Category: Announcement

PhD Programme: HISTORY – change and continuity in a global world

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Applications:
2 May to 15 June 2016 (FCT grants)
2 May to 9 September (PhD Programme)

This is an international and inter-university PhD programme, with the participation of the most relevant History departments and research units of the University of Lisbon (Institute of Social Sciences and Faculty of Letters), ISCTE- Lisbon University Institute, Portuguese Catholic University and University of Évora.
This PhD programme has been selected for funding by the Portuguese Agency for Science and Technology (FCT). It offers 4 PhD scholarships and further financial support throughout the preparation of the PhD dissertation.
Classes run in Lisbon from 19 September 2016 onwards. Courses and seminars are taught in Portuguese and English. Enrolled students receive monitoring assistance by tutors and supervisors.
Please circulate this announcement among colleagues and graduate students of your institutions and networks.

More info available at: http://piudhist.ics.ul.pt/.
For further information please contact: secretario.piudh@ics.ulisboa.pt

Call for Nominations to DM Board 2016-18

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Dear Digital Medievalist subscribers,

Digital Medievalist will be holding elections at the end of June 2016 for four positions to its Executive Board. Board positions are for two year terms, and incumbents may be re-elected (for a maximum of three terms in a row). Members of the Board are responsible for the overall direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist’s many projects and programmes. This is a working board, and so it would be expected that you are willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities, like editing the journal, organising conference sessions, administering the website, the Facebook group and news feeds, or maintaining a technical infrastructure – and there is room for any initiative you would like to take to foster the communication on digital methods in medieval studies.

For further information about the Executive and Digital Medievalist more generally please see the Digital Medievalist website, particularly:

We are now seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual elections. In order to be eligible for election, candidates must be members of Digital Medievalist (membership is conferred simply by subscription to the organisation’s mailing list, dm-l) and have made some demonstrable contribution either to the Digital Medievalist project (e.g. to the mailing list, or the wiki, etc.), or generally to the field of digital medieval studies.

If you are interested in running for these positions or are able to recommend a suitable candidate, please contact the returning officers, Alexei Lavrentiev (alexei.lavrentev [at] ens-lyon.fr) and Emiliano Degl’Innocenti (emiliano.degli.innocenti [at] gmail.com), who will treat your nomination or enquiries in confidence. The nomination period will close at 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, 15 June. Elections will be held by electronic ballot from Wednesday, 22 June 2016, closing at 23:59 UTC on Thursday, 7 July 2016.

Best wishes,

Alexei Lavrentiev and Emiliano Degl’Innocenti

Registration open for El’Manuscript 2016 Conference and Workshops

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Vilnius, Lithuania
22-28 August 2016
URL: http://textualheritage.org/en/conf.html

Call for papers (closed): https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/elmanuscript-2016-conference-vilnius-lithuania/

Even if you did not submit a proposal to present at this conference in August, there are still other ways to participate!

There is a list of papers accepted to the conference linked from the word “Reports” at http://textualheritage.org/content/view/664/288/lang,english/ . If you would like to attend the conference without presenting, please fill out the form linked from that page. (Those who are presenting have already submitted information for registration.)

You’ll see that the form also includes a list of possible workshops to be held in Vilnius in conjunction with the conference. If you are interested in attending workshops — even if you have already submitted information as a speaker during the conference — please fill out the form to help gauge interest in the various possible topics.

Digital Medievalist communities

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On 18th January we made an announcement on our mailing list and Facebook page about an analysis conducted on the Digital Medievalist social network, which revealed a minimal overlap between our Facebook community and the followers of our official Mailing list and Discussion Forum.

This thought-provoking analysis was carried out by Gene Lyman, the DM Journal reviews editor, by comparing the names of the individuals registered to our Facebook group and those who subscribe to the mailing list. The task was not trivial, and while not an error-free procedure, it nonetheless highlighted that only a very small percentage of individuals (around 9-10%) are members of both communities.

This is an interesting observation. Thanks to Gene’s network analysis skills, we will be looking at the state of our—de facto—communities more in detail to have a better idea of our different audiences. To gain deeper insight into the nature of these communities and into your expectations or needs we are planning a community survey to which we hope many of you will contribute.

Yours,

The Digital Medievalist Executive Board