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Welcome to Week 5.

Apart from the Medieval Studies Lecture this Thursday, I would like to highlight a new CfP: Forgotten Libraries: Lost, Dispersed, and Marginalised Manuscript Collections: The Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures (CMTC) is pleased to invite Oxford-based researchers to participate in the workshop Forgotten Libraries to be held at The Queen’s College (Oxford) on Tuesday 16 June. 

Events

Monday

  • French Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 10:30, Weston Library
  • Medieval History Seminar – 5:00, All Souls College. Jay Rubenstein (University of Southern California) will be speaking on “Queen Melisende of Jerusalem and the Wages of Sin”.

Tuesday

  • Europe in the Later Middle Ages Seminar – 2:00, New Seminar Room, St John’s College. Maria Fusaro (Exeter) will be speaking on ‘Maritime Risk Management and Aequitas: the long life of the principle of General Average’
  • Latin Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room). Those who are interested can contact the convenor, Laure Miolo.
  • Maghrib History Seminar- 5:00, The Queen’s College. Prof. Cyrille Aillet (Université Lumière Lyon 2)  will be speaking on “Ibadism and Medieval Maghrib: a View from Within”
  • Medieval Church and Culture, theme: TRANSLATION(S) – tea and coffee from 5:00, Harris Manchester College. Luisa Ostacchini (Jesus) will be speaking on ‘(Re)working Miracles: translating Gregory the Great’s Dialogues in Old English literature’.
  • Medieval French Research Seminar – 5:15, Maison Française d’Oxford. Fran Charmaille (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge) & Gareth Evans (St John’s College, Oxford) will be speaking on ‘Trans Studies and Medieval Literatures’. (joint seminar with Medieval English)
  • Old English Hagiography Reading Group – 5:15, Jesus College Memorial Room. The first text is the anonymous Life of Saint Giles – email Luisa Ostacchini for a copy.
  • Church Historian Pub Night – 6:00 at the Chequers Inn. Contact Rachel Cresswell

Wednesday

  • Medieval German Graduate Seminar – 11:15, Old Library, St Edmund Hall. The topic for this term is the ‘Liederbuch der Clara Hätzlerin’. 
  • History and Materiality of the Book Seminar series – 2:15, Weston Library. Andrew Honey will be discussing Bindings.
  • Older Scots Reading Group – 2:30, Room 30.401 (Humanities Centre). Palyce of Honour, Seconde Part, ll. 772-1287 .
  • The Medieval Latin Documentary Palaeography Reading Group – 4:00, online.
  • Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar – 5:00, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies. Arietta Papaconstantinou (Aix-Marseille) will be speaking on ‘Dependent Labour in the Late Antique Near East’
  • Maison Française d’Oxford lecture series – 5:00, at the Maison. Antoine Destemberg will be speaking on ‘‘Is medieval biblical exegesis a form of totemism? An examination of analogical-social thinking in Moralised Bibles’
  • Islamic Studies Seminar- 5:30, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Dr Tugba Bozcaga (Kings College London) will be speaking on ‘Imams and Patrons: Service Provision by Islamic Non-State Actors’.

Thursday

  • Middle English Reading Group (MERG) – 11:00, Lincoln College, Beckington Room. All are welcome as we read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: bring any edition of the original text.
  • Environmental History Working Group – 12:30–2:00pm, Humanities Centre History Hub Room 20.421. Louis James Henry (PhD Medieval Environmental History, University of Stavanger, Visiting Student at KCL) will be speaking on “Timely Courts and Immediate Responses: Waste Management as a Temporal Issue in Late Medieval England”.
  • Pop-up display – ‘What do Christ Church’s newly acquired Hebrew books tell us about the College in the 17th century?’ – 12:00 – 2:00,  Christ Church Upper Library. More info here.
  • OMS Lecture -5–6.30pm in the Old Dining Hall of St Edmund Hall. Prof. Ian Forrest (Glasgow) will be speaking on ‘Telling Tails: Weaponizing Gender in the Late Medieval Church‘. Drinks to follow. More information and register for dinner.
  • Heraldry Society – 5:00, Oriel College. Dr Nicolas Vernot (Guest Researcher, CY Cergy Paris University) will be speaking on ‘Heraldry and Magic’.
  • Celtic Seminar – 5:15, Room 20.306 (Humanities Centre and Online). Sarah Zeiser (Harvard) will be speaking on ‘Finding allegory, history, and a complicated timeline in the harvest quatrain of Rhygyfarch ap Sulien’.
  • Old English Graduate Reading Group – 5:15. Email Harriet Carter for location.
  • Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures – 5:15, Memorial Room, The Queen’s College. Hana Navratilova (Harris Manchester College/ AMES, Oxford) will be speaking on ‘Meidum: landscape, pyramid, graffiti, and political memory’
  • The Khalili Research Centre For the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East: Research Seminar – 5:15, The Khalili Research Centre. Umberto Bongianino (Khalili Research Centre) will be speaking on ‘Wall painting in the Islamic West and the aesthetic of naqsh’.
  • Latin Compline in the Crypt with the St Edmund Consort – 9:30, St Edmund Hall.

Friday

  • Medievalist Coffee Morning – Friday 10:30, Visiting Scholars Centre (Weston Library). All welcome, coffee and insight into special collections provided.
  • The History of the Bible: From Manuscripts to Print – 12:00, Visiting Scholars Centre at the Weston Library. The theme this week is ‘The Bible in Latin: Old Latin and the Vulgate’. Places are limited. To register interest and secure a place, please contact the lecturer at Péter Tóth.
  • Pop-up display – ‘What do Christ Church’s newly acquired Hebrew books tell us about the College in the 17th century?’ – 12:00 – 2:00,  Christ Church Upper Library. More info here.
  • Exploring Medieval Oxford through Surviving Archives – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room). Those who are interested can contact the convenor, Laure Miolo.
  • Oxford Medieval Manuscript Group – 3:30, Weston Library. Workshop with Laure Miolo: Observing and Measuring the Heavens: Manuscripts, Instruments, and Astronomical Practice in the Middle Ages. Limited places. The deadline to register has passed. Write to Oxford Medieval Manuscript group if you want to go on a waiting list. 
  • Postponed: the Wikipedia Editathon planned for today has been postponed to Trinity Term.

