Digital Medievalist

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Members of the Digital Medievalist Board and PostGrad Committee in front of the "House of History" (Hessian State Archive Darmstadt).

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

The Digital Medieval Manuscript "The Digital Medieval Manuscript" published on 04 Sep 2025 by Brill.

📣📚New publication: S. van Haaren, The Digital Medieval Manuscript - Material Approaches to Digital Codicology, Brill (2025)

▶️ tinyurl.com/45vj7z23

#medievalsky #digitalhumanities

Join us @ the #medievalseminar next Monday, as we welcome @lauramorreale.bsky.social for a talk on the fascinating "Image du Monde" and its digital afterlives! 9/29, 5:30p, Barker 133. @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social @medievalacademy.bsky.social

🔔 Do not forget that today is the deadline. And thank you for all the wonderful proposals already submitted!
#IMC2026

Thank you for your comment. This is a call for proposals for sessions at the next IMC, not for the DMSI 2026. This year, there are two alternative themes: LLMs and medieval texts, or Digital Methods and manuscripts. If you wish to submit a proposal for the second topic, we will gladly review it.

⏰ You still have one week to send us your proposals!

🚨Job Klaxon🚨

Open rank Professorship in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods

📍Institute of History, University of Bern (🇨🇭)
📆Deadline: 19 October 2025
▶️ Information: tinyurl.com/56ywncuj

#Medievalsky #DigitalHumaniities

Apply to be on season 5! Details available on our website. 🩷

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.

📜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

📣 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

Congratulations to all! We're looking forward to a great four years with the new DM Executive Board and our wonderful community as a whole.

#Medievalsky #DigitalHumanities

Our heartfelt thanks also go to Catherine Albers-Morris, Niels Becker, Louis I. Hamilton, S.C. Kaplan, and María Morrás for standing in the election.

We were honored to have such an outstanding and rich slate of candidates.

We extend a very warm welcome to our newest members, Caterina and Evina!

We're also so pleased to welcome back Dot and Hannah (in her new capacity), and to have Katarzyna continuing her fantastic work with us. 👏

Please join us in congratulating our five newly elected board members (in alphabetical order):

✨ Caterina Agostini
✨ Hannah Busch
✨ Katarzyna Anna Kapitan
✨ Dot Porter
✨ Evina Stein

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🎉 Election Results Are In! 🎉

We're thrilled to announce the new members of the Digital Medievalist Executive Board for the 2025-2029 term.

A huge thank you to all the members who voted this year!🗳️

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.

📜 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

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.

📣 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

Did you vote yet? There's still a few days left!

📧 How to vote:
1) Review the candidate profiles at tinyurl.com/yjx6y6zs ;
2) Check your email for voting instructions from Helios Voting Bot

⏰ When:
July 28 - August 11, 2025 (12pm UTC)

Ready to make your mark on the future of digital medieval studies? Don't let this opportunity pass by!

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🗳️ ELECTION TIME! 🗳️
Digital Medievalist community - it's time to choose your next Executive Board!
What's happening:
- 5 Executive Board positions up for elections (2025-2029 term)
- 10 amazing candidates to choose from
- YOUR voice matters in shaping our future!
#Digitalhumanities #Medievalsky
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Digital Medievalist 2025 Executive Board Election: Nominations Digital Medievalist invites nominations for five members to join its Executive Board for a four-year term starting August 2025. This form may be used for self-nominations or to recommend a candidate. ...

📣 Deadline extended!

Digital Medievalist Executive Board nominations now open until Friday, 11 July. ⌛

➡️ Nominate yourself or someone else here: tinyurl.com/3xwjbe9p
✅ Open to DM members working in #digitalmedievalstudies.

Details: tinyurl.com/ynaf9dtb #medievalsky

Looking forward to #IMC2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week! Proud to present our session on the "Virtual Middle Ages" (8 July, 4:30-6) with @suzettevhaaren.bsky.social - thanks to @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social and @sfb1567.bsky.social at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Not to forget @dhi-paris.fr ... 😎

Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social is sponsoring seven sessions, a roundtable, a reception and the Digital Medieval Studies Insitute #DMSI2025 at #IMC2025! Looking forward to seeing some of you in one or more of these events! Details: tinyurl.com/DMatIMC2025

#digitalmedievalstudies

To keep up-to-date on news from @invisibleeast.bsky.social you can follow us here and on various other socials! All of our events & publications can be found on our project website nvisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk where you can also get in touch to ask to be added to our mailing list. Have a good weekend 😀

Our PI @arezouazad.bsky.social & Editorial Fellow Nadia Vidro will be @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week - why not head over to our panel with @mideastmedieval.bsky.social exploring scribal & epigraphic techniques applied & works produced in the #Islamicate world between the 8th & 13th centuries CE.

Thank you for joining @invisibleeast.bsky.social for our @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social #takeover this week. It has been a pleasure to share some of our news, in an especially busy & exciting week, with your community here on Bluesky. 🧵

#digitalhumanities #medievalsky

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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

Hidden Treasures of the Persian Collections The Bodleian's less known manuscripts. This is the second of five films celebrating the Bodleian Libraries' Persian arts of the book conference (13-14 July 2021). 'Persian Arts of the Book' gathers scholars from around the world with expert curators from Oxford and beyond to reflect on the Persian manuscript tradition. Book your place at this free conference here: https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/persian-arts-of-the-book

One publication is about the #Barmakids, a family whose dramas (involving kings from China, fire-eating ostriches & illicit love affairs!) unfold in the #Persian compilation 'Akhbār-i Barmakiyān'. Find out more about the fascinating #manuscript with our PI @arezouazad.bsky.social: bit.ly/Barmakids

Did you know that the @invisibleeast.bsky.social team, colleagues and advisory board members are hard at work writing and editing a series with @edinburghup.bsky.social entitled 'The Islamicate East: New Approaches to Texts and History'?

edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-the-islamicate-east 🧵