at Harvard University:
Monday - Thursday, December 8 - 11, various times:
The Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures Series:
"Isaac Casaubon: A Renaissance Hellenist Meets the Jews"
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Joanna Weinberg (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)
Lecture 1: "Rabbi Isaac Casaubon: A Hellenist Meets the Jews" Monday, 5:15PM
Lecture 2: "How Casaubon Read Jewish Texts" Tuesday, 5:30PM
Lecture 3: "Casaubon and Baronio: Early Christianity in a Jewish Setting" Wednesday, 5:15PM
Lecture 4: "The Teller and the Tale: What Casaubon Learned from Jews" Thursday, 5:15 PM
Reception to follow Lecture 4.
Sponsored by the Department of the Classics; Harvard University Cambridge MA - exact location TBD
Monday, November 10, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Lecture by Bettina Wagner on Munich Incunabula on Second Life
Reposted from SHARP-L:
Dear colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to a presentation which I will hold in the virtual "island" of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Second Life (the "Insel der Information") on 25 November 2008.
Best wishes,
Bettina Wagner
*****************
Presentation at "Insel der Information", November 25th, 2008:
Bettina Wagner (SL: Bettina Ethaniel):
Incunable digitization at Munich: From the Gutenberg Bible to mass digitization
We would like to invite you to the SIM of the Bavarian State Library for a talk with the title "Incunable digitization at Munich: From the Gutenberg Bible to mass digitization".
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Insel%20der%20Information/132/23/22.
The presentation will be held on 25/Nov/08, at 6pm CET, 9:00 AM SLT by Dr. Bettina Wagner in English and follows up a symposium organized by the Humanities Media Interface Project, Keio University, Tokyo, on 22 November in London, UK.
Abstract:
The talk will demonstrate how the Munich Gutenberg Bible is presented online and how users can search for descriptive information in the electronic catalogue, thus placing the Bible in various contexts, e.g. of 15th-century Bible production, of incunable illumination or of provenance. In addition, access points for printed illustrations in incunabula will be shown.
The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich holds the world*s largest collection of incunabula, which currently amounts to c. 20.000 copies of c. 9700 editions. The Munich copy of the Gutenberg Bible is one of the most important treasures of the library. In cooperation with the HUMI team, the Bible was digitized in October 2005 and was made accessible freely on the internet.
In Munich, digitization of incunables and online access to the catalogue descriptions have proceeded in close parallel. The first digitization project started already in 1998 and focussed on illustrated incunabula; a project for the digitization of broadsides followed in 2000. At the same time, the printed incunable catalogue was converted into a database and made accessible online in 2004. The catalogue database serves as central access point to incunables and integrates all digital images as well as additional metadata generated in such projects. In 2008, a project for the complete digitization of the collection was begun, and eventually, as a complete electronic facsimile will be generated for every 15th-century edition now held in Munich. The results are not only made accessible through the incunable catalogue database, but also through the Bavarian union catalogue and the ISTC and GW databases.
_______________________________________
Dr. Bettina Wagner
Abteilung fuer Handschriften und Alte Drucke
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Ludwigstr. 16
D-80539 Muenchen
Germany
email: bettina.wagner@bsb-muenchen.de
Tel. +89 / 28638-2982
Fax. +89 / 28638-12982 oder 2266
postbox: D-80328 Muenchen
_______________________________________
Inkunabelkatalog der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek (BSB-Ink) online:
http://mdz1.bib-bvb.de/cocoon/bsbink/start.html
_______________________________________
Dear colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to a presentation which I will hold in the virtual "island" of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Second Life (the "Insel der Information") on 25 November 2008.
Best wishes,
Bettina Wagner
*****************
Presentation at "Insel der Information", November 25th, 2008:
Bettina Wagner (SL: Bettina Ethaniel):
Incunable digitization at Munich: From the Gutenberg Bible to mass digitization
We would like to invite you to the SIM of the Bavarian State Library for a talk with the title "Incunable digitization at Munich: From the Gutenberg Bible to mass digitization".
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Insel%20der%20Information/132/23/22.
The presentation will be held on 25/Nov/08, at 6pm CET, 9:00 AM SLT by Dr. Bettina Wagner in English and follows up a symposium organized by the Humanities Media Interface Project, Keio University, Tokyo, on 22 November in London, UK.
