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In the Denver, CO, area? THATCamp in November

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Hello,

Please join us for the Digital Humanities (DH) & Libraries THATCamp on November 3, 2012 in Denver, Colorado. The DH and Libraries THATCamp will provide a venue to explore on-going conversations about strategic partnerships and services libraries are uniquely situated to offer to the digital humanities arena, moving away from a support model to a truly collaborative framework in which librarians foster and contribute to DH as experts and scholars in their own right. The format is wide-open, from demos and working sessions to discussions and strategizing sessions. Our hope is that we generate a diversity of session topics and session formats so that we can each walk away with something tangible to apply in our respective institutional context.

The DH and Libraries THATCamp is open to anyone interested in the intersection of libraries and digital humanities work. This can include librarians and library staff, IT professionals, and administrators, as well as faculty and graduate students in library school and the humanities. If your library supports digital humanities or is interested in doing so, we encourage you to hang out with us for the day.

The DH & Libraries THATCamp is hosted by the Digital Library Federation (DLF), and is part of the DLF Forum pre-conference series. The registration fee for the DH & Libraries THATCamp is $25 and will be collected at the door. If you are also interested in participating in the DLF Forum, and your institution is not a DLF member, you will qualify for the member discount rate: .

For more information, please visit: or follow the twitter hashtags: #thatcamp #dhlib2012. Feel free to send questions to: dhlibthatcamp2012@gmail.com.

Thanks,
Dot Porter

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

Interdisciplinary Workshop “Scholarly Editions in the Digital Age: Text and Music”

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31 August – 1 September

http://blogs.music.indiana.edu/chmtl/2012/08/16/interdisciplinary-workshop-august-31-september-1/

Digital editions have already begun to drastically change the work of scholars, but many questions of method, technology, academic recognition, remain open. This workshop will draw together scholars from a variety of fields to present and discuss their diverse experiences in digital scholarly publication, and aims to answer such questions as the following: what are the advantages of a digital edition, compared with a traditional one? How difficult is to create a digital edition today, and what type of collaboration between different scholars does it entail? Are the standard techniques used by scholars sufficient/suitable for all purposes? How are different fields (Literature, History, Music, etc.) benefiting or not benefiting from the possibilities of this new medium? Finally: are electronic editions advanced enough, and well-regarded enough by scholars and institutions to suggest that the age of printed editions is coming to an end?

The workshop, organized jointly by the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature (CHMTL) and the Medieval Studies Institute (MEST) of Indiana University will have a special, albeit not exclusive, focus on medieval and Early modern themes and materials. During the workshop new initiatives of the CHMTL will be presented, stemming from one of the oldest projects of the center, the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum.

Posted by: Giuliano Di Bacco (gdibacco@indiana.edu).

Call for Papers: Cultural, Textual, and Material Heritage in the Digital Age: Projects and Practices

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The twentieth International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 1-4 July 2013

The rise of the Digital Humanities as an international, cross-disciplinary approach to humanistic scholarship presents exciting new challenges and opportunities.

Perhaps one of the most exciting of these is the convergence of interest among textual editors, art historians, archaeologists, museum and library curatorial staff, government agencies, and commercial entities in what can be broadly described as issues in the representation and research of Cultural, Textual, and Material Heritage.

This call is for papers addressing current and future practices and opportunities in this area. What are the interesting projects? What are the interesting technologies, methodologies, and business models? How will this convergence play out in the short and medium term?

Our hope is that there will be enough interest in this topic to allow for a combination of long-paper sessions and a concluding round table. Potential speakers are invited to submit a brief abstract outlining their approach to these questions and whether they would be interested in participating in a long-paper session and/or a short-presentation round table.

Authors accepted into these sessions will be invited to submit their papers to an edited collection of papers we are putting together based on submissions at Leeds and the New Digital Paradigms in Anglo-Saxon studies panel we are proposing for ISAS 2013 in Dublin.

To propose a paper or participation in these session(s) or the round table, please contact Daniel O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca). Paper proposals should include a short abstract (approx 500 words); expressions of interest in the round table, should be accompanied by a brief description of your interest and experience with the topic.

Submission due date: Midnight Sunday September 16, 2012.

The session(s) are being sponsored by the Visionary Cross Project, an innovative collection of 2 and 3D texts and objects concerned with the Visionary Cross cultural matrix in Anglo-Saxon England.

