Working with Text in a Digital Age - Reminder

Humanities researchers, consider applying to the NEH Institute, "Working with Text in a Digital Age."

Faculty, graduate students, and library professionals are encouraged to apply. The deadline is February 15.

For any information, please visit http://sites.tufts.edu/digitalagetext/ 

July 23-August 10, 2012, Tufts University in Medford, MA will host “Working with Text in a Digital Age”, a three-week NEH Institute for Advanced Technology in the Digital Humanities. This institute will combine traditional topics such as TEI markup with training in methods from Information Retrieval, Visualization, and Corpus and Computational Linguistics. Co-directors are Monica Berti and Gregory Crane, Tufts University; Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt University.


This institute will provide participants with three weeks in which to:

1. Develop hands on experience with TEI-XML,
2. Apply methods from information retrieval, text visualization, and corpus and computational linguistics to the analysis of textual and linguistic sources in the humanities,
3. Rethink not only their own research agendas but also new relationships between their work and non-specialists.

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Monica Berti

321 Eaton Hall

Department of Classics

Tufts University

Medford, MA 02155

monica.berti@tufts.edu

Invitation for contributions: Newsletter of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Invitation for contributions to the Newsletter of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

I am currently preparing the first 2012 newsletter for posting on the website at http://sasmarsnewsletter.blogspot.com/. Its success depends in large measure on the contributions of our members and those interested in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Please send me information about personalia, e.g. awards, new appointments, promotions, retirements, etc., research opportunities,

·         new books and journals, conferences, meetings and gatherings, news items that may interest our readers.

Since this is an illustrated medium in colour, logos, photographs, video clips, etc. are most welcome.

Regards

Leonie Viljoen

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Leonie Viljoen

Research Fellow

Department of English Studies

University of South Africa

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Digital Medievalist 7

Dear community,

It is with great pleasure to announce issue 7 of the journal of the Digital Medievalist, which is now available online from the DM-website: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.

This issue features the proceedings of the 2010 MARGOT conference as a special cluster guest-edited by Christine McWebb: twelve articles illustrating the wide range of aspects of our field at the intersection
of digital scholarship and medieval studies. This is our first special cluster and is published along side the normal type of articles and reviews published by DM.

I would like to express my appreciation to the contributors of this issue, to guest-editor Christine McWebb, the referees, and to all volunteers who supported the publication.

And as always: Digital Medievalist is a peer-reviewed online journal in open access (CC BY NC). Please consider your contribution to the community and contact us at editors@digitalmedievalist.org. We have
already started working on the next issue!

Enjoy reading!

On behalf of the editorial team (Peter Stokes, Dan O'Donnell, and Rebecca Welzenbach)
Malte Rehbein
Editor-In-Chief

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Dr. Malte Rehbein

Universität Würzburg
Zentrum für digitale Edition
Philosophiegebäude 8/E/14
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg

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Call for Applicants: NEH Summer Institute (Barcelona, July 2012)

Call for Applications

DEADLINE REMINDER
1 March 2012 - Email and postmark deadline for applications.

Networks and Knowledge in the Medieval Muslim-Christian-Jewish Mediterranean*

The Mediterranean Seminar 
http://www.mediterraneanseminar.org/ announces the opening of  applications for a four-week NEH Summer Institute to be held on in  Barcelona, Spain, July 2-27, 2012.

This Institute, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,  with the collaboration of the the Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP and the  support of the Institute for Humanities Research at the University of  California Santa Cruz, will bring together 24 college and university  faculty and graduate students for an intensive 4-week course, directed  by Sharon Kinoshita (Literature, UC Santa Cruz) and Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies, University of Colorado Boulder/History, UC Santa Cruz).

The aim is to introduce college and university instructors to new approaches to the medieval Mediterranean (c. 1000--1500) and its role in  the emergence of the modern world. As a region whose history of  connectivity goes back two and a half millennia, the Mediterranean is currently the object of innovative scholarship in various disciplines. Where traditional accounts cast the Middle Ages as the lull between the loss of the culture of classical antiquity and its "rebirth" in the Renaissance, rethinking the Middle Ages through the optic of the medieval Mediterranean emphasizes questions of religious and ethnic pluralisms, cultural contact, transculturation, and the negotiation of identities.