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Medieval Matter HT26, Week 4

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Welcome to Week 4. An updated version of the OMS Booklet is linked here, and is available on the OMS website throughout the term. For your diary: The 2026 OMS Lecture will take place on Thursday 19 February 5–6.30pm in the Old Dining Hall of St Edmund Hall. Prof. Ian Forrest (Glasgow) will be speaking on ‘Telling Tails: Weaponizing Gender in the Late Medieval Church‘. Drinks to follow. More information and register for dinner. Tony Hunt’s memorial service is will be held on 16th May, 2.30, St Peter’s College Chapel (booking etc in due course).

Events

Monday

  • French Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 10:30, Weston Library
  • Seminar in Palaeography and Manuscript studies – 2:15, Weston Library. Emily Guerry (Oxford) will be speaking on ‘The Bodleian’s Gaignières Collection: A paper museum for Gothic tombs’.
  • Medieval Archaeology Seminar – 3:00, Archaeology Faculty. Matthew Johnson will be speaking on ‘New World Settlement and the English Middle Ages’.
  • Medieval History Seminar – 5:00, All Souls College. Cordelia Heß (Aarhus) will be speaking on “Medieval Racism? Social Practices in Colonial Contact Zones in Greenland and Sápmi (900-1500)
  • General Linguistics Seminar – 5.15, Humanities Centre 30.400. Henrike Lähnemann will be speaking on The nuns’ language: Latin-German code-mixing in the Lüne letters
  • Theory and Play: Comparative Medievalisms – 5.15, Lady Margaret Hall. Selections from: Anandavardana’s Dhvanyaloka (9th century CE, tr. The Light of Suggestion); Mechthild of Magdeburg’s Das fließende Licht der Gottheit (13th century CE, tr. The Flowing Light of the Godhead); Cywydd Ymry

Tuesday

  • Medieval English Research Seminar – 12:15, Room 00.079 (Humanities Centre). Kirsty Bolton (University of Oxford) will be speaking on ‘Power and conversion in middle English romance’.
  • Europe in the Later Middle Ages Seminar – 2:00, New Seminar Room, St John’s College. Simon Egan, Queen’s University Belfast will be speaking on ‘God forebede that a wylde Yrishe wyrlynge shulde be chosene for to be there kynge’: Gaelic Recovery in a North Atlantic Context, c.1350-c.1550′
  • Latin Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room). Those who are interested can contact the convenor, Laure Miolo.
  • Medieval Church and Culture, theme: TRANSLATION(S) – tea and coffee from 5:00, Harris Manchester College. Clément Salah (Queen’s) will be speaking on ‘Materialising Translation: manuscripts and the movement of knowledge in tenth-century North Africa’.
  • Heraldry Society – 5:00, MacGregor Room, Oriel College. Patric Dickinson, CVO (Clarenceux 2010-21) will be speaking on ‘Symbolism in Heraldry: Mysterious or Manifest?’
  • Old English Hagiography Reading Group – 5:15, Jesus College Memorial Room. The first text is the anonymous Life of Saint Giles – email Luisa Ostacchini for a copy.
  • Church Historian Pub Night – 6:00 at the Chequers Inn. Contact Rachel Cresswell

Wednesday

  • Medieval German Graduate Seminar – 11:15, Old Library, St Edmund Hall. The topic for this term is the ‘Liederbuch der Clara Hätzlerin’. 
  • History and Materiality of the Book Seminar series – 2:15, Weston Library. Céline Delattre and Robert Minte will be speaking on ‘Inks and Pigments’
  • Older Scots Reading Group – 2:30, Room 30.401 (Humanities Centre). Palyce of Honour, First Part, ll. 127-771 
  • The Medieval Latin Documentary Palaeography Reading Group – 4:00, online.
  • Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar – 5:00, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies. Pamela Armstrong (Oxford) will be speaking on ‘The Excavations of the Church of St Polyeuktos at Sarachane Revisited’
  • Islamic Studies Seminar: ‘Hajj the Art of Pilgramage’ – 5:00, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.
  • John Lydgate Book Club – 5:15pm. All Souls College, Hovenden Room. Mary Wellesley will speak on Lydgate and devotion.

Thursday

  • Middle English Reading Group (MERG) – 11:00, Lincoln College, Beckington Room. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
  • Medieval Women’s Writing Research Seminar – 4:00, Somerville College. Pilgrims and Travellers, including extracts from the works of Egeria, Margery Kempe and Lady Nijo.
  • Celtic Seminar – 5:15, Room 20.306 (Humanties Centre) and Online. Llion Wigley (University of Wales Press) will be speaking on ‘Ynysoedd Gobaith: Adeiladu Iwtopia yng Nghymru’r Ugeinfed Ganrif’.
  • The Khalili Research Centre For the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East: Research Seminar – 5:15, The Khalili Research Centre. BOOK LAUNCH — Islamic Objects in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court.
  • A Medieval Saint in the Modern World: Oswald of Northumbria in Words and Music – 6:15, The Chapel at King’s College London.
  • Compline in the Crypt – 9:30, St Edmund Hall.

Friday

  • Medievalist Coffee Morning – Friday 10:30, Visiting Scholars Centre (Weston Library). All welcome, coffee and insight into special collections provided.
  • The History of the Bible: From Manuscripts to Print – 12:00, Visiting Scholars Centre at the Weston Library. Translations of the Bible in the Eastern Mediterranean: Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic and Arabic. Places are limited. To register interest and secure a place, please contact Péter Tóth
  • Exploring Medieval Oxford through Surviving Archives – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room). Those who are interested can contact the convenor, Laure Miolo.
  • EMBI ‘Databases: A Skills Workshop’ – 4.00, Humanities Centre, History of Art Seminar Room.
  • Oxford Medieval Manuscript Group – 5:00, Sir Howard Stringer Room at Merton College, Emma J. Nelson (No take-backsies? Gerald of Wales and the Boundaries of Book Donation) and Elliot Cobb (Miraculous and Marginal Women in the Metz Psalter-Hours).

