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Editing the Medieval Laws of England: Workshop

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Editing the Medieval Laws of England

Date: 24 October 2009
Location: Institute of Historical Research
Description: The Institute of Historical Research, London, will be hosting a free one-day workshop which will bring together established academics and postgraduate students with an interest in early English laws.

The workshop will facilitate discussion about editing the various legal codes, edicts, manuals and treatises composed in England before the issuing of Magna Carta in 1215. It aims to provide participants with an opportunity to share and discuss their ideas about methodology and issues such as digitisation and linguistics in a friendly, informal atmosphere. This event will offer project presentations and demonstrations as well as practical sessions on editing and presenting the laws in the digital age.

Booking: Attendance is free, but places are limited and offered on a first come basis. For more information and/or to register contact Dr Jenny Benham, Institute of Historical Research, University of London.

Posted by: Dan O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

Oxford University: IT Support Officer for the Online Egyptological Bibliography

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Griffith Institute in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford

Information Technology Support Officer for the Online Egyptological Bibliography

University Grade: 8, stages 0104, Salary in the range 36,532 39,920 per annum pro rata to 40%, 16-month fixed-term

The Griffith Institute is seeking to appoint from late 2009 an ICT Officer to provide support for the Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB), which will be moved from Amsterdam to a server in Oxford in late 2009 and will be further developed and migrated to a new software platform over the next year. This is a major database project that involves integrating material from diverse sources, including other databases that are to be incorporated into the OEB, as well as designing new input and search modules for use in a Unicode-compliant system. The successful candidate will have a professional knowledge of database systems, including Microsoft Access and MySQL with complex SQL statements and queries, as well as web-based systems, notably ASP, PHP, internet technologies such as (X)HTML and JavaScript, and general web design. She or he will also manage integrity, security, and online subscriptions to the OEB. This is a challenging position that will suit particularly a specialist in computing for the humanities.

Further particulars, including details on how to apply, should be obtained from http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/ or from the office of The Faculty Board Secretary, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, tel. 01865 288202, email orient@orinst.ox.ac.uk , to whom applications should be sent not later than Friday 24 July 2009

The University is an equal opportunities employer.

Seminar: Paper Watermark Location and Identification

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Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Seminar, Summer 2009

Friday July 3rd at 16:30

Note: STB 9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

*Roger Boyle & Kia Ng (Leeds)*
*Extracting the Hidden: Paper Watermark Location and Identification*

ALL WELCOME

Watermark studies go back many years, but the advent of large digital repositories and advances in imaging present new opportunities. We present two attacks. Both use a back-lighting approach that delivers good quality, digitally-native images. We exhibit work on a wide range of images, and have uncovered hitherto unseen results.

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, Juan.Garces@bl.uk, or Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html, where a longer abstract is available, and the audio and slides will be posted shortly after the event.

Digital Classicist Podcast: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/seminar.xml

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

Mingana collection launch

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Dear everyone (apologies for cross posting)

I am delighted to announce that next Wednesday, 8 July, we will be launching the Mingana Collection and Virtual Manuscript Room online. We are having a launch celebration at the Barber Institute, at the University of Birmingham. Speakers include a number of experts in Arabic texts and manuscripts. Some manuscripts from the Mingana collection will be on display. Admission is free, lunch and refreshments will be provided, but pre-registration is essential. If you are interested in attending, please contact Frouke Schrijver

(FXS821@bham.ac.uk)

Everyone and anyone on this list is welcome to come to the launch! There is some information about the project at http://arts-itsee.bham.ac.uk/vmrsite/. We are keeping the actual url under wraps as we work on the site; we will announce this on Tuesday evening, next week.

I hope to see some of you at the launch,

best wishes
Peter Robinson

Posted by: Peter Robinson (P.M.Robinson@bham.ac.uk).

IMBAS: Postgraduate Medieval Studies conference, NUI Galway, Nov 13-15th 2009

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IMBAS: The National University of Ireland, Galway, Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Medieval Conference, November 13-15th 2009.

We would like to invite all postgraduate students of medieval studies to Imbas, an interdisciplinary medievalists’ conference being held in the Moore Institute at NUI Galway from November 13-15th 2009. This conference welcomes delegates at all stages of their research from all areas of medieval studies including language, history literature, art, archaeology and philosophy. The theme for 2009 is Alliances. Delegates are encouraged to view the theme as a broad suggestion rather than in any way restrictive.

Papers might deal with but are not limited to such topics as:

* Religious, political and military alliances
* Relationships between cultural institutions
* Marriage
* Commerce and economics
* Patronage
* Rebellion and heresy
* Marginality

A selection of papers will be published in our new established peer-reviewed journal, Imbas: The Journal of the National University of Ireland, Galway Postgraduate Medieval Studies Conference. This journal will be made available via our website and open-access journal databases. All panels will be recorded and made available as podcasts. The committee are also delighted to offer a number of travel bursaries to delegates on a competitive basis. Details of the above our available on our website and our blog, http://imbasnuig.blogspot.com.

Abstracts of 250 words for a 20 minute paper (with ten minutes allowed for questions and discussion) should be sent either electronically to or by post to Imbas, English Department, NUIG, University Road, Galway, Ireland. For further information, contact us at imbasnuig@gmail.com. Posted by: Francesca Bezzone (imbasnuig@gmail.com).