elow is a list of recent and upcoming conferences, colloquia, workshops and courses relevant to (digital) Medieval Studies. Do you know of a conference that isn’t already in this list? Please send us the details and we’ll add it!
As of 2018, we also display the names of the DM board members who will attend events as representatives of our DM community. Do feel free to contact them, extend your network and elaborate new plans in collaboration with us!
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| July | August | September | October | November | December |
January 2020
| Date | Name | Event | Place | URL | DM attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15-17 | Ninth annual conference AIUCD: The inevitable turn: Challenges and perspectives in humanities computing | Conference | Milan, Italy | https://aiucd2020.unicatt.it | G. Franzini |
| 20-21 | Digitizing and Encoding Seals: SigiDoc and RTI-Dome in action | Workshop | Venice, Italy | https://www.unive.it/data/33113/2/35921 | F. Fischer |
| 22 | Links and bindings. Towards meaningful descriptions of bookbindings on the Web and catalogues | VeDPH Seminar in Digital and Public Humanities | Venice, Italy | https://www.unive.it/data/33113/2/35803 | A. Campagnolo |
February 2020
| Date | Name | Event | Place | URL | DM attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6-7 | Transkribus User Conference | Conference | Innsbruck | https://read.transkribus.eu/events/transkribus-user-conference-2020/ | |
| 10-14 | Encoder, Exploiter, Diffuser (EnExDi): Les humanités numériques dans les projets de recherche/Digital Humanities in PhD research projects | Winter School | Poitiers, France | https://enexdi.sciencesconf.org | G. Franzini |
| 12 | Running the Digital Humanities Ecosystem | VeDPH Seminar in Digital and Public Humanities | Venice, Italy | https://www.unive.it/data/33113/2/36453 | |
| 21-22 | Graph Technologies in the Digital Humanities | Conference | Vienna, Austria | https://graphentechnologien.hypotheses.org/657 |
March 2020
| Date | Name | Event | Place | URL | DM attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | La gestione delle immagini in ambiente digitale: uno standard per l’interoperabilità | Conference | Rome, Italy | https://web.uniroma1.it/lcm/news/la-gestione-delle-immagini-ambiente-digitale-uno-standard-linteroperabilità-roma-5-marzo-2020 | (cancelled) |
| 9-11 | How to Design, Manage and Publish Ontologies on the Semantic Web: A Guide for the Digital Humanist | 3-day workshop | Venice, Italy | https://www.unive.it/pag/39287 | (cancelled) |
| 5th Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries Conference (DHN) 2020 | Conference + Workshop ‘Twin Talks 2: Understanding and Facilitating Collaboration in DH’ | Riga, Latvia | https://www.clarin.eu/event/2020/twintalksdhn2020 | (postponed to October 2020) | |
| 19 | Des applications aux manuscrits. Expériences de transcriptions automatiques de manuscrits et développements du Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi | Journée d’étude | Paris, France | https://lamop.hypotheses.org/6191 | (online) |
| 26-27 | Global Digital Humanities Symposium | Symposium | Michigan | http://www.msuglobaldh.org/ | (livestream) |
| 26-27 | Introduction to automatic collation | Course | Lausanne, Switzerland | https://www.unil.ch/doc-digitalstudies/home/menuinst/activites-du-programme/introduction-to-automatic-collation.html |
April 2020
| Date | Name | Event | Place | URL | DM attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “Semantics, Expressivity and Synthetic Speech: SPARSAR recites poetry” (Rodolfo Delmonte) | VeDPH Online Series ‘Seminars in Digital and Public Humanities’ | Venice, Italy | https://static.unive.it/server/eventi/38554/DPH%20sem%20Aprile2020.pdf | (online seminar) |
| 3 | Lives/Afterlives/Futures: Engagements with the Archive (including sessions on DH) | 16th Annual Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture | Eugene, Oregon, US | https://arthistoryassociationoregon.wordpress.com | (cancelled) |
| 3-4 | Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Roll | Graduate training workshop | Yale | http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-applications-digital-editing-and-the-medieval-manuscript-roll/ | |
| 7 | Digital Diplomatics 2020: New frontiers in digital diplomatics | Conference | Graz, Austria | https://digdipl20.hypotheses.org/ | G. Vogeler, E. De Paermentier (cancelled) |
| 15 | “Creating Interactive Narratives in Cultural Contexts” (Marie Redmond) | VeDPH Online Series ‘Seminars in Digital and Public Humanities’ | Venice, Italy | https://static.unive.it/server/eventi/38554/DPH%20sem%20Aprile2020.pdf | (online seminar) |
| 20-24 | EpiDoc Workshop: Training in digital epigraphy & papyrology | Workshop | London | https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22179 | (cancelled) |
| 29 | “Le chemin de l’image in Renaissance Lyon: digital tools for the study of early modern illustrations” (Barbara Tramelli) |
VeDPH Online Series ‘Seminars in Digital and Public Humanities’ | Venice, Italy | https://static.unive.it/server/eventi/38554/DPH%20sem%20Aprile2020.pdf | (online seminar) |
May 2020
| Date | Name | Event | Place | URL | DM attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7-10 | International Congress on Medieval Studies | Congress | Kalamazoo, Michigan | https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress | (cancelled) |
| 12 | Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient LAnguages (LT4HALA) | Workshop | Marseille, France | https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/ | |
| 27-5 June | Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH20 | Hackathon | Helsinki, Finland | https://www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-centre-for-digital-humanities/helsinki-digital-humanities-hackathon-2020-dhh20 | (POSTPONED until 2021 #DHH21) |