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Medieval Matter HT26, Wk 3

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The OMS Booklet is linked here, and is available on the OMS website throughout the term. The 2026 OMS Lecture will take place on Thursday 19 February 5–6.30pm in the Old Dining Hall of St Edmund Hall. Prof. Ian Forrest (Glasgow) will be speaking on ‘Telling Tails: Weaponizing Gender in the Late Medieval Church‘. Drinks to follow. More information and register for dinner. Also: OMS sends condolences to our colleague Anna Abulafia (former Professor of Abrahamic Religions) for the death of her husband, Prof. David Abulafia FBA

Events

Monday

  • French Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 10:30, Weston Library
  • Medieval History Seminar – 5:00, All Souls College. Anna Molnár (Reading) will be speaking on “Nuns’ Financial Literacy and the Private Banking Activities of Female Religious Organisations in the Later Middle Ages”

Tuesday

  • Medieval English Research Seminar – 12:15, Room 00.079 (Humanities Centre). Joe Stadolnik (University of Chicago) will be speaking on ‘Bad books in medieval Bristol: alchemy, liturgy and Thomas Norton’s ordinals’.
  • Europe in the Later Middle Ages Seminar – 2:00, New Seminar Room, St John’s College. Tom Johnson, Oxford will be speaking on ‘‘He hath payd his part’: The Political Economy of Fishing Doles in Late-Medieval England’
  • Latin Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room). Those who are interested can contact the convenor, Laure Miolo.
  • Medieval Church and Culture, theme: TRANSLATION(S) – tea and coffee from 5:00, Harris Manchester College. Eugenia Vorobeva (St Anne’s) will be speaking on ‘Devil’s Laughter, Language, and Sin in the Old Norse-Icelandic ‘Passio Domini’ Homily’
  • Medieval French Research Seminar – 5:15, Maison Française d’Oxford. Cat Watts (St Anne’s College, Oxford) will be speaking on ‘”Nothing  Of  Thine Own”: Fandom, Devilry, and Rewriting Holy Tales’ .
  • Old English Hagiography Reading Group – 5:15, Jesus College Memorial Room. The first text is the anonymous Life of Saint Giles – email Luisa Ostacchini for a copy.
  • Church Historian Pub Night – 6:00 at the Chequers Inn. Contact Rachel Cresswell

Wednesday

  • Medieval German Graduate Seminar – 11:15, Old Library, St Edmund Hall. The topic for this term is the ‘Liederbuch der Clara Hätzlerin’. 
  • History and Materiality of the Book Seminar series – 2:15, Weston Library. Martin Kauffmann will be discussing Decoration
  • The Medieval Latin Documentary Palaeography Reading Group – 4:00, online.
  • Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar – 5:00, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies. laudia Rapp (Vienna) and Michael Whitby (Birmingham) will be speaking on ‘Mark the Deacon: The Life of Porphyrius of Gaza (in collaboration with Translated Texts for Historians and LUP)’
  • Islamic Studies Seminar- 5:00, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. James McDougall (University of Oxford) will be speaking on ‘Worlds of Islam: A Global History’.

Thursday

  • Middle English Reading Group (MERG) – 11:00, Lincoln College, Beckington Room. All are welcome as we read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: bring any edition of the original text.
  • Environmental History Working Group – 12:30–2:00pm, Humanities Centre History Hub Room 20.421. Louis James Henry (PhD Medieval Environmental History, University of Stavanger, Visiting Student at KCL) will be speaking on “Timely Courts and Immediate Responses: Waste Management as a Temporal Issue in Late Medieval England”
  • Medieval Visual Culture Seminar – 5:00, St Catherine’s College. Millie Horton-Insch (British Museum & Trinity College Dublin) will be speaking on “Technologies of Reproduction and Sonderauftrag Bayeux: Re-Creating the Bayeux Tapestry for the Third Reich”
  • Celtic Seminar – 5:15, Room 20.306 (Humanities Centre and Online). Rhiannon Marks (Cardiff) will be speaking on ‘Envisaging the end: the representation of language decline in contemporary Welsh writing’
  • Old English Graduate Reading Group – 5:15. Email Harriet Carter for location.
  • The Khalili Research Centre For the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East: Research Seminar – 5:15, The Khalili Research Centre. Maria Judith Feliciano (CSIC, Madrid) will be speaking on ‘the silk core, or lessons from medieval Iberian textile studies’
  • Guild of Medievalist Makers, Making Space Session  – 5:30, online. Optional theme: birds.
  • Compline in the Crypt – 9:30, St Edmund Hall.

Friday

  • Medievalist Coffee Morning – Friday 10:30, Visiting Scholars Centre (Weston Library). All welcome, coffee and insight into special collections provided.
  • The History of the Bible: From Manuscripts to Print – 12:00, Visiting Scholars Centre at the Weston Library. The theme this week is ‘The New Testament’ Places are limited. To register interest and secure a place, please contact the lecturer at Péter Tóth  
  • Exploring Medieval Oxford through Surviving Archives – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room). Those who are interested can contact the convenor, Laure Miolo.

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Medieval Matters HT26, Week 2

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OMS is deeply saddened by the passing of Stephen Baxter (Professor of Medieval History). To view a number of touching memories of Stephen, and to contribute your own, please visit the memorial page. Further plans for remembering Stephen at St Peter’s will be announced in due course.

Monday

  • French Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 10:30, Weston Library
  • Seminar in Palaeography and Manuscript studies – 2:15, Weston Library. Kees Dekker (Groningen) will be speaking on ‘Manuscripts in the hands of Franciscus Junius (1591-1677)’
  • Medieval Archaeology Seminar – 3:00, Archaeology Faculty. Jennifer Coulton (Oxford) will be speaking on ‘Structural Depositions, Haunted Houses, and Domestic Protection in England c.800-1250’
  • Medieval History Seminar – 5:00, All Souls College. Rob Portass (Robinson College, Cambridge) will be speaking on “Estate Management and the Beginnings of Specialised Production in Early Medieval Iberia”.

