2: Roundtable: Coalition of Digital Humanities Centers

Tue 5 Jun, 11:00-12:30
Session 2: Roundtable: Coalition of Digital Humanities Centers
Neil Fraistat, John Unsworth, Katherine L. Walter, Julia Flanders, Matthew Kirschenbaum

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12: Interoperability of Metadata for . . .

Tue 5 Jun, 9:00-10:30
Session 12: Interoperability of Metadata for Thematic Research Collections: A Model Based on The Walt Whitman Archive
Katherine Walter, Brett Barney, Julia Flanders, Terence Catapano, Daniel Pitti

[Greetings from the NCSA building at UIUC. Yes, I haven’t finished the Kalamazoo posts. Best put this set up as I do them, though. . . .]

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372: Weblogs and the Academy

2007-05-11
Session 372: Weblogs and the Academy: Pedagogy, Professionalism, and Technical Practices (A Roundtable)
Organizers: Elisabeth Carnell, Shana Worthen

Participants: Lisa L. Spangenberg, Julie A. Hofmann, Kim Laing, Richard Scott Nokes, Michael Tinkler, James Ryan Gregory

That’s a mix of blogs and professional pages in the links, per the usual legal name / pseudonym issues. If your pseud is publicly linked, I may follow suit, but not otherwise. . . . Since I didn’t write down consistently who said what, I’ve left things as “one person” or “someone” even where I remember the correct attributions. As a result, a lot of these observations sound blandly common-sensical, but they are useful, I think.

(It would really be good form to finish these write-ups and post them before the next conference occurs, wouldn’t it.)

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17: EMES 2

2007-05-10
Session 17: Relations, Companions, Derivatives
Sponsor: Early Middle English Society

This panel was my idea, sibling to Dorothy Kim’s on women and devotion. I’ll remind everyone reading that (a) this blog blocks indexing by search engines and (b) all ideas belong to their presenters, not to me—and certainly not to you.

Saint Edmund of Abingdon and Post-Canonization Vernacular Hagiography
Christopher Jensen

Defining Romance in a Changing Manuscript: The Case of Oxford, Bodleian Library MSS Douce 132 and 137
Andrea Lankin

The Shelf-Life of History: London, College of Arms MS Arundel 58 and the Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester
Matthew Fisher

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114: Layamon’s Brut

2007-05-10
Session 114: Layamon’s Brut: Historical and Political Contexts
Sponsor: International Layamon’s Brut Society

Reconsidering Layamon’s Angles and Saxons
Kenneth J. Tiller

Law and Arthur: Legal Literature in Layamon’s Brut
Scott Kleinman

Layamon’s Brut and the Barons’ War
Jennifer Miller

Two of these were the best papers I heard at the conference, so I’ll start the writeups with them. . . .

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