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Digital Classicist 2010 Seminars CFP

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Call for Presentations

The Digital Classicist will once more be running a series of seminars at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, with support from the British Library, in Summer 2010 on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component. We are especially interested in work that demonstrates interdisciplinarity or work on the intersections between Ancient History, Classics or Archaeology and a digital, technical or practice-based discipline.

The Digital Classicist seminars run on Friday afternoons from June to August in Senate House, London. In previous years collected papers from the DC WiP seminars have been published(*) in a special issue of an online journal (2006), edited as a printed volume (2007), and released as audio podcasts (2008-9); we anticipate similar publication opportunities for future series. A small budget is available to help with travel costs.

Please send a 300-500 word abstract to gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk by March 31st 2010. We shall announce the full programme in April.

Regards,

The organizers

Gabriel Bodard, Kings College London
Stuart Dunn, Kings College London
Juan Garc, Greek Manuscripts Department, British Library
Simon Mahony, University College London
Melissa Terras, University College London

* See http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/4/ (2006), http://www.gowerpublishing.com/default.aspx?page=637&calctitle=1&pageSubject=1064&sort=pubdate&forthcoming=1&title_id=9797&edition_id=12252 (2007), http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/index.html (2008-9).

Posted by: Gabriel Bodard (gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk).

Resources from GAHOM, Paris

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GAHOM,
Group of Historical Anthropolgy of Western Europe, Paris

The GAHOM has been created by Jacques Le Goff 30 years ago. The team dedicated to the studies of Exempla has elaborated 4 databases :

– BIBLIEX (BIBLIography about EXempla) is an international bibliography about medieval Exempla with about 3000 references, 2 updates each year. We are pleased to receive new references and even off prints.

– ThEMA (Thesaurus Exemplorum Medii Aevi) is an index of around 8000 exempla, from 46 collections of exempla mainly in Latin, but also in old French, Middle English, Toscan, Spanish and Catalan. People all around the world can index at the same time for ThEMA as it is a collaborative database. For each exemplum, you can find a memento about the collection and its author, a summary, keywords, sources, bibliography, translations, references in repertories, such as Index Exemplorum by F. C. Tubach. The keywords are in French, English, Deutch, Spanish and Italian and the queries can be adressed in these languages, but the summaries of exempla are mainly in french.

– ReLEX (Ressources on Line about EXempla) : is a kind of portal to indicate tools of research, databases and collections of exempla (old editions and manuscripts), available on the Web, some have been digitized by the team.

– CEL (Caire de Heisterbach on Line) : is a digitized edition of Caire of Heisterbachs Dialogus miraculorum,  J. Strange, 2 vol., 1851. Queries in full text are available.

If you have any question or information, please, contact us : pcollomb@yahoo.fr
polo@ehess.fr

Posted by: Polo de Beaulieu (polo@ehess.fr).

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies CFP

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Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies Special Call For Papers for 2009 Issue on Monsters and Monstrosities in the Middle Ages

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed journal devoted to the literature and cultures of the medieval world. Published electronically once a year, its mission is to present a forum in which graduate students from around the globe may share their ideas. For further information please visit our website at http://hortulus.net.

Our upcoming issue will be devoted to representations and interpretations of monsters and monstrosities in art, chronicles, letters, literature, and music from the Middle Ages. We are also interested in book reviews on foundational works that would be helpful for graduate students exploring medieval monsters and monstrosities for the first time, such as Asa Sim Mittman, Maps And Monsters In Medieval England, (2008) and Karin E. Olsen, L. A. J. R. Houwen, eds., Monsters and the monstrous in medieval northwest Europe (2001). Article submissions may address but are not limited to:

  • Bestiaries and manuscript illuminations of monstrosities
  • Classical and Eastern transmissions and receptions of monsters
    Desires and sins of the flesh that degrade humans into monstrosities in allegories, commentaries, exempla, hagiography, miracle collections, and sermons
  • The Green Man, the Owl Man, the Wild Man and the Wild Woman
  • Medical accounts of monstrous births and the monstrous female, intersexed, or male body
  • Monsters and monstrosities in epics, exempla, fables, lais, and romances
  • Monsters and monstrosities in chronicles and travel literature
  • Purgatorial and demonic monsters and monstrosities in Visionary literature The racial other as a monstrosity
  • Saints as and/or versus monsters and monstrosities in vitae and legends Transformations of humans into animals and vice versa

The 2009 issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies will be published in May of 2010. All graduate students are welcome to submit their articles and book reviews or send their queries via email to submit@hortulus.net by March 1 2010.

Posted by: Grace Windsor (gwindsor@eircom.net).

Job Vacancies at UCL Centre for Digital Humanities

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Hi Everyone,

We are pleased to announce vacancies for three posts at UCL, in the new Centre for Digital Humanities. We are looking for a centre co-ordinator, teaching fellow, and postdoc researcher.

These are all part time but we are happy to consider applications to combine two of them into one full time post. Please see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/kerstin-michaels/vacancies/ for details.

Please note that ideally we would like people to start in January, but are willing to be flexible for the right candidate/s if necessary. If you’d like any more information about any of these, please do contact myself or Claire Warwick.

Best wishes,

Melissa

Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA
Senior Lecturer in Electronic Communication
Department of Information Studies
Henry Morley Building
University College London
Gower Street
WC1E 6BT

Tel: 020-7679-7206 (direct), 020-7679-7204 (dept), 020-7383-0557 (fax)
Email: m.terras@ucl.ac.uk
Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/melissa-terras/
Blog: http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/