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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Wednesday, June 16

8:00-9:00  Registration and Continental Breakfast

 9:00-10:30 Plenary Session I

 Professor David A. Trotter, Editor , Anglo-Norman Dictionary

Head, Department of European Language, Aberystwyth University, Wales

"Bytes, words, texts: the Anglo-Norman Dictionary and its text-base"

10:30-11:00  Coffee Break

11:00-12:30  

Session I

Music and Performance I:

-       Jan Kolacek, Charles University, Prague

"The Global Chant Database Project"

-       Debra Suzanne Lacoste, Wilfrid Laurier University

"The CANTUS Database: Mining for Chant Traditions"

Session II

 Collaborations and Large Scale Initiatives I:

-       Emiliano Degl' Innocenti, SISMEL Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino, Florence

"From Middle to Digital Ages: the Virtual Library of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence"

-       Zdenek Uhlír

"Manuscriptorium Digital Manuscript Library and Digital Codicology"

-       Consuelo Dutschke, Columbia University

"Moving, Growing, Formalizing:  Digital Scriptorium today"

12:30-2:00  Lunch

2:00-3:30

Session III

Music and Performance II:

-       Geert Maessen

"A Software Tool for Defining Performance Styles of Tenth-Century Chant"

-       Frédéric Billiet and Xavier Fresquet, Université de Paris, Sorbonne

"From Musicastallis to MusicaInstrumentalis : Towards Common Sets of Data Elements in Online Medieval Musical Iconography Databases"

-       Evelyn Birge Vitz, Marilyn Lawrence, and Jennifer Vinopal, New York University

"Challenges and opportunities in setting up a performance website:

Performing Medieval Narrative Today: A Video Showcase:

http://www.nyu.edu/projectsmednar/ "

Session IV

Collaborations and Large Scale Initiatives II:

-       Toby Nicolas Burrows, University of Western Australia

"Building a Digital Research Community in Medieval and Early Modern Studies: The Australian Network for Early European Research"

-       Thomas Hansen, Society for Danish Language and Literature; Mogens Devantier

"TEI - Why We Need to Keep it Simple"

-       Fred Gibbs, George Mason University

"New Textual Traditions for Discovering the Middle Ages"

3:30-4:00  Coffee Break

 4:00-5:30

Session V

Material Culture:

-       Ollivier Cullin, Université de Tours

"Music and Digital Paleography: Living the Material Culture of Medieval Books"

-     Martin Kennedy Foys, Drew University; Shannon Bradshaw, Drew University "The Digital Mappaemundi Resource"

-       Takami Matsuda, Masaaki Kashimura, Satoko Tokunaga, and Mayumi Ikeda, Keio University

"Digital Bibliography for Late Medieval Book: Digitization and Research of the HUMI Project, Keio University"

Session VI

Teaching and Pedagogy:

-       Amanda M. Leff, Wellesley College

"Back to the Future: Medieval and Digital Literacy in the Classroom"

-       Donna Bussell, University of Illinois-Springfield

"Where's the Romance? Medieval Studies Online and On-Ground at a State University"

-       Louis Iorio Hamilton, Drew University

"Mapping the Medieval, Using GIS to Teach & Research the Medieval Mediterranean"

-       Serina Patterson, University of Victoria

"Speaking of Medieval: Developing an Interactive Platform to Teach"

6:00-7:30

 Plenary Panel:

Quantitative Palaeography through Massive Image Analysis: The Graphem Project

 Chair: Denis Muzerelle, IRHT, CNRS, Paris

 -       Marc H. Smith, École des Chartes, Paris, and Maria Gurrado, IRHT/CNRS, Paris

"Beyond Typology: Rethinking Palaeographical Categories with Computer Science?"-       Hubert Empotz, LIRIS-INSA, Lyon and Mathieu Exbrayat, LIFO, Orléans

"New Tools for Exploring, Analysing and Categorising Medieval Scripts"

-       Dominique Poirel, IRHT/CNRS, Paris

"Access to Textual Contents of Medieval Manuscripts Using Wordspotting Methods"

8:00   Dinner in a local restaurant will be arranged for those who wish to attend at an extra cost. Information to follow.

