Workshop on Corpus-based Research in the Humanities (CRH) with a special focus on space and time annotations ----
** Vienna (Austria) January 25-26, 2018 **
web: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ac/crh2/
The Workshop on "Corpus-based Research in the Humanities" (CRH) brings together those areas of Computational Linguistics and the Humanities that share an interest in the building, managing and analysis of text corpora. The edition of this year has a specific focus on time and space annotation in textual data, backed by a keynote speaker with special interest in this aspect of corpus management.
The second edition of CRH will be held in Vienna (Austria) on January 25th-26th 2018 and will be hosted Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna and Technische Universitaet Wien.
The series of the CRH workshops continues that of the workshop on "Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities" (ACRH), the three editions of which were held respectively in 2011 (Heidelberg, Germany), 2012 (Lisbon, Portugal) and 2013 (Sofia, Bulgaria). The first CRH was held in Warsaw (Poland) in 2015.
Submissions of long abstracts for oral presentations and posters (with or without demonstrations) featuring high quality and previously unpublished research are invited on the following TOPICS:
- specific issues related to the annotation of corpora for research in the Humanities (annotation schemes and principles), with special interest in space and time annotations
- corpora as a basis for research in the Humanities
- diachronic, historical and literary corpora
- use of corpora for stylometrics and authorship attribution
- philological issues, like different readings, textual variants, apparatus, non-standard orthography and spelling variation
- adaptation of NLP tools for older language varieties
- integration of corpora for the Humanities into language resources infrastructures
- tools for building and accessing corpora for the Humanities
- examples of fruitful collaboration between Computational Linguistics and Humanities in building and exploiting corpora
- theoretical aspects of the use of empirical evidence provided by corpora in the Humanities
This year, CRH will have a SPECIAL TOPIC concerning time and space annotation in textual data. Submissions with this focus are especially encouraged.
Contributions reporting results from completed as well as ongoing research are welcome. They will be evaluated on novelty of approach and methods, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational.
The proceedings will be published in time for the workshop. They will be co-edited by Andrew Frank, Christine Ivanovic, Francesco Mambrini, Marco Passarotti and Caroline Sporleder.
MOTIVATION AND AIMS
Research in the Humanities is predominantly text-based. For centuries scholars have studied documents such as historical manuscripts, literary works, legal contracts, diaries of important personalities, old tax records etc. Large amounts of such documents exist and are increasingly available in digital form. This has a potentially profound impact on how research is conducted in the Humanities.
Digitised sources allowing scholars to analyse texts quicker and more systematically.
Digital data can also be (semi-)automatically mined: important facts and interdependencies can be detected, complex statistics can be calculated. Analysis of locations and time in documents is often crucial to understand and visualize trends. Results can be visualised and presented to the scholars, who can then delve further into the data for verification and deeper analysis.
Digitisation encourages empirical research, opening the road for completely new research paradigms that exploit `big data' for humanities research. Digitisation is only a first step, however. In their raw form, electronic corpora are of limited use to humanities researchers. Corpus annotation can build on a long tradition in (corpus) linguistics and computational linguistics but the true potential of such resources is only unlocked if corpora are enriched with different layers of linguistic annotation (ranging from morphology to semantics, including location and time).
The CRH workshop aims at building a tighter collaboration between people working in various areas of the Humanities (such as literature, philology, history, translational studies etc.) and the research community involved in developing, using and making accessible different kinds of corpora. A gap exists between computational linguists (who sometimes do not involve humanists in developing and exploiting corpora for the Humanities) and humanists (who sometimes just aren't aware that such corpora do exist and that automatic methods and standards to build and use them are today available).
Over the past few years a number of historical annotated corpora have been started, among which are treebanks for Middle, Early Modern and Old English, Early New High German, Medieval Portuguese, Ugaritic, Latin, Ancient Greek and several translations of the New Testament into Indo-European languages. The experience of these ever-growing set of projects can provide many suggestions on the methodology as well as on the practice of interaction between literary studies, philology and corpus linguistics.
INVITED SPEAKERS
- Tara L. Andrews, University of Wien, Austria (http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/htdocs2/site/arti.php/91079)
- James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, MA, USA (http://jamespusto.com/)
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadlines :
- Abstract submission: 8 October 2017
- Notification of acceptance: 5 November 2017
- Final version of paper: 3 December 2017
- Workshop: 25-26 January 2018
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION
We invite to submit long abstracts describing original, unpublished research related to the topics of the workshop as PDF. Abstracts should not exceed 6 pages (references included) and written in English.