Abstract:
The talk will demonstrate how the Munich Gutenberg Bible is presented online and how users can search for descriptive information in the electronic catalogue, thus placing the Bible in various contexts, e.g. of 15th-century Bible production, of incunable illumination or of provenance. In addition, access points for printed illustrations in incunabula will be shown.
The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich holds the world*s largest collection of incunabula, which currently amounts to c. 20.000 copies of c. 9700 editions. The Munich copy of the Gutenberg Bible is one of the most important treasures of the library. In cooperation with the HUMI team, the Bible was digitized in October 2005 and was made accessible freely on the internet.
In Munich, digitization of incunables and online access to the catalogue descriptions have proceeded in close parallel. The first digitization project started already in 1998 and focussed on illustrated incunabula; a project for the digitization of broadsides followed in 2000. At the same time, the printed incunable catalogue was converted into a database and made accessible online in 2004. The catalogue database serves as central access point to incunables and integrates all digital images as well as additional metadata generated in such projects. In 2008, a project for the complete digitization of the collection was begun, and eventually, as a complete electronic facsimile will be generated for every 15th-century edition now held in Munich. The results are not only made accessible through the incunable catalogue database, but also through the Bavarian union catalogue and the ISTC and GW databases.
_______________________________________
Dr. Bettina Wagner
Abteilung fuer Handschriften und Alte Drucke
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Ludwigstr. 16
D-80539 Muenchen
Germany
email: bettina.wagner@bsb-muenchen.de
Tel. +89 / 28638-2982
Fax. +89 / 28638-12982 oder 2266
postbox: D-80328 Muenchen
_______________________________________
Inkunabelkatalog der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek (BSB-Ink) online:
http://mdz1.bib-bvb.de/cocoon/bsbink/start.html
_______________________________________
Friday, October 31, 2008
Lecture Library of Congress: November 6
Israeli Comics: Past and Present
A illustrated lecture by Ofer Berenstein,
a graduate student at Bar-Ilan University in Israel
Cover art for The magnificent adventures of Dugi Libretzem, #2 by Hagai Giler
Thursday, November 6, 2008, at 1:00 P.M.
Montpelier Room, James Madison Building, 6th Floor
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Sponsored by the Prints and Photographs Division, Serial and Government Publications Division
and the Hebraic Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division
Request ADA Accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 TTY or ADA@loc.gov
For further information, call Sara W. Duke at (202) 707-3630
A illustrated lecture by Ofer Berenstein,
a graduate student at Bar-Ilan University in Israel
Cover art for The magnificent adventures of Dugi Libretzem, #2 by Hagai Giler
Thursday, November 6, 2008, at 1:00 P.M.
Montpelier Room, James Madison Building, 6th Floor
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Sponsored by the Prints and Photographs Division, Serial and Government Publications Division
and the Hebraic Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division
Request ADA Accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 TTY or ADA@loc.gov
For further information, call Sara W. Duke at (202) 707-3630
Friday, October 10, 2008
Lecture at Library of Congress: Debra Band on The Song of Songs
The Hebraic Section
African and Middle Eastern Division
The Library of Congress
Presents
An Illustrated Lecture
By
Debra Band
“The Song of Songs:
The Honeybee in
The Garden”
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
12:00 – 1:00 PM
African and Middle Eastern Division Reading Room
220 Thomas Jefferson Building
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20540
Free and Open to the Public
For information: Peggy Pearlstein
(202) 707-3779 or ppea@loc.gov
Request ASL and ADA accommodation 5 days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ada@loc.gov
African and Middle Eastern Division
The Library of Congress
Presents
An Illustrated Lecture
By
Debra Band
“The Song of Songs:
The Honeybee in
The Garden”
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
12:00 – 1:00 PM
African and Middle Eastern Division Reading Room
220 Thomas Jefferson Building
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20540
Free and Open to the Public
For information: Peggy Pearlstein
(202) 707-3779 or ppea@loc.gov
Request ASL and ADA accommodation 5 days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ada@loc.gov
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Postscripts
Inscriptions: A Special Issue of Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds
Special Issue editors:
Jeremy Stolow (Communication Studies, Concordia University, Canada)
Lisa Gitelman (History of Science, Harvard University)
Call for Papers
The title of this special journal issue, “Inscriptions,” is meant to draw attention to a muchneglected
topic in the study of sacred texts: their materiality. Our goal is to challenge a longstanding
‘discursive’ bias among scholars of literature and belief, whereby it is often assumed that the study of
texts is sufficiently exhausted through an examination of the authorial intentions and the interpretive
possibilities of linguistic utterances, with recourse to the well-honed tools of philology, hermeneutics,
psychoanalysis, narratology, or deconstructivist reading strategies. While recognizing the importance of
such work, we wish to approach texts by focussing instead on their physical properties, as well as the
dynamic interactions of devices, techniques, and habits that lie beneath and within a given text, helping to
define the conditions for its perceptual apprehension and bodily engagement.
