The long life of manuscripts: from material to immaterial texts – second edition
RUTTER TRAINING SCHOOL
The long life of manuscripts: from material to immaterial texts
Host institution: RUTTER Project, CIUHCT, UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA
Organizers: Silvana Munzi & Luana Giurgevich
When: 9-13 September 2024
Where: Anfiteatro FCiências.ID (FCUL)
Cultural visit to: Biblioteca da Ajuda (Lisbon, Portugal); Academia das Ciências
Language: English (written sources in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian)
Course aim: This course provides a thorough overview of multidisciplinary approaches to early modern scientific writing practices. The course consists of three parts. The first is a theoretical part with lectures providing knowledge on book history, manuscript terminology, recording methods, cultural heritage and digital humanities. The second, practically oriented part, will provide training on documentation techniques, including paleographical, linguistical and computer skills with fieldwork at Ajuda’s Library. The third part will focus on how the collection and analysis of archival data are used to write new historical narratives. Throughout three crucial moments of historical investigation, the participants will gain familiarity with a great variety of written texts, sources and case studies, as well as general competencies of the digital tools applied to historical research. All these core skills will help researchers to use historical knowledge to demystify simplistic ideas and interpret scientific phenomena in a new way.
Target group: The course is open to students, researchers and professionals from any area of study wishing to enrich their experience in archival work. Students planning careers in early modern history and history of science will find this course especially beneficial. No previous knowledge is required.
Number of participants: min. 10 – max. 20
Registration and prices: The course is designed to be delivered in a face-to-face format, including a practical component. However, for those individuals who are unable to physically travel to Lisbon, there is the option to register solely for the theoretical lessons that will be conducted online.
1) In-presence format, complete course: 125 € for Master students and unemployed; 180 € for PhD students; 250 € for Professional and postdocs.
2) Online format, only theoretical lessons (mornings): 85 € for Master students and unemployed; 125 € for PhD students; 175 € for Professional and postdocs.
To register send an email to: ssmunzi@fc.ul.pt including a motivation letter, a brief biography sketch and the indication if you will follow the in-presence or the online course.
Deadline for registration: 15 July 2024
LIST OF SPEAKERS AND TOPICS
Ana Duarte Rodrigues (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa)
Don’t Trust One Sole Source: Manuscripts’ Cross-check
Ana Tomé1 and Jesse Rafeiro2 (1CERIS, DECivil, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa; 2Tokyo College, UTIAS, The University of Tokyo)
Architectural Heritage Narratives: Virtual Environments and Digital Workflows
Cristina Pinto Basto and Fátima Gomes (Biblioteca da Ajuda)
Introduction to the Biblioteca de Ajuda
Eric Staples (Zayed University)
Experimenting with the Text
Francisco Malta Romeiras (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa)
Rescuing Manuscripts from the Flames: The Role of Censures in Assessing the Content of Forbidden Books
Henrique Leitão (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa)
Ancient Documents and New Technologies — Concluding Remarks
Inês Bénard (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa)
Interpreting al-Mahrī: Editing and mapping a sixteenth century Arab navigational text
Jade Norindr (CNRS | Observatoire de Paris)
Building a computer vision pipeline for historical sources: the EIDA project and the automation of astral diagram edition
Joana Vieira Paulino and Daniel Alves (Laboratório de Humanidades Digitais, Instituto de História Contemporânea, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – NOVA FCSH)
IHC’s Digital Humanities Lab: collaborative and interdisciplinary projects with digital methods
Joaquim Alves Gaspar (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa)
Nautical Cartography and Navigation in the European Renaissance
José María Moreno Madrid and Luís Ribeiro (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa)
No Paleography, no Party. An Introduction to a Fundamental Tool in Historical Methodology
Juan Acevedo (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa)
Typing Every Sign Under the Sun: Playing and Experimenting with Unicode
Luana Giurgevich (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
Historical re-sources: Scientific Texts across Archives, Libraries and the Web
Luís Ribeiro and Luana Giurgevich (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa)
Paleography: Practical Part
Nuno Castel-Branco (All Souls College, Oxford)
How Manuscripts Turned Nicolaus Steno (1638-1686) Into the “Founder of Modern Geology”
Paulo Estudante (Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Coimbra)
The experience of an inexhaustible archive: daily work with the music collection of the University of Coimbra
Pierre-Yves Manguin (Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient)
Navigating through Portuguese (and other) roteiros
Rui Manuel Loureiro (Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes)
Rediscovery of a Classic of Travel Writing: The Edition of D. García de Silva y Figueroa’s Comentarios (1614-1624)
Samuel Gessner (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa)
Hands, Minds & Matter: Handling Sources of Material Culture in the History of Science
Šima Krtalić (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa)
In situ encounters with awkward drawings: reconstructing the workshop practices of pre-modern nautical cartographers