Peter A. Stokes

Senior Lecturer
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
2nd Floor, 26–29 Drury Lane
London W2CB 5RL
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980
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Twitter: @pa_stokes

Conference-Papers, Invited Lectures and Talks

2012

  • Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on Digital Palaeography, Saarbrücken, 19–21 Sept. 2012. Coorganiser, with Tal Hassner (Open University of Israel), Lior Wolf (Tel Aviv University) and Malte Rehbein (Universität Würzburg)
  • 'The Wayfaring Scholar: Charting New Routes for Academic Pursuit in the Age of Globalization', Workshop sponsored by the Medieval Academy, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 9–12 July 2012. Invited participant
  • 'Rule and Variation in English Vernacular Minuscule', Session sponsored by APICES, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 9–12 July 2012. Reviewed paper
  • 'The Ongoing Problem of English Vernacular Minuscule: A Digital Approach to Anglo-Saxon Script', International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 10–13 May 2012. Conference paper
  • 'Digital Imaging for Medievalists: A Workshop', International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 10–13 May 2012. Invited participant
  • 'Digitising the Book' pre-conference workshop and 'Digitising the Document' panel, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Conference, Canberra Australia, 28–30 March 2012. Workshop organiser and panel participant respectively
  • 'Books, Runes and Writing', London Anglo-Saxon Symposium, 21 March 2012. Lecture to interested members of the public
  • 'Digital Publication of Manuscripts and Script', Centre for Material Text / Cultures of the Digital Economy Institute Seminar, Cambridge, 13 March 2012. Invited paper

2011

  • Meeting of the Working Group on Manuscripts and Textual Tradition, 'Medioevo Europeo - Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources' COST Action IS1005, Heidelberg, 3–5 November. Invited 'expert'
  • 'Palaeography: "Traditional", "Computational", "Digital"', Seminar on Texts and Editing, Birmingham, 20 Oct. 2011. Invited paper
  • 'Digital Resource and Database for Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic', and 'Resources for Anglo-Saxon Charters', Digital Diplomatics Conference, Naples, 29 Sept–1 Oct. 2011. Conference posters
  • 'DigiPal in Theory', Digital Resources for Palaeography Symposium, London, 5 Sept. 2011. Conference paper; Conference co-organiser
  • 'Digital Images and What to Do with Them: A Palaeographical Perspective', Text, Image and the Digital Research Environment: Parker Library-Keio EIRI Conference on Medieval Manuscripts and Printed Books, Cambridge, 9 Sept. 2011. Invited paper
  • 'Measuring the Immeasurable? A New Approach to the Study of Medieval Script', International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS) Biennial Conference, Madison WI, 6 Aug. 2011. Conference paper; see abstract at <http://conferencing.uwex.edu/conferences/isas2011/PeterStokes.cfm>
  • European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on Digital Palaeography, Würzburg, 20–22 July 2011 Invited participant
  • 'Anglo-Saxon Script: Computing for Palaeography, Manuscripts, and Diplomatic', and 'Digital Anglo-Saxons: Charters, People, and Script', International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 13 July 2011. Conference paper and Session Organiser respectively
  • With E. Pierazzo: 'Manuscripts in the Digital Age: New Approaches for Textual Studies, Codicology and Palaeography', MuTEC Conférence-Démo, Institut des Sciences de l'Homme, Lyon, 25 May 2011. Invited paper
  • 'Digital Palaeography Research', Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies (CLAMS) Seminar, 28 April 2011. Invited paper
  • Round-table, Image Analysis and Systematic Palaeography Symposium, IRHT Paris, 14 April 2011. Invited participant
  • 'Monastic Script? Archbishop Wulfstan and his Circle', ManCASS Easter Conference, Manchester, 13 April 2011. Conference paper

2010

  • 'Medieval Manuscripts and the Digital Humanities', Palaeography and Post-Palaeography: Manuscripts from the First to the Twenty-first Century, London, 3 December 2010 Invited Paper
  • 'TEI for Anglo-Saxon Integration', TEI Members' Meeting, Zadar, 11–14 November 2010 Conference Paper
  • 'Manuscripts in the Digital Age: Traps and Possibilities', Digital and Tangible: Medieval Book Culture and Modern Manuscript Studies, Bergen, 8–10 November 2010 Invited Paper
  • 'The Anglo-Saxon Cluster: Problems in Integration', Anglo-Saxon Charters Symposium, The British Academy, London, 14 Sept. 2010 Conference Paper
  • 'Metadata and encoding for Anglo-Saxon Charters', Moduli di Archivistica Informatica, Arezzo, 7 Sept. 2010 Invited Paper
  • 'Proving Palaeography? Script Development and a Database of Letterforms', Medieval Seminar, University of Leicester, 4 March 2010 Invited Paper
  • 'Annotating Digital Collections', Digital Manuscripts Uses and Interoperability Workshop, The Mellon Foundation, Paris, 14–15 January 2010 Invited respondent: see slides at <http://lib.stanford.edu/digital-manuscript-uses-and-interoperation-public-site/abstracts-and-presentations>

2009

  • 'Restoration, Palaeographical Knowledge Bases and Classification of Letter-forms', Understanding Image-Based Evidence: Second e-Science and Ancient Documents (eSAD) Workshop, Oxford, 17 November 2009 Invited paper
  • 'Removing the Guesswork? Palaeographical Databases in Theory and Practice', Medieval Manuscripts Seminar, Institute of English Studies, London, 22 October 2009 Invited lecture
  • 'Scribal Influences From Overseas? Vernacular Minuscule in the Reigns of Harold, Harthacnut, and the "Confessor"', Conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS), St John's, Newfoundland, 26–31 July 2009 Conference Paper
  • 'Digital Palaeography: Teaching and Research on the Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge', International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds, 13 July 2009 Invited paper

  • 'Computer-Aided Palaeography: Present and Future', Digital Humanities, College Park, MD, 20–25 June 2009 Conference Paper; selected for consideration for volume of 'oustanding papers'.