Submissions have to be made via the EasyChair page of the workshop at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crh2 (requires prior registration with EasyChair).
The style guidelines can be found here: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/forschung-institute/biblio/academiae-corpora/ac/crh2/authors-kit/.
Reviewing will be double-blind; therefore, the abstract should not include the authors' names and affiliations or any references to web-sites, project names etc. revealing the authors' identity. Furthermore, any self-reference should be avoided. For instance, instead of "We previously showed (Brown, 2001)...", use citations such as "Brown previously showed (Brown, 2001)...". Each submitted abstract will be reviewed by three members of the program committee.
Submitted abstracts can be for oral or poster presentations (possibly with demo). There is no difference between the different kinds of presentation both in terms of reviewing process and publication in the proceedings (the limit of 6 pages holds for both abstracts intended for oral and poster presentations).
The authors of the accepted abstracts will be required to submit the full version of their paper, which may be extended up to 10 pages (references included).
PRESENTATIONS
The oral presentations at the workshop will be 30 minutes long (25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussion).
Depending on the number of submissions, a poster session might be organised as well.
SPECIAL SOCIAL EVENT
On the night of 25 January, the TU WIen organizes their TU-Ball at the imperial Hofburg (http://www.tu-ball.at/en/home/). Participants may take part in this unique festivity (details later). Do not miss such an opportunity to participate in this highlight of the Viennese ball season!
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Francesco Mambrini (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin, Germany)
Marco Passarotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy)
Caroline Sporleder (University of Göttingen, Germany)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
John A. Bateman (Germany)
Gerhard Budin (Austria)
Giuseppe Celano (Germany)
Arianna Ciula (UK)
Giovanni Colavizza (Switzerland)
Maud Ehrmann (Switzerland)
Andrew Frank (Austria)
Emiliano Giovannetti (Italy)
Stefan Th. Gries (USA)
Dag Haug (Norway)
Leif Isaksen (UK)
Christine Ivanovic (Austria)
Mike Kestemont (Belgium)
Puneet Kishor (Germany)
Dimitrios Kokkinakis (Sweden)
Sandra Kübler (USA)
Werner Kuhn (USA)
Yudong Liu (USA)
Melanie Malzahn (Austria)
Roland Meyer (Germany)
Willard McCarty (UK)
John Nerbonne (The Netherlands)
Julianne Nyhan (UK)
Michael Piotrowski (Switzerland)
Geoffrey Rockwell (Canada)
Matteo Romanello (Germany)
Rainer Simon (Austria)
Neel Smith (USA)
Uwe Springmann (Germany)
Martin Thiering (Germany)
Sara Tonelli (Italy)
Martin Wynne (UK)
Amir Zeldes (USA)
LOCAL ORGANISATION
Hanno Biber
Andreas Dittrich
Andrew Frank
Katharina Godler
Christine Ivanovic
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Call for book manuscripts, 'Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West' series
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Type:
Call for Publications
Date:
March 17, 2017 to March 17, 2020
Subject Fields:
European History / Studies, Medieval and Byzantine History / Studies, Religious Studies and Theology
The essential aim of this series is to present high quality, original, and international scholarship, covering all aspects of the Medieval Church and its relationship with the secular world in an accessible form. Previous publications have covered such topics as aspects of Medieval Papal History, including neglected twelfth- and thirteenth-century popes, Monastic and Religious Orders for men and women, Canon Law, Liturgy and Ceremonial, Art, Architecture and Material Culture, Ecclesiastical Administration and Government, as well as aspects of Clerical Life, Councils and so on. Our authors are encouraged to challenge existing orthodoxies on the basis of thorough examination of relevant sources. These books are intended to engage scholars worldwide.
Proposals welcome
The series welcomes scholarly monographs and edited volumes in English by both established and early-career researchers.
The series welcomes scholarly monographs and edited volumes in English by both established and early-career researchers.
Proposals for monographs or edited volumes should kindly follow the standard AUP Proposal format and should also include the envisaged table of contents or overview of the volume and abstracts of the proposed chapters or articles.
Further Information:
Having originated with Ashgate, since 2017, this series is published by Amsterdam University Press. For questions or to submit a proposal, contact the Commissioning Editor, Erika Gaffney: erika.gaffney@arc-humanities.org.
