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Digital Medievalist
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International web-based community for medievalists working with digital media.
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Yesterday Darmstadt unexpectedly became a little #DigitalMedievalist hotspot – what a happy chance to meet colleagues from the Postgrad Committee and capture the moment together! ✨
@sgensicke.bsky.social @luiseborek.bsky.social Giulia D‘Agostino @tuda.bsky.social
Members of the Digital Medievalist Board and PostGrad Committee in front of the "House of History" (Hessian State Archive Darmstadt).
October 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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📜Call for Papers: Digital Medievalist sponsored sessions International Medieval Congress 2026 (Leeds, UK).

We seek proposals on the following themes:
- 'Large Language Models and Medieval Texts'
- 'Digital Methods and Materiality of Manuscripts'

▶️Full call: tinyurl.com/f82tcrzk
📆21 Sept 2025
A dark blue and black flyer with a digital-themed background featuring a digitized medieval manuscript. The title in large, white font reads: "Digital Medievalist Sponsored Sessions." Below this, the text indicates the event is the International Medieval Congress, 06-09 July 2026, Leeds, (UK). Two session themes are listed in white font: On the left: "Large Language Models and Medieval Texts" with the co-sponsor listed as "Southampton Digital Humanities, University of Southampton." On the right: "Digital Methods and Materiality of Manuscripts" with the co-sponsor listed as "Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds." A central section has a large, underlined blue hyperlink that says "Access the full call for papers" and a QR code next to it. At the bottom, a white text box provides submission instructions: "Please send abstracts of 150 words by end of day 21 September 2025 to Delphine Demelas at D.Demelas@soton.ac.uk or N. Kıvılcım Yavuz at N.K.Yavuz@leeds.ac.uk. Please include your contact details and your preferred mode of participation (in-person or virtual) together with your abstract." The bottom of the flyer includes the website "https://digitalmedievalist.org" and the organization's logo.
September 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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📣 CfP: The endless scroll - Digital approaches to Medieval Time, IMC 2026, Leeds UK

The Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts invites contributions that explore how digital methods and tools can illuminate, represent, and reinterpret medieval temporalities.

📅 Deadline: 1/09/2025
August 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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📜 CfP: Minimal Computing and the Middle Ages, IMC2026, Leeds (UK)

The session will explore the intersection of #minimalcomputing and #medieval studies for sustainable, accessible, and ethical approaches to #digital scholarship in a time of limited resources.

📅Deadline: 23:59 BST, 10/09/25
The image is a flyer advertising a call for papers for a session at the IMC2026, Leeds with the following text: Call for Papers: Minimal Computing and the Middle Ages (Leeds International Medieval Congress 2026) Minimal computing is a loose set of ideas and methodologies in digital humanities research, broadly based around the idea of limitations in resources, whether financial, environmental, infrastructural, labour, or otherwise. As Risam and Gill (2022) put it, minimal computing advocates call for “using only the technologies that are necessary” to achieve a research aim. In this way, minimal computing intends to promote the accessibility of digital scholarship in a wide variety of contexts, counteracting conflation of digital humanities scholarship with expensive software licences, powerful computers or programming expertise (among other concepts). We invite papers that consider these issues as they relate to medieval studies. As the climate crisis worsens, the sustainability of high-performance computing and associated digital research methods have come under scrutiny. Moreover, the difficult funding situation in many countries and institutions poses further problems to the sustainability of digital medieval studies. Expensive equipment, software and computing capacity remains out of reach of many early career, contingent and independent scholars, particularly those without affiliations to well-funded research universities. Minimal computing can be a philosophical choice, but also a choice out of pragmatic necessity. If you would like to participate, please send a 150 word abstract, a short bio (no more than 40 words), institutional affiliation, contact details and preferred pronouns to Eddie Meehan at e.g.meehan@leeds.ac.uk and Jon Dell Isola at 02dellisola@cua.edu. Abstracts are due by 23:59 BST on Wednesday 10th September.
August 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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📣 CfP: Big Data and medieval manuscripts, IMC2026, Leeds (UK)

This session brings together scholars using #BigData, #AI, and machine learning to advance the study of #medieval manuscripts through methods as quantitative codicology and paleography.