    Repeated for Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age conference, Munich, 3 July 2009 Invited paper; also invited on panel discussion. Paper selected as one of four best contributions.

  • 'Is Palaeography no more than Authoritarian Guesswork? Some Questions of Method', Dept. of ASNC Guest Lecture, Cambridge, 1 June 2009 Invited lecture
  • 'How Many Hands, How Many Scribes? Computers and "Objective Palaeography"', Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies Postgraduate Conference, Manchester, 3 March 2009 Invited keynote lecture

2008

  • 'A Ninth-Century Insular t? Statistical Palaeography at Work', Medieval English Research Seminar, Oxford, 12 November 2008; repeated for the ASNC Research Seminar, Cambridge, 28 November 2008 Invited papers
  • 'Digital Palaeography', Conference of the Digital Archive Research Center (Keio, Japan) and the Centre for Computing in Humanities (KCL, London), London, 21 November 2008 Invited paper
  • 'Scribes, Hands and Glosses', Boethius Commentaries Project Annual Workshop, Oxford, 24 July 2008 Invited paper
  • 'LangScape: The Toponymic Wealth of Anglo-Saxon Charter Bounds', Seminar of the Place-Names Department of the Nordic Research Institute (Afdeling for Navneforskning, Nordisk Forskningsinstitut), University of Copenhagen, 23 April 2008 Invited paper
  • 'Recovering Palimpsests: Some Tools and Techniques', Palimpsestes : criture, effacement et rinscription dans l'Angleterre mdivale. Colloque du Centre d'tudes mdivales anglaises (CEMA), Paris, 27–29 March 2008 Invited paper

2007

  • 'Palaeography can be Fun! Old English Manuscripts Online', Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (TOEBI) Annual Conference, Cambridge, 20 October 2007
  • With Elena Pierazzo (KCL): 'Encoding the Language of Landscape: XML and Databases at the Service of Anglo-Saxon Lexicography', Lexicography in Italy and Europe conference, Pisa, 20 October 2007 Delivered by Dr Pierazzo
  • 'Objective Palaeography? Digitisation and the Analysis of Script', The Parker Library Now symposium, Cambridge, 6–7 September 2007
  • 'A Previously Unnoticed Version of the Pershore Orthodoxorum Charter (S.786)', and organiser of panel 'Surveying the Past: Charters, Mapping, and the Anglo-Saxon Countryside', Conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS), London, 31 July 2007
  • 'Late Old English at Evesham: The Case of Cotton Vespasian B.xxiv', Writing England: Books 1100–1200, Leicester, 7 July 2007 Conference-paper
  • With Winfried Rudolf (Jena): 'Writing, Form and Language', The Production and Use of English Manuscripts symposium, Leicester, 6 July 2007 Invited workshop
  • 'Computing, Charter Bounds, and the Anglo-Saxon Landscape', Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (MANCASS) Annual Conference, Manchester, 13 April 2007

2006

  • 'Post-Conquest Vernacular Script and the Problem of Charter Bounds', Anglo-Saxon Charters Symposium, The British Academy, London, 14 September 2006 Invited talk
  • 'The Language of Landscape: Reading the Anglo-Saxon Countryside', Poster-presentation, Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts, Dartington, 3–6 September 2006
  • 'Anglo-Saxon Charter Bounds and the Language of Landscape', English Place-Name Society (EPNS) Annual Lecture, London, 12 July 2006 Invited lecture
  • 'The LangScape Database: Future Prospects', PASE2/LangScape Workshop, London, 13 May 2006
  • 'The Problem of Grade in Post-Conquest Vernacular Minuscule', International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS), Kalamazoo (Michigan), 6 May 2006
  • With Joy Jenkyns (KCL): 'The Language of Landscape', Society of Name-Studies in Britain and Ireland (SNSBI) conference, Bristol, 7 April 2006

2005

  • 'The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the Reign of Edward the Confessor', Manuscripts from the Time of Edward the Confessor, London, 8 October 2005 Conference-paper
  • 'The Demise of Square Minuscule', London Palaeography Workshop, London, 27 June 2005 Invited talk

2004

  • 'From Square to "Thoroughly Caroline": Continental Influences on the Development of English Vernacular Minuscule', International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds, 15 July 2004
  • 'Computer-Based Approaches to Manuscript-Studies', Cambridge Inference Group Seminar, Cambridge, 16 April 2004 Invited talk
  • 'Shoots and Vines: Some Models for the Ascenders and Descenders of English Vernacular Minuscule', Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic (CCASNC), Cambridge, 7 February 2004

2003

  • 'Old Books and Archbishops, or, What's So Special about the Parker Library?', Leckhampton Society, Cambridge, 4 December 2003 Invited talk
  • 'Deciphering Greek Palimpsests using Adobe Photoshop', Beyond the Human Eye, Athens (Greece), 10 May 2003 Conference-paper
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