2010 DHO Summer School

2010 DHO Summer School
in conjunction with NINES and the EpiDoc Collaborative
28 June – 2 July 2010
http://dho.ie/ss2010

The third annual Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) Summer School will take place in Dublin from 28 June to 2 July 2010. Following the highly successful 2009 Summer School, next year’s event will see the expansion of popular workshop strands such as:

* A Practical Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative
* Data Visualisation for the Humanities
* An Introduction to EpiDoc Markup and Editing Tools
* The One to Many Text: Text Transformations with XSLT

The Summer School will feature lectures by Dr. Hugh Denard (King’s College London Visualisation Lab) and Dr Ian Gregory (University of Lancaster). Workshop facilitators include Dr Gabriel Bodard (King’s College London), Dr James Cowey (University of Heidelberg), Professor Laura Mandell (Miami University of Ohio), Dr Susan Schreibman (Digital Humanities Observatory), Justin Tonra (NUI, Galway) and Dana Wheeles (University of Virginia).

Major workshop strands will be conducted over four days allowing delegates to choose a mini-workshop on Wednesday from one of the following offerings:

* Geospatial Methods for Humanities Research
* Using Digital Resources for Irish Research and Teaching
* Visualising Space, Time and Events: Using Virtual Worlds for Humanities Research
* Finding the Concepts In the Chaos – Building Relationships With Data Models
* Planning Digital Scholarly Resources: A Primer

The introduction of the one-day mini-workshops allows people to choose to attend a single-day event only at a reduced cost.

On Wednesday afternoon following the mini-workshops, Summer School staff, lecturers and facilitators will be available for private consultations.

Please note that the DHO Summer School takes place immediately before the annual Digital Humanities 2010 conference in London. Visit our DHO Summer School website (www.dho.ie/ss2010 ) for updates and announcements. Registration will open on 15th of January.

Please direct any questions to Shawn Day (s.day@dho.ie) or Emily Cullen (e.cullen@dho.ie).

We look forward to seeing you in Dublin.

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)
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Fourth Marco Manuscript Workshop

The Fourth Marco Manuscript Workshop, "Unruly Letters & Unbound
Texts," will be held Friday and Saturday, February 5 and 6, 2010, at
the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; the workshop is organized
by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza
(English). As in previous years, the workshop is intended to be more
a class than a conference; participants will be invited to share both
their successes and frustrations, and work together to develop better
professional skills for textual and paleographical work.

Last year’s workshop focused on “textual trauma”—instances of
violence, deliberate or otherwise, against texts. This year our focus
will be on texts and manuscripts that cross or confound the
boundaries scholars have tried to place on them, that do not fit
neatly into the genres or categories of modern scholarship, or that
pose peculiar difficulties of definition, categorization or reading.
These might include: macaronic and multilingual texts, prosi-metric
and metri-prosaic texts, glosses and commentaries, diagrams and
tables, ciphers and strange alphabets, incongruous or appropriated
forms and textual designs, interpolations and conflations, marginal
commentaries that overwhelm their texts, miscellanies and composite
manuscripts, and manuscripts in the age of print.

The workshop is open to scholars and students at any level who may be
interested in learning more about textual scholarship through this
informal discussion of practical examples. All workshop events,
including lunches on Friday and Saturday and a reception on Friday
night, are free, but registration is required; dinner on Friday
evening is available for an additional charge. You may download a
registration form (in .pdf format) with more information at
, or contact Roy
M. Liuzza, Department of English, University of Tennessee, 301
McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430, email .

The following scholars will present their work:

Rebecca Brackmann (Lincoln Memorial University): “William Lambarde’s
marginal notes in his copy of Epitome Adagiorum de s. Erasmi”

Noah Gardiner (University of Michigan): “Mamluk-era Manuscripts on
Magic Attributed to the Egyptian Sufi Abu al-‘Abbas Ahmad”

Dorothy Kim (Vassar College): “Musical Notation, Funny Letters, and
Acoustic Alterity in Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum MS McClean 123
(Nuneaton Book)”

Victoria Morse (Carleton College): “Preaching to the Eyes: Opicino de
Canistris and Christian Reform in the Fourteenth Century”

Aaron Pelttari (Cornell University): “Restoring Ambiguity to the
Script of Ausonius of Bordeaux’s Ep. 6”

Michael Penn (Mount Holyoke): “How to Tell a Heretic When You Read
One: Interventions in Syriac MSS”

Helene Scheck (University of Albany): “Glosses and Readers’ Marks in
Halle Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Quedlinburg Codex 74 —
Reading in Female Monastic Communities”

David Townsend (University of Toronto) & Maura Lafferty (University
of Tennessee): “Navigating Ambiguity: Interpretive Foreclosure and
Paratext in Manuscripts of Walter of Chatillon’s Alexandreis”

COMITATUS: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES

COMITATUS: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES, published annually under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, invites the submission of articles by graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval and Renaissance studies. We prefer submissions in the form of e-mail attachments in Windows format; paper submissions are also accepted. Please include an e-mail address.



SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 41 (2010): 1 FEBRUARY 2010.



The editorial board will make its final selections by early May 2010.

Please send submissions to sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu, or to Dr. Blair Sullivan, Publications Director, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 302 Royce Hall, Box 951485, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485.

Annual Gender and Medieval Studies

Registration is currently open for the Annual Gender and Medieval Studies
conference, on the subject of Gender and the Family, online through the
University of Birmingham's online shop at:
https://www.bhamonlineshop.co.uk/events/eventdetails.asp?eventid=130



This link is available on the conference website at
http://www.medievalgender.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=2,
as is the full programme plus accommodation and travel details, but you can
simply click on it in this email and get connected straight away.