📆 Deadline for abstract: 23:59 BST, 29/05/2025
Call for paper for the round table 'Big data and medieval manuscripts' for the IMC2026 in Leeds. an image at the top represent a library where data symbolized as numbers flow from open books.
August 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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The curators @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social have included the 'Akhbār-i Barmakiyān' in their latest Weston Library exhibition, which runs until late October. Worth a visit if you can make it to #Oxford! Here is Arezou with our 'Reader's Choice' selection for #Treasured.

#medievalsky #skystorian
Woman standing in front of display case, which contains a medieval Persian manuscript, t
July 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Here, our colleague Nadia Vidro reads a translation of the #letter — offering a rare glimpse into the everyday life of Jewish communities in medieval Afghanistan:

#medievalsky #digitalhumanities
July 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Challenging & important themes which we are looking forward to picking up with colleagues at our 'Invisible Treasures' event later.

Thanks to @nikokontovas.bsky.social & all of the curators at @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social for such a thought-provoking exhibition!

#treasures #treasured #bodleian
Exhibition case containing documents and artefacts with words scattered about 'looted', 'enslaved', 'offensive', 'complicit', 'defaced, 'uncertain' and more.
July 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Phew! Finally made it. A very hot 🚲 but worth it for this amazing exhibition.
Photo of woman, wearing black top and blue lanyard, with hoop earrings, sunglasses on her head and a smile. In the background the 'Treasured' exhibition signage at the Weston Library, Oxford.
July 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The beautiful Weston Library.
The exterior of the Weston Library, part of the Bodeleian at Oxford University.
July 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Quick stop to grab a picture of the stunning University Parks on another roasting summer day!
Blue sky and clouds above very dry grass and paths in a park.
July 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Starting out at our home in Ewert House, part of @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk!

#lifelonglearning #foreverycuriousmind #teamwork
Photo is of a two-storey office block, with stairs, a ramp, a grit bin and a plant in front!
July 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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We were going to call this 'A Portrait of The @invisibleeast.bsky.social Persian Team Hard at Work', but at this point on a scorching #Oxford June day it could more accurately be described as 'A Portrait of The Persian Team Hot at Work'!

(Out of sight are three fans as we try to cool the office!)
June 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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The @invisibleeast.bsky.social team is busy making final preparations for a hybrid film-screening and panel discussion we are hosting in #Oxford tomorrow afternoon - and you're invited!

The event will explore the ethical and practical challenges facing scholars and heritage institutions today...
Image is a still from a film, of man in Ghur province in Afghanistan. He is seated with cushions visible in the background. The main is wearing a black and white patterned turban, with beige and black clothing. He has a black beard and is looking intently at the camera. Below is an image of a document which he helped to discover and overlaid is a teal block containing information about an event.
June 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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🔔 We're thrilled to announce that @invisibleeast.bsky.social will be taking over our account next week!

Join us as we explore the fascinating intersections between #digitalhumanities methodologies and the rich cultural heritage of the medieval Islamicate world.

▶️ invisibleeast.web.ox...
Image showing various medieval manuscripts in written in Arabic. On the image, the text is: 'Bringing the medieval Islamicate East to the forefront of research - We are a research programme on the 8th-13th century Islamicate world in Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia. We transcribe, translate and analyse some of the oldest texts written in New Persian, Judeo-Persian, Arabic, Bactrian, Sogdian, Khotanese and Middle Persian, in order to shed new light on political, financial and legal infrastructures, and religious diversity of the region.'
June 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🎉 Exciting news! ✅ Our proposed bylaws amendments have been officially approved by our members at a large majority!
A huge thank you to all our members who participated in the feedback and voting process.
➡️ You can check the updated bylaws on our website: tinyurl.com/mtpkxt4b
Medieval illuminated manuscript page featuring a decorated initial letter containing a figure in white hood and red and green robes holding an open book. The initial has a blue background with white decorative swirls figuring animals. The surrounding text is written in Gothic script in Latin. Source: France, Cambrai, Médiathèque d'agglomération, Ms. 620 f. 013v, portail.biblissima.fr
June 17, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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📜 You are welcome to join us for our Digital Medievalist sponsored session at the #ICMS2025 'Bishops, Clerics, and Digital Medievalists (A Roundtable)'

📅 May 10, 3.30pm (EDT)

Organizers: @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social @kalanicraig.bsky.social & William H. Campbell

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screenshot of the ICMS program of the Digital medievalist roundtable Bishops, Cleris and Digital Medievalist Bishops, Clerics, and Digital Medievalists (A Roundtable) Sponsors: Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages; Digital Medievalist Presider: Kalani Craig, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington Organizer: N. Kıvılcım Yavuz, Univ. of Leeds William H. Campbell, Univ. of Pittsburgh–Greensburg Kalani Craig, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington A roundtable discussion with Joshua Pontillo, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington; Rowan Dorin, Stanford Univ.; William H. Campbell, Univ. of Pittsburgh–Greensburg; Evan A. Gatti, Elon Univ
May 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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📜 There is still time to apply for the remaining few spots at the Digital Medieval Studies Institute UK edition, a one-day event on digital methods for medievalists, sponsored by Digital Medievalist!

