Decoding Digital Humanities (London)

We're very pleased to announce that Decoding Digital Humanities (London) is re-starting its regular discussion meetings on:

 * Tuesday 31 January 18:30 *

at The Plough, 27 Museum Street, WC1A 1LH.

For this first meeting we will be discussing the Digital Humanities Manifesto:


http://tcp.hypotheses.org/411


Decoding Digital Humanities began as an informal series of pub meetings organised by the Centre for Digital Humanities at UCL. It has since expanded with several international chapters but still retains
its informal atmosphere.

You will be very welcome to join us for a drink and to discuss all things DH. We look forward to seeing you there.

Best,
Richard

Early Monastic/Ecclesiastic Panel (Congress of the Canadian Society of Medievalists)

I would like to know if there might be anyone interested in joining a somewhat impromptu panel for the Congress of the Canadian Society of Medievalists happening in Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) this May. The panel which we are proposing is focused on early medieval monasticism (roughly 500-900), though it's quite a loosely organized session (we'd be happy for anything connected to the early church). For more information on the conference, check out  http://www.csm.wlu.ca/Scrinium/Scrinium%20Fall%202011.pdf


If anyone has any interest, please send a response shortly as the deadline to apply is in early February.

Hortulus Journal: March 1 Submission Deadline, Special Issue on Medieval Space and Place

Hortulus Journal: March 1 Submission Deadline, Special Issue on Medieval Space and Place

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies
Special Call For Papers for Issue on Medieval Space and Place

SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 7, Issue 1: 1 March 2012

The next issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies will be published in May of 2012. This special issue will be devoted to representations and interpretations of spatial order, and place as a socially constructed category, in the art, chronicles, letters, literature, and music of the Middle Ages.

Graduate students working in any discipline and period of Medieval Studies are welcome to submit their articles related to this year’s theme via email to submit@hortulus.net by March 1, 2012. We are also interested in book reviews on recent publications which may be of interest to a broad audience of Medieval Studies scholars. For further information please visit our website at www.hortulus.net.

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed journal devoted to the literature, history, and culture of the medieval world. Published electronically twice a year, its mission is to present a forum in which graduate students from around the globe may share their ideas.

Posted by: Hortulus Journal (hortulus@hortulus.net).

MSS Online Blog

We've just posted a list of the resources that will be included in the MSSO on launch next year:


http://manuscriptsonline.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/manuscripts-online-the-resources/


You can subscribe to the blog via its RSS feed or by signing up to receive an email when there are new posts.

I hope to be in touch before long with more details of the user testing, but you can also use the blog for more general comments or feedback.

Finally, we're also on Twitter


Yours,
Sharon Howard

Writing Europe

After the success of the Writing England Conference in 2010, "Writing Europe: A Colloquium" aims to draw on a range of approaches and perspectives to exchange ideas about manuscript studies, material culture, multilingualism in texts and books, book history, readers, audience and scribes across the medieval period and beyond

Plenary speakers: William Johnson (Duke University); Kathryn A. Lowe (University of Glasgow); Marilena Maniaci (Universita` di Cassino)

CALL FOR PAPERS:

We welcome proposals from scholars working on writers, book production and use, and responses to texts in any language up to 1450. Abstracts (300 words or less) for papers (20 minutes) should be submitted on-line using the form provided. Please visit the conference web site for additional information. To encourage participation from a range of individuals and institutions, a limited number of bursaries will be available to assist in covering travel expenses for participants with limited institutional support. 

Places are limited to allow us to subsidise costs, including registration, accommodation and meals. Please send your abstract by 31 January 2012. For further information please contact one of the organisers at the e-mail below.


Conference web site:


http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/conferences/writing-europe

Writing Europe before 1450 is a collaboration between the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bergen and the School of English at the University of Leicester, and is generously subsidised by the Centre for Medieval Studies and by the School of English.

Viking Society/Scottish Society for Northern Studies student conference: Saturday 11 February 2012

All welcome! Please spread the word. Travel bursaries are available for third- and fourth-year
undergraduates and postgrads within Scotland, too. For more details, check the link:


http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/seminarsandevents/vikingconference/vikingconference2012/


The Viking Society for Northern Research (VSNR) holds an annual student conference which enables postgraduate students to share a platform with leading academics from around the world.  The conference is the UK’s primary event in Old Norse studies, and regularly attracts international scholars from as far afield as Iceland and Australia.  It is a unique event which enables scholars and students to share research and ideas, and present their work to an international audience.

This year, Glasgow has been chosen to host the conference.  Not only will this be the first time the event has been held in Scotland, it will also be the first time it has been held in association with the Scottish Society for Northern Studies (SSNS).

The theme of this year’s conference is "Language: Contact and Change," which reflects the dual interests of both societies in history and linguistics, as well as showcasing Glasgow’s own strengths in these areas.  The papers will focus on the linguistic contacts between early North-West European cultures and their historical significance appealing to the specialisms of a number of subject areas within
Critical Studies, Humanities, and Culture and Creative Arts.

Books and their Readers in Anglo-Saxon England: A Manuscript Colloquium

Dear colleagues, Organized by the Vidi-project 'Turning Over a New Leaf', on January 27, 2012, the University Library Leiden will host 'Books and their Readers in Anglo-Saxon England: A Manuscript Colloquium'. The keynote address - the third Lieftinck Lecture in Medieval Manuscripts of this academic year - is by Michelle Brown. More details of the event may be found by following this link: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/icd/turning-over-a-new-leaf/manuscript-colloquia/mscolloquia.html