Tuesday

  • ‘A Quiet Revolution’: Engaging Heritage Audiences with West Horsley Place’s Historic Landscape – 11:00, Learning Centre (Room 00.018), Humanities Centre. Book a place.
  • Medieval English Research Seminar – 12:15, Room 00.079 (Humanities Centre). Rachel Moss (University of Northampton) will be speaking on ‘Chivalry is a code for men willing to fight’: medievalism, masculinity and the modern far-right’.
  • Europe in the Later Middle Ages Seminar – 2:00, New Seminar Room, St John’s College. Annabel Hancock (Trinity College Dublin) will be speaking on ‘Negotiating Uncertain Waters: Trust in trade and diplomacy in the Mediterranean’
  • Latin Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room). Those who are interested can contact the convenor, Laure Miolo.
  • Medieval Church and Culture, theme: TRANSLATION(S) – tea and coffee from 5:00, Harris Manchester College. Natasha Bradley (Lincoln) will be speaking on ‘Trans Saints in Old Norse Translation: Marina*us the Monk and Pelagia*us the penitent in the medieval North’
  • Maghrib History Seminar – 5:00, The Queen’s College. Amira Bennison (University of Cambridge) will be speaking on ‘Power and Peace: Re-viewing the Dynastic History of the Western Maghrib through an Urban Lens’.
  • Heraldry Society – 5:00, MacGregor Room, Oriel College. Mr Mark JR Scott (Somerset Herald) will be speaking on “British Royal Heraldry: 1800-2025”.
  • Old English Hagiography Reading Group – 5:15, Jesus College Memorial Room. The first text is the anonymous Life of Saint Giles – email Luisa Ostacchini for a copy.
  • Church Historian Pub Night – 6:00 at the Chequers Inn. Contact Rachel Cresswell

Wednesday

  • Medieval German Graduate Seminar – 11:15, Old Library, St Edmund Hall. The topic for this term is the ‘Liederbuch der Clara Hätzlerin’. 
  • History and Materiality of the Book Seminar series – 2:00, Weston Library. Andrew Honey & Matthew Holford will be discussing ‘Writing supports (parchment and paper) and manuscript structure’.
  • Older Scots Reading Group – 2:30, Room 30.401 (Humanities Centre). Palyce of Honour, First Part, ll. 127-771.
  • The Medieval Latin Documentary Palaeography Reading Group – 4:00, online.
  • Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar – 5:00, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies. Julian Baker (Oxford) will be speaking on ‘Medieval Epiros and Albania: Geopolitical and Economic Reflections in the Light of Coinage’.

Thursday

  • Middle English Reading Group (MERG) – 11:00, Lincoln College, Beckington Room. All are welcome as we read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: bring any edition of the original text.
  • Medieval Women’s Writing Research Seminar – 4:00, Somerville College. The Debate on Women – extracts from the works of Christine de Pizan, Teresa de Cartagena and Lady Murasaki.
  • Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music – 5:00, online. Kévin Roger (University of Lorraine) will be speaking on ‘Latin Motets and Literary Networks in the Late Middle Ages: Intertextuality, Rhetoric, and Digital Reading’. Discussants: Yolanda Plumley (University of Exeter) and Karl Kügle (Universities of Oxford and Utrecht).
  • Medieval Visual Culture Seminar – 5:00, St Catherine’s College. Robert Mills (University College London) will be speaking on “Wild Forms: Hermits, Saints and Rock Art in Medieval England” 
  • Celtic Seminar – 5:15, Room 20.306 (Humanties Centre) and Online. Elizabeth Edwards (CAWCS) will be speaking on ‘Home Circuits: the Ladies of Llangollen, queer temporalities and Welsh landscapes’.
  • The Khalili Research Centre For the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East: Research Seminar – 5:15, The Khalili Research Centre. Joumana Medlej (Independent Scholar) will be speaking on ‘The hidden life of Kūfī scripts: practice-based insights and theories’.
  • Compline in the Crypt – 9:30, St Edmund Hall.

Friday

  • In Tesserae workshop – details TBC.
  • Medievalist Coffee Morning – Friday 10:30, Visiting Scholars Centre (Weston Library). All welcome, coffee and insight into special collections provided.
  • The History of the Bible: From Manuscripts to Print – 12:00, Visiting Scholars Centre at the Weston Library. The theme this week ‘The Septuagint and its Transmission’. Places are limited. To register interest and secure a place, please contact the lecturer at peter.toth@bodleian.ox.ac.uk  
  • Exploring Medieval Oxford through Surviving Archives – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room). Those who are interested can contact the convenor, Laure Miolo.
  • Oxford Medieval Manuscript Group – 5:00, online.

Opportunities and Reminders

The OMS Booklet is linked here, and is available on the OMS website throughout the term. The 2026 OMS Lecture will take place on Thursday 19 February 5–6.30pm in the Old Dining Hall of St Edmund Hall. Prof. Ian Forrest (Glasgow) will be speaking on ‘Telling Tails: Weaponizing Gender in the Late Medieval Church‘. Drinks to follow. More information and register for dinner.

CfP: Medieval Germany Workshop

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The deadline for proposal submissions is 15 February 2026.

29 May 2026, German Historical Institute in London
Organised by the German Historical Institute London and the German History Society

This one-day workshop on the history of medieval Germany (broadly defined) offers an opportunity for researchers from Europe and the wider English-speaking world to meet at the German Historical Institute in London. Participants will be able to discuss their work in a relaxed and friendly setting and to learn more about each other’s research.

Proposals for short papers of 10–15 minutes are invited from researchers at all career stages with an interest in any aspect of the history of medieval Germany. Participants are encouraged to present work in progress, highlight research questions and approaches, and point to yet unresolved challenges of their projects. Presentations will be followed by a discussion.