For this special issue of Postscripts, we seek contributions that elaborate and extend our proposed
consideration of the materiality of sacred texts broadly considered, attending to such things as their
layout, their material substrate (leather, paper, computer screens, etc), or the relationships between sacred
texts and their complementary technologies of transportation, storage, indexing, artificial illumination, or
waste management. What are the connections between materiality and belief? How have new media
helped to reveal or to confound sacred matter? Are there historically and culturally specific pathways
from text to relic? While we wish to keep this call for papers as open as possible, we are especially
interested in papers that offer historical, ethnographic, archaeological, and/or material cultural analyses of
particular texts and their material environments.
Submission instructions:
Please send a short proposal (a title plus an abstract of circa 200 words), and a brief bio-note
(including your contact details) to jeremy.stolow@concordia.ca. All submissions received by 1 January
2009 are assured full consideration.
About the Journal:
Postscripts is a new, fully refereed journal devoted to the academic study of scripture around the globe.
The study of sacred texts has historically been a highly technical, specialized and elite practice, held in
preserve by religious authorities and professional scholars. As important as this technical and specialized
work is, it represents only a small proportion of the rich panoply of engagements with texts that are
foundational in the lives of individuals and communities around the world -- texts that travel under the
name of 'scripture' or 'sacred' text. Postscripts takes seriously a broad array of historical and
contemporary engagements with such texts and aims to open up the discussion of sacred texts by crossing
traditional boundaries, bringing different disciplinary tools to the process of analysis, and opening up a
sustained dialogue between and among scholars and others who are interested in religion, textuality,
media and mediation and the contemporary world.
For more information, visit Postscripts at: http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/post/index
Special Issue editors:
Jeremy Stolow (Communication Studies, Concordia University, Canada)
Lisa Gitelman (History of Science, Harvard University)
Call for Papers
The title of this special journal issue, “Inscriptions,” is meant to draw attention to a muchneglected
topic in the study of sacred texts: their materiality. Our goal is to challenge a longstanding
‘discursive’ bias among scholars of literature and belief, whereby it is often assumed that the study of
texts is sufficiently exhausted through an examination of the authorial intentions and the interpretive
possibilities of linguistic utterances, with recourse to the well-honed tools of philology, hermeneutics,
psychoanalysis, narratology, or deconstructivist reading strategies. While recognizing the importance of
such work, we wish to approach texts by focussing instead on their physical properties, as well as the
dynamic interactions of devices, techniques, and habits that lie beneath and within a given text, helping to
define the conditions for its perceptual apprehension and bodily engagement.
For this special issue of Postscripts, we seek contributions that elaborate and extend our proposed
consideration of the materiality of sacred texts broadly considered, attending to such things as their
layout, their material substrate (leather, paper, computer screens, etc), or the relationships between sacred
texts and their complementary technologies of transportation, storage, indexing, artificial illumination, or
waste management. What are the connections between materiality and belief? How have new media
helped to reveal or to confound sacred matter? Are there historically and culturally specific pathways
from text to relic? While we wish to keep this call for papers as open as possible, we are especially
interested in papers that offer historical, ethnographic, archaeological, and/or material cultural analyses of
particular texts and their material environments.
Submission instructions:
Please send a short proposal (a title plus an abstract of circa 200 words), and a brief bio-note
(including your contact details) to jeremy.stolow@concordia.ca. All submissions received by 1 January
2009 are assured full consideration.
