The London Seminar in Digital Text & Scholarship focuses on the ways in which the digital medium remakes the relationship of readers, writers, scholars, technical practitioners and designers to the manuscript and printed book. Its discussions are intended to inform public debate and policy as well as to stimulate research and provide a broad forum in which to present its results. Although the forum is primarily for those working in textual and literary studies, history of the book, humanities computing and related fields, its mandate is to address and involve an audience of non-specialists. Wherever possible the issues it raises are meant to engage all those who are interested in a digital future for the book. The Seminar is sponsored by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, and the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Convenor: Dr Willard McCarty (King’s College London). NB:
Wednesday 10 October 2007; Room ST274 (Stewart House, 2nd Floor)
David Ganz, (Professor of Palaeography, King’s College London)
‘Medieval Libraries in the Digital Age’
Thursday 15 November 2007; 6.00pm; ST274 (Stewart House, 2nd Floor)
Paul Eggert (University of New South Wales)
‘Text as Algorithm and as Process: A Critique’
Thursday 13 December 2007; 5.30pm; NG15 (Senate House North Block)
Jan-Christoph Meister
‘The Myth of the Digital or: Why Humanities Computing is Really Business as Usual’
Thursday 17 January 2008; 5.30pm; Room ST274 (Stewart House, 2nd Floor)
James E. Tierney
‘British Periodicals, 1660-1800: An Electronic Index’
Thursday 21 February 2008; 5.30pm; Room ST275 (Stewart House, 2nd Floor)
Andrew Prescott
‘Digital Manuscripts: Retrospect and Prospects’
Thursday 13 March 2008; 5.30pm; Room ST274 (Stewart House, 2nd Floor)
Charles Henry
‘The Talisman of Format: Celebrating the End of the Book’
Thursday 17 April 2008; 5.30pm; Room ST274 (Stewart House, 2nd Floor)
Marilyn Deegan
‘I’ve read the news today, oh boy!’
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