The Digital Medievalist Community of Practice and the Medieval Academy’s Digital Initiatives Advisory Board are organising a poster session for speakers on digital topics in medieval studies this year at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, May 12-15. The Poster session will be held on Friday, May 13, at 7:00 pm.

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Wait – what’s a poster session?

The way a poster session works is that all participants have space to set up a poster (and / or a computer if the presentation involves a software demonstration of some sort, and maybe a handout), and people who attend the session are free to walk through and see the posters, and talk to the presenters. There isn’t really a formal presentation, nor a time constraint. In the past when I’ve presented posters I’ve found it very helpful to have a couple of minutes of patter – almost an elevator pitch, just enough to give people an idea of what I’m working on. Some people pass right by; others might spend more time and ask a lot of questions, it just depends. It’s quite a different experience from giving a traditional presentation, much more informal and more personal as well.

OK – Thanks! On with the call.
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This is a meta-session intended for speakers *who have already had a paper accepted at another session at the congress*. Its purpose is to allow for followup, the presentation of additional details or demonstrations, and also simply as a way of letting people catch up on papers they might have missed because of scheduling conflicts. An informal session at the 2009 Congress was extremely well attended, with lots of discussion, questions, and posters.

Posters are welcome on any aspect of the use of digital media, tools, techniques, and principles in medieval studies. The only restriction is that they must be associated with a paper already accepted for presentation at the 2011 Congress. Acceptable posters might share exactly the same focus and the presented paper, or they might focus on the presentation, demonstration, or elaboration of aspects from the presentation that are better suited to the poster format.

If you are interested in presenting a poster, please contact the session organisers, Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com), Jim Ginther (james.ginther@gmail.com), or Dan O’Donnell (caedmon@uleth.ca) for further information or inquiries.

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

Digital Classicist Seminars (London, 2011)

*This is reminder call for presentations. Please note the fast approaching deadline: April 15th.*

(Apologies for cross-posting. Please circulate widely–we welcome proposals from students as well as established researchers.)

The Digital Classicist will once more be running a series of seminars in Summer 2011, on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component. Themes could include, but are by no means limited to, visualization, information and data linking, digital textual and linguistic studies, and geographic information and network analysis; so long as the content is likely to be of interest both to classicists/ancient historians/archaeologists and information scientists/digital humanists, and would be considered serious research in at least one of those fields.

The seminars run on Friday afternoons (16:30 – 19:00) from June to mid-August in Senate House, London, and are hosted by the Institute of
Classical Studies (University of London). In previous years collected papers from the DC WiP seminars have been published in an online special
issue of Digital Medievalist, a printed volume from Ashgate Press, a BICS supplement (in production), and the last three years have been
released as audio podcasts. We have had expressions of interest in further print volumes from more than one publisher.

We have a budget to assist with travel to London (usually from within the UK, but we have occasionally been able to assist international presenters to attend, so please enquire).

Please send a 300-500 word abstract togabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk by April 15th, 2011. We shall announce the full programme at the end of April.

http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/index.html

(Coörganised by Will Wootton, Charlotte Tupman, Matteo Romanello, Simon Mahony, Timothy Hill, Alejandro Giacometti, Juan Garcés, Stuart Dunn & Gabriel Bodard.)

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).