Category: Conferences

The Normans in the South

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Mediterranean Meetings in the Central Middle Ages
Friday 30 June – Sunday 2 July, 2017
St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford

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By some accounts, 1017 marked the advent of the Norman presence in Italy and Sicily, inaugurating a new era of invasion, interaction and integration in the Mediterranean. Whether or not we decide the millennial anniversary is significant, the moment offers an ideal opportunity to explore the story in the south, about a thousand years ago. To what extent did the Normans establish a cross-cultural empire? What can we learn by comparing the impact of the Norman presence in different parts of Europe? What insights are discoverable in comparing local histories of Italy and Sicily with broader historical ideas about transformation, empire and exchange? The conference draws together established, early-career and post-graduate scholars for a joint investigation of the Normans in the South, to explore together the many meetings of cultural, political and religious ideas in the Mediterranean in the central Middle Ages.

The three-day conference features 80 speakers from around the world, and three parallel strands of sessions: ‘Conquest and Culture’, ‘Art and Architecture’ and ‘Power and Politics’.

Secure your place: register by 31 May 2017 at:
http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/conferences-events/history-faculty/history-faculty/the-normans-in-the-south-mediterranean-meetings-in-the-central-middle-ages

Meal bookings optional; conference dinner places limited; early booking strongly recommended.

Conference Website and Programme

www.haskinssociety.org/Normans-in-the-South

Keynote Speakers

Professor Graham Loud (University of Leeds)
Professor Jeremy Johns (University of Oxford)
Professor Sandro Carocci (University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’)

featuring a short highlight talk by
Professor David Abulafia (University of Cambridge)

Queries

Please contact the conference organizer:
Dr Emily A. Winkler (emily.winkler(AT)history.ox.ac.uk)

Sponsorship

The Haskins Society
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
The John Fell OUP Fund (Oxford)
The Khalili Research Centre for the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East
The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH)

Monasteries in the Digital Humanities: International Conference

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INVITATION TO THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Monasteries in the Digital Humanities
Kraków-Tyniec, Benedictine Abbey, 13–16 September 2017

The conference is organised by the Friends of History Society in Wrocław, Branch of the Polish Historical Society, in collaboration with the Institute of History, University of Wrocław, Institute of History, University of Opole, and the Benedictine Abbey of Tyniec.

Topics:

  1. Presentation of the history of monasteries and religious orders on the internet (monasticons, portals and blogs, websites, databases, maps etc.).
  2. Digital reconstruction of former monasteries, virtual monastery libraries, utility rooms in monasteries etc.
  3. Digitisation of the written legacy of monasteries.
  4. Creation of platforms providing information and bringing together scholars researching monasteries.
  5. Dissemination of knowledge of monasteries and religious orders online.
  6. Possibilities of creating an online monasticon encompassing monasteries located both in Europe (including Poland) and other parts of the world.
  7. Digital tools and resources in humanities research. Problems – solutions – proposals.

Please send us the proposed titles of your full papers (up to 20 min.) and short communication papers (up to 10 min.) to: derwich(at)gmail(dot)com before 15 November 2016.

The languages of the conference will be generally international conference languages. However, we may organise separate sections devoted to Polish topics.

We plan to publish a volume of conference proceedings.
The conference fee is PLN 200 (EUR 50).

We will provide full board and accommodation for participants from outside Poland and will reimburse their travel expenses. Polish participants will cover the cost of accommodation, but will receive fees for preparing their papers (approx. PLN 500).
At the end of the conference, on 16 September, we will organise a tour of Kraków monasteries.

Yours sincerely,
Prof Dr Hab. Marek Derwich
derwich(at)gmail(dot)com
Monika Michalska
michalska(dot)monika(at)gmail(dot)com

Technologies for handwritten text image recognition, search and alignment

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As part of the HIMANIS project (HIstorical MANuscript Indexing for user-controlled Search), Enrique Vidal (professor of computer science at the Universitat Politècnica de València – Spain) will give a conference entitled:

Technologies for handwritten text image recognition, search and alignment

Wednesday 22 June 2016 at 14h00

Three types of technologies which have been developed at the Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technology (PRHLT) research center of the UPV will be outlined, each followed by live demonstrations:

1. Automatic and computer assisted (interactive) handwritten text recognition.
2. Indexing and Search for large collections of handwritten text images.
3. Aligning existing transcripts with corresponding text images: line, word and character-level alignments.

