Category: Conferences

Kalamazoo 2006

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The complete searchable PDF of the 2006 Kalamazoo conference is available here:

http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/Assets/pdf/congress/Schedule06.pdf

The following conference sessions, panels, and business meetings involving digital subjects were proposed for the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, which took place Thursday-Sunday, May 4-7, 2006 at Western_Michigan_University in Kalamazoo Michigan. (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/41stadvance/advance-notice.html).

Deadlines

For organizers of Sponsored Sessions:

  • May 15, 2005: affiliated societies or academic programs propose sessions to the 2006 Congress Committee
  • October 1, 2005: organizers submit final session schedules as authorized by the 2006 Congress Committee and as announced in the July Call for Papers

For organizers of Special Sessions:

  • May 15, 2005: ad hoc groups or individuals propose sessions to the 2006 Congress Committee
  • October 1, 2005: organizers submit final session schedules as authorized by the 2006 Congress Committee and as announced in the July Call for Papers

For General Sessions:

  • Sept. 15, 2005: individuals who wish to present papers send proposals to the 2006 Congress Committee in accordance with the procedures announced in the July Call for Papers

Digital Medievalist Sessions

Digital publication (Digital medievalist)

  • Paper and/or abstract submissions are invited on the topic of digital publication. We are looking in particular for discussion of tools, processes, and/or best practices, but will consider other approaches to the topic (e.g. the economics of running a wiki or commons?).

What every digital medievalist should know (Digital medievalist)

  • Paper and/or abstract submissions are invited on the topic of basic skills and training for digital projects in medieval studies. What should medievalists know before they begin a new project? How can they find out?

Other Digital Sessions

Research in Computing for Humanities:

  • Advanced Technology in Medieval Scholarship: Paper submissions are invited on the topic of advanced technology in medieval scholarship. Proposals dealing with new uses of technology for academic research are eligible, as are proposals dealing with the development of such technologies. Possible subject matter might include, but is not limited to, the following: databases, imaging, statistical analysis, dictionaries/glossaries, online resources, library tools, etc.

Finding a Friendlier Front End: User Interface Design for Electronic Critical Editions

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Academy Committee on Electronic Resources
Presider: Martin K. Foys, Hood College

  • “Critical Editions as Rich Internet Applications”,
    Katherine Senzee, Director of Communications,
    Public Housing Authorities Directors Association
  • “Empowering the User: Electronic Edition as Work in Progress”,
    Paul Vetch,
    Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London
  • “Mediamapping Mouvance: User Tools for Electronic Editions of Medieval Texts”,
    Jesse D. Hurlbut,
    Brigham Young University

Kalamazoo 2005

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The following conference sessions, panels, and business meetings involving digital subjects were held at the 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, which took place Thursday-Sunday, May 5–8, 2005 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo Michigan.

The complete searchable PDF of the 2005 Kalamazoo conference is available here:

http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/Assets/pdf/congress/Schedule05.pdf

Friday, 6 May

10:00 am

Advanced Technology in Medieval Scholarship (U.Kentucky) (Session 263; Schneider 1265 [next door to Fetzer]) (Note change in time and place):

  • Updating Resources for Medievalists
Lynne Dahmen, Al Akhawayn Univ.
  • Representation, Interpretation, and Integration
Michael L. Norton, James Madison Univ.
  • Following the X Path to the Exemplars of Huntington MS Hm 114
Patricia R. Bart, Univ. of Virginia

Noon

Digital Medievalist Project Business meeting (DM). (Fetzer 1060) (All are welcome):

  • Future plans
  • Can we coordinate digital sessions better? Do we want to?

