From Ancient manuscripts to the digital era. Readings and Literacies, 23-25 August 2011

« Des manuscrits antiques à l’ère digitale. Lectures et littératies »
(Lausanne – CH, 23-25 août 2011)
From Ancient manuscripts to the digital era. Readings and Literacies,
Lausanne – CH, 23-25 August 2011

With the support of :
• Institut Romand des Sciences Bibliques (IRSB, FTSR, Unil)
• Fonds National Suisse (FNS)
• Anthropos (Unil)
• Formation doctorale interdisciplinaire (FDi, Unil)
• CUSO Théologie
• CUSO EDOCSA
• Association pour l’histoire du livre et de la lecture en Suisse Romande

Organisation
Claire Clivaz (IRSB, FTSR),
Jérôme Meizoz (FDi, Arts and Humanities)
François Vallotton (SHC, Arts and Humanities)

This conference in Arts and Humanities seeks to demonstrate the major impact of the Digital Era on knowledge, by studying the history of cultural technologies. The present evolution of the ancient manuscript allows one to detect this turning-point, notably with the digital editions of Homer and the New Testament. The notions of authorship and critical edition are questionned : modern history and contemporary analysis have to be enrooted in ancient memory to reflect upon the digital turn. Details on :

http://www.unil.ch/digitalera2011

Conferences : Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard, USA), David Bouvier
(Unil , CH), François Bovon (Harvard, USA), Claire Clivaz (Unil ,
CH), Michel Fuchs (Unil , CH), Christian Grosse (Unil , CH),
Kim Haines-Eitzen (Cornell, USA), Philippe Kaennel (Unil , CH),
Frédéric Kaplan (EPFL, CH), Thomas Kraus (independant researcher),
Rudolf Mahrer (Unil , CH), Leonard Muellner (Brandeis
University, USA), David Parker (Birmingham, UK), Holt Parker
(Cincinnati, USA), Lukas Rosenthaler (Basel, CH), Ulrich Schmid
(Münster, DE), Paul Schubert (Unige, CH), François Vallotton
(Unil , CH), Christian Vandendorpe (Ottawa, CA),
Joseph Verheyden (Leuven, BE).

Call for papers for scholars and PhD students in Sciences of Antiquity, New Testament and Early Christianity, Biblical Sciences, Modern History, French and English Literature.
Deadline : 30th April 2011.

The colloquium will be concluded by a public evening, on august 25th with posters, editors’ booth, artistic animations and a round table discussion, bringing together publishers and scholars and led by a journalist from Radio-télévision Suisse : “What Will Come After the Book ?”

Posted by: Marjorie Burghart (Marjorie.Burghart@ehess.fr).

Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs: Call for Papers

http://www.sdh-semi.org
Call for Papers
Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs [La version française est incluse ci-dessous]

The Undiscovered Country: Exploring People and Places through Digital Humanities 30 May – 1 June 2011

Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Deadline for Submission: 1 March 2010 (delegates will be notified by 15 March in order to be able to register at the discount rate before 31 March)
The Society for Digital Humanities (SDH/SEMI) invites scholars and graduate students to submit proposals for papers and sessions for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2011 Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, in Fredericton, NB, from 30 May-1 June.
This years Congress theme is Coasts and Continents: Exploring People and Places, and our societys annual meeting focuses that wider Congress theme upon the digital humanities. Although the digital age has arrived, replete with descriptions, counter-descriptions, and critical commentary on digital natives, digital immigrants, e-books, and e-readers, etc., the digital still represents something of an undiscovered country, even to those who work in the digital humanities community. As we continue to define and explore research projects that will lead us into the future of humanities scholarship, we also renegotiate our relationships to the people and places both of the past and of the present. We encourage papers and panels likely to contribute to an understanding of how digital technologies are fostering digitally enabled inquiry into people, places, text, images, and data. Mindful of the politics of appropriation, we also encourage papers that explore the dynamics of return (that is to say, the notion of giving back to the community), which we see ranging widely across a series of issues: e.g. the ethical repatriation of cultural (especially digital) artifacts to indigenous communities, the scholarly return of open access to scholarship and data sets, the political and economic return of open source software.
Submissions informed in any way by these themes are especially encouraged, but we also encourage any submission relevant to the digital humanities. Of particular interest to those likely to attend would be papers on any of the following topics:
* GIS — spatialization and mapping
* chronologies — temporality and history
* communities — virtual or real-world
* gaming studies
* multimedia arts
* 3D modeling
* simulations
* archival projects
* prosopographies
* textual analysis, editing or encoding
* database theory
* cyberculture
* postcolonialism and globalization
Graduate students are particularly welcomed to submit a proposal to present at, or even simply to attend, SDH/SEMIs annual meeting. The Society has some funding available to support a graduate student panel.
Interested applicants should inquire using the contact information listed below. In the recent past, papers presented at the annual meeting of SDH/SEMI have been revised and submitted for publication in the Societys on-line journal Digital Studies/ Le champ numeriques. Submissions
Paper and/or session proposals will be accepted until 1 March 2011 via the SDH-SEMI website at
. Please note that all presenters must be members of SDH/SEMI at the
time of the conference. Abstracts of papers should be between 150 and 300 words long, and clearly indicate the paper’s thesis, methodology, and conclusion.
Accepted Formats:
* Traditional Papers: 20 mins (3 per 1 hour session)
* Panel Proposals: 3-6 speakers on a unified theme (1 panel per 1 hour session) * Roundtables: 4-8 people addressing each others work (1 per 1 hour session) * Posters
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Appel de communications

Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs
«Le Pays inconnu»: l’exploration des peuples et des lieux par les sciences humaines numériques

30 mai – 1er juin 2011
Fredericton, Nouveau Brunswick, Canada
Date limite de réception des propositions de communication: 1 mars 2010
(les conférenciers recevront une réponse avant le 15 mars afin de pouvoir s’inscrire au congrès à un tarif réduit avant le 31 mars)
La Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) invite chercheurs et étudiants aux cycles supérieurs à soumettre des propositions de communication et de session pour sa réunion annuelle, qui se tiendra au Congrès 2011 de la Fédération canadiennes des sciences humaines à Fredericton, NB, du 30 mai au 1er juin.
Le thème du congrès cette année est Rivages et continents: exploration des peuples et des lieux, et la réunion annuelle de notre société élargie la réflexion à cette thématique pour inclure les sciences humaines numériques. Bien que l’ère du numérique soit déjà arrivé, remplie de descriptions, contredescriptions, et de commentaires critiques sur les natifs numériques, immigrants numériques, livrels, liseuses, etc., le numérique représente toujours à un certain niveau un «pays inconnu», même pour ceux qui oeuvrent dans la communauté des sciences humaines numériques. Pendant que nous continuions d’explorer et d’articuler des projets de recherche qui nous guiderons vers le futur des études en sciences humaines, nous renégocions également les relations que nous entretenons aux peuples et aux lieux présents et passés. Nous encourageons les communications et symposia susceptibles de contribuer à une compréhension de la façon dont les nouvelles technologies nourrissent des enquêtes numériques sur les individus, lieux, textes, images, et informations. Sensibles à la politique de l’appropriation, nous encourageons également les propositions qui explorent la dynamique du «retour» (soit la notion de redonner à la communauté), qui s’applique à une panoplie de questions: p.ex. le rapatriement éthique des artéfacts (spécialement numériques) aux communautés indigènes, le retour érudit au libre accès à l’érudition et aux ensembles de données, le retour politique et économique des logiciels à code source libre.
Les soumissions qui s’articulent autour de ces thématiques sont particulièrement encouragées, mais nous encourageons également toute communication qui traite des science humaines numériques. Les sujets qui seraient particulièrement pertinents pour ceux qui assisteront au colloque sont les suivants:
* SIG — spatialisation et cartographie
* chronologies — temporalité et histoire
* communautés — virtuelles ou réelles
* études des jeux
* arts multimédia
* modélisation 3D
* simulations
* projets d’archivage
* prosopographies
* analyse, édition, et codage de textes
* théorie des bases de données
* cyberculture
* postcolonialisme et globalisation
Les étudiants aux cycles supérieurs sont particulièrement bienvenus à soumettre une proposition, ou simplement à assister, à la réunion annuelle de la SDH/SEMI. La société a des fonds limités pour permettre la participation d’un symposium étudiant. Les requérants intéressés pourront se renseigner en utilisant les coordonnées fournies ci-dessous. Dans le passé récent, les conférences présentées à la réunion annuelle de la SDH/SEMI ont été révisés et soumis pour publication dans la revue en ligne de la Société Digital Studies/ Le champ numerique.
Soumissions
Les propositions de communication et/ou de session seront acceptées jusqu’au 1 mars 2011 via le site web de la SDH-SEMI à <http://www.sdh-semi.org/conftool/&gt;. Veuillez noter que tout présentateur devra être membre de la SDH/SEMI au moment de la conférence. Les résumés de propositions devraient compter entre 150 et 300 mots, et indiquer clairement la thématique, méthodologie, et conclusion.
Formats acceptés:
* Communications traditionnelles: 20 mins (3 par session d’une heure et demie)
* Propositions de symposium: 3 à 6 présentations sur un thème uni (1 panel par session d’une heure et demie)
* Tables rondes: 4 à 8 intervenants qui abordent le travail de chacun (1 par session d’une heure et demie)
* Posters