 Thursday, June 17

8:00-9:00  Continental Breakfast

9:00-10:30 Plenary II

 Professor John Unsworth, Dean and Professor, Graduate School of

Library and Information Science, and Director, Illinois Informatics Institute,

10:30-11:00  Coffee Break

 11:00-12:30

Session VII

The Roman de la rose:

-       Christine McWebb, University of Waterloo

"Digital Tool Development for Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts: The Case of the Roman de la rose"

-       Nadia Altschul, Johns Hopkins University

"Researching the Un-tagged: Portrayals of Race in the Roman de la rose"

-       Beatrice Radden Keefe, Index of Christian Art

"Defacing the Rose: Identifying Damage to Manuscripts of the Roman de la rose Digital Library"

Session VIII

Art History:

-       Ann Montgomery Jones, Sarum Seminar

"ISIDORE: A Relational Database for Medieval Art Research"

-       Nadia Togni, Université de Genève

"Biblion: Data Processing System for Giant Bibles"

-       Colum Hourihane, Princeton University

"Challenges in Digitization: The Index of Christian Art and the Twenty First Century"

12:30-2:00    Lunch

2:00-3:30

Session IX

Bibliographies, Encyclopaedia, Dictionaries:

-       Morgan Kay, Fordham University

"Online Medieval Sources Bibliography" 

-       Cynthia M. Vakareliyska, University of Oregon

"An On-Line Collation of Medieval Eastern Orthodox Calendars of Saints"

-       Dagmar Anne Riedel, Columbia University

"The ‘Dark Ages' of Medieval Iran: Medieval Studies, Islam, and the Digital Version of the Encyclopaedia Iranica"

-       Heather Pagan, Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University

"How to Make an Online Dictionary: A Demonstration of the AND2"

Session X

Textualities I:

-       Dorothy Kim, Vassar College, Scott Kleinman, California State University Northridge

"Marking Early Middle English and the Challenges of Laud Misc. 108"

-       Geoffrey Roger, University of Glasgow

"MS Glasgow Hunter 252 Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles - Digitisation and Text-Analysis"

-       Mark Aussems, University of Edinburgh

"Christine de Pizan: Author or Scribe? New Perspectives on the Production Process of Christine's Manuscripts"

-            Heather Blatt, Fordham University

"Immersed in Virtual Reality: New Media, Old Media, and Late Medieval Literary Culture"

3:30-4:00   Coffee Break

 4:00-5:30 

Session XI

Textualities II:

-       Chris L. Nighman, Wilfrid Laurier University

"Revisiting the Connection Between John of Wales' Communiloquium and Thomas of Ireland's Manipulus florum: Results from the Janus Intertextuality Search Engine

-       Delbert Russell, Mark Finkelstein, University of Waterloo

"Is the Medium Still the Message? Managing Modern Mediations of Medieval MSS"

-       Jinna Smit, University of Amsterdam

"Paleography and the Digital Middle Ages: experiences with the Groningen Intelligent Writer Identification System (GIWIS)"

-       Alice Brown, Université de Paris VII

"Avarice in the Middle Age"

Session XII

National and Regional Histories:

-    David Peterson, Universidad del País Vasco

"The Becerro Galicano of San Millán de la Cogolla. The Digital Edition of a Twelfth-Century Monastic Cartulary"

-       Elena Cantarell, Mireia Comas, Daniel Piñol, University of Barcelona

"Localization, Recovery, Arrangement and Diffusion of Catalan Private Archives and Documents

-       Caleb Smith, Columbia University 

"Mapping Gothic France"

5:30-7:00   Cocktail Reception co-sponsored by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Columbia University