DMSI - Digital Medieval Studies Institute

Organised by Laura K. Morreale and N. Kivilcim Yavuz

When: Friday 11 July, 08.30-17.45
Where: University of Leeds Campus
Price: £140.00

In partnership with the University of Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Libraries, and Digital Medievalist, the Digital Medieval Studies Institute (DMSI) presents a full-day programme featuring workshops on digital scholarly methods specifically tailored for medievalists.

The day-long DMSI will introduce participants to a range of digital methodologies currently in use within the field of medieval studies and offer in-depth exploration through one of five workshop offerings. In addition to the workshops, there will be a group meeting at the start, sessions of lightning talks at midday, and an end-of-theday wrap up session that will provide opportunities for networking with other scholars with shared interests. The primary goal of DMSI is for attendees to gain sufficient training during the one-day event to apply the skills acquired to their ongoing research and teaching in medieval studies. A drinks reception will bring the day to a close.

This event can only accommodate a limited number of participants and requires a separate application. Applications are open to everyone, but preference will be given to applicants who demonstrate how they plan to apply what they learn in their research, teaching, or professional practice. Workshops will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis, and applicants will be admitted on a rolling basis. Participants may enrol in only one workshop.

Each participant may choose one of the following workshops:

Geospatial Tools for Mapping the Middle Ages - Carrie Beneš, New College of Florida

Cooperative Network Visualisation with NetCreate - Nathaniel Howard, Indiana University Bloomington

Foundations in Working with Medieval Manuscripts using IIIF - Paul Mollahan and Tom Crane, Digirati

Seeing Beyond: Practical and Low-Cost Multispectral Imaging - Helen Davies, University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Artificial Intelligence: Image Analysis Applied to Medieval Manuscripts - Dominique Stutzmanm, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris

The participation fee for the full day’s programme will be £140.00. Up to ten bursaries will be available to support attendance to DMSI. Five of these bursaries are reserved for current students and alumni of the University of Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies.

Further details of each workshop can be found at the link below.

All those interested in participating must submit an application directly to the DMSI organisers at https://tinyurl.com/DMSI-2025-UK. For any questions or application enquiries, please contact the organisers at dmsi.hello@gmail.com.