Thursday, August 30, 2012

We've Moved!

Check out our new online home: http://earlymodernworkshop.tumblr.com. We hope to see you at EMW events this fall!

Latin Paleography Graduate Seminar

There are still a few places available in the upcoming Latin Paleography seminar being taught by Michael I. Allen of the University of Chicago. The course meets Fridays from 2-5PM at the Newberry Library, September 28th to December 7th. You need to have completed at least one course in Latin in order to enroll. More more information, visit http://www.newberry.org/09282012-graduate-seminar-michael-i-allen.

Faculty and graduate students at member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium may be eligible to apply for travel funding to attend this program. For more information, and to apply, click here. To join our mailing list, or update your information, use this form. Keep up with the Center for Renaissance Studies by following our blog.

CFP: Newberry Graduate Student Conference

Call-For-Papers: Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies
2013 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

Deadline: Monday, October 15, 2012
Conference: January 24-26, 2013

We invite abstracts for fifteen-minute papers from master’s or PhD students, on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic in Europe or the Mediterranean or Atlantic worlds. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, anthropology, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, political science, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies. Proposals are accepted only from students at member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium, who may be eligible to apply for reimbursement for travel expenses to attend.

Submissions are accepted online only, here (or click here to see a printable PDF flyer). Faculty and graduate students at member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium may be eligible to apply for travel funding to attend this program. Keep up with the Center for Renaissance Studies by following our blog. To join our mailing list, or update your information, use this form.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

CFP: Milton and the Digital Humanities Special Issue

It is well understood that "the digital turn" has transformed the contemporary cultural, political and economic environment. Less appreciated perhaps is its crucial importance and transformative potential for those of us who study the past. Whether through newly—and differently—accessible data and methods (e.g. "distant reading"), new questions being asked of that new data, or recognizing how digital reading changes our access to the materiality of the past, the digital humanities engenders a particularized set of questions and concerns for those of us who study the early modern, broadly defined (mid-15th to mid-19th centuries).

For this special issue of JEMCS, we seek essays that describe the challenges and debates arising from issues in the early modern digital, as well as work that shows through its methods, questions, and conclusions the kinds of scholarship that ought best be done—or perhaps can only be done— in its wake. We look for contributions that go beyond describing the advantages and shortcomings of (or problems of inequity of access to) EEBO, ECCO, and the ESTC to contemplate how new forms of information produce new ways of thinking.

We invite contributors to consider the broader implications and uses of existing and emerging early modern digital projects, including data mining, data visualization, corpus linguistics, GIS, and/or potential obsolescence, especially in comparison to insights possible through traditional archival research methods. Essays of 3000-8000 words are sought in .doc, .rtf, or .pdf format by January 15, 2013 to jemcsfsu@gmail.com. All manuscripts must include a 100-200 word abstract. JEMCS adheres to MLA format, and submissions should be prepared accordingly. 

In addition, we would welcome brief reports (500-1500 words) that describe digital projects in progress in early modern studies (defined here as spanning from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries), whether or not these projects have yet reached completion. These reports, too, should be submitted in .doc, .rtf, or .pdf format, using MLA style, by 15 January 2013 to jemcsfsu@gmail.com. For more information, visit http://www.johnmilton.org/