This is the third program of this type organized by Kinoshita and Catlos, and follows up on the successes of their 2008 and 2010 NEH Summer Institutes.

The 2012 Institute focuses on the medieval Mediterranean as a zone of cultural, scientific, and technological innovation. The facility with which ideas and technologies traversed the Mediterranean is testament to the commonalities underlying the apparent contrasts between ethnic and religious groups. The Institute's distinguished multidisciplinary Guest Faculty examines the circulation of knowledge and shared practices through topics including:

"Mobility and Communications" (Peregrine Horden),
"Changing Christian Attitudes towards Muslim Food and Foodways" (Olivia 
Remie Constable),
"The Topography of Translation" (Charles Burnett),
"Networks of Literary Transmission" (Karla Mallette),
"Medical Knowledge and Daily Life Experience" (Fernando Salmón).

Studying the circulation of medieval Mediterranean knowledge and practices, this project redefines  medieval inter-religious interaction so that "Holy War" is revealed not as the dominant mode of, but as only one pole of a spectrum that includes co-existence, accommodation, and cooperation. It reveals that many "modern" ideas and technologies (municipal republics, double-entry accounting, neo-Aristotelian logic, vernacular literature, paper, rice cultivation, universities, etc.) first crystallized in the medieval Mediterranean, thus calling into question established teleological meta-narratives, and geo-historical 
and cultural paradigms, in order to contribute to a revised understanding of the "rise" of the Modern West.

For general information and in order to apply, see the NEH website 
(www.neh.gov <http://www.neh.gov>).

Detailed information regarding this and our previous Institutes (2008 
<http://humweb.ucsc.edu/mediterraneanseminar/projects/neh2008.php> & 
2010 
<http://humweb.ucsc.edu/mediterraneanseminar/projects/neh2010/neh2010.php>),
please see the Mediterranean Seminar website 
(www.mediterraneanseminar.org <http://www.mediterraneanseminar.org>)

NOTE: The Mediterranean Seminar and the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies sponsor many projects open to international scholars and eagerly collaborate with non-US institutions. This NEH Summer Institute, however, is primarily intended for US citizens and residents. Please consult the Mediterranean Seminar website's pages (NEH 2012 >> FAQs) for details.

Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: University of Missouri-Kansas City

A conference on ‘Nuns’ Literacies in Medieval Europe’ will take place at the University ofMissouri-Kansas City from 5-8 June 2012. This is the second of three conferences designed to bring together specialists working on diverse geographical areas to create a dialogue about the Latin and vernacular texts nuns read, wrote, and exchanged, primarily from the eighth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. To date, there has been significant research in this field but little in the way of cross-cultural study. Full details about the Kansas City conference, as well as registration forms, are available at: http://www.nuns-literacies.org/

For further details, please contact the organizers:
Dr Virginia Blanton, University of Missouri-Kansas City (blantonv@umkc.edu),
Dr Veronica O’Mara, University of Hull (V.M.OMara@hull.ac.uk), and
Dr Patricia Stoop, University of Antwerp (patricia.stoop@ua.ac.be).

Many thanks for your help in circulating information to those who might be interested. The first meeting at the University of Hull was very successful and papers from that meeting will be published by Brepols in October 2012. The third conference will take place in June 2013 at the University of Antwerp. Please let me know of any interest, off-list.

We are grateful for funding from the University of Missouri Research Board, the University of Missouri-Kansas City College of Arts & Sciences, the University of Missouri-Kansas City Women's Center, the University of Missouri-Kansas City Women's and Gender Studies Program, and the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship.

Donald Bullough Fellowship For A Mediaeval Historian

UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS

St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies

DONALD BULLOUGH FELLOWSHIP FOR A MEDIAEVAL HISTORIAN

The St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies invites applications for the Donald Bullough Fellowship in Mediaeval History, to be taken up during either semester of the academic year 2012-13.

The Fellowship is open to any academic in a permanent university post with research interests in mediaeval history. It covers the cost of return travel to St Andrews from the holder’s normal place of work, together with a substantial subsidy towards accommodation while the holder is resident in St Andrews.  Previous Fellows have included Dr Christina Pössel, Professor Cynthia Neville and Dr Ross Balzaretti. The fellowship is currently held by Dr Marlene Hennessy.