June 2020
| Date | Name | Event | Place | URL | DM attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 May-5 | Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH20 | Hackathon | Helsinki, Finland | https://www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-centre-for-digital-humanities/helsinki-digital-humanities-hackathon-2020-dhh20 | (postponed til autumn 2020) |
| 3-5 | DH Benelux 2020 | Conference | ONLINE | http://2020.dhbenelux.org | M. Kestemont |
| 8-9 | NUME’s 6th Cycle of Medieval Studies | Conference | Florence, Italy | https://www.nuovomedioevo.it/2019/06/24/vi-ciclo-di-studi-medievali-call-for-papers/ | |
| 15-19 | Le Livre médiéval au regard des méthodes quantitatives | Summer school | Paris, France | https://rmblf.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/ecole-decc81tecc81-2020.-livre-mecc81diecc81val.-description-des-ateliers..pdf | |
| 24-25 | Growing Corpora: Byzantine Book Epigrams and Online Text Collections | Conference | Ghent, Belgium | https://www.dbbe2020.ugent.be | E. De Paermentier |
| 29-3 July | Making a Digital Edition – Basic Skills and Technologies | Summer School | Antwerp, Belgium | https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/summer-schools/digital-humanities/ |
July 2020
| Date | Name | Event | Place | URL | DM attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 June-3 | Making a Digital Edition – Basic Skills and Technologies | Summer School | Antwerp, Belgium | https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/summer-schools/digital-humanities/ | |
| 6-9 | International Medieval Congress | Congress | Leeds, UK | https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk | (cancelled) |
| 6-10 | Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities | Summer School | Venice, Italy | https://www.unive.it/data/33113/2/36057 | F. Fischer |
| 6-10 | People in the Digital Age: Digital Prosopography | Summer School | Vienna, Austria | https://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/detail/event/summer-school-people-in-the-digital-age-digital-prosopography/ | G. Vogeler |
| 6-17 | NEH Institute ‘Advanced digital editing: modeling the text and making the edition’ | Two-week workshop | Pittsburgh (PA), USA | https://www.neh.gov/programinstitutefellowship/advanced-digital-editing-modeling-text-and-making-edition | |
| 20-25 | Digital Humanities Conference DH 2020 + Workshop ‘Twin Talks 3: Understanding and Facilitating Collaboration in DH’ | Conference | Ottawa, Canada | https://dh2020.adho.org |
September 2020
| Date | Name | Event | Place | URL | DM attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13-17 | El’Manuscript-2020: Textual Heritage and Information Technologies | Conference | Freiburg, Germany | http://www.elmanuscript2020.uni-freiburg.de/wordpress/ | |
| 15-17 | 3rd GENESIS conference: “Creative revision: exercises in comparative genetic criticism” | Conference | Oxford, UK | https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/dh_flanders/TWi1QVN5BAw/WkZkjec3BwAJ | |
| 17-19 | 17th annual conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS): “Histories of the holograph. From Ancient to Modern Manuscripts and Beyond” | Conference | Oxford, UK | https://textualscholarship.eu/ests-news/ | |
| 24 | ‘Just an Illusion’: Beowulf Book Beautiful | Webinar by Prof. Elaine Treharne | Register for Zoom link: https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=9147398 | https://research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/virtualspeakerseries202020211.html | |
| 29 | Digital Humanities: New Approaches to Research and Teaching of the Medieval Mediterranean (5th to 15th centuries) | SMM workshop (webinar) | Online | https://sites.google.com/unileon.es/new-approaches-to-research/introduction |
October 2020
| Date | Name | Event | Place | URL | DM attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12-16 | SUMAC 2020 – Structuring and Understanding of Multimedia heritAge Contents | Workshop | Seattle, US | https://sumac2020.ec-lyon.fr/ | |
| 13 | DH Virtual Discussion Group for Early Career Researchers in Belgium | Monthly virtual discussion seminar | Online | https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePedry3Gyp1PfrHxCnNM2JkHUZjABAKyXPrApw3u2fz98TQA/viewform | |
| 20-23 | 5th Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries Conference (DHN) 2020 | Conference + 20/10: Workshop ‘Twin Talks 2: Understanding and Facilitating Collaboration in DH’ | Riga, Latvia | https://www.clarin.eu/event/2020/twintalksdhn2020 | |
| 21-23 | Networks of Manuscripts, Networks of Texts | Online conference | Online | https://homomodernus.net/2020/08/26/conference-programme-networks-of-manuscripts-networks-of-texts/ | |
| 29-30 | Old Books and New Technologies: Medieval Books and the Digital Humanities in the Low Countries | Conference | Brussels, Belgium | https://www.irht.cnrs.fr/?q=fr/agenda/call-papers-old-books-and-new-technologies-medieval-books-and-digital-humanities-low |
November 2020
| Date | Name | Event | Place | URL | DM attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | DH Virtual Discussion Group for Early Career Researchers in Belgium | Monthly virtual discussion seminar | Online | https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePedry3Gyp1PfrHxCnNM2JkHUZjABAKyXPrApw3u2fz98TQA/viewform |
December 2020
| Date | Name | Event | Place | URL | DM attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | DH Virtual Discussion Group for Early Career Researchers in Belgium | Monthly virtual discussion seminar | Online | https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePedry3Gyp1PfrHxCnNM2JkHUZjABAKyXPrApw3u2fz98TQA/viewform |
