Medieval Studies in the Digital Age Seminar and Workshop Series
18 November 2014, Tuesday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Seminar: ‘Garbage In Garbage Out’: The Unfulfilled Promise of Prosopographical Databases
Professor Ralph W. Mathisen, Professor of History, Classics, and Medieval Studies, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
2 December 2014, Tuesday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Seminar: Data Management, Digital Preservation and the Archaeology Data Service
Dr Katie Green, Communications and Access Manager, Archaeology Data Service, University of York, UK
27 January 2015, Tuesday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Seminar: Open-Source Scholarship
Dr Alaric Hall, Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, School of English, University of Leeds, UK
31 January 2015, Saturday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Workshop: Fundamentals of Quantitative Narrative Analysis
Hervin Fernández-Aceves, PhD Candidate in Medieval Studies, Institute for Medieval Studies, School of History, University of Leeds, UK
3 February 2015, Tuesday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Seminar: Bits of Charters: Putting Carolingian Charters into a Database
Dr Rachel Stone, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of History, King’s College London, UK
7 February 2015, Saturday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Workshop: Fundamentals of GIS and Online Map-Making
Dr Vincent Hiribarren, Lecturer in World History, Department of History, King’s College London, UK
21 February 2015, Saturday, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Workshop: Digital Imaging for Medievalists
Tony Harris, Digital Imaging Specialist and PhD Candidate, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, UK
3 March 2015, Tuesday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Seminar: From Parchment to Pixels: The Potential and Pitfalls of Digital Medieval Manuscripts
Dr Suzanne Paul, Medieval Manuscripts Specialist, Cambridge University Library, University of Cambridge, UK and Executive Board Member, Digital Medievalist
10 March 2015, Tuesday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Seminar: The Interactive Middle Ages: Video Games and Medievalism
Victoria Cooper, PhD Candidate in English Literature, School of English, University of Leeds, UK
14-15 March 2015, Saturday-Sunday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Workshop: Fundamentals of Text Encoding and Medieval Manuscripts
Dr Matthew James Driscoll, Senior Lecturer in Old Norse Philology, Arnamagnaean Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Curator of the Arnamagnaean Manuscript Collection
with Beeke Stegmann, PhD Student, Department of Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
21 April 2015, Tuesday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Seminar: Digital Cistercians: Introduction to ‘Project Fountains’
Dr Emilia Jamroziak, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, School of History and Deputy Director, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, UK
and Dr Michael Spence, Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, UK
2-3 May 2015, Saturday-Sunday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Workshop: Digital Scholarly Editing for Medievalists
Professor Elena Pierazzo, Professor of Italian Studies and Digital Humanities, Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3, France and Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative
5 May 2015, Tuesday, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Seminar: Medieval Studies in the Digital Humanities: A Researcher’s View
Dr Estelle Stubbs, HRI Research Fellow, Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, UK and Principal Investigator of the Networks of Bookmakers, Owners and Users in Medieval England
* Everyone is welcome but spaces will be limited so we ask you to register via Eventbrite for each event. All seminars take place at the Le Patourel Room, 4.06, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds and start with tea and coffee at 5:30 pm. For the venues of workshops, please see details of each workshop closer to the date.
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