Participation is free of charge and includes lunch and dinner. The GHIL and the GHS will also provide a contribution towards travel expenses. Accommodation costs cannot be reimbursed. Support is available for postgraduate and early career researchers: up to £150 for travel within the UK (excluding London) and up to 300€ for an economy round trip from Europe. Please indicate your interest in travel support in your application.

We look forward to reading your proposals. Please send your submission—which must include a title, an abstract of c.2000 words, and a biographical note of no more than c.1000 words—to Thomas Kaal: t.kaal@ghil.ac.uk. Questions about all aspects of the workshop can also be sent to Marcus Meer: m.meer@ucl.ac.uk.

Students and researchers interested in medieval German history are also very welcome to attend and listen to the presentations. There is no charge for attendance, but pre-booking is essential. If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Kim König: k.koenig@ghil.ac.uk.

There will be two plenary speakers as respondents, one of them Henrike Lähnemann who recently gave the annual GHIL lecture:

Medieval Matters HT26, Week 1

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Welcome to Week 1. Thanks to all those who submitted their events for the upcoming term. An updated version of the OMS Booklet is linked here, and is available on the OMS website throughout the term.

For your diary: The 2026 OMS Lecture will take place on Thursday 19 February 5–6.30pm in the Old Dining Hall of St Edmund Hall. Prof. Ian Forrest (Glasgow) will be speaking on ‘Telling Tails: Weaponizing Gender in the Late Medieval Church‘. Drinks to follow. More information and register for dinner.

Tony Hunt’s memorial service is will be held on 16th May, 2.30, St Peter’s College Chapel (booking etc in due course).

Monday

  • French Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 10:30, Weston Library
  • Medieval History Seminar – 5:00, All Souls College. John Sabapathy (UCL) will be speaking on “Humanism and bestiality in the land of Cockagne”.
  • Celtic Language Teaching continues throughout the week – please consult the booklet, p. 39 for a full table of dates and locations.

Tuesday

  • Medieval English Research Seminar – 12:15, Room 00.079 (Humanities Centre). Stacie Vos (University of California, San Diego) will be speakin on “Norfolk Broads, or Discovering medieval women with twentieth-century collectives”.
  • Europe in the Later Middle Ages Seminar – 2:00, New Seminar Room, St John’s College. Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell (Oxford) will be speaking on “Beyond the Mediterranean by land and sea: Two medieval cases in a (very) broad context”.
  • Latin Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room). Those who are interested can contact the convenor, Laure Miolo.
  • Medieval Church and Culture, theme: TRANSLATION(S) – tea and coffee from 5:00, Harris Manchester College. John Mulhall (Purdue University) will be speaking on “‘Blessings on All the Prophets’: Islamic prayers in the Latin scientific translations of the twelfth century”.
  • Church Historian Pub Night – 6:00 at the Chequers Inn. Contact Rachel Cresswell

Wednesday

  • Medieval German Graduate Seminar – 11:15, Old Library, St Edmund Hall. The first week will be a shortish planning meeting. The topic for this term is the ‘Liederbuch der Clara Hätzlerin’. 
  • Older Scots Reading Group – 2:30, Room 30.401 (Humanities Centre). Theme: ‘Palyce of Honour, Prologue, ll. 1-126’.
  • The Medieval Latin Documentary Palaeography Reading Group – 4:00, online.
  • Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar – 5:00, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies. John Mulhall (Purdue) will be speaking on “The Republic of Translators: Translating from Greek and Arabic into Latin in the Twelfth-Century Mediterranean”.

Thursday

  • Middle English Reading Group (MERG) – 11:00, Lincoln College, Beckington Room. All are welcome as we read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: bring any edition of the original text.
  • Environmental History Working Group (EHWG) – 12:30, Room 20.421 (Humanities Centre). Niklas Groschinski (DPhil History) “Environing from Below — Supplications, Denunciations, and Other Sources for Rewriting Early Modern Environmental History”
  • Celtic Seminar – 5:15, Room 20.306 (Humanties Centre) and Online. Brigid Ehrmantraut (St Andrews) will be speaking on “Death of the author? Authorship and authority in the Middle Irish classical adaptations”.
  • The Khalili Research Centre For the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East: Research Seminar – 5:15, The Khalili Research Centre. Yusuf Tayara (Wolfson College) will be speaking on “Timekeeping between art and science: integrated approaches to the history of Mamluk astronomy”.
  • Old English Graduate Reading Group – 5:15. Location is variable so please email Hattie Carter or James Tittering if you’re interested. This term’s text is Apollonius of Tyre.
  • Compline in the Crypt – 9:30, St Edmund Hall. Sung by the College Choir in English

Friday

  • Medievalist Coffee Morning – Friday 10:30, Visiting Scholars Centre (Weston Library). All welcome, coffee and insight into special collections provided.
  • The History of the Bible: From Manuscripts to Print – 12:00, Visiting Scholars Centre at the Weston Library. The theme this week is ‘The Hebrew Bible”. Places are limited. To register interest and secure a place, please contact the lecturer, Péter Tóth.
  • Exploring Medieval Oxford through Surviving Archives – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room). Those who are interested can contact the convenor, Laure Miolo
  • EMBI ‘Databases: A Skills Workshop’ has been POSTPONED until Week 4 on 13 February, 16:00-17:15.

Opportunities (see booklet for further details)

Medieval Matter MT 25, Week 5

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Call for Papers, conference, events, Medieval Matters, News, opportunities

A medieval event a day keeps the blues away – meet week 5 head-on with another set of seminars and events! As always, you can find a complete copy of the Oxford Medieval Studies Booklet here.  Any last-minuted changes will be updated in the weekly blogpost and in the calendar, both accessible via https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/.

This week, on the 13th and 14th of November, the Crafting Documents project, alongside the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures, is hosting the ‘Heritage Science and Manuscript Conference‘. Registration is free, and the full programme of events is available here.

