King's College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS
UK
It is with great delight that the DigiPal team at the Department of Digital Humanities and the Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies (CLAMS) announce the programme for the fourth DigiPal Symposium. Building on the conversations of previous years, the focus will be the computer-assisted study of medieval handwriting and manuscripts. This year there is something of an international theme with speakers discussing Scandinavian fragments, Scottish charters, Greek and Latin inscriptions, Hebrew manuscripts of Portuguese provenance, Old English from the eleventh century, and a corpus of French documents. There will be a mix of epigraphy, numismatics, Digital Humanities, codicology, exciting technology to decipher material scratched into manuscripts and… and… ah yes, palaeography!
Registration is free and the first 80 people to register will receive a free lunch. After that, I’m afraid there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Judging by previous experience, places and lunches are expected to disappear rapidly, so if you’d like to attend, then please register through Eventbrite. Oh, and do let us know if you are vegetarian.
Draft Programme:
09.30 Registration & Coffee
09.50 Welcome
10.00 Ben Pohl (University of Cambridge) and Dot Porter (Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies)
11.00 Break
11.30 Stewart Brookes, Peter Stokes and Matilda Watson (King’s College London)
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Debora Matos (King’s College London), Florence Codine (Bibliothèque nationale de France) and Simona Stoyanova (University of Leipzig)
15.30 Break
16.00 Marc Smith (École Nationale des Chartes), Dauvit Broun (University of Glasgow) and Julia Crick (King’s College London)
17.30 Closing remarks
17.45 Drinks reception