Sunday, June 5, 2016

Summer Edition From the Week's News

Not Medieval, but the trove of Roman writing tablets in London is just too cool to pass by


"Vampire Graves" in Poland


Borgring, the fifth ring-fort, rediscovered on Zealand a couple years back, now open to public


Discussion of "Dark Ages" with reference to Tintagel


Replica of Viking ship to recreate voyage to Greenland


Rievaulx Abbey Medieval Artifacts on Display


 Discoveries at Crawley


 A Piece on Breast-Feeding


Bookbindings!!!


I Have A New Novel Idea---Stealing Bruge's Beer!!



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all for Papers
2016 WORLD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ISLAMIC SCIENCES (WICOIS)
5 – 7 December 2016 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
(Hotel Location will be finalized soon)
Deadline Submission : 30th June 2016!!!!
Malaysia Technical Scientist Association (MALTESAS) together with Institute of Islamic Sciences (ISI), Faculty of Science and Technology (FST), and Faculty of Sharia and Law under Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the 2016 WORLD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ISLAMIC SCIENCES (WICOIS) on 5 – 7 December 2016 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This international level conference its aim to be more specific in the development and cutting-edge papers related to Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities.
The main theme of the 2016 WORLD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ISLAMIC SCIENCES (WICOIS) is Science, Technologies and Humanities For Better Life Of Ummah  to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various islamic studies in science and technology and other related fields from all over the world to come together and learn from each other. An additional goal of the conference is to provide a place for academicians and professionals with cross-disciplinary interests related to various islamic studies in science and technology and other related fields to meet and interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines
ALL ACCEPTED PAPERS WILL BE INCLUDED IN ADVANCED SCIENCE LETTERS
ISSN: 1936-6612 (Print): EISSN: 1936-7317 (Online)
Copyright © 2000-2016 American Scientific Publishers.
All Rights Reserved.
SCOPUS Indexed (Q3/Q4 Journal Rank by SCIMAGOR)
CPCI-S by Thomson Reuters
http://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=19700181106&tip=sid&clean=0
Introducing: Best Paper Awards for Five Papers
*Will receive a certificate of Best Paper Award
*Nominated by Experts
WICOIS covers, but not limited to, the following topics:
Conference Tracks:
A. Heritage and Islamic civilization
  • The integration of al-Quran and Sunnah with modern scientific discovery
  • Scientific discovery and technological innovations
  • Application of technology in the development of science al-Quran and Sunnah
  • Current issues of Al-Quran and Sunnah
  • Current Issues in education and psychology
  • Muslim scholars in contemporary world
  • The Role of Al-Quran and Sunnah based on the institutions perspective in Malaysia and NGO
  • Islamic Arts and Culture
  • Islamic Manuscript
  • The best implementation of Qur'an and Sunnah in the transformation of human society
  • Military, political, economic and social from Quranic and Sunnah perspectives
  • Medicine and healthcare in the Islamic perspectives
  • Quranic and Sunnah education for disabilities
  • The role of al-Quran and Sunnah against misunderstandings concerning religion and heresy
B. Wellness and Quality of Life
  • Community and Health
  • Socio cultural aspects of health
  • Traditional and Complementary Medicine
  • Clinical Medicine
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Non-Communicable Diseases
  • Healthy Ageing
  • Women Health
  • Child Health
  • Healthy workforce
C. Science & Technology
  • Agriculture
  • Astronomy
  • Biology
  • Biotechnology
  • Biochemistry
  • Chemistry
  • Civil
  • Earth Science
  • Ecology
  • Electronics
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Geography
  • Geology and Geophysics
  • Life Sciences
  • Mathematics
  • Materials Science
  • Mechanical
  • Meteorology
  • Nanotechnology
  • Nursery
  • Physics
  • Statistics
  • Space
D. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Engineering
  • Bioinformatics
  • Distributed, Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
  • Computer Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks and High Performance Networks
  • Information, Network and System Security
  • Mobile Computing
  • Audio Video System
  • Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction
  • Data/Image Processing, Compression and Enhancement
  • Internet and Web Applications
  • Multimedia Applications
  • Databases and Data Mining Methods and Applications
  • Knowledge Management
  • Software Engineering
  • Computational Business Intelligence
  • Empirical Studies, Benchmarking, and Industrial Best Practices
  • Pervasive, Ubiquitous, Service-Oriented Computing
  • Control, Information and Systems Engineering
  • System Identification, Modelling & Simulation
  • Signal Processing: Speech Processing, Image Processing
  • Instrumentation and Automation
  • Computer Engineering
  • Automation & Robotics
  • System Identification
  • Process & Control
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Optimization of Systems
  • Embedded Systems
  • Nonlinear Systems
  • Digital Control
  • Other Topics in ICT and Engineering
E. Law, Shariah dan Social Science
  • Modern Application of Shariah and Legal Studies
  • Shariah and Law: Integration Approach
  • Intergration of Naqli and Aqli Knowledge in Shariah and Law
  • International Law
  • Family Law
  • Land and Forest Law
  • Maritime Law
  • International Trade
  • Human Rights
  • Law and Society
  • Evidence
  • Administrative and Procedural Law
  • Modern Application of Shariah
  • Islamic Criminal Law
  • Other related field to Shariah and Law
  • organizational studies
  • Political science
  • Psychology
  • Ethnic and cultural studies
  • Sociology
  • Economy
  • Muamalat
  • Accounting
  • Business
 Deadline Submission : 30th June 2016!!!!
Looking forward to your support, participation & contribution in WICOIS!
Conference Chair
2016 WORLD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ISLAMIC SCIENCES (WICOIS)
Email: admin@maltesas.org | Website: http://www.wicois.org
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We are pleased to announce a three-day workshop "Code and Collation: Training Textual Scholars" that takes place in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) from 2 - 4 November 2016. The event is part of the DiXiT network and is hosted by the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. It brings together a group of international experts from the fields of textual scholarship and computer science.