Posted by: Daniel Paul O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

Call for Papers – Osaka Symposium on Digital Humanities 2011

Call for Papers

Osaka Symposium on Digital Humanities 2011
The Inaugural Symposium of Japanese Association for Digital Humanities

28-9 March 2011
http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~osdh2011/

Hosted by the Graduate School of Language and Culture, University of Osaka

Co-Sponsored by:
Japanese Association for Digital Humanities
International Institute for Digital Humanities
Center for Evolving Humanities, University of Tokyo Center for Informatics in East Asian Studies, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
British Academy/Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences

Submission deadline: 7 February 2010 (Midnight JST).

Presentations include:

Papers (abstract max of 300 words) or
Multiple paper sessions, including panels (overview max of 300 words)

Call for Papers Announcement

I. General Information

The OSDH2011 Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of no less than 300 words on any aspect of digital humanities, from information technology to problems in humanities research and teaching. We welcome submissions particularly relating to
interdisciplinary work and on new developments in the field. The symposium web site is in development at
http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~osdh2011/. The Programme Committee
aims for a varied programme.

Proposals might, for example, relate to the following aspects of digital humanities:

� research issues, including data mining, information design and modelling, software studies, and humanities research enabled through the digital medium;

� computer-based research and computer applications in literary, linguistic, cultural and historical studies, including electronic literature, public humanities, and interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship. Some examples might be text analysis, corpora, corpus linguistics, language processing, language learning;

� the digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, and related areas;

� the creation and curation of humanities digital resources;

� the role of digital humanities in academic curricula;

Abstracts should be sent to osdh2011@lang.osaka-u.ac.jp. The deadline for submitting abstracts to the Programme Committee is 7 February 2011. Presenters will be notified of acceptance on 14 February 2011.

II. Types of Proposals

Proposals to the Programme Committee may be either: (1) paper presentations or (2) multi-paper sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). Papers/sessions should be given in English.

1) Paper presentations: Individual papers will be allocated twenty (20) minutes for presentation and ten (10) minutes for questions.

2) Multiple Paper Sessions (90 minutes): The session/panel organizer should submit an abstract of 300 words describing the session/panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session.

