2014 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America.

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California Los Angeles is pleased to host the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America. The conference will meet on the campus of UCLA April 10-12, 2014. 

The program will include three plenary speakers and at least one plenary session. 

Proposals

deadline 15 June 2013

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal, excepting those who presented papers at the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy in 2012 and 2013; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Special consideration can be given to individuals whose specialty would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy.

Theme 

“Empires and Encounters” will be the theme of the meeting. The Medieval Academy welcomes innovative sessions that explore sites of encounter — both as places where new cultural forms emerge and where conflict and difference are manifest — or that examine the fallout from the formation and dissolution of empires. The broadest possible range of proposals on topics and for time periods, within and across all the disciplines, is sought for both commissioned and open sessions.

The year 2014 highlights the 1200th anniversary of the death of Charlemagne, whose empire claimed to have revived the fallen Roman Empire and set the stage for later imperial concepts in medieval Europe. It seems fitting, therefore, to choose “Empires and Encounters” — in all of their various manifestations — as the theme of the 2014 Annual Meeting.

Empires, of course, never exist in isolation; by nature they create along their boundaries zones of contact between ethnic, religious, political and cultural groups that in turn challenge the concepts of center and periphery through various forms of non-conflictual encounter. In drawing under the same rubrics peoples of varied traditions, histories, languages and customs, empires and encounters also challenge and change the nature and definition of such categories.

* The Program Committee welcomes submissions on other topics and will organize additional sessions to accommodate the best submissions.

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Workshop: Easy Tools for Difficult Texts.

The Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands and the COST Action IS1005 “Medieval Europe” are organizing a two-day workshop gathering a number of experts in methodologies and tool creation around the complex issue of transferring medieval manuscripts to a digital medium.

“Easy Tools for Difficult Texts?”

Medieval manuscripts and codices are notoriously difficult to convince to become well behaved inhabitants of the digital scholarly ecosystem. Meanwhile over the last decades many digital local computerized services, web based tools, and stand alone applications have been developed to create, publish, and analyze digital representations of manuscript and printed text. Although such tools have been trying to accommodate for medieval manuscripts –and sometimes were even solely developed for that purpose– a true convenient and intuitive means of re-representing medieval text in the digital medium seems elusive. The nature of medieval texts –ambiguous, uncertain, instable, often of unknown origin and descent, of puzzling function and context, damaged, fragmented, still unconventional in their multiplicity of form, format, language, orthography, typography, and script– poses an ultimate challenge to creators and users of digital tools wishing to produce useful and reliable digital counterparts to these medieval sources of knowledge and testimonies of intellectual creativity.

The workshop Easy Tools for Difficult Texts: Manuscripts & Textual Tradition to be held at the Huygens Institute in The Hague on 18 and 19 April 2013, will create an overview of the state of the art of tool development, and of the difficulties and extreme requirements medieval manuscript poses to digital methods and techniques.

Programme Registration Location

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Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing.

University of Saskatchewan

July 11, 2013 – July 13, 2013

Call for Proposals (April 5, 2013 - April 26, 2013)

 

The 'Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing' conference comes at a critical inflection point in the transformation of scholarly editing caused by the two massive shifts of the digital revolution. These shifts are, firstly, the movement of all data into digital form and, secondly, the creation of new modes of collaboration. For the first: in the last decades, the creation of massive amounts of data in digital form has already transformed the basic materials of scholarly editing, while digital tools offer new methods for exploration and publication. For the second: where scholarly editing in the past has been typically the work of a single dedicated scholar, the development of collaborative platforms including social media opens up the possibilities of co-operative work across whole communities.

These changes, so sudden and so far-reaching, in a field which changed little in centuries, affect every aspect of scholarly editing. This conference will explore the theoretical, practical, and social implications of these changes. In terms of theory: how is our sense of what a scholarly edition can and should be affected by these movements? Traditionally, a scholarly edition was created by a single scholar or a tightly-defined group of scholars, and fixed in print. Now it may be the work of many people, who may have no contact at all apart from their shared contribution to the edition, and it may change second by second. Are 'scholarly editions' as we have known them possible, or even desirable? Is the concept of a 'scholarly editor' obsolete, to be replaced by -- what? What might we lose? What might we gain? In terms of practice: we face formidable problems. Copyright and intellectual property law lag decades behind what we can now do. The quantity and diversity of data which a scholarly edition in digital form might include (maps, sound, moving images, and more) mandate the development of new interfaces, even as the transience of the digital threatens to make unusable tomorrow what we make today. How do we make editions which others can change, use and reuse, decompose and recombine with other data, as they need? In terms of social implications: who is to do this work? How are they to be chosen, trained, supported? If anyone and everyone can contribute -- how do we assure the quality of the work done? Traditionally, a few editors perched in the academy have produced texts read by many outside the academy. This model might now be dissolved, as scholars within the academy can work alongside readers everywhere to create fluid and dynamic editions distributed everywhere. Or is it scholarly editing itself which might be dissolved -- leaving us, with what?