Monday

Tuesday

  • Medieval English Research Seminar AND Medieval French Seminar – 12:15, Margaret Thatcher Centre, Somerville. Juluan Mattison (U of Georgia) will be speaking on ‘What is an English book? French Scribes, Scripts and Texts in England’
  • Latin Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room)
  • Medieval Church and Culture Seminar – 5:00, Harris Manchester College. Nancy Thebaut (Catz) will be speaking on ‘Gender, Nature, and the Limits of Art: A Close Reading of ‘Two Riddles of the Queen of Sheba’, a Late Medieval Tapestry at the Met Cloisters‘.
  • Old Norse Research Seminar – 5:00, New Seminar Room, St. John’s College. Caz Batten (Pennsylvania) will be speaking on ‘Unmaking a Man: The Contested Bodies of the Völundr Legend’. Drinks to follow.
  • Old English Graduate Reading Group – 5:15, location TBC, contact Hattie Carter

Wednesday

  • John Lydgate Book Club – 11:00, Smoking Room (Lincoln College).
  • Medieval German Graduate Seminar on the Constance Chronicle – 11:15, Somerville College.
  • Older Scots Reading Group – 2:30, Room 30.401 in the Schwarzman Centre.
  • Medieval Latin Documentary Palaeography Reading Group – 4:00, online.
  • Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar – 5:00, Ioannou Centre. Marlena Whiting (Groningen) will be speaking on ‘Hodology, Wayfinding, and Geographical Knowledge in Late Antique Pilgrimage Accounts’

Thursday

  • Middle English Reading Group – 11:00, Beckington Room (Lincoln College).
  • Environmental History Working Group – 12:30, Room 20.421 in the Schwarzman Centre. Ryan Mealiffe will be speaking on ‘What are White Storks (Ciconia ciconica) Doing in High and Late Miedieval Calendars’?
  • Celtic Seminar – 5:00, hybrid. Simon Rodway (Aberystwyth) will be speaking on ‘Gwlithod Blewog a Mygydau Barddol: Golwg Newydd ar Garchariad Aneirin yn y Tŷ Deyerin’
  • Medieval Visual Culture Seminar – 5:00, St. Catherine’s College. Carly Boxer (Bucknell University) will be speaking on ‘Abstract Figures and Bodily Change: Giving Form to Unseen Things in Late Medieval England’
  • Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music – 5:00, online. Elina Hamilton, Peter Lefferts and Elzbieta Witkowska-Zaremba will be speaking on ‘Theinred of Dover (fl. c. 1300): A New Context for him in Fourteenth-Century Music Theory’
  • Compline in the Crypt – 9:30pm, St Edmund Hall.

Friday

  • Medievalist Coffee Morning – 10:30, Visiting Scholars Centre (Weston Library). All welcome, coffee and insight into special collections provided.
  • Exploring Medieval Oxford through Surviving Archives – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room).
  • Oxford Medieval Manuscript Group: Library Visit (Merton) – 5:00. Sign-up required.

Saturday

Opportunities

Heritage Science and Manuscripts Conference: Programme

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New directions in the study of written artefacts from Antiquity to the late Middle Ages.
Organised by the Crafting Documents project (AHRC-DFG) and co-sponsored by the Centre for Manuscripts and Text Cultures, University of Oxford.
13-14 NOVEMBER 2025, SHULMAN AUDITORIUM. THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Register for free here

9:30 Arrival and registration (coffee and tea available for all attendees)
9:45 Welcome
Julia M. H. Smith (Crafting Documents co-PI, All Souls College, University of Oxford)
Martin Kauffman (Head of early and rare collections, Special Collections, Bodleian Library)
Dirk Meyer (Director of the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures, The Queen’s College, Oxford)
10:00 Brent Seales (University of Kentucky): UnLost: uncovering lost knowledge from the ancient library of Herculaneum
10:50 Richard Gameson (Durham University): The Hereford palimpsest psalter
11:40 Jess Hodgkinson (University of Leicester)
Insular manuscripts and their readers: using photometric stereo imaging
to study drypoint writing
12:30 Lunch Break
TECHNOLOGIES TO RETRIEVE WRITING
(Chair Lesley Smith, Harris Manchester College, Oxford)
INKS AND PARCHMENT
(Chair Martin Kauffman, Bodleian Library)
2:30 Kristine Rose-Beers (University Library Cambridge)
Early Islamic manuscripts on parchment: surface preparation and
practice-based research
3:20 Andy Beeby (Durham University)
On the variation in the density of writing as seen by multi and hyper-spectral
imaging: looking over the scribe’s shoulder
4:10 Coffee and tea break
5:00 Ira Rabin (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung)
Ana de Oliveira Dias (University of Oxford)
Ink analysis of early medieval relic labels
Wine reception sponsored by the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures,
The Queen’s College, Oxford
(6:00 – 7:00)DAY 2
MATERIAL SCIENCE AND HERITAGE RESEARCH
9:30 Alberto Campagnolo (Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven)
Approaches to heritage science for manuscripts in the Digital Humanities
10:20 Michael Marx, Institut für Studien der Kultur und Religion des Islam
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt / Institute of Advanced Studies Jerusalem
Results of carbondating of early Qurʾānic manuscript and their implications for
our understanding of the history of the Qurʾān
11:10 Coffee and tea break
11:40 Matthew Collins (University of Copenhagen/University of Cambridge)
Proteomics analysis of parchment samples
12:30 Colloquium pause
(Chair Dirk Meyer, The Queen’s College, Oxford)
4:00 Coffee and tea
4:30 Tessa Webber (Trinity College, University of Cambridge)
Early medieval written artefacts: a palaeographical perspective
5:00 Round table discussion
BROADER PERSPECTIVES
(Chair Julia Smith, All Souls College, University of Oxford)

Heritage Science and Manuscripts programmeDownload

Medieval Insular Romance Conference

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OXFORD, 8–10 APRIL 2026

Plenary speakers: James Simpson and Carolyne Larrington

Registration is open for the Medieval Insular Romance Conference 2026 at St Hugh’s College Oxford.

