Date: Monday 1st September 2014
Venue: Nash Lecture Theatre (K2.31), King’s College London, Strand WC2R 2LS
Co-sponsor: Centre for Late Antique & Medieval studies, KCL

It is with great delight that the DigiPal team at the Department of Digital Humanities (King’s College London) 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, we’re 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 here. Oh, and do let us know if you are a vegetarian.

Draft Programme :

09.30 : Registration & Coffee
09.50 : Welcome

10.00 : Session 1

Ben Pohl (University of Cambridge) – I Spy with My Digital Eye: New ways of Visualising the Hidden Features in Medieval Manuscripts
Dot Porter (Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies) – Visualizing the Construction of Manuscripts, through Collation and Video
11.00 : Coffee

11.30 : Session 2

Stewart Brookes (King’s College London) – The Palaeographer’s Guide to the DigiPal Galaxy
Peter Stokes (King’s College London) – TBA
Matilda Watson (King’s College London) – ‘ScandiPal’: Reconstructing and Researching Manuscript Fragments from Eleventh-Century Scandinavia
13.00 : Lunch

14.00 : Session 3

Debora Matos (King’s College London) – SephardiPal: Adapting DigiPal for 15th Century Hebrew Script and Decoration
Florence Codine (Bibliothèque nationale de France) – TBA
Simona Stoyanova (University of Leipzig and King’s College London) – Greek Province, Roman Sigma: Inscriptional Palaeography
15.30 : Coffee

16.00 : Session 4

Marc Smith (École Nationale des Chartes) – TBA
Dauvit Broun (University of Glasgow) – TBA
Julia Crick (King’s College London) – TBA

17.30 : Closing remarks
17.45 : Drinks reception in Council Room

Source de l’information : DigiPal