The conference takes place at Birmingham 7th-10th January 2010. The
registration fee is £30 for postgraduates and £60 for full fee delegates; in
addition to conference attendance, pack etc. this includes all tea and
coffee, lunch on Friday and Saturday, two wine receptions and a music/drama
event.

The online shop also gives you the option to also sign up for the conference
dinner; we do need to give them an idea of numbers before Christmas, so if
you are coming to the conference would like to come to the dinner please
sign up sooner rather than later!

Graduate Conference in Medieval Studies at Princeton University Ghosts: Ethereal and Material

Graduate Conference in Medieval Studies at Princeton University
Ghosts: Ethereal and Material
10 April 2010
Call for Papers

The Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University invites
submissions for its seventeenth annual graduate conference. We are
pleased to announce this year's keynote speaker, Nancy Caciola,
Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San
Diego.

This conference invites participants to consider the idea of ghosts
in its broadest sense. We encourage papers not only on ghosts as
'ethereal' beings, but also submissions that play with the metaphor
of ghosts as it relates to things like memory and the material
remains of the medieval past. Thus, one successful proposal might
deal with ghosts as they appear in monastic literature, while others
might make the "ghost" of the Middle Ages in contemporary film or the
'ghostly' ruins of Cistercian monasteries in France their subjects of
inquiry.

In keeping with the Program's aim to promote interdisciplinary
exchange among medievalists, we encourage proposals from a variety of
chronologies, geographies, and disciplines. Topics might include but
are not limited to:

- The Liturgy of the Dead
- Spirit possessions and exorcisms
- Medieval near death experiences and otherworldly journeys
- Ghosts in monastic literature and exempla
- Ghosts in vernacular literature (epic, romance, sagas, etc.)
- Saints' lives and hagiography
- Medieval modes of remembrance
- Ruins in Medieval Europe
-The "ghost" of the Middle Ages today

In order to support participation of speakers from outside the
northeastern United States, we are offering a limited number of
modest subsidies to help offset the cost of travel to Princeton.
Financial assistance may not be available for every participant;
funding priority goes to those who have the furthest to travel.
Every speaker will have the option of staying with a resident
graduate student as an alternative to paying for a hotel room.
Papers should take no more than twenty minutes to deliver. Please
submit a 250-word abstract of your project by 15 February 2010 to
Troy Tice (ttice@princeton.edu) or Andrew Lemons
(alemons@princeton.edu).

NEH Foreign Study Fellowship Opportunity Summer 2010.

NEH Foreign Study Fellowship Opportunity Summer 2010.

The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring a summer
seminar for College and University Professors in July of 2010 in
Tunisia to be led by Professor Thomas Heffernan. Stipends of $3,900.
are available for all who are selected to participate. The subject of
the seminar will in part examine the representation of the self in
the autobiographies of Perpetua of Carthage and Augustine of Hippo.
Both subjects are Roman north African, both are converts, and both
are early proponents of a sustained investigation of human
personality. Although both of our subjects are widely studied this is
the first time that we will have an opportunity to study them in
their lived context against the backdrop of the material culture of
Imperial Rome which gave such a profound shape to their lives. If you
are interested in this seminar and would like a detailed presentation
of the full five weeks including the eight field trips, see my
National Endowment for the Humanities web site at the following
urlhttp://web.utk.edu/~theff/carthage/

Call for Papers: Terra incognita? Making space for medieval geographies

Call for Papers: Terra incognita? Making space for medieval geographies


The Royal Geographical Society in London will be holding its annual
international conference from September 1-3, 2010. The organizers of the
session: Terra incognita? Making space for 'medieval geographies' have
issued this call for papers:

Historical geographers appear to be increasingly occupied with the modern
or post-Enlightenment world, with 'medieval geographies' becoming, for
many in the field, a terra incognita. Yet over the past century, the
Latin, Byzantine and Arabic worlds of the Middle Ages (c. 500 - 1500 CE) have
been a key focus for geographical study. Whether in charting geography's
medieval history and historiography, or in reconstructing spatial
histories of medieval landscapes, territories and societies, geographers
have thus recognized the importance of geographies before the modern age.
H owever, during the past three decades, these geographies 'in' and
'of' the Middle Ages have noticeably shifted further to the margins
of Anglophone historical geography, at a time when, paradoxically,
the geographical and spatial are growing concerns among medievalists,
for example in art and literary history, and in architecture and
archaeology.

In the context of these shifting disciplinary terrains, this session seeks
to make space for medieval geographies by providing a forum for recent and
ongoing studies that encompass both geographies in and of the Middle Ages.
Papers of an empirical or theoretical nature are sought, particularly
those engaging in critical ways with medieval geographies and which
encourage further cross-disciplinary exchange with medievalists in cognate
areas. Far from being a terra incognita, the session will expose some of
the contemporary resonances of medieval geographies, and one of its
intended outcomes is to entice historical geographers to consider the
spatial and tempo! ral cont inuities, discontinuities and connections that
run between the 'medieval' and the 'modern'.

Paper proposals and abstracts should be sent to: Dr Keith Lilley
(k.lilley@qub.ac.uk) by January 31, 2010.

The session is being organized by Dr Lilley (Queen's University Belfast)
with Veronica Della Dora (University of Bristol) and Stuart Elden
(University of Durham).

For more information about the conference, please go to:
http://www.rgs.org/ac2010