The workshop engages with the theory and practice of semi-automated collation and provides an intense training in the open source collation program CollateX. Participants will learn how to prepare source materials, how to perform semi-automated collation using CollateX, and how to inspect and modify the results; they will acquire or improve computational skills relevant to textual criticism and in particular to the production of scholarly editions.

Registration is now open and free of charge. Early registration is recommended since there are limited places available. Detailed information can be found at the website: https://sites.google.com/site/dixitcodingcollation/. For all questions, do not hesitate to get in touch at dixitcollation[at]gmail[dot]com.

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Amsterdam!

On behalve of the organising committee,
--Elli Bleeker
University of Antwerp
Centre for Manuscript Genetics
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Friday, June 3, 2016

The Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents (READ) project is developing new technology to enable computers to recognise handwritten historical material.  With Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology, computers can process any kind of document – from the Middle Ages to the present day, from old Greek to modern English.  This research has huge and exciting implications for the accessibility of the written records of human history.  It allows users to search in the full-text of large historical collections and also to extract information such as person names or data stored in tables and forms. 
   
Anyone interested in finding out more about the project can now consult presentations which were given by the READ partners at the co:op project’s ‘Technology meets Scholarship’ conference. 
 
Text transcripts and slides from the READ presentations are available here: 
 
Videos of the READ presentations can be found here:
 
For an introduction to HTR technology, try watching Dr Roger Labahn (University of Rostock) on ‘Handwritten Text Recognition.  Key Concepts’:
 
For more information visit:
Transkribus website: https://transkribus.eu
Transkribus github: https://github.com/Transkribus/
Or contact: email@transkribus.eu
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CFP: Medieval Vernacular Architecture

by Alexander Harper
Society of Architectural Historians
2017 Annual International Conference
June 7-11 Glasgow, Scotland
Session Chair: Alexander Harper, Princeton University

Scholarly interest in vernacular architecture has gained increased traction in the past few decades. As the editors of the 2005 volume Vernacular Architecture in the Twenty-First Century noted, vernacular architecture no longer is understood solely as domestic architecture, rural architecture, or architecture built by romanticized non-professionals—in other words a product counterpoint to “polite” building—but as a cultural process specific to a location, whether rural or urban, or to a people that reveals how builders within that group engage with ecological, technological, and cultural variables. In the same vein, in his 2010 book English Houses: 1300-1800, the archaeologist Matthew Johnson argued that vernacular architecture is an anthropological style, one in which a people, their histories, and priorities can be read through the building form.
Much work on vernacular architecture focuses on building from twentieth century through the present. This session seeks papers that address the study of buildings through the lens of the vernacular from the Middle Ages, defined roughly as the fifth through fifteenth centuries. Subjects are welcome from any part of the world and may include studies of domestic spaces, but in the aim of expanding the definition(s) of vernacular architecture, in particular so that its study can engage with other disciplines, the session encourages papers with anthropologic understandings of the vernacular that examine relationships, specific to an area or group, between builders, patrons, and their surrounding environments that contributed to cultural continuity. As such, this session is interested particularly in papers that address construction processes, lived experience, workshop practices, material and environmental analyses, and the impact of regional integration on local building within specific cultural, social, and historical environments, whether urban or rural, “polite” or domestic. In addition, papers that employ or discuss new technologies for analyzing medieval vernacular buildings are welcome.
CFP Deadline: June 6, 2016
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Organizers are pleased to announce a call for applicants to two digital humanities and manuscript studies workshops, running concurrently in fall 2016.

Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Roll
&
Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Fragment

18-19 November 2016
Yale University

Please see the attached call for information and application instructions; more information, syllabi and application links can be found on our website, www.digitalrollsandfragments.com/workshops/. Applications are due by July 15, 2016.
Please feel free to circulate this call.

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9th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

November 17-19, 2016

Save the Date! Registration opens at the end of the summer.

Reactions: Medieval/Modern

In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 9th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's theme, "Reactions: Medieval/Modern," gives us space to explore the many and varied ways that people have reacted to, and acted upon, manuscripts from the Middle Ages up to today. Reactions take many forms. They include the manipulation of physical objects through, for example, the marking up of texts, addition of illustrations, the disbinding of books or rebinding of fragments, as well as the manipulation of digital objects, thanks to new technologies involved in digitization, ink and parchment analysis, virtual reconstruction, among many other processes. This symposium will also tackle how popular culture has reacted to manuscripts over time as witnessed by their use and appearance in books, games, and films. Our keynote speaker will be Michelle P. Brown, Professor emerita of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and former Curator of Manuscripts at the British Library.
For more information and a list of speakers, visit the website:http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium9.html.
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