📆 July 11 2025, University of Leeds
▶️ Info and registration: tinyurl.com/yeyhact4

#medievalsky
This is a flyer for the Digital Medieval Studies Institute at the University of Leeds (UK). The event takes place on July 11, 2025, and features a one-day workshop program focused on digital scholarly methods for medievalists. The flyer has a dark blue background with code/programming elements and includes a circular image of a medieval manuscript illustration showing a figure in blue clothing and a flower. The DMSI logo, the University of Leeds logo and the Digital Medievalist logo appear in the bottom right corner. The workshops offered include: Geospatial Tools for Mapping the Middle Ages (led by Carrie Benes) Cooperative Network Visualization with NetCreate (led by Nathan Howard) Artificial Intelligence: Image Analysis Applied to Medieval Manuscripts (led by Dominique Stutzmann) Foundations in Working with Medieval Manuscripts Using IIIF (led by Paul Mollahan and Tom Crane) Seeing Beyond: Practical and Low-Cost Multispectral Imaging (led by Helen Davies) The flyer includes a "Register Now" button, contact information (dmsi.hello@gmail.com), and a registration URL (https://tinyurl.com/DMSI-2025-UK). The event is organized by N. Kivilcim Yavuz and Laura Morreale.
April 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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📢 Digital Medievalist Bylaw Amendments - Dear members, We Need Your Feedback!

We're proposing several amendments to the Digital Medievalist bylaws to improve governance structure, procedural clarity, and strengthen our inclusivity commitments.
1/5
Judicial debate (France, Troyes. Médiathèque du Grand Troyes, Ms. 181 f. 001) ; Medieval manuscript illumination depicting a seated authority figure in blue robes and a flat cap at center, likely a scholar or official. He is surrounded by four standing figures in colorful medieval garments (pink, green, and red). At his feet, a scribe in bright orange clothing kneels while writing on a scroll. The scene has a decorative checkered blue and gold background and is framed by ornate borders with vine-like decorations. Text in Gothic script appears at the bottom of the page. This appears to be from a medieval manuscript showing knowledge transmission or an administrative scene.
March 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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📜 There is still time to register for our sponsored Digital Medieval Studies Institute, a one-day workshop on #digital methods for medievalists!
📆 March 19, 2025, Cambridge & Boston
⚠️ Registration deadline: Jan. 30, 2025

▶️ Info: tinyurl.com/3mcb655j

#medievalsky #digitalhumanities #DMSI
A flyer for the Digital Medieval Studies Institute (DMSI) 2025, detailing an event scheduled for March 19, 2025, in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, from 8:30 AM to 7:00 PM. The event is sponsored by Harvard University, Boston College, McMullen Museum, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, and Digital Medievalist. Organized by Laura K. Morreale and N. Kıvılcım Yavuz, the day-long program features workshops on digital scholarly methods for medievalists. The flyer includes a "Call for Participation" section, explaining that the event begins with a lecture by Gabriel Pizzorno of Harvard University on the importance of data structures in digital scholarship. This is followed by lightning talks and five concurrent workshops at Boston College’s McMullen Museum. Workshop topics include: Rendering Spaces Virtually Using Photogrammetry (Rachel Chamberlain). Rendering 3D Artifacts for Virtual Exhibits Using Photogrammetry (Antonio Lo Piano). Mapping Humanities: The Medieval Version (Kahil Sawan). Networking Old English England (David Thomas). Digitizing Manuscripts (Anthony Harris and Sara Powell), which takes place at Harvard University's Houghton Library. Participants will be charged $100, with a small bursary available for five individuals. Applicants are asked to choose three workshops in order of preference and submit a short proposal. Details on how to apply, eligibility, and workshop descriptions are included.
January 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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🗞️ Digital Medievalist vol. 17 | Digital Approaches to Medieval Sigillography

Five new papers explore machine-learning approaches, database construction, and future strategies to study seals, from medieval England to the Byzantine Empire.

