Call for Papers – Kalamazoo 2024 – Digitizing the Middle Ages: The Impacts of Digitized Corpora on Medieval Historiography

Digitizing the Middle Ages: The Impacts of Digitized Corpora on Medieval Historiography

Call for Papers

59th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Kalamazoo, 2024

Sessions of Papers

The digitization of documentary corpora is an unavoidable reality for the most part of the medievalists. If little attention has been paid to the impacts of digital media on the specific field of Medieval History, it is well known that digital corpora impose different sorts of arguments to the medievalists. Following last year’s discussions (ICMS 2023) about the arguments of digital corpora on textual production and textual transmission (from analogical to digital text; from geographical, to chronological, and social dispersion of texts), this session of papers proposes to discuss how the arguments produced by digital corpora impact the medievalist research.

Research concerned with the following aspects of the impacts of digitized corpora on Medieval Historiography are welcome:

• History writing, historiography and its relations with the use of digitized corpora;
• The epistemic analysis on the impacts of the use of digital documentation for the production of knowledge about the Middle Ages;
• Historiographical periodizations and the use of digital documentation;
• The impacts of the previous elements on the production of knowledge in historiographical specific fields (hagiography, diplomatics, cartography, etc).

Sponsoring Organizations:

Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris (LaMOP) – CNRS-Paris 1 / Corpus de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge (CBMA)

Laboratório de Teoria e História das Mídias Medievais (LATHIMM), PPGHIS/IH – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Organizers:

Gabriel Castanho (LATHIMM / PPGHIS / IH – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Eliana Magnani (CBMA/LaMOP/CNRS – Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Nicolas Perreaux (CBMA/LaMOP – Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Delivery Mode:

Virtual (fully online)

Submissions deadline: 15 September

Submissions proposal: Confex system (https://icms.confex.com/icms/2024/cfp.cgi)