Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 583.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:23:23 +0000
From: Barbara Bordalejo <bb268@nyu.edu>
Subject: Computing methods on textual studies: Workshop and Conference
Conference and workshop announcements
in computing, scholarly editing and stemmatics
The Centre for Technology and the Arts (CTA) and the Canterbury Tales
Project (CTP), De Montfort University,
announce two events relating to the impact of computing methods on textual
studies in general, and scholarly editing in particular.
On 29-30 April the CTA will host a workshop in stemmatics and computer
methods organized by the STEMMA project. STEMMA is an interdisciplinary
project which seeks to explore the application of the techniques of
evolutionary biology to the study of manuscript traditions. It is a
collaboration between The Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge, and the
CTA. A major purpose of STEMMA has been to test different techniques
developed in evolutionary biology on various manuscript traditions, using
data developed in several text editing projects (notably, the Canterbury
Tales Project; the Greek New Testament Projects at Mnster and Birmingham;
the Parzifal project at Basel). This work has given us insights into which
methods of data collection, analysis and publication offer the most useful
results. The workshop will show the methods we have developed, and give
workshop participants the chance to use these for themselves. Twenty
places only will be available for participants. There will be a charge
of 75 per person, including costs for lunches, refreshments and a dinner
on Tuesday evening. See the workshop website
http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/projects/stemma/workshop.html for more details.
On 7-9 July, 2003 the CTA and the CTP will host a conference on 'New
Technologies, Old Texts'. Conference papers and sessions will address:
electronic editions, new technologies for the study of texts, the impact of
technology on editorial theory, the use of computers in textual studies,
computer software and the study of manuscripts, the role of the reader, the
role of the editor, the process of publication, printed vs. electronic
editions. The range of areas covered includes medieval English and Italian
texts; the Greek New Testament; Modernist texts; advanced search systems in
Old English and other texts. Confirmed speakers include Peter
Shillingsburg, David Parker, Lou Burnard, Martin Foys, Peter Robinson,
Linne Mooney and Dirk Van Hulle. The conference fee is 187 including all
accommodation and fees. Day-only registration, not including
accommodation, is also available. See the workshop website
http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/projects/ctp/confprog.html for more details.
For further information contact Barbara Bordalejo at bb268@nyu.edu or
bbordalejo@dmu.ac.uk
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Wed Mar 26 2003 - 02:46:24 EST