Medieval Digital Humanities at Leeds 2017

It’s nearly IMC Leeds time again! I will be there at the University of Leeds on July 3-6, along with approximately 2000 other medievalists. This year I am continuing in my tradition of compiling digital humanities, digitally inflected, and DH-adjacent sessions, papers, and activities into one handy list. The total so far is 46 that are either fully within this definition of digital or include at least one paper that is. (Compare this list and total with the 36 from 2015 [I didn’t get a chance to make a list for 2016].)

The conference indexes individual papers with the category “Computing in Medieval Studies,” as determined by the presenter. Papers under that list are shown in blue. Additional papers and sessions below are ones I added.

The list includes the session number, room location, session title, paper title(s) and speaker(s). The session title is also a link to the conference website’s description of the session with further information. I will also add speakers’ Twitter handles as requested.

The session number is structured like #s38 as a reminder that if you are tweeting during a session, you should use both the conference hashtag (#imc2017) AND the session hashtag (e.g. #s538). Following this protocol helps people follow particular sessions remotely.

The conference website with the full pdf of sessions is available here. Tweet along with @IMC_Leeds using the hashtag #imc2017 [not #imc17]. IMC has a social media policy [here], so give it a look before heading to the conference. Dorothy Kim’s #MedievalTwitter post from In the Middle from a few years ago is still useful (available here).

See you in Leeds in in a few weeks!

I am certain there are papers and sessions that I missed, and there may be a name misspelling in there. Please leave a comment with a correction, an addition, or a removal.

Monday, 3 July 2017

• 11:15-12:45

  • #s102 – Keyworth 1.05 – Cognitive approaches to Old and Middle English literature
    • Legal language in Langland – Jacqueline Cordell
  • #s132 – Union 2, Elland Road – Inquisitional records from the perspective of social network analysis
    • Networking heresy: A comparative approach to religious dissent in late medieval Languedoc – Delfi-Isabel Nieto-Isabel
    • The participation of women (and some men) in Languedocian Catharism: A network science perspective – David Zbíral
      
  • #s139 – Union 4, Hyde Park – The digital scribe: Handwritten text recognition (HTR) of medieval documents (@Transkribus)
    • From memoria to the memory of the turning points of life: Matricula-Online and HTR – Herbert Wuster
    • Transkribus and the archives of a Brigittine monastery: Making digital editions of Naantali documents – Maria Kallio
    • Sending 15th-century missives through algorithms: Testing and evaluating HTR with 2,200 documents – Tobias Hodel (@thist_uzh)
      

• 14:15-15:45

  • #s207 – Parkinson B.10 –Georgian history and literature
    • Reconstructing Tamar’s lions: Digital approaches to the Court of Tamar – James Baillie (@JubalBarca)
      
  • #s213 – Parkinson 1.08 – Charters, cartularies, and wills: Papers in honour of Michael Gervers
    • Too busy to explain why?: Interpreting changes in the diplomatic formulae of 12th- and 13th-century charters – Robin Sutherland-Harris
  • #s231 – Fine Art Building SR G.04 – Spiritual landscapes: Mapping female spirituality in the middle ages, I
    • Navigating medieval spiritual landscapes in the age of digital humanities – Núria Jornet-Benito
    • Monastic landscapes: Monasteries, convents, and nunneries in Andalusia at the end of the middle ages – Silvia María Pérez González
    • The monastery and its environments: The use of GIS for the study of monastic estates in the middle ages – Xavier Costa-Badia and Maria Soler-Sala
  • #s239 – Union 4, Hyde Park – Digitising patterns of power, I: Genealogy on a map
    • Memoria and self-representation on the example of Hans III Herzheimer – Veronika Polloczek
    • How to digitise genealogical data with the OpenAtlas software?: The example of the Herzheimer Chronicle – Bernhard Koschicek
    • Cartographic aspects: Interactive mapping of history and cartographic principles – Markus Breier
    • Using Recogito for annotation and mapping of historical sources – Rainer Simon
  • #s243 – Keyworth 1.31 – ‘Dame Ortography taught lettres and how men should wryte’: Medieval writers and their spelling
    • Not my type: A computational approach to identifying Caxton’s compositors – Rosie Shute

• 16:30-18:00

  • #s318 – Stage@leeds 3 – Digital skin: Sensory experiences of digital manuscripts, I
    • Digitising the digit: Imprint and the lasting impressions of medieval hands – Hollie Morgan
    • ‘Whose written heritage?’: An interdisciplinary exploration of making multimodal miscellanies at a public, urban, minority-serving institution in the U.S. – Katharine Jager and Melissa Torres
    • Necromancing the archive – Bridget Whearty
  • #s339 – Union 4, Hyde Park – Digitising patterns of power, II: Borders, power, and the other
    • Change of sovereignty in Justinian Ravenna in the 540s – David Schmid
    • Byzantium and the others: The change of elites in Byzantine Macedonia in the wake of the Serbian expansion, 14th Century – Mihailo Popović
      
