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@sas.ac.uk Yanne Broux (KU Leuven) yanne.broux@arts.kuleuven.be Ségolène Tarte (University of Oxford) segolene.tarte@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@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.