Category Archives: Events

CFP: Digital Humanities 09

Posted on 2008-09-11 by Tom Elliott

The Call for Papers for Digital Humanities 09, scheduled for 22-25 June at the University of Maryland, has just been issued. Abstracts are due on 31 October 2008.

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MITH’s Digital Dialogues schedule

Posted on 2008-09-04 by Tom Elliott

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) has released the fall schedule for their “digital dialogues” lecture series. There are a number of interesting talks. I wonder if any of these will be podcast? Since the full schedule … Continue reading →

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Open Access Day Announced: 14 October 2008

Posted on 2008-08-29 by Tom Elliott

By way of Open Access News we learn of the announcement of Open Access Day 2008: SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Students for Free Culture have jointly announced the first … Continue reading →

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Digital Classicist Podcast

Posted on 2008-07-18 by Gabriel Bodard

The Institute for Classical Studies and Digital Classicist Summer seminar series is about half-way through, and the first several audio recordings of the proceedings are now available as part of the Digital Classicist podcast. You can find a list of … Continue reading →

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Digitizing Early Material Culture, new deadline

Posted on 2008-05-07 by Gabriel Bodard

The Digitizing Early Material Culture conference, for which we posted a CFP back in February, has a new deadline and slightly changed line-up of speakers (Meg Twycross replaces Melissa terras). See the new programme here (PDF).

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Institute of Classical Studies Work-in-Progress seminars (London)

Posted on 2008-05-01 by Gabriel Bodard

Digital Classicist Work-in-Progress seminars Institute of Classical Studies Fridays at 16:30 in NG16, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU (June 20th, July 4th-18th seminars in room B3, Stewart House) (June 27th seminar room 218, Chadwick Bdg, UCL, Gower Street) … Continue reading →

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EpiDoc Summer School, July 14th-18th, 2008

Posted on 2008-04-23 by Gabriel Bodard

The Centre for Computing in the Humanties, Kings College London, is again offering an EpiDoc Summer School, on July 14th-18th, 2008. The training is designed for epigraphers or papyrologists (or related text editors such as numismatists, sigillographers, etc.) who would … Continue reading →

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Digitization and the Humanities: an RLG Programs Symposium

Posted on 2008-04-17 by chuckjones

Is anyone here attending this? As primary source materials move online, in both licensed and freely available form, what will be the impact on scholarship? On teaching and learning practice? On the collecting practices of research libraries? These are questions … Continue reading →

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Report on NEH Workshop “Supporting Digital Scholarly Editions”

Posted on 2008-04-04 by dporter

The official report on the NEH Workshop “Supporting Digital Scholarly Editions”, held on January 14, has been released and is available in PDF form: http://www.virginiafoundation.org/NEH%20Workshop%20Report%20FINAL-3.pdf Attendees included representatives from funding agencies and university presses, historians, just one or two literary … Continue reading →

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Informatique et Egyptologie, I&E 2008

Posted on 2008-04-02 by chuckjones

A date has been set for the next meeting of the International Association of Egyptologists Computer Group (Informatique et Egyptologie, I&E), which last met in Oxford in 2006. Thanks to the kindness of Dr Wilfried Seipel, the meeting will take … Continue reading →

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Problems and outcomes in digital philology (session 3: methodologies)

Posted on 2008-03-27 by Gabriel Bodard

The Marriage of Mercury and Philology: Problems and outcomes in digital philology e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, March 25-27 2008. (Event website; programme wiki; original call) I was asked to summarize the third session of papers in the round table discussion this … Continue reading →

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DHI Now Known as Office of Digital Humanities (ODH)

Posted on 2008-03-25 by dporter

Not specifically classics, but this news from the National Endowment for the Humanities should be of interest, at least to those of us in the US: The Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) has been made permanent, and is now the Office … Continue reading →

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Digital Classicist seminars update

Posted on 2008-03-25 by smahony

To bring you all up to date with what is going on with the Digital Classicist seminar series: Some papers from the DC seminar series held at the Institute of Classical Studies in London in the summer of 2006 have … Continue reading →

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Services and Infrastructure for a Million Books (round table)

Posted on 2008-03-17 by Gabriel Bodard

Million Books Workshop, Friday, March 14, 2008, Imperial College London. The second of two round tables in the afternoon of the Million Books Workshop, chaired by Brian Fuchs (Imperial College London), asked a panel of experts what services and infrastructure … Continue reading →

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What would you do with a million books? (round table)

Posted on 2008-03-16 by Gabriel Bodard

Million Books Workshop, Friday, March 14, 2008, Imperial College London. In the afternoon, the first of two round table discussions concerned the uses to which massive text digitisation could be put by the curators of various collections. The panellists were: … Continue reading →

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