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We are recruiting for an additional developer on the project team! This is formally a two-year post, to the end of June 2014, but in practice it is very likely to be extendable for an additional three months to the …

Two upcoming classes on palaeography to be held at the Institute of English Studies in London have just come to my attention. One is very soon indeed, so if you’re interested then be sure to sign up quickly. This is …

The DigiPal project will be well represented at the International Congress of Medieval Studies (ICMS) Kalamazoo 2012. The main event is a session we are sponsoring called ‘Digital Methods and Resources for Paleography and Manuscript Studies’ and will be on …

An afternoon of talks for the public on the Anglo-Saxons will be taking place in central London on the 21 March 2012. Called ‘The Anglo-Saxons: Who? Where? When? Why?’, it promises a series of sessions on the history, language, writing, …

I am very pleased indeed to hear that the International Medieval Congress (IMC) Leeds has accepted seven sessions on palaeography this year, meaning that there will be no fewer than twenty-one papers on the subject on Wednesday 11th and Thursday …

Applications are now open for MMSDA 2012 from PhD students from any COST country – which basically means from anywhere in Europe or Israel! This may not be the case next year, so be sure to get in now while …

The ‘Writing Europe before 1450′ Colloquium will be held in Bergen in June 2012. The website is at http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/conferences/writing-europe, and the full Call for Papers is reproduced below. It should be an interesting conference! Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to …

The European Science Foundation recently sponsored an Exploratory Workshop on Digital Palaeography which was held at the University of Würzburg and organised by Dr Malte Rehbein. The DigiPal project was featured there, including a presentation by Dr Stewart Brookes, and …

The Strand Campus at KCL is confusing at the best of times, and so here are some detailed directions to the Council Room (K2.29). The Strand Campus is made up of several buildings, most of which are now joined together …

[Update: The Symposium is now full and with a substantial waiting-list. Unfortunately the room cannot fit any more people, and so if you have not registered already then you will not be able to attend. We are happy to put you …

The programme for Digital Diplomatics 2011 is now available. The DigiPal project will be represented by a poster, but there are a lot of other interesting things happening as well. We hope to see you there! http://www.cei.lmu.de/digdipl11/organization/program

Monday 5th September 2011, 9.30am-5.30pm King’s College London, Council Room, Strand WC2R 2LS The ‘Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic’ (DigiPal) at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, is delighted to announce that registration is …

The ‘Digital Resource for Palaeography’ (DigiPal) is pleased to be sponsoring a session at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan (10th May-13th May 2012) The digital environment offers exciting ways of enhancing and extending the traditional …

The programme for the ‘Parker Library – Keio Conference on Medieval Manuscripts and Printed Books’ has just been published, with the special theme of ‘Text, Image and the Digital Research Environment’. The Digital Resource for Palaeography project will be represented …

5 September 2011, King’s College London, 9.30am-5.30pm The ‘Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic’ (DigiPal) at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, is pleased to announce the list of speakers for their one-day symposium on …

There will be a session at the International Medieval Congress (IMC) Leeds this year on Digital Humanities in Anglo-Saxon studies. The session will focus on four new projects: PASE 2 (Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England), the Revised ESawyer, ASCluster (the Anglo-Saxon …

A ‘proof of concept’ demonstrator of the DigiPal project will be shown in Lyon on 25 May, at 5pm, as part of the Conférence-Démo series of the MutEC project (Mutualisation pour les éditions critiques et les corpus). We hope to …

5 September 2011, King’s College London The ‘Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic’ (DigiPal) at the Centre for Computing in Humanities at King’s College London is pleased to announce a one-day symposium on digital resources for palaeography. …

The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, is pleased to announce a PhD studentship in digital palaeography funded by a European Research Council project, Digital Resource of Palaeography. The studentship is to be held in the CCH …

A press release for the ‘Digital Resource for Palaeography’ project was (briefly) featured on the front page of the KCL website. The full text of the release is still available in the KCL News Archive.

The Centre for Computing in Humanities (CCH) seeks a suitably experienced Research Associate for a new four-year project on digital palaeography. The post holder will be based at CCH, an academic department in the School of Arts and Humanities focusing …