CESTA Seminar | G. Henley, E. Treharne, M. Lyons-Penner, S. Brisbois "Digital Medieval Studies in 2017: precedents, pathways, futures"

Date
Tue October 31st 2017, 12:00 - 1:30pm
Event Sponsor
Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA)
Location
Bldg. 160, Rm. 433A
CESTA Seminar | G. Henley, E. Treharne, M. Lyons-Penner, S. Brisbois "Digital Medieval Studies in 2017: precedents, pathways, futures"

A panel of digital medievalists takes stock of several significant leaps forward in digital medieval studies this year, most notably the first DH-focused issue from the field’s premier journal, Speculum, and the launch of a Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize by the Medieval Academy of America. At this pivotal moment in digital medieval studies, the panel assesses progress, boundaries, and setbacks, with particular attention to the field’s self-identified exceptionalism, potentials for collaboration, and the effects of mainstreaming. Attendees are encouraged – but not required – to review Speculum’s DH issue in advance of the seminar, and to prepare to engage in the following: how has medieval studies approached digital humanities in either unique or conventional ways? Do its approaches differ from other fields? How is medieval studies uniquely qualified (or not qualified) to utilize digital humanities methodologies? What aspects of our approach could be improved or refined, and what new directions would be most effective in the future? Should we value originality over building precedent? We particularly welcome perspectives from non-medievalists in the Stanford community as we assess ways forward.

Please find the articles here: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/spc/2017/92/S1.

Georgia Henley will discuss D.J. Birnbaum, S. Bonde, M. Kestemont, “The Digital Middle Ages: An Introduction.”

Elaine Treharne will discuss M. Kestemon, V. Christlein, D. Stutzmann, “Artificial Paleography: Computational Approaches to Identifying Script Types in Medieval Manuscripts.”

Mae Lyons-Penner will discuss M. Cruse, “A Quantitative Analysis of Toponyms in a Manuscript of Marco Polo’s Devisement du monde (London, British Library, MS Royal 19 D 1).”

Sébastien Brisbois will discuss D.J. Wrisley, “Locating Medieval French, or Why We Collect and Visualize the Geographic Information of Texts” and M.A. Stones, “Mapping Illuminated Manuscripts: Applying GIS concepts to Lancelot-Grail Manuscripts.”

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