Humanidades digitales: visibilidad y difusión de la investigación.

El Grupo de Investigación Siglo de Oro (GRISO) de la Universidad de Navarra anuncia la convocatoria del Congreso Internacional «Humanidades digitales: visibilidad y difusión de la investigación», que se celebrará en Pamplona los días 23 y 24 de mayo de 2013.

Objetivos y áreas temáticas

Los principales objetivos del Congreso son compartir experiencias y avanzar en el conocimiento de las diferentes maneras de aplicar la Comunicación Digital y las Nuevas Tecnologías a la difusión de la investigación en Humanidades, haciendo en última instancia más visibles los resultados de nuestro trabajo.
El congreso se organizará en torno a cuatro grandes áreas temáticas:

• Blogs y redes sociales. Los blogs y las redes sociales, las generales y las de carácter más académico, constituyen vehículos importantes para dar a conocer nuestro trabajo entre los colegas del mundo universitario, pero son también una herramienta fundamental para llegar a un público más amplio.
   
• Revistas digitales. La necesidad de visualizar nuestra investigación ha impulsado, entre otras razones, la aparición y consolidación de revistas digitales en Internet. Poder tener una fotografía de la situación actual de los proyectos en marcha y conocer los requisitos de indexación de las revistas son aspectos centrales que requieren también nuestra atención.
   
• Edición digital. El libro electrónico va consolidando un espacio propio en el ámbito de las publicaciones en Humanidades. Acercarse a los estándares existentes y conocer la situación actual de este mercado y las posibilidades de futuro nos ayudará a estar presentes en este cambiante mundo.
   
• Divulgación de la investigación / Visibilidad / Bibliotecas digitales. Bases de datos de publicaciones, repositorios académicos, publicaciones on-line, materiales en Open Access, etc., nos acercan el trabajo de muchos colegas y ponen a nuestra disposición vías para dar a conocer nuestras investigaciones. Asimismo parece conveniente contemplar las implicaciones legales que se suscitan en este ámbito.

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Digital Humanities: Literary Studies and Information Science

British Modernities Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

March 8-9, 2013

Keynote Speakers: 
Harriett Green, Literature and Languages Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robin Valenza, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  

Call for Papers and Posters

The British Modernities Group invites graduate students to present papers and posters at its eighth annual conference: “Digital Humanities: Literary Studies and Information Science.” This conference will incorporate presentations from faculty and graduate students in a variety of disciplines, including English, library and information science, communication, and education. Keynote presentations from Harriett Green, English and Digital Humanities Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Administration, and Robin Valenza, Associate Professor of English, will emphasize the importance of dialogue between the humanities and the sciences. We seek innovative research that studies media or literature from the perspective of information science and/or research that utilizes digital humanities approaches to modern and contemporary British literature (1800–present). The conference will ultimately explore the characteristics, objectives, and productive potential of the methodology now called “digital humanities.”

In recent years, literary studies have become increasingly concerned with issues of digital literacies and new media. Beyond converting texts into digital archives—including searchable databases—to broaden traditional literary analysis, literary critics have also questioned how digitization affects the material conditions of reading and writing. In a more practical engagement with digital computing, humanists are themselves employing digital methods for research and teaching. Examples include text mining, topic modeling, network mapping, and multimodal learning techniques. Use of such tools has necessitated collaboration with scholars outside the humanities, particularly in information science. These instances of collaboration promise benefits to all disciplines involved through a mutual exchange of tools and methods.

We invite paper, poster, or panel proposals that consider perspectives on media, literature, and information science related but certainly not limited to the following:
• Text mining, big data, and digital archives
• Computer programming
• Digital culture and internet studies
• New media and gaming
• Electronic literature/e-readers
• Systems and networks
• Posthumanism and digital machines
• Collaborative digital projects
• Multimodal pedagogy and digital literacies
• Copyright law and open access

Abstracts of no more than 250 words for individual papers and posters (350 words for fully-formed panels) should be submitted to modernities@gmail.com by January 4, 2013. Please include your name, along with your departmental and institutional affiliations. Accepted papers and posters will be notified by January 21, 2013.

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Le «vocabulaire courant» en diplomatique: techniques et approches comparées.

Vendredi 25 janvier 2013, 

Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de l’Université de Bourgogne. 

