Stopping to smell the roses: more thoughts on DH and collaboration

By Laura Whitebell

Milton in his old age

We have been fortunate to have a series of visiting Digital Humanities scholars at the University of Rochester over the last few months, and while all of their projects and approaches have been very different, most have still emphasized the importance of collaboration in their work. We’ve written a post about the topic before, but this time I want to focus more generally on the different kinds of group work we engage in at BAND.

Looking back over the last few years, the letters project has changed the way that we work, at once promoting the collaborative spirit that is such a positive part of DH, but also eroding some of the skills that group work encourages. I think that this is because of the specific nature of the project and the workflow that we have developed to handle it. Here’s a quick summary:

  1. A BAND Assistant will take responsibility for transcribing and putting together the editorial apparatus of a single letter;
  2. Nick (who has been managing the project) will resolve any outstanding queries and bank the finished letter;
  3. When a batch of a dozen or so are ready they are re-distributed for proofreading.

Often this third stage of the process happens …read more

Source:: https://blakearchive.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/stopping-to-smell-the-roses/

Frankenstein and Fantasmagoriana, Story 3: La Tête de mort

By maximiliaan@gmail.com by Maximiliaan van Woudenberg The third story in Fantasmagoriana is a personal favourite. While the influence of ‘La Tête de Mort’ on Shelley’s Frankenstein is minimal at best, there are several intertextual tidbits related to this story that are quite intriguing. Let’s explore the origins of the story first. Provenance Paths and Variants Interestingly, ‘La […] …read more

Source:: http://www.romtext.org.uk/frankenstein-and-fantasmagoriana-story-3-la-tete-de-mort/

Percy Shelley and Art: Tate Britain

      No Comments on Percy Shelley and Art: Tate Britain

By annamercer90

tate

Yesterday I visited Tate Britain (in Pimlico, London). I went to see the work of the Pre-Raphaelites as a study break but found some Shelley-related artwork I was otherwise unaware of…

There was the bust of Shelley…

Shelleysign

And I had never before encountered this beautiful painting by JMW Turner, Queen Mab’s Cave. Although ‘Queen Mab’ is an allusion to a Shakespearean character, the Tate curators confirm that it is likely Turner also read P B Shelley’s epic poem Queen Mab (1813).

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-queen-mabs-cave-n00548/text-catalogue-entry

TurnerMab

Turnersign

In 1814 Mary Shelley inscribed in her copy of Queen Mab: ‘I am thine, exclusively thine. I have pledged myself to thee and sacred is the gift’…..

…read more

Source:: https://percyandmaryshelley.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/percy-shelley-and-art-tate-britain/

CfP: Recording Nature in the Early Atlantic World, 1750 – 1830

By admin

Florida

The Charles Brockden Brown Society is inviting paper proposals for its tenth biennial conference, ‘Recording Nature in the Early Atlantic World, 1750-1830′, which will take place between October the 8th and 10th this year in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida. The full Call for Papers can be viewed here. There are some generous travel awards available for graduate students. The deadline for proposals for individual papers and for panels is May 1st.

…read more

Source:: http://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=619

CfP: Voices and Books, 1500-1800

      No Comments on CfP: Voices and Books, 1500-1800

By admin

BARS members might be interested in the culminating conference of the AHRC Voices and Books project, which will take place in Newcastle in July (details below). Be aware, however, that the dates clash with Romantic Imprints, so if you’re planning on joining us in Cardiff, you may have to sit this one out.

– — – — – — – — – — – — – — –

VOICES AND BOOKS, 1500-1800

July 16th-18th 2015

Newcastle University and City Library, Newcastle

Organiser: Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University) with Helen Stark, (Newcastle University) and Richard Wistreich (Royal College of Music)

Keynote Speakers:
Heidi Brayman Hackel (University of California, Riverside)
Anne Karpf (London Metropolitan University)
Christopher Marsh (Queen’s University, Belfast) with The Carnival Band
Perry Mills, Director of Edward’s Boys (King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon)

Although it is often acknowledged that early modern books were routinely read aloud we know relatively little about this. Oral reading is not embedded as an assumption in existing scholarship. On the contrary, over the last two decades it is the studious and usually silent reader, pen in hand, who has been placed centre stage. This conference aims to: explore the kind of evidence and research methods that might help us to recover this …read more

Source:: http://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=614

Report on How to Keep Your (Georgian) Man, 17 Mar 2015

By Alison Harvey There was an excellent turn out to this hotly awaited addition to the CRECS programme, which set out to explore the (fifty?) shades of grey that existed in eighteenth century attitudes to sex, gender and domesticity. Participants gathered around the tables in Special Collections and Archives, upon which were scattered extracts from the texts for […] …read more

