DigiPal (Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London) One-Day Symposium

Dear all,

As the days darken and the wind starts to bite, we thought it might be worth remembering that there's more 

to a UK November than fireworks and cold weather. With that in mind, the DigiPal team at King's College London, 

in association with the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, University of Westminster, are 

delighted to announce the programme for their "Digital Approaches to Medieval Script and Image" Symposium. 

If you haven't registered for the Symposium as yet, then now would seem to be the ideal moment to snap up one of the 

few remaining places. Registration is free -- all you have to do is send an email (with your name and affiliation as you would 

like them to appear on your name badge) to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk

Coffee and registration will be at 9.30am and the Symposium will start at 9.50am. There will be refreshments, but lunch 

isn't included (we wanted to keep registration free, and it turns out that there's no such thing as a free lunch).

Looking forward to seeing you on the 22nd,

Stewart Brookes and Peter Stokes (King's College London) and Louise Sylvester (University of Westminster)

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Speakers and titles

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Stewart Brookes (King's College London)

  — "You Can't Always Get What You Want: Selecting Images for the DigiPal Database"

Florence Codine (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)

  — "Letters in Sharp Relief: Digital Images and Epigraphy through the Example of Coin Inscriptions"

Kathleen Doyle and Sarah Biggs (British Library)

Marc Michael Epstein (Vassar College) 

  — "The Chiasmatron: Hyperlinks and Pedagogical Methodology in the Study of the Iconography of Manuscripts Made for Jews in the Middle Ages"

Rachel Hart (Universities of St Andrews and Dundee)

  — "Teaching and Learning Palaeography on Both Sides of the Tay: Physical and Digital Realities"

Catherine Karkov (University of Leeds)

  — "Mourning Materiality in the Postdigital Era"

Neel Smith (College of the Holy Cross)

  — "Analyzing Early Manuscripts of the Iliad with Scholia"

Peter A Stokes (King's College London)

  — "Describing Handwriting, Describing Decoration – Then Finding it Again"

Jonathan Taylor (British Museum)

  — "Towards a Digital Palaeography of Cuneiform"

Melissa Terras (University College London)

  – "Trusting What We See: Issues of Provenance When Imaging Manuscript Material in Complex Ways"

Elaine Treharne (Stanford University) 

  – "Will the Real Palaeographer Please Stand Up"

Sarah Weston (Stanford University)

  — "ST(M)EMS (Stanford Tree of (Medieval and) Early Modern Scripts) and the Implications of Online Paleographic Tools"

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DigiPal, just when you thought it was safe to open your manuscript: http://digipal.eu/

Dr Stewart J Brookes

Research Associate

Digital Resource for Palaeography

Department of Digital Humanities

King's College London