COVID-19 has been transformational for medieval digital humanities. Medievalists have come to learn the limits and possibilities of online scholarship, whether in the virtual classroom or in the transfer of knowledge among specialists. Although direct access to material sources and the easy face-to-face exchanges with colleagues are deeply missed, we have come to understand that digitally-inflected scholarship can be more economical, more global, and –in limited ways– more equitable for many medievalists. And because we have come to this inflection point, members of the Digital Medievalist Board are launching a conference series that marks this turn and aims to build upon what we have learned. Our theme, The Past, Present and Future of Medieval Digital Humanities is both retrospective and prospective in scope, bringing digital medievalist practitioners into conversation with each other as we step into a new scholarly environment where digital methods take on a new importance.

 

Our new global awareness has inspired us to plan three conference dates, each of which is aligned with a geographic space and accommodates scholars from three time zones grouped as The Americas, Asia & Oceania, and Europe & Africa.  The Americas conversation will take place on Monday, 24 May 2021, Asia & Oceania on Friday, 11 June, and Africa & Europe on Monday, 21 June.

For more information about, including schedules, and to register for each conference, go to https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/the-past-present-and-future-of-digital-medieval-studies-a-global-digital-medievalist-symposium/

 

We look forward to seeing you at all three events!

 

Lynn Ransom, on behalf of the DM Executive Board and Postgraduate Subcommittee