Mediaevalia is an annual conference hosted by the Lilly Library about the study of Late Antiquity to Reformation period manuscripts, presented in partnership with the Medieval Studies Institute.
This year, we are pleased to welcome Dot Porter of the University of Pennsylvania Penn Libraries to present a public lecture on “VCEditor as a Tool for Speculative Codicology." The lecture will take place on Thursday, March 6 at 5:00 p.m. A reception will follow in the Slocum Room. On Friday, March 7 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., she will lead this year's Mediaevalia workshop.
Seats are limited; separate registration is required for the lecture and the workshop.
About the Speaker
Dot Porter is the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Curator of Digital Humanities, where she focuses on the digitization and visualization of medieval manuscripts.
She has worked on a variety of digital humanities projects, from ancient texts to Russian religious folklore. From 2010 until March 2013, she was the Associate Director for Digital Library Content and Services at the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries, and has also worked for the Digital Humanities Observatory at the Royal Irish Academy, and the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities at the University of Kentucky.