Registration Opens -- Digital Approaches to Hebrew Manuscripts
We are delighted to announce the programme for On the Same Page: Digital Approaches to Hebrew Manuscripts at King's College London. This two-day conference will explore the potential for the computer-assisted study of Hebrew manuscripts; discuss the intersection of Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities; and share methodologies. Amongst the topics covered will be Hebrew palaeography and codicology, the encoding and transcription of Hebrew texts, the practical and theoretical consequences of the use of digital surrogates and the visualisation of manuscript evidence and data. For the full programme and our Call for Posters, please see below.
Registration for the conference is free. As places are limited, we recommend registering at an early point to avoid disappointment. To register, please click on this link: https://on-the-same-page.eventbrite.com
Refreshments will be provided, but attendees should make their own arrangements for lunch.
Very much looking forward to seeing you in May,
Stewart Brookes, Debora Marques de Matos, Andrea Schatz and Peter Stokes
Organised by the Departments of Digital Humanities and Theology & Religious Studies (Jewish Studies)
Co-sponsor: Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies (CLAMS), King's College London
Call for Posters
Are you involved in an interesting project in the wider field of Jewish Studies? Would you like to have a presence at the conference even though you're not giving a paper? If so, then you might like to consider submitting a poster which summarises the objectives, significance and outcomes of your research project. We'll display posters throughout the conference and if you attend with your poster, then you can talk about your work with attendees during the lunch breaks. Display space is limited, so please send a brief summary (max. 100 words) of your research/project to sephardipal@lists.cch.kcl.ac.uk. The deadline for the receipt of submissions is Thursday 30th April 2015. Notice of acceptance will be sent as soon as possible after that date.
Conference Programme
Monday 18th May 2015
8.45 – Coffee and registration
9.15 – Welcome
- Stewart Brookes and Débora Marques de Matos (King’s College London)
9.30 – Keynote lecture
- Chair: Andrea Schatz (King’s College London)
- Colette Sirat (École Pratique des Hautes Études): The Study of Medieval Manuscripts in a Technological World
10.30 – Coffee/Tea
11.00 – Session 1: Digital Libraries: From Manuscripts to Images
- Chair: Avriel Bar-Levav (The Open University, Israel)
- Ilana Tahan (British Library): The Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project at the British Library: An Assessment
- César Merchán-Hamann (Bodleian Library): The Polonsky Digitisation Project: Hebrew Materials
- Emile Schrijver (Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana/University of Amsterdam): The Real Challenges of Mass Digitization for Hebrew Manuscript Research
12.30 – Lunch break
13.30 – Session 2: (Roundtable): Digital Images: Scale and Scope
- Chair: Jonathan Stökl (King’s College London)
- Rahel Fronda (University of Oxford): From Micrography to Macrography: Digital Approaches to Hebrew Script
- Ilana Wartenberg (UCL): Digital Images in the Research of Medieval Hebrew Scientific Treatises
- Estara Arrant (University of Oxford): Foundations, Errors, and Innovations: Jacob Mann’s Genizah Research and the Use of Digitised Images in Hebrew Manuscript Analysis
- Dalia-Ruth Halperin (Talpiot College of Education, Holon): Choreography of the Micrography
15.00 – Coffee/Tea
15.30 – Session 3: Digital Space: Joins and Links
- Chair: Paul Joyce (King’s College London)
- Sacha Stern (UCL): The Calendar Dispute of 921/2: Assembling a Corpus of Manuscripts from the Friedberg Genizah Project
- Israel Sandman (UCL): Manuscript Images: Revealing the History of Transmission and Use of Literary Works
- Judith Kogel (CNRS, Paris): How to Use Internet and Digital Resources to Identify Hebrew Fragments
17.00 – Keynote lecture
- Chair: Stewart Brookes (King’s College London)
- Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (École Pratique des Hautes Études): The Books Within Books Database and Its Contribution to Hebrew Palaeography
Tuesday 19th May 2015
9.15 – Keynote lecture
- Chair: Peter Stokes (King’s College London)
- Malachi Beit-Arié (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The SfarData Codicological Database: A Tool for Dating and Localizing Medieval Codices, Historical Research and the Study of Book Production – Methodology and Practice
10.15 – Session 4: Digital Palaeography: Tools and Methods
- Chair: Julia Crick (King’s College London)
- Débora Marques de Matos (King’s College London): Building Digital Tools for Hebrew Palaeography: The SephardiPal Database
- Stewart Brookes (King’s College London): A Test-Case for Extending SephardiPal: The Montefiore Mainz Mahzor
11.15 – Coffee/Tea
11.45 – Session 5: Digital Corpora: Analysis and Editing
- Chair: Eyal Poleg (Queen Mary University of London)
- Ben Outhwaite (Cambridge University Library): Beyond the Aleppo Codex: Why the Hebrew Bible Deserves a Better Internet
- Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (École Pratique des Hautes Études), co-author Hayim Lapin (University of Maryland): A Digital Edition of the Mishna: From Images to Facsimile, Text and Grammatical Analysis
- Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv University), co-author Lior Wolf (Tel Aviv University): Computational Hebrew Manuscriptology
13.15 – Lunch break
14.30 – Keynote lecture
- Chair: Débora Marques de Matos (King’s College London)
- Edna Engel (The Hebrew Palaeography Project, Israel): Hebrew Palaeography in the Digital Age
15.30 – Session 6: Data and Metadata
- Chair: Renate Smithuis (University of Manchester)
- Sinai Rusinek (The Polonsky Academy at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute): Digitally Reading from Right to Left
- Yoed Kadary (Ben Gurion University): The Challenges of Metadata Mining in Digital Humanities Projects
16.30 – Concluding roundtable
17.00 – Refreshments
The conference convenors would like to thank the Departments of Digital Humanities and Theology & Religious Studies as well as the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies at King’s College London for their generous support. With thanks to the Free Library of Philadelphia Rare Book Department for permission to use the image from Lewis O 140 (The Portuguese Masoretic Bible). Photograph courtesy of Débora Marques de Matos.
There is a PDF of the programme here: Digital Approaches
Details about the conference and local amenities are here: Info