Digital Medievalist

@digitalmedievalist.bsky.social

International web-based community for medievalists working with digital media.

What a productive week at the #IMC2026 for Digital Medievalist! First, our sessions brought together specialists for a full day dedicated to the current landscape of Digital Medieval Studies. The talks featured rich cross-domain dialogue, ranging from Chinese letter analysis to CER evaluation.

📣 New Palaeography Pages 📣 Some documents in our digital corpus carry distinctive scribal features worth a closer look - and we’ve now built dedicated pages spelling out exactly what makes them interesting, right down to the line and the letter... 1/2

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📜 Joining the #IMC2026 in Leeds? Digital Medievalist is proud to sponsor a lineup of sessions, round tables, and workshops with from 7-11 July. Discover how large language models, spectral imaging, and linked data are transforming medieval scholarship. Full schedule below ⬇️. 1/10

A flyer for the International Medieval Congress From 6 to 9 July 2026 in Leeds, with a the special thematic Temporalities. The flyer shows medieval objects, medals and illuminations over a red background.

🚨 Job alert: Research Fellow, Project ‘Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain’ You will carry out desk and archive-based research into manuscripts and preparing materials for web publication. 📆 Deadline: July 7th 📍Uni. of Southampton, UK ▶️ To apply: tinyurl.com/48bebudb

Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow: AHRC Project ‘Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain’

The University of Southampton is seeking to appoint a post-doctoral Research Fellow for 30 months (with the possibility of extension). The Fellow will support the AHRC-Funded project 'Strange Geograph...

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Thanks for everyone who already signed up to this fab event! Today, 10 June, is the last day for official registrations! If you find that you want to join us for #DMSI2026 at @imc-leeds.bsky.social after today, do please get in touch with us at dmsi.hello [at] gmail.com and we'll do our best!

Digital Medievalist@digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨Last chance to join us for the DMSI 2026 at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Gain hands-on experience in #digital methods adapted to medieval texts and images. 📆Jul 10 2026 📍Leeds, UK ▶️ tinyurl.com/5cm6ymn7 And if you have already registered for the IMC, you can still add DMSI to your registration.

Flyer advertising the DMSI 2026 at Leeds IMC.

📜Call for paper: Reconsidering Fabliaux through the Lens of Digital Humanities, 17-19 June (Lyon, France) 📚abstract 250–300 words (Fren. or Engl.) 📆Deadline: 31 Dec. 26 📩Send your abstract to corinne.pierreville@univ-lyon3.fr 🔗 More about the Fabliaux project: tinyurl.com/89tnx6xe

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Le projet consiste en la création d’un corpus numérique de fabliaux français du Moyen Âge, au format XML-TEI, pérenne et interrogeable, hébergé sur la Base de Français Médiéval afin de favoriser les r...

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📣 Are you interested in the intersection of Machine Learning and Medieval Studies? We're excited to announce a LATE CALL for our upcoming session, "Digital Medieval Studies: Machine Learning, Model Development, and Applications", as part of the IMC Leeds 2026. 📆 8 Jul 26 ▶️ tinyurl.com/3vdm8n8y

Digital Medievalist@digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📜Call for Papers: Digital Medievalist sponsored sessions International Medieval Congress 2026 (Leeds, UK). We seek proposals on the following themes: - 'Large Language Models and Medieval Texts' - 'Digital Methods and Materiality of Manuscripts' ▶️Full call: tinyurl.com/f82tcrzk 📆21 Sept 2025

A dark blue and black flyer with a digital-themed background featuring a digitized medieval manuscript. The title in large, white font reads: "Digital Medievalist Sponsored Sessions." Below this, the text indicates the event is the International Medieval Congress, 06-09 July 2026, Leeds, (UK).

Two session themes are listed in white font:

    On the left: "Large Language Models and Medieval Texts" with the co-sponsor listed as "Southampton Digital Humanities, University of Southampton."

    On the right: "Digital Methods and Materiality of Manuscripts" with the co-sponsor listed as "Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds."

A central section has a large, underlined blue hyperlink that says "Access the full call for papers" and a QR code next to it.

At the bottom, a white text box provides submission instructions: "Please send abstracts of 150 words by end of day 21 September 2025 to Delphine Demelas at D.Demelas@soton.ac.uk or N. Kıvılcım Yavuz at N.K.Yavuz@leeds.ac.uk. Please include your contact details and your preferred mode of participation (in-person or virtual) together with your abstract." The bottom of the flyer includes the website "https://digitalmedievalist.org" and the organization's logo.

📣If you plan on attending ICMS Kalamazoo or IMC Leeds, there are still some few seats remaining for the Digital Medieval Studies Institute. Join us for hands-on sessions with Digital Methods for Medieval Data! #medievalsky #digitalhumanities #DMSI

Digital Medievalist@digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📢 Applications are OPEN for #DMSI 2026! Join us for the fourth #Digital #Medieval Studies Institute in: 🇺🇸 US: 13 May (at ICMS Kalamazoo) 🇬🇧 UK: 10 July (at IMC Leeds) ⚠️ Bursary Deadline: 20 Jan 2026 ▶️ Info: US: tinyurl.com/DMSI-2026-US UK: tinyurl.com/DMSI-2026-UK Questions? 📧 dmsi.hello@gmail.com

flyer for the DMSI 2026 UK edition with programme

Folks! I'm teaching a one-day workshop for DMSI in Leeds. If you're already planning to attend the conference, consider sticking around for one more day to learn all about Manuscript Materiality in a Digital World. We'll look at manuscripts from Leeds' collections and then we'll talk digital!

Digital Medievalist@digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📢 Applications are OPEN for #DMSI 2026! Join us for the fourth #Digital #Medieval Studies Institute in: 🇺🇸 US: 13 May (at ICMS Kalamazoo) 🇬🇧 UK: 10 July (at IMC Leeds) ⚠️ Bursary Deadline: 20 Jan 2026 ▶️ Info: US: tinyurl.com/DMSI-2026-US UK: tinyurl.com/DMSI-2026-UK Questions? 📧 dmsi.hello@gmail.com

flyer for the DMSI 2026 UK edition with programme

#DigitalHumanities postdoc at University of Cambridge. F/T postdoc researcher working on international collaboration to develop AI-based solutions for research on archival materials. Funding: Humanities & AI Virtual Institute (HAVI), Schmidt Sciences Foundation. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term)

Applications are invited for a full time post-doctoral researcher to work on an international collaboration to develop AI-based solutions for research on archival materials as part of the Humanities

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