Dear colleagues,

Novosibirsk State University and Textual Heritage scholarly community invite you to participate in the international research school “Textual Heritage and Digital Technologies” (El'Manuscript–2015) for young scholars. The current school upholds the tradition of research schools initiated in Izhevsk in 2006 and continued in Kazan, Ufa, Petrozavodsk, Varna (Bulgary) (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 respectively).

The school will be held on November 10-28 in Novosibirsk, Russia, and will include lectures, workshops and presentation sessions aiming to familiarise students, postgraduate students and young scholars with the latest achievements of the world's research in the field of studying old, medieval and modern texts using digital technologies, new methodology, software and tools. Courses will be taught by well-known specialists from Russia, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Slovakia working on computer and corpus linguistics and corpus textual scholarship, digital strategies of historical factual account, text encoding and markup that aim to provide a possibility of digital data exchange and research on textual heritage of the Old Russian literature and Slavonic literatures. One module is dedicated to the technologies of creating online catalogs and digital collections of manuscripts, old printed books and historical documents. Roundtables are included in the programme to involve young scholars in discussion about the aforementioned and related issues.

Working languages: Russian, English.

Website: http://textualheritage.org/content/view/43/238/lang,english/

E-mail: elmanuscript@gmail.com

Practical information:

Dates: November 10-28, 2015

Opening: November 11. Closing: November 27

Venue: Novosibirsk State University; A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Philology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; The State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Registration: November 10, laboratory building, r. 202

Address: Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, Pirogova str. 2

http://goo.gl/Dx5gKV

How to participate:

To apply for a school send an email to elmanuscript@gmail.com.

Application should contain the following information:

- First name, last name;

- Affiliation, position / University (for students);

- Academic qualification, / education (student / postgraduate student / master (MA), young scholar, PhD, etc.);

- application for accommodation (if necessary);

- preferred course(s) and lecturers (see the Programme);

- arrival and departure dates.

Submission period (Deadline) :

You can apply for a school before October 30, 2015. You can choose module and topics and determine the date(s) of your visit.

All participants attending lectures the total amount of 18 hours and more will receive a Certificate.

Registration fee:

Free

Transport and accommodation fees:

Should be paid by the participant.

Best regards,

Organizing Commitee