We are delighted to have a rich programme with about 50 speakers, addressing many aspects of the conference’s title, ‘Moving Medieval Romance’. The provisional programme is available to view here: MIR26 Programme on Canva To register to attend the conference go to: https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/conferences-and-events/english-faculty/events/medieval-insular-romance-conference-2026

A limited number of rooms at St Hugh’s College are available for MIR 2026 registered delegates via this link: universityrooms.com/en-GB/eventcode?ec=KX52757&vid=sthughs Other accommodation in Oxford colleges is available via https://www.universityrooms.com

The conference organizers are Lucy Brookes (Merton College, Oxford) lucy.brookes@ell.ox.ac.uk and Nicholas Perkins (St Hugh’s College, Oxford) nicholas.perkins@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk

Illustration: Cristabel and her baby are cast out to sea; from Eglamour of Artois, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Douce 261, fol. 39v. Creative commons licence: CC-BY-NC 4.0

Report on the Dark Archives Conference 2019

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For the latest iteration in the conference series, cf. https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/arsinquirendi/

A Conference on the Medieval Unread & Unreadable

THE DARKNESS OF THE MEDIEVAL ARCHIVES, the shadows of the library stacks: too vast for countless lifetimes of scholarship to exhaust? And yet, in our internet era, the accelerating machine-processing of centuries of collected medieval materials and data is yielding ever more detailed, extensive maps of the archive’s extent and  features. The goal of completely surveying the archive, down to every folio and character, is not only increasingly viable but irresistible – and at a time when competence in its languages, diplomatics and palaeography is contracting; for this same process promises new revelations, of unprecedented richness and detail, about the medieval world itself.
      Yet the great irony is that on our new map, the Dark Archives, the medieval unread and unreadable, dwarf all that we currently know, and indeed threaten to paralyse fresh research. In quantity, they encompass the great majority of the millions of known folios and associated records, that remain unread, unscanned and scattered across the world. Who will fund their expensive digitization? What should be prioritized? And to what end, when the mass-transcription and record-creation technologies needed to explore them remain unequal to the task?  Most challenging of all may be owning the shift in perspective that the Dark Archives are forcing upon us: the unsustainably small extent of what we term ‘the medieval’, and the uncertainty over what might succeed it.
Join us this September to crystallize and advance the field at Dark Archives, which is bringing together over 50 of its likely academic and commercial key-holders, from archivists and intellectual historians to machine-learning researchers. General registration now open, and full programme published:

Day 1 (10th September): Mapping the Medieval Graphosphere: What Dimensions, How Composed, Whether Habitable?

Day 2 (11th September): Endless Deserts, Oceans and Mountains: Tackling the Metadata Crisis

Day 3 (12th September): Re-Making Medieval History

along with a range of practical workshops on the latest techniques for Dark Archives discovery on 13th September. 

8:30am to 6:00pm

10th September: Mapping the Medieval Graphosphere: What Dimensions, How Composed, Whether Habitable?

   8:30-9:00am     Coffee and Registration

9:00am to 1:05pm

Manuscripts, Extant and Destroyed

Chair/Respondent: 

  • Nigel Palmer
  • Teresa Webber
  • Eltjo Buringh
  • Utrecht University

Keynote Address: Estimates of Manuscript Numbers

  • Jo Story
  • University of Leicester

Insular Manuscripts: how many and what next?

  • Joanna Tucker
  • University of Glasgow

Survival and loss: working with documents from medieval Scotland

  • Ralph Cleminson
  • University of Oxford

Non leguntur: shedding light on Slavonic sources

  • Adrien Quéret-Podesta
  • Petőfi Sándor School

“Textual ghosts” in the oldest Central European historiography

Coffee

  • Daniel Sawyer

@DE_Sawyer

  • University of Oxford

At Knowledge’s Edge: Lost Materials

  • Krista Murchison
  • Leiden University

(Re)collecting the Archive: Recovering Medieval Manuscripts Destroyed During WWII


Video

  • Henrike Lähnemann

@HLaehnemann

  • University of Oxford

Nuns’ Dust

PDF icon nuns dust handout

  • Gustavo Fernández Riva

@Medieval_Gus

  • FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Time Machine Organization

Network Analysis of Manuscripts

Questions

1.00pm to 2pm    Lunch

2:00pm to 4:05pm

Neither Parchment Nor Paper

Chair/Respondent: 

  • Graham Barrett
  • Ellie Pridgeon

@consularchivist

  • University of Leicester

The Writing on the Wall: Medieval Painted Inscriptions

  • Maria do Rosário Morujão
  • University of Coimbra

Dark Seals in Portuguese Archives

  • John Hines
  • Cardiff University

Dark Sides of the Runes

  • David King
  • University of East Anglia

The Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi

Questions

Coffee

4:25pm to 6:15pm

Why Exalted, Why Neglected?

Chair/Respondent: 

  • Anthony Lappin
  • Anastasia Shapovalova
  • Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, Paris

Exploring the Medieval Archives in France

  • Monika Opalinska
  • University of Warsaw

Reconstructing medieval English religious culture: forgotten manuscript sources versus digital media

  • Matthew Holford

@matthewholford

The Least Studied Manuscripts in the Bodleian

  • David Rundle

@DrDavidRundle

  • University of Kent

The Unbearable Lightness of the Archive

Questions

6:15pm to 6:50pm

Drinks Reception

9:00am

11th September: Endless Deserts, Oceans and Mountains: Tackling the Metadata Crisis

  • Will Noel

@willnoel

  • Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies

Keynote Address: Through a screen darkly: the metadata crisis and the authority of the digital image

9:55am to 1:00pm

Achieving Mass Transcription – Ex Machina? Ex Populo? And How Soon?

Chair/Respondent: 

  • Eltjo Buringh
  • Verónica Romero
  • Universidad Politecnica, Valencia

Interactive-Predictive Transcription and Probabilistic Text Indexing for Handwritten Image Collections

  • Achim Rabus
  • University of Freiburg

Training generic models for handwritten text recognition using Transkribus: Opportunities and Pitfalls

  • Vincent Christlein

@v_christlein

  • Friedrich-Alexander University

Scribal identification and document classification

11.10am to 11.25am Coffee

  • Ben Kiessling
  • University of Leipzig

The Limits to Digitization

  • Roger Louis Martinez-Davila

@rogerlmartinez

  • University of Colorado

Massive Open Online Projects to teach palaeographic skills and to prepare manuscript transcriptions

Thought-Game – Build a Universal Manuscript Transcription Platform – Now !

