'CHANNELS OF DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP' WORKSHOP
Workshop organised in collaboration with the ERC Project NOTCOM.
Convenors: Goran Gaber (European University Institute/MFO), Mouhamadoul Khaly Wélé (IHRIM, ENS Lyon/ NOTCOM)
Registration: To register for the workshop, please contact Amelie Berger-Soraruff at amelie.berger-soraruff@mfo.ac.uk
Digitising historical sources and tools for their analysis is transforming how we think about and practice intellectual history. Much like the introduction of print profoundly altered the intellectual landscape of early modernity, the contemporary constitution of digital editions offers new insights, but also requires new practical skills and unprecedented expert collaboration.
The effects of digital historical scholarship on the practice of early modern intellectual history take several forms. First, by digitising corpora, it facilitates access to the historiographical canon, but also broadens and transforms this canon itself. Second, the parallel development of digital tools for analysing the corpora reveals new features of the studied texts and previously overlooked connections between them. Finally, these significant shifts allow us to revisit a series of theoretical, epistemological and practical questions concerning the nature of our historiographical resources, the modes and models governing our production of historical knowledge, and the social aims of historiography itself.
To discuss these issues, channels of Digital Scholarship is delighted to welcome five speakers from the Taylor Institution Library (Oxford), the Bodleian Library (Oxford), and the research centre IHRIM (CNRS UMR 5317) at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, who will present their work and explore the possibilities digital scholarship offers for intellectual history in general and for that of early modernity in particular.
Programme (available for download here)
Morning Session
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Opening remarks.
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM: Alexey Lavrentev
Title: « Editing 16th Century Books with TXM: an Experience of Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes and Laurent Joubert's Erreurs populaires ».
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM: Marianne Reboul
Title: « Multilingual Intertext Detection in Ancient Languages: Measures for Detecting Intertextuality Between Greek Philosophers and Classical Latin Philosophy ».
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM: Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM: Emma Huber
Title: « Taylor Editions - a platform for digitised texts ».
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM: Jack Orchard and Mark Rogerson
Title: « Electronic Enlightenment: historical letters from between 1600 and 1850 ».
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM: Mouhamadoul Khaly Wélé
Title: « Undertaking Digital and Parallelized Editions of Early Modern Qur’ān translations: Qurʾān 12-21 Project Methodological and Technical Challenges ».
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM: Concluding remarks.
3:45 PM: End of the workshop.
