EMLO: a mathematical cluster

The publication last week of the catalogue of Pierre de Fermat highlights the growing body of early modern mathematical correspondences that is taking shape at present within EMLO. Fermat was one of the finest mathematicians of his age who rekindled interest in number theory. Through the exchange of letters he both initiated and participated in debates with contemporaries across Europe, including John Wallis in Oxford and Marin Mersenne in Paris.

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Mathematical symbols. (Source of image: Wikimedia Commons)

During the first phase of the Cultures of Knowledge project a calendar was compiled for the correspondence of John Wallis, taken from Philip Beeley and †Christoph J. Scriba’s ongoing multi-volume edition published by Oxford University Press (volume IV was brought out last year), and this, in combination with our founding catalogues, became a cornerstone of the fledgling union catalogue that was to become EMLO. Within this past year, EMLO has seen metadata added for the correspondences of Christiaan Huygens, René Descartes, Athanasius Kircher, and Marin Mersenne, while the correspondence of Caspar Schott has been published in part and is due to be augmented significantly within the next couple of months by Thomas E. Conlon and Hans-Joachim Vollrath.

EMLO could not be more fortunate that this burgeoning cluster of mathematical correspondence is overseen by none other than Philip Beeley, the current President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. With funding from the AHRC, Philip works at present on the seventeenth-century mathematical intelligencer John Collins, a project he drafted originally with the late Jackie Stedall. A catalogue of Collins’s letters is in preparation for upload to EMLO, where — thanks to Philip’s indefatigable work in a number of Scottish archives during the summer — it is to be joined by the catalogues of the correspondences of James and David Gregory, which our Digital Fellow Kat Steiner, herself a former student of Jackie’s, is set to help prepare. We are thrilled also to announce that work has just begun here in Oxford in partnership with the Bernoulli Euler Zentrum in Basel to prepare calendars for the correspondences of members of the illustrious Bernoulli family [Daniel I (1700–1782), Jacob II (1759–1789), Johann I (1667–1748), Johann II (1710–1790), Nicolaus I (1687–1759), Nicolaus II (1695–1726), and Jacob Hermann (1678–1733)], as well as for that of Leonhard Euler, and with her particular brief to help with work on the latter we would like to welcome to our EMLO Digital Fellow team doctoral student and Euler scholar Rosanna Cretney.

With this work in train, it will not be long before long we shall be in a position to mount a dedicated online exhibition and enable scholars to look closely at the intersections and overlaps of these mathematical networks that are taking shape. This is an exciting time for the history of mathematics, which is seeking to realign itself within the broader spheres of the history of science and intellectual history. As he celebrates his birthday this weekend, we would like (in addition to wishing him a heartfelt ‘Happy Birthday’!) to thank Philip for his tireless work behind the scenes for EMLO and, by way of a virtual present, to quote here Isaac Barrow’s observation that in mathematics we find ‘the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs’. Perhaps Barrow is clamouring now for Philip’s attention and lining up to be next in this impressive table of EMLO’s mathematical greats …

EMLO updates: something old, something new

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Trompe l’oeil, by Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts (fl. 1660–83). (Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent; source of image: Wikimedia Commons)

Lest anyone imagine that editorial work in EMLO focuses solely on the publication of new catalogues, I thought it worth drawing attention to a number of enhancements made recently to correspondences published at earlier stages of EMLO’s development.