Tandis que les bases de données de documents diplomatiques tendent à se multiplier, les chartes bourguignonnes réunies au sein du corpus des CBMA offrent, à ce jour, le schéma d’interrogation en ligne le plus flexible pour une base de cette taille: plus de 13 000 actes, désormais accessibles via un serveur hébergé par le TGE Adonis. La journée d’étude de janvier 2011 avait permis de souligner l’intérêt de cet outil et de partager des expériences en cours, en insistant sur la prise en main – de plus en plus sensible – du logiciel par les chercheurs. Grâce à cette base et à cet outil émerge la possibilité de réaliser une diplomatique comparée, thème ancien, mais largement délaissé dans les dernières décennies au profit d’études ciblées. Cette approche, s’appuyant sur une lecture renouvelée du matériau, renforce la mise en cause du «mythe de l’anarchie documentaire», en montrant que les usages de termes ou de formules souvent considérés comme allant de soi sont en fait typiques d’un moment, d’un espace, d’une écriture.

Cette journée d’étude sera consacrée aux expériences dans le domaine des termes ou des formules considérés comme évidents/courants, c'est-à-dire dont la forte récurrence pourrait faire penser a priori (et peut-être à tort?) à des habitudes ou à des emplois globalement partagés. Seront notamment envisagés les outils et les techniques employés pour faire ressortir ces spécificités, aussi bien au plan fréquentiel qu’au niveau des cooccurrents (traitements statistiques / data mining). De la même manière, on s'intéressera à la sémantique de ces termes, justement fortement corrélée à leur présence/absence dans des zones à la structuration sociale sans doute différente. L’objectif est de mettre en lumière quelle part du vocabulaire “commun” répond à ce paradigme d'une écriture s'inscrivant dans un moment mais surtout dans un espace. Les communications pourront porter non seulement sur la base des CBMA, qui offre un champ d'étude très propice à ce type de recherche (l’actuelle Bourgogne étant une entité composite dans le temps et dans l’espace), mais aussi, pour favoriser cette approche comparatiste, sur d’autres bases constituées ou en cours de constitution.

Programme

10h00 - 10h30   Bilan CBMA 2011-2012
10h30 - 11h15   Didier Panfili. User du mot dominus dans les scriptoria méridionaux du VIIIe au début du XIIIe siècle.
11h15 - 12h00   Nicolas Perreaux. Vocabulaire courant, vocabulaire fréquent, vocabulaire endémique? Lecture spatiale d’un phénomène fréquentiel.
14h00 - 14h45   Alain Guerreau. L’observation et l’analyse statistique de la fréquence et de la répartition d’un groupe de n tokens.
14h45 - 15h30   Eliana Magnani. Le genre d’Ego: la désignation des disposants dans les documents diplomatiques bourguignons.
15h45 - 16h30   Coraline Rey. Le vocabulaire de l’écriture et du livre à Cîteaux. Pour une approche comparée: chartes, comptes et catalogue de bibliothèque.

 
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Politics and Texts in Late Carolingian Europe, c. 870-1000.

 We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a two-day conference entitled Politics and Texts in Late Carolingian Europe, c. 870–1000, hosted by the St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies. This conference will explore the relationship between political authority and textual production in the later Carolingian world.

In recent years, there has been substantial re-evaluation of traditional methodological approaches to all kinds of early medieval texts, from narrative histories to documentary sources. Historians have increasingly taken stock of the interdependence of textual aspects such as audience, reception, dissemination, authorial agenda and the relationships between cultural and political elites. This reappraisal has inspired renewed interest in earlier Carolingian political history. However, the so-called ‘post-Carolingian’ world of the tenth century has yet to be thoroughly investigated on the same terms. How did texts produced in the late ninth- and tenth-century political climate differ from those of the preceding century? Is it possible to refashion the traditional political narrative of late Carolingian fragmentation and decline by reassessing the foundations on which this very narrative has been constructed? Our intention is to draw together recent work on the theme of political discourse in the written sources of this period. We hope to provide an international forum for established academics, early career researchers and postgraduate students working on political culture and the functions of texts in the late Carolingian world.

Eight invited academics will offer papers on the conference themes. We invite proposals from postgraduate and postdoctoral scholars for 20-minute papers on any topic related to the interaction between politics and texts in this period.

The conference will include lunches, refreshments, wine reception, and an optional conference meal. We expect to be able to contribute towards speakers’ accommodation and travel expenses.

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to either of the conference organisers, Roberta Cimino or Ed Roberts. The deadline for submission is 1st February 2013.

Source: @StAndrewsHist

Practice in Learning. The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages.

BREMMER Jr., R. H.; DEKKER, K. (ed.) (2010), Practice in Learning. The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages (Mediaevalia Groningana New Series, 16), Leuven: Peeters Publishers.