About the Journal:
Postscripts is a new, fully refereed journal devoted to the academic study of scripture around the globe.
The study of sacred texts has historically been a highly technical, specialized and elite practice, held in
preserve by religious authorities and professional scholars. As important as this technical and specialized
work is, it represents only a small proportion of the rich panoply of engagements with texts that are
foundational in the lives of individuals and communities around the world -- texts that travel under the
name of 'scripture' or 'sacred' text. Postscripts takes seriously a broad array of historical and
contemporary engagements with such texts and aims to open up the discussion of sacred texts by crossing
traditional boundaries, bringing different disciplinary tools to the process of analysis, and opening up a
sustained dialogue between and among scholars and others who are interested in religion, textuality,
media and mediation and the contemporary world.
For more information, visit Postscripts at: http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/post/index
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Call for Papers: "Authority and the Book in Medieval Culture"
>DEADLINE: 1 DEC.
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>The 26th Annual New England Medieval Studies
>Consortium Graduate Student Conference
>
>Yale University
>April 4, 2009.
>
>Theme: "Authority and the Book in Medieval Culture."
>
>Abstracts from graduate students are now being
>accepted for the 26th Annual New England
>Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student
>Conference, the theme of which will be "Authority and
>the Book in Medieval Culture."
>
>The organizers hope that this broad heading will
>elicit proposals for papers from all disciplines of
>Medieval Studies.
>
>Of especial interest are papers dealing with
>palaeography and manuscript studies; hagiography;
>literary studies; art history; history and
>historiography; gender studies; religious studies;
>musicology and medieval liturgical studies; as well as
>biblical exegesis and the relationship between Latin
>and various medieval vernaculars. Further, we look
>forward to receiving proposals that take more
>theoretical approaches to ideas of authority in the
>medieval period. We also hope to have one panel
>devoted to papers that explore different aspect of the
>history of modern Medieval Studies.
>
>Papers are to be no more than twenty minutes in length
>and read in English. Abstracts of no more than 250
>words should be sent by e-mail to
>
>Andrew.Kraebel@Yale.edu or
>SamanthaLily.Katz@Yale.edu.
>
>A hardcopy may be mailed to:
>Andrew Kraebel
>Department of English
>Yale University
>P.O. Box 208302
>New Haven, CT 06520-8302
>
>The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2008.
>
>Graduate students whose abstracts are selected for the
>conference will have the opportunity to submit their
>paper in its entirety for consideration for the Alison
>Goddard Elliott Award.
>
>The conference will also feature a plenary speaker, to
>be announced at a later date.
>
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>The 26th Annual New England Medieval Studies
>Consortium Graduate Student Conference
>
>Yale University
>April 4, 2009.
>
>Theme: "Authority and the Book in Medieval Culture."
>
>Abstracts from graduate students are now being
>accepted for the 26th Annual New England
>Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student
>Conference, the theme of which will be "Authority and
>the Book in Medieval Culture."
>
>The organizers hope that this broad heading will
>elicit proposals for papers from all disciplines of
>Medieval Studies.
>
>Of especial interest are papers dealing with
>palaeography and manuscript studies; hagiography;
>literary studies; art history; history and
>historiography; gender studies; religious studies;
>musicology and medieval liturgical studies; as well as
>biblical exegesis and the relationship between Latin
>and various medieval vernaculars. Further, we look
>forward to receiving proposals that take more
>theoretical approaches to ideas of authority in the
>medieval period. We also hope to have one panel
>devoted to papers that explore different aspect of the
>history of modern Medieval Studies.
>
>Papers are to be no more than twenty minutes in length
>and read in English. Abstracts of no more than 250
>words should be sent by e-mail to
>
>
>
>
>A hardcopy may be mailed to:
>Andrew Kraebel
>Department of English
>Yale University
>P.O. Box 208302
>New Haven, CT 06520-8302
>
>The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2008.
>
>Graduate students whose abstracts are selected for the
>conference will have the opportunity to submit their
>paper in its entirety for consideration for the Alison
>Goddard Elliott Award.
>
>The conference will also feature a plenary speaker, to
>be announced at a later date.
>
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Perugia Geniza exhibit
More from the Italian Geniza here: http://documentiebraici.unipg.it/indexENG.php
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