1:30 pm

Text and Image in Digital Scholarship I: Focus on Text (DM). (Session 268; Fetzer 1060):

  • Locating the Corff: Continuity and Change in Editing Medieval Welsh Prose
Diana Luft, Cardiff Univ., Wynn Thomas, Cardiff Univ., Mark Smith, Cardiff Univ., and Mick Vanrootseler, Cardiff Univ.
  • Making and Using Databases of the Middle English Manuscript Spelling in Textual Studies
Jacob Thaisen, De Montfort Univ.
  • Villani Online: A Digital Version of the Nuova cronica
Rala Diakite, Fitchburg State College, and Matthew Sneider, Univ. of Massachusetts–Dartmouth

3:30 pm

Text and Image in Digital Scholarship II: Focus on the Image (DM). (Session 330; Fetzer 1055):

Dorothy Carr Porter, Univ. of Kentucky
  • Text and Image in the Digital Edition: What’s the Connection?
Murray McGillivray
  • Digitally Imaging the Rood: Prayers and Pitfalls in the Development of a Prototype ::Electronic Ruthwell Cross
  • Christopher Fee, Gettyburg College, and James Ruthkowski, Gettysburg College

Saturday, 7 May

10:00 am

Technology and Early Drama: Teaching and Research Tools and tactics (MRDS). (Session 400; Fetzer 2030):

  • Student-Centered Technology and the Learning Process
Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby, Centenary College
  • “Take Heed, How Your Clerk Shent His Book”: E-Texts and the Classroom
Gerard NeCastro, Univ. of Maine–Machias
  • ReREEDing Records: New Technology for Old Problems
James C. Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, Univ. of Oxford

3:30 pm

Making the Old New Again: Digital Medievalism in an Ever-Changing World (OTA). (Session 515; Fetezer 2030):

  • Classifying the Graphetic Variants of the Cely Letters
Osamu Ohara, Jikei Univ.
  • a.medievalist@InterPARES
Bonnie Mak, Univ. of British Columbia
  • Fluid, Co-Operative, and Distributed Electronic Editions
Peter M. W. Robinson, De Montfort Univ.

8:00 pm

Societas Fontibus Historiae Medii Aevi Inveniendis, vulgo dicta “The Pseudo Society (Fetzer 1005):

  • Using Electronic Media to Improve Efficiency and Intelligibility in Teaching and Researching the Middle Ages
Daniel Paul O’Donnell, University of Lethbridge

Digital Humanities 2006

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Digital Humanities 2006 took place place at la Sorbonne, Paris, France, July 5-9, 2006.

History

The joint conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities is the oldest established meeting of scholars working at the intersection of advanced information technologies and the humanities, annually attracting a distinguished international community at the forefront of their fields.

Deadlines

  • November 30, 2006: firm deadline for submissions
  • February 13, 2006: presenters will be notified of acceptance

Proposed Sessions for 2006

Submissions are invited on all topics concerning humanities computing:

  • text analysis, corpora, language processing
  • IT in librarianship and documentation
  • computer-based research in literary, cultural and historical studies,
  • computing applications for the arts, architecture and music
  • research issues such as
    • information design and modelling
    • the cultural impact of the new media
  • the role of humanities computing in academic curricula

Submission types

  1. Papers. The submission should be of 1500 words maximum. The duration of the paper is 20-25 minutes. Submissions are peer-reviewed.
  2. Poster presentations and software demonstrations. This is especially suitable for work in progress to be discussed with delegates. Poster presentations will be reviewed on the same criteria as paper presentations.
  1. Sessions. These can be either 3-paper sessions or panel discussions on a chosen topic. Sessions will be peer reviewed on the same criteria as paper presentations.

Submissions may be in English, French, German, Spanish or Italian, but submissions in languages other than English or French are expected to provide an English summary.

The firm deadline for submissions is November 14, 2006. Presenters will be notified of acceptance February 13, 2006. A limited number of bursaries will be available for young scholars.

Bursaries

A limited number of bursaries will be available for young scholars.

Contacts

For more information please contact:

Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen
Chair of the International Programme Committee
mailto:lisa.lena.opas-hanninen@oulu.fi
Liliane Gallet-Blanchard
Local Organiser
mailto:liliane.gallet@wanadoo.fr

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