The conference program will be built around three groups of presenters: senior textual scholars, senior digital humanists, including the heads of seven major international digital humanities centers and key representatives of six others; and international leaders in the development and use of online community knowledge tools, ranging from biodiversity data to manuscript transcription. The program will offer a mix of formal academic addresses, panels focussing on contentious issues, demonstrations of leading-edge solutions, informal poster and hands-on sessions. A one-day workshop offering practical experience in on-line collaborative editing systems will precede the conference. The conference timing, immediately before the major annual Digital Humanities conference in Lincoln, Nebraska on July 16-19 2013, is designed to enable participants to attend both conferences. Confirmed participants are Barbara Bordalejo, Susan Brown,Ben Brumfield, Gabriel Egan, Paul Eggert, Paul Flemons, Alex Gil, James Ginther, Tuomas Heikkilä, Fotis Jannidis, Laura Mandell, Murray McGillivray, Brent Nelson, Catherine Nygren,Dan O'Donnell, Roger Osbourne, Wendy Phillips-Rodriguez, Elena Pierazzo, Ken Price, Peter Robinson, Geoffrey Rockwell, Peter Shillingsburg, Ray Siemens, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Joshua Sosin, Melissa Terras, Edward Vanhoutte, and Joris van Zundert (to be confirmed: Hans Gabler and Jerome McGann).

In addition to the invited presenters, we invite proposals for papers from anyone interested in the conference themes.  We particularly welcome papers from people involved in the GO::DH community. There is funding set aside for students enrolled in graduate or doctoral programs who wish to attend, and funding may also be available on application (as bursaries, or support up to the full cost of travel and conference attendance) for other proposers: see the Call for Proposals Page. We will give preference in allocating funding to proposers from circumstances where support is rarely or never available.

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Table ronde « Pourquoi éditer des textes médiévaux au XXIe siècle ? »

8e rencontre de la Gallia Pontificia, sur le thème « Pourquoi éditer des textes médiévaux au XXIe siècle ? »,

17.V.2013

École nationale des chartes (Paris). Organisée par l'École des chartes, l'Institut historique allemand de Paris et les Monumenta Germaniae Historica. 

Programme

09h15  Accueil des participants
 

09h30  Rolf GROSSE : Introduction.
09h45  Jean  DUFOUR  :  L’édition  d’actes  médiévaux :  une nécessité à adapter aux techniques nouvelles - Martina HARTMANN : Die Edition von Quellen, die es nicht  mehr  gibt.  Die  merowingischen  und  karolingi-schen Deperdita.  

10h45  Pause
 

11h00  Klaus HERBERS : Transcription ou édition ? Des actes pontificaux espagnols inédits ou mal édités - Rolf GROSSE : De l’utilité des regestes. 
12h00  Wilfried  HARTMANN  :  Probleme  beim  Edieren kirchenrechtlicher Quellen.  

12h30  Pause de midi  

14h00  Pascale  BOURGAIN  :  Pourquoi  éditer  des  textes latins au XXIe s. ? - Claudia  ZEY  :  Nouvelle  édition  ou  réédition ? Comment éditer des sources historiographiques ?      

15h00    Pause 

15h15  Richard TRACHSLER : Quels textes et pour qui ? Le cas des textes littéraires en ancien français - Armand  JAMME  :  Histoire  médiévale  et  comptabilités  :  du  renouveau  d’un  champ  historiographique  au  renouvellement  des  perspectives d’édition.
16h15  Olivier  PONCET  :  Les  vertiges  de  l’historien moderniste.  Éditer  des  textes  en  contexte  de prospérité archivistique (XVe-XIXe s.).  

16h45     Mot de conclusion par Olivier GUYOTJEANNIN. 
17h00     Fin de la table ronde

Renseignements et inscription : Olivier CANTEAUT,  Rolf GROSSE

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Décrire et interpréter : quelles méthodes d’analyse pour l’iconographie médiévale ? - Dixièmes Rencontres du GRIM.