Source:: https://crecs.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/report-how-to-keep-your-georgian-man/

“Cant and Continuities …”

      No Comments on “Cant and Continuities …”
Picture

Last week, an old friend and fellow Romanticist posted an indignant “name and shame” tweet in defence of her gay friend, who’d been thrown out of a well-known chain of Irish pubs for kissing his boyfriend. It brought home to me how little, in some important respects, has changed in terms of public attitudes to same-sex relations since the Romantic period, when homosexuality was a capital offence, and when hangings of gay men were regular occurances in London, enjoyed by large, hate-filled crowds.

I saw my friend’s tweet just before going on a BBC Radio Wales arts show to talk about my new crime novel, The Cunning House, which is set in a Regency “molly house”, or gay bar, in today’s parlance. The resonances between the intolerance faced by gay men today and the and violent discrimination of the Romantic period – the supposedly polite age of John Keats and Jane Austen – struck me with such force that I mentioned the incident on the show.

I teach gender theory and Romantic masculinities at Aberystwyth University – actually, the idea for The Cunning House evolved out of a discussion about the raid …read more

Source:: http://www.richardmarggrafturley.com/blog/cant-and-continuities

Visiting speaker, 24 Mar 2015: Gowan Dawson on citizen science in the 19th and 21st centuries

By Anthony Mandal Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester) will be presenting his paper, ‘Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries’, at 5.30pm on Tuesday, 24 March 2015. The talk will take place in the Cardiff University’s John Percival Building, Room 2.48. Abstract The ‘Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries’ project is an innovative collaboration […] …read more

Source:: https://crecs.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/speaker-gowan-dawson/

University of Roehampton Vice-Chancellor’s PhD Scholarships

By marylshannon

The University of Roehampton is pleased to announce 50 Vice Chancellor’s Scholarships for PhD study beginning in October 2015. Full funding (tuition fee waiver at Home/EU rate, and stipend of £16,057 per annum) is available for outstanding applicants to undertake research on eligible project areas across all departments.

Applications are due 5 May 2015 for an October 2015 start.

We are seeking bold, innovative postgraduates with a record of achievement to undertake a broad range of thematic and cross-disciplinary projects. You will be supervised by experienced teams of internationally renowned scholars, enjoying extensive opportunities to collaborate with a diverse range of partners and to work within one of our highly acclaimed research networks.

Funding is available for UK/EU and International* students at Home/EU rates (tuition fee waiver at £4,052 and stipend at £16,057 for 2015/16) for three years full-time study (or part time equivalent for five years).

Students will benefit from being part of their Departmental research communities and the Graduate School, which sits at the heart of our supportive doctoral community. All doctoral students further benefit from a range of high-quality training opportunities that foster development both within the academy and beyond.

For full deatils of eligibile projects and how to apply see <a target="_blank" …read more

Source:: https://romanticillustrationnetwork.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/university-of-roehampton-vice-chancellors-phd-scholarships/

The Visual and the Verbal’, a skills-based training event for postgraduate students using material held at the Ruskin Library, Lancaster University on Wednesday 20th May.

By marylshannon

The Visual and the Verbal’, a skills-based training event for postgraduate students using material held at the Ruskin Library, Lancaster University on Wednesday 20th May.

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/english/events/visual-verbal.htm

The Ruskin Library holds the largest collection of material relating to the life and work of John Ruskin (1819-1900), one of the most important cultural figures of his era in the English-speaking world. Among the most important manuscripts in the collection are 29 diary notebooks, covering the period 1835 to 1888, and c. 4000 manuscript letters. Also in the Library are over 1000 drawings by Ruskin, with others by his associates and pupils, and 125 plates from his collection of daguerreotypes, one of the most important collections of early photographs in the world dating from 1845-1858. The strength of the archive lies in its breadth and depth, enabling research in a number of disciplines, and it will be used at our event to teach the research skills required for work with both manuscript and visual materials. Students working in English, History, Museum Studies, Visual Arts, Art History are welcome to apply for this event.

The event will feature a combination of teaching methods, including intensive, practical hands-on sessions with Ruskin’s manuscripts. The event is …read more

Source:: https://romanticillustrationnetwork.wordpress.com/2015/03/18/%EF%BB%BF%EF%BB%BFthe-visual-and-the-verbal-a-skills-based-training-event-for-postgraduate-students-using-material-held-at-the-ruskin-library-lancaster-university-on-wednesday-20th-may/