#digitalhumanities #medievalsky #AI

🔗 tinyurl.com/ycy5mfu5
Reverse of seal SB-258 (Robert Feind Collection) captured with different rendering modes. Top left: Diffuse Gain PTM; top right: Default HSH RTI. Middle left: Specular Enhancement PTM; middle right: Specular Enhancement HSH RTI. Bottom left: Normals Visualisations PTM; bottom right: Normals Visualisations HSH RTI. source : https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/article/id/15117/
December 13, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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📜Digital Medieval Studies Institute (DMSI) 2025, Cambridge & Boston.
A one-day workshop on digital methods for medievalists!
📆 March 19, 2025, 8:30-17:00
Organizers: @lauramorreale.bsky.social and @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social
➡️ Info and registration: tinyurl.com/bdhrtes2
#medievalsky #DH
A flyer for the Digital Medieval Studies Institute (DMSI) 2025, detailing an event scheduled for March 19, 2025, in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, from 8:30 AM to 7:00 PM. The event is sponsored by Harvard University, Boston College, McMullen Museum, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, and Digital Medievalist. Organized by Laura K. Morreale and N. Kıvılcım Yavuz, the day-long program features workshops on digital scholarly methods for medievalists. The flyer includes a "Call for Participation" section, explaining that the event begins with a lecture by Gabriel Pizzorno of Harvard University on the importance of data structures in digital scholarship. This is followed by lightning talks and five concurrent workshops at Boston College’s McMullen Museum. Workshop topics include: Rendering Spaces Virtually Using Photogrammetry (Rachel Chamberlain). Rendering 3D Artifacts for Virtual Exhibits Using Photogrammetry (Antonio Lo Piano). Mapping Humanities: The Medieval Version (Kahil Sawan). Networking Old English England (David Thomas). Digitizing Manuscripts (Anthony Harris and Sara Powell), which takes place at Harvard University's Houghton Library. Participants will be charged $100, with a small bursary available for five individuals. Applicants are asked to choose three workshops in order of preference and submit a short proposal. Details on how to apply, eligibility, and workshop descriptions are included.
November 26, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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📜 Call for paper: Digital Approaches to Materiality of Manuscripts | IMC 2025, Leeds
We are seeking papers dealing with digital manuscript studies for a series of sessions entitled ‘Digital Approaches to Materiality of Manuscripts’.
📆 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2024
Document announcing a Call for Papers for a session sponsored by Digital Medievalist 'Digital Approaches to Materiality of Manuscripts' at the International Medieval Congress, scheduled for 7-10 July 2025 at the University of Leeds, UK. The call invites proposals on digital approaches to the materiality of manuscripts. The document includes details about the sponsor and provides contact information for submissions. The accompanying photograph shows two open medieval manuscripts with visible text and notation.
September 19, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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We are happy to co-sponsored the interactive public workshop 'Medieval Women’s Networks: Exploring Techniques and Tools for Digital Analysis', organised by Kathy Krause & Laura Morreale (Online)
📅Oct 17-18, 12:00-14:30 EST
➡️To register: tinyurl.com/mun5rmhy
A colorful poster for an event titled “Exploring Medieval Women’s Networks: Techniques and Tools for Digital Analysis.” The top features a medieval illustration of several women holding hands. Below, text details a two-day public workshop via Zoom on October 17th and 24th, 2024, with various scholars presenting research on medieval women’s networks using digital tools. The bottom includes logos from sponsoring institutions like UMKC, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence and Digital Medievalist.
August 5, 2024 at 8:34 AM
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We are incredibly grateful to all of the amazing panelists and attendees of our #IMC2024 round table discussions and reception. We look forward to seeing you next year!
#digitalhumanities #medieval
A group of people sit in a classroom setting, engaging in a hybrid meeting. Some participants are seated around tables with laptops, while others join via a video call displayed on a large screen at the front of the room. The atmosphere appears collaborative and attentive. Attendees in a classroom participate in a presentation for the research project "Virtual Middle Ages: Virtual Objects in Medievalist Research." The presentation is displayed on a large screen, with a panel of speakers seated in front, engaging with the audience. The room is filled with a focused and engaged audience.
July 5, 2024 at 1:34 PM