Participants joining the chair & panelists: 

Michael Sargent

Stewart J. Brookes

Emma Goodwin

PDF icon Download Goodwin Dark Archives Poster.pdf (991.16 KB)

12.45pm to 1.55pm Lunch

1:55pm to 4:50pm

How to Organize the Metadata Once We Have It

Chair/Respondent: 

  • Jo Story
  • Toby Burrows

@TobyBurrows

  • Oxford E-Research Centre

Aggregating provenance metadata to reveal the histories of medieval manuscripts

  • Andrew Hankinson

@ahankinson

  • Bodleian Library
  • International Image Interoperability Framework

Discovery through Data: How IIIF shines a light into the dark archive’

  • Debra Cashion

@dtcashion

  • St Louis University

METAscripta

video

3.20pm to 3.30pm Coffee

  • John McEwan
  • St Louis University

Reflectance Transformation Imaging and Medieval Seals

  • Sarah Fiddyment

@drsfiddyment

  • University of York

Manuscript Palaeoproteomics

video

Thought-Game: Devise a metadata system to satisfactorily describe and relate all written medieval materials – Now!

Participants joining the chair & panelists: 

William Noel

Emma Stanford

Gustavo Fernández Riva

4.50pm to 5pm     Coffee

5:00pm to 6:25pm

What Role Archives? (pt. 1)

Chair/Respondent: 

  • Suzanne Paul
  • Carolin Schreiber
  • München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Keynote Address: Bringing the Dark Archives to the Light – Medieval Manuscripts in German Collections in the Digital Age

  • Paul Dryburgh

@pablodiablo74

  • The National Archives, Kew

Peering into an impenetrable gloom and the “tyranny” of digital by design: the future of medieval collections at The National Archives (UK)?

Video

Questions

7:30pm to 9:00pm

Conference Dinner at St. Edmund Hall

9:15pm

Compline in the Crypt of St-Peter-in-the-East (St. Edmund Hall)

PDF icon Download Compline-DarkArchives-SEH.pdf (404.39 KB)

Video of Compline in the Crypt

.. and some footage from the rehearsal!

9:00am to 6:00pm

12th September: Re-Making Medieval History

9:00am to 12:00pm

What Role Archives (pt. 2)?

Chair/Respondent: 

  • Pip Willcox
  • Luca Polidoro
  • University of Florence

The Secrets of the Barberini

  • Laura Light

Manuscripts in Private Hands

  • James Louis Smith

@ScrivenerSmith

  • Trinity College Dublin

Pre-Modern Manuscripts and Early Books in Conflict Zones: An Emerging Network and its Goals

  • Christopher Wright
  • Matteo di Franco
  • University of Cambridge

From isolation to integration: making Greek manuscripts readable

  • Dot Porter

@leoba

  • Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies

Reading Across A Digitized Collection of Books of Hours

Coffee

Roundtable

Participants joining the chair & panelists: 

Suzanne Paul

@suz_paul

Paul Dryburgh

@pablodiablo74

Elaine Treharne

@ETreharne

Robin Darwall-Smith

Carolin Schreiber

Sarah Fiddyment

12.10pm to 1pm    Lunch

1:00pm to 6:00pm

The Future of Medieval Scholarship: Forms, Substance and Means

1:00pm to 3:10pm

The Edition …

Chair/Respondent: 

  • Daron Burrows
  • Michael G. Sargent
  • City University of New York

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Obfuscation of Manuscript Evidence

video

  • Kyle Ann Huskin

@kylehuskin

  • University of Rochester

Shedding Light on Dark Archives: Principles for Editing Recovered Texts

  • Andrew Dunning

@anjdunning

  • University of Cambridge

Opening medieval books and fragments to students with documentary editing

  • Elizabeth Solopova
  • University of Oxford

An Invisible Giant: Editing Neglected Canonical Texts

Questions

Coffee

3:30pm to 4:45pm

… And Beyond

Chair/Respondent: 

  • Roger Louis Martinez-Davila
  • Mark Faulkner
  • Trinity College Dublin

‘Big Dating’ and ‘Bottom-up periodisation’

  • Sarah Savant

@sarahsavant1

  • Aga Khan University

Finding Meaning in 1.5 Billion Words of Arabic: The KITAB Project and Its Aims

  • Julia Craig-McFeely
  • University of Oxford

‘How dark is my archive?’: What lies behind and beyond the face of Musicology’s online archive, DIAMM

Questions

Coffee

4:55pm to 6:30pm

Medieval Capital

Chair/Respondent: 

  • Richard Ovenden
  • Marc Polonsky
  • The Polonsky Foundation

Digitisation of cultural heritage: a funder’s perspective

  • Maja Kominko

The Arcadia Fund

  • Luciano Floridi
  • University of Oxford

Keynote Address: Semantic Capital. Its Nature and Value

Concluding Debate

9:00am to 5:00pm

13th September: Dark Archives Workshops

  • Verónica Romero
  • Universidad Politecnica, Valencia

Hands-on Workshop on Assistive Technologies to Access the Contents of Handwritten Text Manuscripts

PDF icon Presentation

  • John McEwan

@frangelegetege

  • St Louis University

Imaging Seals on a Budget

12pm to 1pm Lunch

  • Roger Louis Martinez-Davila

@rogerlmartinez

  • University of Colorado

Crowdsourcing Manuscript Transcriptions: Opportunities and Challenges using MOOCs, Social Media, and Emerging Platforms

Link to Website

  • Alexander Zawacki
  • Helen Davies

@MedievalZawacki

@helsinhashtags

  • University of Rochester

Multispectral Imaging: Technologies, Techniques, and Teaching

Full Presentation and Slides