    • Digital collection, evaluation, and presentation of archeological data, interpretations and results: The case study of the early medieval Morava/Thaya border region – Stefan Eichert
    • Relational modelling of historical data: Concepts and challenges – Alexander Watzinger
  • #s344 – Emmanuel Centre, Wilson – Flavius Josephus in the middle ages: Another church father?
    • Josephus and the church fathers: By the numbers – Richard M. Pollard

• 19:00-20:00

  • #s418 – Stage@leeds 3 – Digital skin: Sensory experiences of digital manuscripts, II – A roundtable discussion
    • Including Bill Endres, Bronac Ferran, Catherine E. Karkov, and Andrew Prescott
  • #s439 – Union 4, Hyde Park – Using the new Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts: A workshop on provenance research in an open-access, crowd-sourced world – led by Lynn Ransom

Tuesday, 4 July 2017

• 11:15-12:45

  • #s639 – Stage@leeds 2 – Medieval prosopography, II: Online databases and prosopographical research
    • Unknown unknowns: Using the making of Charlemagne’s Europe database for social history research – Rachel Stone (@magistraetmater)
      
    • Byzantine prosopography: Still evolving – Charlotte Roueché
      
    • Crusaders to the Holy Land, 1095-1291: The uses (and abuses) of a prosopographical database – Guy Perry
  • #s642 – Keyworth G.02 – Knowledge, exchange, impact, and public value of the middle ages
    • Leaving an imprint: Finding common ground with forensic scientists – Philippa Hoskin
    • England’s immigrants, 1330-1550: Resources for the school examinations curricula – Jessica Lutkin

• 14:15-15:45

  • #s701 – University House, St George – Editing Old English Electronically
    • The evolution of a text in four stages: Editing Aelfric’s pastoral letters from the Old English letter for Wulfsige to Wulfstan’s revision of Aelfric’s first Old English letter for Wulfstan – Tristan Major
    • Editing Aelfric in the 21st Century: What’s new about that? – Murray McGillivray
    • Interacting with Alfred’s Soliloquies – Michael Treschow
  • #s711 – Parkinson B.22 – ‘Miscellany’ as genre: Core and periphery
    • Theological compilations in the digital age – Julie Barrau
  • #s736 – University House, Great Woodhouse – Medievalists and the climate sciences, I: Climate and weather in medieval documentary sources
    • From medieval chronicles to climate indices: The example of the Burgundian Low Countries in the 15th century – Chantal Camenisch
  • #s739 – Stage@leeds 2 – Exon Domesday, I: The processes of Exon
    • Collecting geld – Chris Lewis
    • Describing royal estates – Alex Dymond
    • The making and purposes of Exon Domesday – Stephen Baxter
  • #s742 – Keyworth G.02 – Postmedieval manuscript histories: Sketches, forgery, emendation
    • Othering medieval texts: Postmedieval versions of a medieval Icelandic saga – Ludger Zeevaert

• 16:30-18:00

• #s809 – Keyworth 1.32 – Moving Byzantium, IV: Scales of mobility in early Byzantium
  • Kinetic empires: Nomadic mobility, environmental change, and imperial formations between Byzantium and China, 6th-9th centuries – Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
  • Networks of merchants in Byzantine Egypt: A geographical perspective – Dorota Dzierzbicka
  • Flight from Byzantium: Attitudes toward emigration in late antiquity – Ekaterina Nechaeva
• #s816 – Baines 1.14 –Living under the rule of the other
  • The language of othering in medieval Wales, pre- and post-conquest – Zoe Bartliff
• #s836 – University House, Great Woodhouse – Medievalists and the climate sciences, II: Natural records as historical source material, human consequences of climate
  • Crop failures and crises in relation to climate-sensitive tree-ring records in medieval Finland and north-west Russia, 1100-1500 – Heli Hutamaa
• #s839 – Stage@leeds 2 – Exon Domesday, II: The Frenchness of Exon
  • Organising the writing – Francisco José Álvarez López
    
  • Who were the Exon scribes? – Julia Crick
• #s841 – Fine Art ground floor studio – Men of war in peacetime
  • Tinker, tailor, soldier, archer: The socio-economic position of English archers in ‘civilian’ society – Samuel Gibbs

• 19:00-20:00

• #s906 – Stage@leeds 1 – Beyond the Femfog: Feminist medieval digital humanities – A roundtable discussion
  • Including Johanna Green, Katharine Jager, Roberta Magnani, Kristen Mapes (@kmapesy), and Bridget Whearty

Wednesday, 5 July 2017

• 9:00-10:30

  • #s1008 – Baines G.37 – Seals and social strata in northern Europe
    • Friends and neighbours: Using Digisig to investigate regional affinities in the British Isles in the 13th century – John McEwan
  • #s1029 – Keyworth 1.06 – Other than human, I: Monsters
    • Ordering the other: The organisation of monstrous men on the Psalter map – Catherine Megan Crossley
  • #s1034 – Keyworth 1.05 – New approaches to presenting medieval history and literature
    • The soundscapes of the York mystery plays: Sound design techniques applied to medieval drama studies – Mariana Lopez
  • #s1035 – Parkinson B.09 – The theory and politics of medieval studies, I: Theory
    • The historical is political: Understanding the backlash against the study of race, gender, and representation in medievalism – Victoria Cooper