Contact Info:
Erika Gaffney
Contact Email:
Litigating Women: Negotiating Justice in Courts of Law, c.1100 - c.1750
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Type:
Symposium
Date:
June 28, 2017 to June 29, 2017
Location:
United Kingdom
Subject Fields:
Medieval and Byzantine History / Studies, British History / Studies, European History / Studies, Law and Legal History, Women's & Gender History / Studies
As part of the AHRC-funded collaborative project 'Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice: Britain and Ireland, c. 1100-c.1750', and in conjunction with Swansea University's 11th annual 'Symposium by the Sea', this two-day event will explore women's access to justice and use of the lawcourts in Britain and Continental Europe in the medieval and early modern periods. With speakers ranging from senior academics to postgraduate students, we have dedicated 'new researcher' sessions for postgraduates, three keynotes, and a host of fascinating topics that cover, among other things, noblewomen's civil litigation in medieval England, Ireland and Normandy, German and French divorce suits in the Revolutionary period, and women's appeals to the Court of Sequestrations during the English Civil War.
Our three keynotes are:
- Professor Emerita Janet Loengard, of Moravian College, Pennsylvania: 'Heiresses, widows, felons and others: thirteenth-century women in the king's court'.
- Professor Sara Butler, The Ohio State University: 'Women and criminal law in medieval England'.
- Professor Julie Hardwick, The University of Texas at Austin: 'The first time: young workers, consensual relationships, and the shift to physical intimacy in Old Regime France'.
Confirmed speakers include (among many others!):
- Dr Gwen Seabourne (Bristol)
- Prof. Loreen L. Giese (Ohio University)
- Dr Peter L. Larson (University of Central Florida
- Dr Sparky Booker (Queen’s University Belfast)
- Laila Scheuch (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt/Main)
- Harriet Kersey (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Full fee: £60, student/unwaged £45. Day rate: £35, student/unwaged: £28
For a full programme and a registration form, please go to our symposium page: http://womenhistorylaw.org.uk/c/swansea-symposium
Contact Info:
Dr Emma Cavell
Department of History
James Callaghan Building
Swansea University
Singleton Park
Swansea SA2 8PP, Wales UK.
Contact Email:
The inaugural issue of Studies in Late Antiquity: A Journal is now available for free online! You will find:
Editorial Essays
· “Why Does the World Need a New Journal on Late Antiquity?” by the Editor and Associate Editors
· “Community Matters” by Elizabeth DePalma Digeser (Editor)
Articles
· “Late Antiquity and World History: Challenging Conventional Narratives and Analyses” by Mark Humphries
· “How Perilous was it to Write Political History in Late Antiquity?” by Anthony Kaldellis
· “From a Classical to a Christian City: Civic Evergetism and Charity in Fifth Century Rome” by Michele Salzman
Book Reviews
· Digital_Humanities by Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner and Jeffrey Schnapp
o Review by Sarah Bond and Thomas Keegan
· Décadence: “Decline and Fall” of “Other Antiquity”? edited by Marco Formisano, Therese Fuhrer, and Anna-Lena Stock
o Review by Lorenzo DiTommaso
· A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity by Richard E. Payne
o Review by Greg Fisher
· From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity by Kyle Harper
o Review by Wendy Mayer
· The Arid Lands: History, Power, Knowledge by Diana K. Davis
o Review by Steven E. Sidebotham
Call for papers
"Feeding on Dreams: Exiles and Exile in Late Antiquity."
A Workshop at Yale University, 23-25 April 2018
Organized by Maria Doerfler (Yale University) and Geoffrey Nathan (University of New South Wales)
Being barred from one’s native lands, state and/or community was and continues to be a unique form of punishment. Individuals or groups might not only suffer from physical, economic and legal privation, but also social and cultural exclusion to the point of a kind of social death. In Late Antiquity, the degree of political and religious change made exile perhaps more likely for an increasingly diverse group, but may have also changed the nature of exile itself. Recent work both on conceptual exile and the exile of clerics raises the possibility of expanding the scope of scholarly conversations surrounding the practice in this period. This workshop’s purpose is to consider different experiences and conceptions of formal and informal banishment to arrive at a more holistic understanding of the social, cultural, and literary phenomenon of exile in late antiquity.
The organizers thus invite papers to explore the nature of exile and exiles in Late Antiquity (ca.300-650 CE). We welcome contributors to interpret these concepts broadly, and seek a wide variety of papers and disciplinary approaches.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
Political and religious exile
Relegatio, deportatio, postliminium: exile in law
Self-exile
Conceptual exile (spiritual and metaphorical exile)
Treatments of exile in the religions of Late Antiquity
Diasporas and refugees
The archaeology of exile
After the workshop, participants will be invited to submit their revised papers for publication. Please send abstracts of up to 500 words exileinlateantiquity@gmail.com. Alternatively, abstracts may be sent to either Maria Doerfler (maria.doerfler@yale.edu) or Geoff Nathan (g.nathan@unsw.edu.au) by 14 May 2017. For queries, please email either organizer.