Behind the public face of EMLO, contributing scholars and editors continue to update and enrich our published catalogues either with new letters or by adding detail to existing records. In the past week, Dr Robin Buning has added to the Hartlib catalogue ten letters, all missing from the original calendar uploaded in 2010. Another of our Phase I correspondences, that of Martin Lister, has also expanded in recent months as Dr Anna Marie Roos supplemented the original catalogue with metadata for an additional seventy-one letters which came to light between the initial upload of the calendar to EMLO and the publication earlier this year of volume I of the hard-copy edition of Lister’s correspondence. The correspondence of Edward Lhywd has been worked on continuously over the course of the past year, and we are particularly delighted to be able to announce today the release of a set of newly worked transcriptions for all of his 2,128 letters. As might be expected when dealing with the correspondence of the ‘father of Celtic linguistics’ and author of Glossography (1707), work on these transcriptions involved a large number of scholars, and the challenges of representing accurately letters that contained words, phrases, and quotations in a spectacular array of ancient and modern languages were considerable, not least to ensure that the full range of diacritics and fonts displayed correctly. We are extremely grateful to Helen Watt for her work above and beyond the call of duty to oversee and coordinate this significant update. And with regard to languages and texts, we are equally pleased that the full set of transcriptions prepared by Professor Gerald Toomer of the letters of John Selden may now be downloaded as a PDF from each individual letter record in the catalogue. Work continues apace also in Prague, where our colleagues at the Czech Academy of Sciences are in the process of correcting and expanding the abstracts provided for letters in the Comenius catalogue, and all abstracts earmarked for inclusion in the first volume of the printed edition [Prague, forthcoming 2016] are to be updated in EMLO in the course of the next six months. In addition to this work, Dr Iva Lelkova is planning to enhance the Kircher catalogue with more precise information for places of sending and receipt.

With regard to more recently published catalogues, there are particularly significant additions to the the Mersenne catalogue: metadata for eleven new letters, which Sir Noel Malcolm published for the first time in two articles in The Seventeenth Century, may now be consulted in EMLO together with metadata taken from the de Waard edition. Over the coming year, it is our hope that letter records in Mersenne’s catalogue — as well as many in a number of other correspondences, including those of Peiresc and Tycho Brahe — will be enriched with manifestation details. It has been our intention from the outset to make available to scholars as much ‘work-in-progress’ metadata as possible and, in consequence, many of our more recent additions are being published in batches. Over the coming months, the correspondences of Johann Valentin Andreae, Caspar Schott, and Constantijn Huygens, amongst many others, and the collection of Bartolomeo Gamba, will be augmented significantly, while the first installments of the correspondences of Henry Oldenburg, Johannes Kepler, Pierre de Fermat, Abraham Ortelius, Justus Lipsius, and Leonhard Euler are scheduled for release.

Throughout this current phase, our work will continue to add new letter records to catalogues and to refine existing metadata. In part, this is thanks to the corrections and comments submitted by increasing numbers of scholars, and for which we are extremely grateful: this is precisely the kind of ‘community curation’ of our open-access resource that we hope to nurture in the future. No less gratifying is the steadily increasing frequency with which potential contributors write in to suggest updates and to offer fresh metadata. If you are working with, or are interested in, early modern correspondence and would like to contribute to EMLO, please do not hesitate to be in touch. Alternatively, if you would like to be involved but do not have a specific correspondence in mind, please bear in mind that we intend to host a series of crowdsourcing workshops, designed to resolve a number of inherent metadata problems (many of which can be described as ‘embarrassing bloomers’). At our inaugural workshop, we shall consider issues surrounding dates and calendars, and will embark upon a programme to tidy up metadata in the Bodleian card catalogue, particularly those records employing the Roman calendar. The day-long workshop, which will be held at the History Faculty in Oxford, will include short talks by scholars, as well as an introduction to EMLO itself. Volunteers will be given full acknowledgement for their work, and refreshments will be provided throughout the day. Places will be limited so, to become involved, please either contact us by email or keep an eye on this blog where further details will be released as our plans take shape.

Catholic Lives: The Tixall Collection

We are pleased to announce today’s publication in EMLO of a fascinating collection of letters, known as the Tixall papers, that centres around the correspondence of two English Catholic families. The inclusion of these letters arose as the result of an invaluable suggestion from Dr Victoria van Hyning, whose doctoral thesis investigated the literary culture of early modern English Augustinian nuns at St Monica’s convent in Louvain and its daughter house, the English convent of Nazareth in Bruges.

