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Master Class, Digital Scholarly Editing

Agenda

19-23 February 2024, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken (Germany)

The master class Digital Scholarly Editing 2024 (#mcdse2024) teaches techniques of digital scholarly editing practices based on XML. This includes the proposals of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) as well as theoretical and methodological concepts of digital editions. The presenters convey the basics, introduce best practice tools and recommend sources of further information. The thematic focus is on medieval and early modern editions and associated methods such as source descriptions, scribe identification and text-critical apparatus. The participants will be enabled to independently develop and deepen their editorial and digital skills gathered in the event.

The master class takes place from 19th to 23rd February 2024 in Saarbrücken, at Saarland University. It was initiated by the research project “Sorores” (https://sorores.hypotheses.org/) and is carried out by the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE, https://www.i-d-e.de/). Participation is free of charge.

As a participant, you are expected to participate continuously and on all days. You have to bring your own computer including an installed Oxygen XML editor with a valid license (e.g. a temporary test license free of charge). You are expected to bring with you a poster presentation of your project for the poster session on Friday. Requirements for this will be sent out after registration. The language of instruction is English.

Interested persons are welcome to contact us by email (to sorores-school@i-d-e.de) with their name, institution and description of their edition project or edition-related research project (ca. 500 words). There is a limited number of bursaries for accommodation and meals available. Please indicate in your application if you would be interested in receiving this. The application deadline is on October 31st, 2023. There will be a waiting list in the event of over-registration.

Team:
Cristina Andenna
Roman Bleier
Sylvie Duval
Isabel Harvey
Torsten Roeder
Sergi Sancho Flibla
Torsten Schaßan
Georg Vogeler

Preliminary Programme

Monday, February 19, 2024
9:00-12:00: Introduction to XML, Oxygen, Basic TEI (Translation)
by Georg Vogeler, Univ. Graz

13:00-16:30: From Image to Transcription (Transkribus)
by Selina Galka, Univ. Graz

17:30 Guided Tour through Regional Archives of Saarland
18:30: Keynote (tba)
by Elena Pierazzo, Univ. Tours
and Reception

Tuesday, February 20, 2024
9:00-12:30: TEI: Embedded Transcription
by Bernhard Bauer, Univ. Graz

12:30-13:00 Introduction into publishing workflows in GAMS Graz (Bernhard Bauer)

14:30-18:00: TEI: Transcription and Critical Apparatus
by Elisa Cugliana, Univ. Cologne

Wednesday, February 21, 2024
9:00-12:30: TEI: teiHeader and Manuscript Description
by Torsten Schaßan, HAB Wolfenbüttel

12:30-13:00 Introduction into publishing workflows at HAB Wolfenbüttel (Torsten Schaßan)

14:30-18:00: Content Annotation 1: Persons, Places, Keywords
by Georg Vogeler, Univ. Graz

Thursday, February 22, 2024
9:00-12:30: Content Annotation 2: standOff, Linked Open Data
by Roman Bleier, Univ. Graz

12:30-13:00: Introduction into Publishing Workflows with EVT at Università di Potenza (tba)

14:30-18:00: Data Management (FAIR, trusted repo, git)
by Roman Bleier, Univ. Graz

Friday, February 23, 2024
9.00-12:30: Poster session (unConference, Lessons Learned)
incl. individual counseling by the digital scholarly edition experts of the IDE

More info here.

CfP: RSA 2024 (Chicago, 21-23 March 2024). Non-Cloistered Religious Women: Communities and their Local Context

Agenda

Beguines are trendy: many websites and novels are dedicated to them. But who were they? Their rediscovery created an upheaval in the long-accepted binary scheme of the female condition in the past: the convent or the house, aut virum aut murum. The beguines were, in fact, only the tip of the iceberg of non-cloistered female religious life. The works of Gabriella Zarri about the “terzo stato” in the 1990s demonstrated the importance of this third way of religious celibacy outside religious enclosure. The non-cloistered sisters represented a perpetually changing reality throughout Western Christendom, and the multiplication of female congregations in the nineteenth century was based in large part on this phenomenon, long ignored by historiography. In fact, these sisters were probably much more numerous than cloistered nuns, but they have been the subject of very few studies.