Dixièmes Rencontres du GRIM (Paris, 16 mai 2013)

Appel à communication

Date limite: 13 avril 2013

Les dixièmes Rencontres du GRIM (Groupe de Recherches en Iconographie Médiévale) porteront sur  : Décrire et interpréter : quelles méthodes d’analyse pour l’iconographie médiévale.  Le premier objectif du GRIM est la tenue d’une rencontre annuelle ouverte à tous les historiens de l’art, qu’ils relèvent ou non de l’université, et laissant aussi une place notable aux doctorants et aux jeunes chercheurs. Un des buts du GRIM est aussi l’échange entre des étudiants souvent isolés, pour leurs recherches en ce domaine, dans leurs universités d’origine, et qui trouvent là l’occasion de partager les connaissances, les débats sur les méthodes et les enjeux de la discipline, et de participer ainsi à un réseau informel mais qui se veut aussi chaleureux que stimulant. La présence, à chaque Rencontre du GRIM, de participants étrangers, apporte une ouverture précieuse sur ce qui se fait dans les autres pays.
Les Rencontres du GRIM sont ouvertes à tous.

A partir d’études de cas, on montrera la place respective de la description et de l’interprétation dans la démarche nécessaire à l’étude de l’iconographie médiévale.

- lorsque l’on bâtit l’état de la question, la question se pose à la lecture de la bibliographie accumulée sur une œuvre : les travaux antérieurs se sont-ils d’abord fondés sur une description ? L’interprétation a-t-elle parfois, au contraire, été l’élément qui a imposé un travail de description ?

- aujourd’hui, dans les études de cas qui seront présentées, quelles sont les démarches des uns et des autres ? Sur quelles bases, autour de quels principes la description peut-elle se construire ? Est-elle un préalable en tant que telle, ou l’interprétation peut-elle apparaître peu à peu au cœur de la description et la nourrir, la guider ?

- l’existence de banques de données informatiques, et la constitution de nouvelles notices types, modifie-t-elle la pratique et la nécessité de la description ?

Les communications éviteront les longues descriptions énumératives, pour se concentrer sur des problèmes ponctuels, en privilégiant les points de méthode.

Les  propositions devront être envoyées avant le 13 avril à christian.heck@univ-lille3.fr

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"Culture & Technology". European Summer School in Digital Humanities.

Universität Leipzig

22nd of July to 2nd of August 2013

Culture and technology should not be understood as referring to computer science applied to cultural studies. The central concern are the Humanities, which are concerned with culture in the broadest sense. Those fields within the Humanities that integrate technologies and computing in their research and which are at least potentially in dialogue with the questions posed by the Digital Humanities are our privileged addressees.

The school was originally conceived as "European" in order to emphasise the object of promoting and developing the Digital Humanities within a European context. The applications of participation submitted for the 2. Summer School demonstrated clearly, however, that the Summer School was already acknowledged as an institution in Europe, qua an established European institution.

The adjective "European" underlines, furthermore, the generally multilingual and multicultural nature of scientific research.

The Summer School „Culture & Technology“ aims to find a remedy to the situation described under "Background". In fact, in bringing together young scholars from the Humanities, Engineering and Information Sciences, it creates the conditions for future project-oriented collaboration and networking across the borders of the individual disciplines.
The Summer School seeks to offer a space for the discussion and acquisition of new knowledge, skills and competences in those computer technologies which play a central role in Humanities Computing and which determine every day more and more the work done in the Humanities and Cultural Sciences, as well as in Libraries and Archives everywhere.
The Summer School aims at integrating these activities into the broader context of the Digital Humanities, where questions about the consequences and implications of the application of computational methods and tools to cultural artefacts of all kinds are asked. The Summer School plans to show-case possible realisations of such questions via the presentation of concrete projects.
The Summer School will offer Humanities students in particular the possibility to gain practical knowledge of the application of computational methods to the digitalisation, description, analysis and production of humanities contents and artefacts (languages, texts, images, etc.), to discuss related theoretical questions and to forge new perspectives on the study and preservation of languages, cultures and cultural memory and the translation between cultures.
Computer and Engineering Sciences’ students, for their part, will be given the opportunity at the Summer School to acquire insights into the nature of humanities data, to get to know the areas in the Arts and Humanities in which computational methods are employed, to learn to recognise the difference of the Humanities approach to these methods and to confront themselves with the challenges that work with diffuse and extremely complex data presents for soft- and hardware solutions.

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Digital Humanities 2013 (Nebraska).

University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 16-19 July 2013

Digital Humanities is the annual international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, the umbrella organization of: The European Association for Digital Humanities (ALLC), Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (CSDH/SCHN), centerNet Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH), Japanese Association for Digital Humanites (JADH).

The Digital Humanities conference in 2013 will be hosted by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) is a joint initiative of the University Libraries and the College of Arts & Sciences. The Center advances collaborative, interdisciplinary research in the humanities by creating unique digital content and developing tools for scholarly discovery. It sponsors forums, workshops, and research fellowships for faculty and students in the area of digital scholarship.

Registration Open!