III. Programme Committee

Hiroyuki Akama (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Gerhard Brey (CCH, King’s College London)
Maki Miyake (GSLC, Osaka)
A. Charles Muller (Tokyo)
Kiyonori Nagasaki (Institute for Digital Humanities)
Lisa Lena Opas-H�nninen (Oulu, Finland)
Espen S. Ore (Oslo, Norway)
Masahiro Shimoda (Tokyo)
Tomoji Tabata (GSLC, Osaka)
Christian Wittern (Kyoto)

Posted by: Dan O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

Call for submssions to Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (OSTMAR)

The Editorial Board of
Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (OSTMAR) is pleased to announce the official launch of its website.
http://opuscula.usask.ca

We seek single-witness editions of Medieval and Renaissance texts under 6,000 words accompanied by a brief introduction (1000-1500 words) and translation. We invite submission of a broad range of pre-modern texts including but not limited to literary and philosophical works, letters, charters, court documents, and notebooks. Texts should be previously unedited and the edition must represent a discrete text in its entirety.

For more information or to view a sample edition, go to opuscula.usask.ca or write Frank Klaassen, General Editor at editor@opuscula.usask.ca.

OSTMAR is an on-line and open-access journal published by Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies at the University of Saskatchewan under a creative commons license. All submissions are subject to a double-blind peer review and must be accompanied by readable digital facsimiles of the original documents.

Posted by: Brent Nelson (brent.nelson@usask.ca).

CFP II Gower Congress – July 2011

John Gower in Iberia: Six Hundred Years-2nd International Congress of the John Gower Society-Valladolid, Spain, 18-21 July 2011

The John Gower Society is holding its second International Congress at the University of Valladolid, Spain, in July 2011.

Spain has been chosen as a site for this Congress in recognition of Gower’s unique transnational presence, as Confessio Amantis was the first English work ever translated into Continental languages -first Portuguese, and then Castilian, both in the fifteenth century. The II International Congress of the John Gower Society has therefore a double purpose, the study of John Gower in his historical, political, social, cultural and literary context, and the promotion of a more in-depth knowledge of the Spanish and Portuguese translations of Confessio Amantis as well as the Anglo-Spanish historical, political and cultural relations in the Late Middle Ages.

Brief proposals (250 words max.) are invited for 20-minute papers addressing any aspect of Gowerian studies. Email the submission form you’ll find at the JGS website (www.johngower.org) BOTH to the Organizing Committee (jgs.valladolid2011@gmail.com) and to RF Yeager (rfyeager@hotmail.com).

Topics include -but are not limited to- the following areas:
Biographical aspects
Manuscripts
French works
Latin works
English works
Antiquity and classics
French influence and contemporary French authors
Chaucer
Linguistics, literary language and dialects
Influence in later authors
Influence in Iberian authors
English politics and usurpation
Iberian (historical) context
Literary theory and critical approaches
Narratology
Women and gender
Multilingualism
Cinema and theatre
Animals
London
Aesthetics
Law
Philosophy and theology
Gower and the Mediterranean
Gower and the Other
Gower and the material

Participants may also propose thematic panels, to include papers delivered by 3 or 4 participants. Please contact directly RF Yeager (rfyeager@hotmail.com).

The abstracts will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee, and the authors will be notified the results of the selection process.

Submission deadline: Dec 1st 2010
Confirmation of acceptance: Jan 15th 2011
Registration period: April-June 2011

The following plenary speakers have already confirmed their attendance:
– Winthrop Wetherbee (Cornell University)
– Alastair Minnis (Yale University)
– M. Luisa López-Vidriero Abello (Biblioteca Real, Madrid)
– Fernando Galvan Reula (Universidad of Alcala de Henares)

For further information, visit the John Gower Society website: http://www.johngower.org The organising committee – II International Congress of the John Gower Society Dept. Filologia Inglesa – Universidad de Valladolid
Pza. del Campus s/n – 47011 Valladolid (Spain)
jgs.valladolid2011@gmail.com

Posted by: Ana Saez-Hidalgo (jgs.valladolid2011@gmail.com).