The research project Sorores, supported by the École française de Rome and the Casa de Velazquez of Madrid, is planning a series of panels for the upcoming RSA conference in Chicago (21-23 March 2024) about women who publicly lived non-cloistered religious lives in Europe and the colonies between 1400 and 1800. This year, we are focusing on the issues of the integration of communities or informal groups of non-cloistered religious women in their local social context. While names as beguines, tertiary sisters, or religious families as Ursulines are used to describe and englobe various communities of non-cloistered religious women, this categorization could be reductive and could hid the peculiarities of every group. How groups of non-cloistered religious women were integrated in their social and urban context, and how did they interact with it? How this local context influenced the shapes, rules, and activities of these groups of non-cloistered religious women?

We are looking to case study that will explore these questions through the following topics:

  • Local communities: structures, rules and activities
  • Local context of communities: connections and exchanges with the social and urban fabric
  • Reciprocal influences between communities and their surrounding 
  • The social role and presence of non-cloistered religious women in cities
  • Isolated communities
  • The influence of natural environment on communities
  • Roman Church and its norms
  • Community (Societies, Third Order, Dimesse…) vs individual (bizzoche, monache di casa…) experiences
  • Permanency and mutation throughout long time periods 
  • Relations with ecclesiastical and secular authorities
  • Sources and methodology

We specifically invite papers that will present either a new case study of non-cloistered religious women or revisit an already-known group in the light of their immediate context. Papers should be 15-20 minutes. 

Please email your abstract by August 5, 2023, to Isabel Harvey (harvey.isabel@uqam.ca), with your full name, current affiliation, and email address; a paper title (15-word maximum), and an abstract (150-word maximum). 

CfP: RSA 2023 (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 9-11 March 2023). Non-Cloistered Religious Women: Definition and Sources

Agenda

Beguines are trendy: many websites and novels are dedicated to them. But who were they? Their rediscovery created an upheaval in the long-accepted binary scheme of the female condition in the past: the convent or the house, aut virum aut murum. The beguines were, in fact, only the tip of the iceberg, that of non-cloistered female religious life. The works of Gabriella Zarri about the “terzo stato” in the 1990s demonstrated the importance of this third way of religious celibacy outside religious enclosure. The non-cloistered sisters represented a perpetually changing reality throughout Western Christendom, and the multiplication of female congregations in the nineteenth century was based in large part on this phenomenon, long ignored by historiography. In fact, these sisters were probably much more numerous than cloistered nuns, but they have been the subject of very few studies.

 The research project Sorores, supported by the École française de Rome and the Casa de Velazquez of Madrid, is planning a series of panels for the upcoming RSA conference in San Juan (9-11 March 2023) about women who publicly lived non-cloistered religious lives in Europe and the colonies between 1400 and 1800. This year, we are focusing on two issues: definitions and sources. Using the negative – non-cloistered religious women – to define these women inevitably brings us to question the definition of enclosure and, in connection, religious vows, Roman norms, identities and self-definitions. Is it possible to define better – or alternatively – these women and their religious experience according to various context? Which sources allow us to see their life paths and to hear their voices? We will explore these questions through the following topics:

  • Comparative historiography and historiographical issues about non-cloistered forms of women’s lives
  • Definitions: enclosure and non-enclosure, rules and vows, communities and their self-definitions
  • Roman Church and its norms
  • Forms and experiences of women’s non-cloistered religious lives
  • The structures of these communities
  • The social role and presence of non-cloistered religious women in cities
  • Community (Societies, Third Order, Dimesse…) vs individual (bizzoche, monache di casa…) experiences
  • Permanency and mutation throughout long time periods 
  • Relations with ecclesiastical and secular authorities
  • Sources and methodology

We specifically invite papers that will present either a new source for the study of non-cloistered religious women or the theorization of a working definition of these women. Papers should be 15-20 minutes. 

Please email your abstract by August 5, 2022, to Sylvie Duval (duvalsylvie@hotmail.com), Isabel Harvey (harvey.isabel@courrier.uqam.ca) and Sergi Sancho Fibla (ssfibla@gmail.com), with your full name, current affiliation, and email address; a paper title (15-word maximum), and an abstract (150-word maximum).