• 11:15-12:45

  • #s1104 – Baines G.37 – Digital approaches to Jewish history in medieval Germany
    • ‘Epidat’: Database of Jewish epigraphy – Thomas Kollatz
    • The ‘new Gallia-Germania Judaica’: An international database of Jewish settlements, locations, and migrations – Clemens Liedtke and Amélie Sagasser
  • #s1112 – Union 6, Roundhay – Mappings, II: Producing and reproducing local maps
    • Using historical maps for GIS-based analysis; Religious books in Amiens and in nearby towns – Margriet Hoogvliet
  • #s1135 – Parkinson B.09 – The theory and politics of medieval studies, II: Activism
    • Kismet Press: A case study in open access publishing – Tim Barnwell
  • #s1139 – Keyworth 1.31 – Making sense of earlier English texts: New approaches and readings
    • Genre and the Dictionary of Old English – M. Jane Toswell

• 14:15-15:45

  • #s1208 – Parkinson B.22 – Webs of paratexts, paratexts on the web: Collecting and editing medieval Greek paratexts
    • ParaTexBib and the systematic analysis of the paratexts of the gospel in Greek manuscripts: methodology and examples – Patrick Andrist
  • #s1211 – University House, Great Woodhouse – Piece by piece: Medieval fragments in the digital age, I
    • Too many books: Cataloguing fragments in the Austrian National Library – Katharina Kaska
    • Norwegian book fragments and the Internet – Åslaug Ommundsen
    • Fragmentarium: Challenges in digital fragmentology – Veronika Drescher

• 16:30-18:00

  • #s1311 – University House, Great Woodhouse – Piece by piece: Medieval fragments in the digital age, II
    • Fragmented theology: Texts from 12th-century manuscript fragments – Christoph Egger
    • Gibt es einen Erkenntnisgewinn durch (liturgische) Fragmente?: Das Beispiel der Handschriftenfragmente aus dem Historischen Staatsarchiv Konigsberg in Berlin – Anette Löffler
    • Discoveries in the details: Cataloguing in situ manuscript fragments in incunabula – Ruth Mullett
  • #s1323 – Social Sciences 10.06 – Teaching the otherness: Medieval literature in school
    • Looking out for outcasts with the help of digital medieval German literature: The MHDBDB in alternative teaching – Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer

• 19:00-20:00

  • #s1411 – Union 2, Elland Road – From fragments to fragmentarium: A round table discussion
    • Including: Lisa Fagin Davis, Veronika Drescher, Christoph Egger, Anette Löffler, and Åslaug Ommundsen

Thursday, 6 July 2017

• 9:00-10:30

  • #s1531 – Fine art building SR G.04 – The go-between: Tricksters, messengers, and amanuenses in medieval literature
    • Morphological influences in the letters of Margaret Paston – Osamu Ohara
  • #s1539 – Stage@leeds 3 – Digital methods, I: Computer-assisted approaches to palaeography
    • Models of authority: All about that database – Stewart J. Brookes
    • Towards digital palaeographical handbooks for vernacular scripts: Some desiderata from the perspective of Old Icelandic script – Michael MacPherson
    • The problem of multigraphism: A digital approach to transversal palaeography – Peter A. Stokes
  • #s1540 – Keyworth 1.31 – The other look at early medieval societies: The phenomenon of militarisation, I – Comparative approaches to early medieval militarisation
    • Gothic Italy: A (de)militarised society? – The dark side of ethnic identity – Kai Grundmann

• 11:15-12:45

  • #s1613 – Baines G.36 – Interaction, identity, and space in the Irish Sea, 700-1100, II: Interactions and spaces
    • Mapping maritime cultures: The early medieval Irish Sea region – David Griffiths
  • #s1639 – Stage@leeds 3 – Digital methods, II: Manuscript images in theory and in practice
    • The practical and theoretical consequences of the use of digital surrogates – Kerri Thomas
    • Color literacy: What every medievalist should know who has taken a photo of a manuscript with a smartphone and thought, it might be a palimpsest – Bill Endres
    • Image processing methods for determining visual manuscript and character features – Thomas Konidaris

• 14:15-15:45

  • #s1739 – Stage@leeds Stage 3 – Digital methods, III: Metadata, shared standards, and tools for manuscript study
    • Formative wisdom – Samuel Rubenson
    • Manuscript cataloguing in a digital age – Matthew L. Holford
    • De-localising the archive: Uses and applications of IIIF for medieval manuscript repositories – Cai Henderson

Friday, 7 July 2017

• 10:00-14:00

  • Fragments and bindings from Ripon Cathedral: A workshop
    • Led by Lisa Fagin Davis