Contact: himanis@irht.cnrs.fr
IRHT — Centre Félix Grat
40 avenue d’Iéna
75016 Paris
http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/agenda/technologies-handwritten-text-image-recognition-search-and-alignment

Enrique Vidal is a professor of computer science at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) and former co-leader of the Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technology (PRHLT) research center in this University. He has published more than two hundred research papers in the fields of Pattern Recognition, Multimodal Interaction and applications to Language, Speech and Image Processing and led many important projects in these fields. Dr. Vidal is a member of the IEEE and a fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

CfP: Fifth AIUCD Annual Conference

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Digital editions: representation, interoperability, text analysis and infrastructures

Fifth Annual Conference of the AIUCD (Italian Association of Digital Humanities)

CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS

Date: 7-9 September 2016
Location: Aula Magna S. Trentin, Ca’ Dolfin, Dorsoduro 3825/e – 30123 Venezia
URL: http://www.himeros.eu/aiucd2016/

The AIUCD 2016 conference is devoted to the representation and study of text under different points of view (resources, analysis, infrastructures) in order to bring together philologists, historians, digital humanists, computational linguists, logicians, computer scientists and software engineers and discuss about text.
On the one hand, the Digital Humanities, in addition to the creation and maintenance of resources (digitization, annotation, etc.), must take into account how these will be used. On the other, Computational Linguistics, in addition to the development of computational tools (parsers, named entity extractors, etc.), must take into account the quality of the resources on which the same tools are applied.
These aspects, i.e. formal (models), digital (resources), computational (tools), infrastructural (platforms) and social (communities) involve different skills that the conference aims to make interact with each other.
The creation of resources and the development of tools should advance hand in hand, and should be based on solid models that meet the requirements established by the experts of the field. It is necessary that resources and tools be developed in parallel: only if you know how to use the text, what can be extracted from it and how to do it, can you adequately represent it.
Now that the major digitization initiatives provide multiple editions of the same works, abundant secondary literature, as well as numerous reference books (dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.), the philologist who works in the digital age should be able to seamlessly switch from handling purely philological phenomena (variant studies) to text analysis performed according to different methods (computational linguistics). The analysis tools and statistical methods developed to be used on an entire corpus of literary texts or extensive secondary literature collections must be integrated with the tools for comparing textual variants and evaluating possible interpretations.
It is time for research infrastructures to be able to guarantee interoperability and integration between the instruments for philological studies and the instruments for the analysis of large textual corpora, breaking down the rigid barriers between digital and computational philology on the one hand, and corpus linguistics on the other.

For more information about topics and submissions, and for an Italian version of the Call for Papers please visit: http://www.himeros.eu/aiucd2016/

El’Manuscript 2016 Conference – Vilnius, Lithuania

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Vilnius, Lithuania
22-28 August 2016

URL: http://textualheritage.org/en/conf.html
Abstract submission opens: 26 October 2015
Abstract submission deadline: 10 December 2015
Notifications of acceptance sent by 1 February 2016

First Call for Papers

We are pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for the El’Manuscript-2016 international conference on the creation and development of information systems for storage, description, processing, analysis, and publication of medieval and early modern handwritten and printed texts and documentary records. Any person involved in the creation or application of these resources—including researchers; instructors; staff of libraries, museums, and archives; programmers, and undergraduate and graduate students—is welcome to participate.

El’Manuscript-2016 is the sixth in a series of biennial international conferences entitled “Textual Heritage and Information Technologies” that brings together linguists, specialists in historical source criticism, IT specialists, and others involved with publishing and studying our textual heritage. Tutorial sessions are planned for the conference, along with lectures, workshops, demo and consultations that will allow practitioners to become familiar with various systems and methods for working with them.

The working languages of the 2016 conference are Lithuanian, English, and Russian, and papers presented at the conference will be published in a volume of proceedings and on the textualheritage.org website.

E-mail (Organization Committee): elmanuscript2016(at)gmail(dot)com