Lise Jaillant

As Liaison Officer for SHARP (the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing), it is my role to organise our annual sessions at the Modern Language Association convention. The next MLA convention will take place in Toronto (7 to 10 January 2021). This time,  SHARP  is sponsoring three sessions: 1) A guaranteed session: "Towards sustainability for digital archives and projects" Book historians and other scholars rely on digitised and born-digital archives. How can we make digital archives and digital projects more sustainable? Environmental sustainability; longevity, permanence, availability, Open Access. 300-word abstracts + CV to Lise Jaillant. E-mail Address: l.jaillant [at] lboro.ac.uk Submission Deadline: March 1, 2020 2) A joint session with the Modernist Studies Association "Modernism, Copyright and Public Domains" Impact of early 20th-century works coming out of copyright; Archives now publicly open, includi...

I am delighted to announce the following programme of activities for Ray Siemens's visit in the UK, funded by a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship. Short bio : Ray is Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, in English and Computer Science, and past Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing (2004-15); in 2019, he is also Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Loughborough U and Global Innovation Chair in Digital Humanities at U Newcastle (2019-22).  Ray Siemens is coming with several colleagues and team members from the University of Victoria. We look forward to welcoming them in Britain! First Leverhulme Lecture in London : "Impactful by Design: Thoughts Toward Building a Research Project for Diverse Audiences" Speaker: Ray Siemens When? Wednesday 2 October, 4pm to 5.30pm Where? Room LDN104, Lboro London campus Register HERE Masterclass and “surgery” in Loughborough : How to use and develop public tools and...

The next MLA convention will take place in Seattle (9–12 January 2020). As usual, SHARP is sponsoring two sessions: 1) A guaranteed session on Databases and Print Culture Studies Mass-digitized archives of newspapers and books have revolutionized print culture studies. Data-rich collections and their impact on knowledge production and methods. Including use of data science and artificial intelligence. 300-word abstract + 1-page CV. E-mail Address: l.jaillant [at] lboro.ac.uk Submission Deadline: Friday, March 1, 2019 2) A joint session with the International Spenser Society Spenser and the Digital Humanities New book history/ digital humanities projects on Edmund Spenser. Digitization and data-driven research/pedagogy. 300-word abstracts/ CV by 15 March 2019. Lise Jaillant (l.jaillant [at] lboro.ac.uk) and David Baker (davidbak [at] email.unc.edu) Submission Deadline: Friday, March 15, 2019