Monday, March 20, 2017
CFPs deadline extended for MWWHA conference on "Reformations and Revolutions in World History"
Call for Proposals
“Reformations and Revolutions in World History”
The Eighth Annual Conference of the
Midwest World History Association
22-23 September 2017, University of Central Oklahoma (Edmond, Oklahoma)
The proposal deadline has been extended to 15 April 2017
and the keynote is announced.
The Midwest World History Association is happy to announce a call for paper, poster, panel, roundtable, and workshop proposals for its annual conference to be held at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Oklahoma, on September 22nd and 23rd, 2017. The conference theme is ‘Reformations and Revolutions in World History.’
Today the world finds itself at a crossroads, just as it has done so many times before and will undoubtedly do so in the future. The crises faced today – a resurgence in Nationalism, extremism, the continuance of war and its results: refugees, poverty, and hunger – seem to be testing the anchors of contemporary values of peace, tolerance, and humanity.
Far from the first crisis the world has faced, it is nevertheless important to grasp its history and the history of the ideas that have shaped it to understand the events of today. This year, 2017, will see the commemoration of the Protestant Reformation (1517), the Russian Revolution (1917), the independence of India and Pakistan (1947), the first sub-Saharan African Independence in Ghana (1957), and the signature of the Treaty of Rome (1957). Other anniversaries marked in 2017 include, but are not limited to, the Tacfarinas uprising against the Romans in 17 CE, the first official European diplomatic mission to China (1517), US entry into the First World War (1917), the internationalization of the Spanish Civil War (1937), the Palestine Partition Resolution (1947), the 1947 Truman Doctrine, and the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
This conference will bring together emerging scholars, early career researchers, established academics from a variety of disciplines, and 6th-12th-grade teachers to provide a platform to explore the implications and significance the Reformation and revolutions have in the world. We encourage contributions from a range of perspectives, including social, political, intellectual and cultural history; social and cultural geography; social and political science; and 9-12 lesson plans. Possible subjects may include, but are not limited to:
- How has the dynamics of ‘reformation' and ‘revolution' worked with and against one another in world history?
- What impact have reform and/or revolutionary change had in the world?
- What effects have revolutionary and/or reformist approaches to crisis had in the past?
- How are landmark moments such as the Reformation, and the numerous revolutions in world history, remembered/represented?
- To what extent/in what ways are contemporary events the legacy of previous crises, or of attempts to reform/transform the world?
- How have specific political ideas (liberalism, capitalism, communism, socialism, freedom, justice, governmentality, legitimacy—as well as [post]colonialism and feminism) shaped historical development, particularly in moments of crisis
- How has world history given rise to new or revolutionary political ideas?
Proposals on any aspect of World History scholarship and teaching are also welcome.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Amy Nelson Burnett, Paula and D.B. Varner University Professor of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Professor Burnett’s work has focused on the Protestant Reformation in Germany and Switzerland, with emphasis on the exchange of ideas through printing and debate. Among her many books, Teaching the Reformation: Ministers and their Message in Basel, 1529-1629 (Oxford University Press, 2008) won the Gerald Strauss Prize awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. Dr. Burnett will deliver a keynote entitled, “Reform, Dissent, and Toleration: The Reformation as a Crisis of Authority.”
Please send an abstract of 250 words, together with a short curriculum vitae, to the Program Committee Chair, Dr. Nikki Magie at chair@mwwha.org no later than 15 April 2017 (extended deadline). Questions about the conference can also be directed to this address. Where a complete panel is proposed, the convener should also include a 250-word abstract of the panel theme. Each panelist should plan to spend no more than 20 minutes presenting her or his paper.
Presenters must register for the conference by 15 August 2017 to be included in the program.
The MWWHA will offer up to three competitive Graduate Student Awards to offset part of the conference costs. Graduate students interested in applying should include a letter with their conference proposal explaining how the conference helps them with their studies, teaching, and/or future career plans as well as how their paper fits with the conference theme and the mission of the MWWHA.
We also invite accepted papers to be submitted to our journal, The Middle Ground, for potential publication: http://themiddlegroundjournal.org/.
Further information about the MWWHA, including membership and conference registration (when it becomes available), can be found on our website: http://mwwha.org/.
Presenters will be notified of acceptance by 15 May 2017.
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