Dear Digital Medievalists,

 

As we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Digital Medievalist, I am delighted to let you know that we are sponsoring three roundtables and a reception at the 2023 International Medieval Congress at Leeds which will be taking place in just two weeks’ time. Please find details below and in the links.

 

3 July 2023, Monday, 7pm: Session 444 - Podcasts, Blogs, and Video Essays: Digital Medieval Studies for the Masses? A Round Table Discussion

Organiser and Moderator: Hannah Busch (Universiteit Leiden / Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam)

Participants: Sebastian Dows-Miller (University of Oxford), Ségolène Gence (University of Kent), Tessa Gengnagel (Universität zu Köln), Estelle Guéville (Yale University), Catrin Haberfield (Stanford University), and James B. Harr (Christian Brothers University, Tennessee).

Sponsored by Coding Codices by the Digital Medievalist Postgraduate Committee

 

4 July 2023, Tuesday, 7pm: Session 945 - Something Old, Something New: Digital Visions of the Manuscript Contexts of Early Medieval English: A Round Table Discussion 

Organiser: Stewart J. Brookes (Bodleian Library, Oxford)

Moderator: N. Kıvılcım Yavuz (University of Leeds)

Participants: Stewart J. Brookes (University of Oxford), Martin Foys (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Catrin Haberfield (Stanford University), Katarzyna Anna Kapitan (University of Oxford), Elaine Treharne (Stanford University), and Eyup Eren Yurek (Stanford University).

 

5 July 2023, Wednesday, 7pm: Session 1447 - New Tools and Methods in Digital Medieval Studies: A Round Table Discussion 

Organiser: N. Kıvılcım Yavuz (University of Leeds) and Katarzyna Anna Kapitan (Linacre College, Oxford)

Moderator: Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Academy of America)

Participants: Stewart J. Brookes (University of Oxford), Aaron Macks (Harvard University), Elisabetta Magnanti (Universität Wien), Jan Odstrčilík (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien), and Dot Porter (University of Pennsylvania).

 

3 July 2023, Monday, 8pm: Digital Medievalist Get Together 

A reception hosted by the Digital Explorations: Opening the Medieval Manuscript Fragments from the Ripon Cathedral Library project and the Digital Medievalist community. Come, enjoy drinks and snacks, and confab about applications of digital technologies to medieval studies—all welcome!

 

Newcomers to Digital Humanities are especially welcome. We hope to see many of you at one or more of these events!

 

All best wishes,

 

Kivilcim

on behalf of the Digital Medievalist Executive Board