International conference on Data and Language: Perspectives on Reasearch in Digital Editions of Historical Sources will take place on 13-15 November 2024 at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw. The conference is co-organised by the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw and the Faculty of Humanities at John Paull II Catholic University in Lublin, in collaboration with the Foundation for Digital Activities (Fundacja Działań Cyfrowych). For further details, see the conference website: digital history uw.
On 25 October 2024 at 18.00 CEST (12.00 EDT), dr Suzette van Haaren (Ruhr-Universität Bochum & 2023-2024 SIMS Visiting Research Fellow) will give an online lecture on Modelling the Middle Ages: VisColl as a Digital Tool for Manuscript Research in the Schoenberg Institute’s Online Lecture series. Dr. Suzette van Haaren will present the results of her research on using the VisColl tool in the study of early books. She will talk about the daily research practices of manuscript professionals in digital environments and how this works affects the way that they look at their research objects. For further details and […]
The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2022 will be held on Saturday, June 25, 2022. This year the focus of the conference will be ‘Infrastructures’ in the context of digital humanities in the study of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Abstracts should be submitted by 1 May. Paper submission deadline: 11 June. Further details and the submission form are available via https://digitalorientalist.com/2022/03/04/call-for-papers-the-digital-orientalists-virtual-conference-2022/
William Noel, Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at Princeton University Library, will give a talk on how to work remotely with manuscripts. He will try to show ‘what you can do with a couple of computer tools, a bunch of digital images, and some basic metadata’. The lecture will take place online via Zoom on Wednesday, 16 February 2022, 12:00 pm–1:20 pm. More information about the lecture, registration and the Medieval Studies Faculty Colloquium can be found via: https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-faculty-colloquium-william-noel/