 

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (roberto rossellidelturco at gmail com)

Call for Participants: New Digital Paradigms in Anglo-Saxon Studies

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International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS), July 29th-August 2, 2013, Dublin

Anglo-Saxon studies, and medieval studies more generally, has always been a pioneering discipline in the use of digital technology. From early projects like the Dictionary of Old English and Electronic Beowulf through more recent contributions such as the Anglo-Saxon Cluster and DigiPal, Anglo-Saxonists have always been ready to adopt promising new technologies and approaches when these have been able to help us in our research and teaching.

The rapid rise of the “Digital Humanities” as a major international focus of cross-disciplinary research, teaching, and scholarship presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities. In addition to introducing new tools and platforms, the Digital Humanities is also introducing new ways of working and understanding scholarly research. New forms of networking, of quality assessment, and of publication are challenging our traditional ideas as to the nature of scholarly practice and communication. An emphasis on interdisciplinarity, team research, and open approaches to data and software development are challenging our traditional ideas of research specialisation and collaboration.

This roundtable seeks contributions from projects and practitioners of the Digital Humanities and Anglo-Saxon studies. The question we are asking is how these new approaches are changing the way Anglo-Saxon studies is being practiced and how traditional scholarly goals and practices can be accommodated or adapted to work with what appears to be a fundamental change in the way humanities scholarship is practiced, understood, and supported by funding agencies and the public.

The round table will follow the following format: speakers will be asked to prepare a position paper in advance of the meeting. These papers will be shared among the speakers and published informally in advance on the web. At the meeting, each speaker will have a maximum of 5 minutes and 5 slides to summarise their paper for the audience. A general discussion will take place in the remaining time. Speakers will also have the opportunity to publish longer versions of their papers in an edited collection we will be putting together of papers from the 2013 ISAS and Leeds conferences.

If you would like to be considered for this round table, please send a short abstract (approx 500 words) outlining the approach you would like to take in your paper to daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca by midnight Friday September 7. Speakers who will be included in our proposal to the conference programme committee will be notified by Tuesday, September 11. Please note: Because the roundtable itself must be adjudicated by the ISAS 2013 programme committee, acceptance for our proposed roundtable as the final decision rests with the ISAS 2013 programme committee.

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (roberto rossellidelturco at gmail com)

CFP: K’zoo 2013

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48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9-12, 2013

Over the past few years, medievalists’ interest in new media has overwhelmingly focused on the remediation of medieval works and data: the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, the Mapping Medieval Chester project, and animated game-like spaces such as Kapi Regnum exemplify only a few of the innovative applications of new media to our study of the medieval world. Shared amongst these projects’ use of digital tools is their emphasis on remediation: that is, they take data in one form and transform it into another form of media; the process as well as the end results of this remediation open fresh avenues through which to explore medieval cultures. Yet the digital media making these projects possible is itself subject to study, analysis, and critique, and works like Martin Foys’ Virtually Anglo-Saxon, Andrew Higl’s Playing the Canterbury Tales, and Seeta Chaganti’s analysis of danse macabre and virtual space make it clear that new media studies, criticism, and theory c
an be as provocative and productive for our understanding of the Middle Ages as the digital tools that have generated so much interest. Such is the project of this proposal, which solicits papers that explore new critical approaches to the analysis of medieval culture inspired by or based on digital media studies—critical remediation, so to speak.

Papers might address such questions as: What insights might media theory allow in our study of medieval texts, architecture, music, manuscripts, and art? How do metaphors of mediation facilitate understanding of the medieval approach to artistic, scientific, religious, or technological creation and knowledge? What kinds of multimedia objects or events existed in the medieval period, and how might we as modern scholars still have access to them? What are the consequences of considering medieval manuscripts as multimedia works? How might we understand medieval affective piety—mystic and otherwise—in terms of media?

This panel has been sponsored by Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Columbia University, and we welcome one-page proposals (250-300 words) from scholars of all levels. They may be sent along with a completed participant information form (found at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html) to Heather Blatt (Florida International University) and Mary Kate Hurley (Columbia University) at mdvlmedia@gmail.com by September 15, 2012. Feel welcome to contact us with questions about the session. For general information about the 2013 Medieval Congress, visit: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/.

Posted by: Heather Blatt (hblatt@fiu.edu).