Summary:
Throughout the early Middle Ages, education and learning in Western Europe underwent a substantial development, from Italy across the Alps, from Latin to the vernacular and from secular to (although not exclusively) religious. With Latin as its prime medium, developments in education and learning were genuinely international and allowed for a steady exchange of teachers and texts across borders and institutions. Members of the fifth-century Gallo-Roman senatorial classes – such as Eucherius of Lyons and Cassiodorus – became bishops, abbots or founders of monasteries, and thereby catalysts in the transformation from secular to religious education. Then as now intellectuals travelled, taking both their learning and their books with them: Theodore of Tarsus travelled from the extreme end of the Mediterranean to Italy and across the Alps; John Scottus Eriugena migrated from Ireland to France; Boniface from England to Germany; while Abbo later made a journey from Fleury to Abingdon and back – to name only a few examples. With the mobility of intellectuals comes the movement of texts and books: ranging from Pliny’s Historia naturalis and Isidore’s Etymologiae or the works of Bede to many of the smaller texts and fragments which have been the subject of study in the ‘Storehouses’ project.

Although almost all of the precise details of classroom practice in the early Middle Ages remain hidden to the modern eye, and identifiable students’ copy books or note-pads are rare, some of the texts and books that have survived still recall the monastic auditorium or schola because of their potential use in the classroom or in view of the texts found in these books. Often these texts and manuscripts testify to the international developments outlined above and to the international nature of the world of early medieval learning.

The articles in this second volume of ‘Storehouses of Wholesome Learning’ emanate from the second workshop in the project, this time held at Leiden in June 2005. They focus on illuminating the multifaceted practice of learning by laying bare the exchanges of scholarship between the British Isles and the continent. From the Development of the Foetus, found in Bremmer’s contribution, to the Fifteen Signs of Doomsday, the encyclopaedic knowledge that was disseminated all over Western Europe in written texts and, in all likelihood, through oral transmission, featured strongly in the practice of early medieval learning. The subject of that learning was nothing less than life itself, both in the physical and in the spiritual sense of the word.  

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Signs on the edge: Space, Text and Margin in Medieval Manuscripts.

LARRAT KEEFER, S.; BREMMER Jr., R. H. (ed.) (2007), Signs on the edge: Space, Text and Margin in Medieval Manuscripts (Mediaevalia Groningana New Series, 10), Leuven: Peeters Publishers.

Recension de cet ouvrage par David Watt (University of Manitoba) dans The Medieval Review:

Medieval cultures to the north and west of the Alps gained their initial understanding of visual spatialization from the Ancient world, but developed their own ways of managing primary and secondary space on any surface where text and/or art interact. The eleven essays of this volume span the period from early insular manuscripts through to later medieval books or artefacts, and examine specific strategies in scribal layout or prescribed authorial design. These vary in their sophistication from the naïve and inadvertent to the self-conscious and at times parodic intentional, allowing us a fascinating insight into the many different ways in which main and marginal space on the page could be employed by medieval imaginations.

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In Memoriam: Phillip John Pulsiano (1955–2000). Jill Frederick, Minnesota State University Moorhead.
Introduction: Signs on the Edge, Sarah Larratt Keefer and Rolf H. Bremmer Jr.

I. EARLY MARGINS IN THE NORTH
Re-drawing the Bounds: Marginal Illustrations and Interpretative Strategies in The Book of Kells (Ann Dooley, University of Toronto).
Textual Varieties in Manuscript Margins (William Schipper, Memorial University of Newfoundland).

II. ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND: LAY OUT
Margins and Marginalization: Representations of Eve in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 11 (Catherine E. Karkov, University of Leeds).
Use of Manuscript Space for Design, Text and Image in Liturgical Books Owned by the Community of St Cuthbert (Sarah Larratt Keefer, Trent University, Ontario).
 
III. ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND: SECONDARY MATERIAL
Jaunts, Jottings and Jetsam in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (Phillip Pulsiano†, Villanova University, Pennsylvania).
On the Margins of Orthodoxy: Devotional Formulas and Protective Prayers in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 41 (Karen Louise Jolly, University of Hawai at Manoa).
 
IV. MID-MEDIEVAL INSULAR AND NORTHERN MARGINS
Dangerous Siren or Abandoned Wife? Gloss versus Text on an Early Irish Manuscript Page (Joanne Findon, Trent University, Ontario).
Footprints of Monastic Instruction: a Latin Psalter with Interverbal Old Frisian Glosses (Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, University of Leiden).
The Bayeux Tapestry: the Voice from the Border (Gale R. Owen-Crocker, University of Manchester).

V. LATER MEDIEVAL USE OF MARGINS
Lost but Not Forgotten: References to a Remarkable Middle Dutch Legenda aurea Manuscript (Erik Kwakkel, University of Victoria).
The ‘Comedieta' of the Sátira: Dom Pedro de Portugal's Monkeys in the Margins (Michael Agnew, University of San Diego).
 
Index of Manuscripts.
Subject Index.
Table of Contents.

 

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