Digital Approaches to Pre-Modern Texts and Manuscripts

The seminar is organised by Katarzyna Anna Kapitan, Junior Professor in Computational Analysis of Written Cultures in Western Space, and sponsored by the ANR-funded project « Digital Approaches to the Survival and Loss of Old Norse Romances » (ANR-23-CPJ1-0118-01).

9h-11h : Session 1 : Humanities in Transition (Chair: Katarzyna Anna Kapitan) 

• Emmanuelle Bermès : Crossed Views on the History of Digital Practices in Medieval History and in Libraries in France
• Elisabet Göranson : The ‘Sociology’ of Digital Humanities as a Collaborative Enterprise in the Humanities Disciplines
• Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh : Harnessing DH (or Not): Digital Opportunities for Irish Sources
• N. Kivilcim Yavuz : Teaching Manuscript Studies with Digital Tools

11h-11h30 : Coffee break 

11h30-13h : Session 2 : Languages in Context (Chair: Mike Kestemont) 

• Seán Vrieland : Encoding Variation in Multilingual Corpora
• Lucence Ing : A Study of Lexical Evolution in Medieval French: Digital Approaches to Arthurian Romances
• Chahan Vidal-Gorène & Florian Cafiero : Annotating Under-Resourced Historical Languages: Advantages and Limits of LLMs for Lemmatization and POS Tagging 

13h-14h : Lunch

14h-16h : Session 3 : Data Modeling in Medieval Studies (Chair: Marion Charpier) 

• Delphine Demelas : Responsible AI and the Middle Ages: Developing Critical Methodologies to Assess Biases in Medieval Textual Datasets
• Octave Julien : A Conceptual Data Model for the Description of Complex Manuscripts
• Ariane Pinche : Digital Philology: Perspectives and New Challenges in Data Preparation – A Case Study on Saint Lambert of Liège
• Dominique Stutzmann : Devotional Networks and Hybrid Texts in the Middle Ages 

16h-16h30 : Coffee break 

16h30-18h : Session 4 : Data in Practice (Chair: Jean-Baptiste Camps)

• Nicolas Baumard : The Cultural Evolution of Love in Literary History
• Kristin Hoefener : A Glimpse into a Musicologist's Lab: Working with Chant Databases such as CANTUS and PEM (Portuguese Early Music Database)
• Peter Stokes : Leveraging HTR for Palaeographical (and Other) Analysis

19h30 : Dinner