The Fellowship carries with it no teaching duties, though the Fellow is expected to take part in the normal seminar life of the mediaeval historians during their stay in St Andrews. Weekly seminars, held on a Monday evening, run from September – December, and February – May. You will also be invited to lead a workshop on your chosen research theme during your stay. Fellows are provided with computing facilities and an office alongside the mediaeval historians in the Institute. The university library has an excellent collection for mediaeval historians.

You should send a letter of application by the advertised closing date, together with a scheme of research for the project on which you will be engaged during your time in St Andrews.  You should also enclose a CV, together with the names of two academic referees, who should be asked to write by the closing date. All correspondence should be addressed to The Director, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews, 71 South St, St Andrews, Scotland, KY16 9QW. Please mark the envelope ‘Donald Bullough Mediaeval Fellowship’.

The closing date for applications is 30 March 2012.

Further enquiries may be addressed to the Director, Dr Alex Woolf
(saimsmail@st-andrews.ac.uk) or to colleagues in the Institute, whose
contact details may be found on www.st-andrews.ac.uk/saims

8th Annual ASSC Grad Student Conference at UC Berkeley, Feb 24-25

The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
announces

The Eighth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference

"Philology"
  University of California, Berkeley
 

24 - 25 February 2012

***Please remember to register by emailing assc2012@gmail.com if you plan to attend***

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Conference Program

 

All talks to be held in 300 Wheeler Hall

Friday, 24 February

5:00 Keynote - “We Philologists”
Jan Ziolkowski
Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin, Department of Classics, Harvard University
Director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

Reception to follow in 330 Wheeler Hall

 

Saturday, 25 February

9:30 Light breakfast & registration

10:15 Opening Remarks

10:30 Session I: Words, Words, Words: Lexical Approaches to Old English
- Dave Wilton, University of Toronto,
“You Keep Using That Word.  I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means: Fæhð in Beowulf”
- David Pedersen, Fordham University,
“Wyrd in the Old English Poem Solomon and Saturn II”
- Leonard Neidorf, Harvard University,
“Beow in Beowulf: New Evidence for an Old Emendation”
 Respondent: Jacob Hobson, UC Berkeley

12:00 Lunch – 330 Wheeler Hall

1:30 Session II: Where Did the Middle Ages Go? The Modern Reception of Anglo-Saxon England
Peter Buchanan, University of Toronto,
“Caedmon and the Gift of Song in Black Mountain Poetics”
Josephine Livingstone, New York University,
“‘Like solid rocks’: Language, Nature and the Nature of Language”
Annie Abrams, New York University,
“‘Mutilated Remains’: Longfellow’s Historicized Anglo-Saxons
Respondent: Marcos Garcia, UC Berkeley

 

3:00 Coffee break – 330 Wheeler Hall

3:30 Session III: The Form of the Content: Formal Approaches to Old English Literature
Kathryn Jagger, University College London,
“Words for Learning in Alfred’s Preface to the Pastoral Care: Philology and the History of Intellectualism in West Saxon Literature”
Leslie Carpenter, Fordham University,
“A New English Verse Form: Poems of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Emile Young, New York University,
“Runes, Wisdom, and Textual Transmission”
Respondent: Jennifer Lorden, UC Berkeley

5:00 Banquet – 330 Wheeler Hall – please RSVP by 16 February if planning to attend

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Conference Website: http://graduatemedievalists.org/assc.html

 

This conference has been generously sponsored by: The UC Berkeley Department of English, College of Letters and Sciences, Program in Medieval Studies, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, Center for British Studies, Student Opportunity Funds, Graduate Assembly, Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley, and the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium.       

 

The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium is a forum for scholars of early medieval England.  ASSC aims to foster intellectual exchange among faculty and graduate students whose interests embrace the language, literature, and culture of early medieval England. Currently based in Columbia, New York University, the University of Rhode Island, Rutgers, UC Berkeley, and King's College London, the Colloquium seeks to expand the resources available to Anglo-Saxonists from these universities and other institutions in the area, and also to create a welcoming intellectual community for anyone who is interested in Anglo-Saxon studies.

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Organized by: Marcos Garcia, Jacob Hobson, Jennifer Lorden, R. D. Perry, and Benjamin A. Saltzman

 

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For other ASSC events and for further updates on this conference, please visit the ASSC website at www.columbia.edu/cu/assc.