The Aston and the Thimelby families, both Staffordshire based, were united by two marriages in the middle decades of the seventeenth century. Their letters, which were edited by Arthur Clifford and published early in the nineteenth century, span the seventeenth and extend into the first decade of the eighteenth centuries. As Dr van Hyning explains in her introductory text to the catalogue, while the Thimelbys were life-long Catholics, Sir Walter Aston (1585–1639),

Image courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

the head of the Tixall estate, had converted on the occasion of his first ambassadorial visit to Spain. Many of the children from both families took religious vows, and it is particularly apt that their correspondence should be made available online in the same week that a workshop entitled Catholic Legacies, 1500–1800: Uncovering Catholic lives and records is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 16 September, at the Bodleian’s Weston Library.

The papers in this workshop will explore Britain’s rich early modern Catholic heritage through archival and material culture sources and the day will include examination of material in the Bodleian collections, as well as from the Vatican Library, the Archives of the Jesuit Province in Britain, the Archives of the Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre, the Blairs Museum, the British Museum, and Stonyhurst College. Speakers include Adalbert Roth (Vatican Library), Thomas McCoog SJ (Fordham), Hannah Thomas (Durham), Lucy Wooding (KCL), Peter Davidson (Aberdeen), Dora Thornton (British Museum), and Jan Graffius (Stonyhurst College). From 9am–3.30pm attendance is free; booking is essential only for the special display session arranged for 4–5pm. So, should you happen to be in Oxford and would like further information about the workshop, details are available here, while further details concerning the Tixall collection may be found in EMLO on the catalogue’s introductory page.

Bartolomeo Gamba: EMLO’s pioneer collector

An important step was taken at the beginning of this week as the first batch of metadata for a new catalogue — the collection of Bartolomeo Gamba — was moved into the public interface of EMLO. During his lifetime, Gamba worked as director of the Remondini press, as private librarian to Eugène de Beauharnais, and as sub-keeper at the Biblioteca Marciana. By the time of his death in 1841, he had amassed a collection of circa 4,000 manuscript letters to and from eminent early modern Italian scholars, many of whom were alumni of the University of Padua and amongst whom numbered a significant percentage with close connections to Viennese court physicians.

This time last year, EMLO was approached by the historian Vittoria Feola to explore the possibility of working in partnership with the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna,  Gambathe Biblioteca Museo Civico in Bassano del Grappa, and the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice to provide a virtual home for this ground-breaking project. Thanks to generous support and funding from both the University of Padua (DiSSGeA) and the Medical University of Vienna, and with a contribution towards scanning costs from Cultures of Knowlege, we are truly delighted now to be releasing the first installment of the collection’s metadata in EMLO. Over the coming weeks and months, letter metadata will be added on a regular basis to this virtual collection, where users will find fully searchable abstracts, keywords, people and places mentioned, and links provided to manuscript images.

In the words of our Project Director, Howard Hotson, ‘this is a catalogue with a difference: fresh and original in nature, scope, conception, and execution as well as scholarly and significant in its own right’. Over the coming months we hope you will watch as Gamba’s original collection is reunited. The relevance of such a collection to early modern science and to the Republic of Letters cannot be overestimated, nor can the unique insight it offers into the penetration and workings of the English and French book trade in Northern Italy from the second half of the sixteenth to the first half of the nineteenth centuries. These are exciting times and we hope very much Bartolomeo Gamba’s epistolary trove will be the first of a growing number of erstwhile collections made whole once again in EMLO.

EMLO, a scholarly visit, and figures of note

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Created from ‘Fireworks in honour of Catherine II in 1787’, by Jan Bogumił Plersch. (Lviv National Art Gallery; source of image: Wikimedia Commons)

Something wonderful has just taken place: EMLO-Edit, the hidden working interface at the core of our online union catalogue, has clocked up six figures and is now host to more than 100,000 letter records. If this were not reason enough to let off a few fireworks, it is a double delight for us to note that it was the sixteenth-century Swiss scholar and polymath Johann Wilhelm Stucki (1542–1607) who was in the hot seat as his epistolary calendar moved from our preparatory collation area to top this landmark figure.

This time last year, Stucki did not exist in EMLO-Edit beyond records for three letters in the Bodleian Library; but over the past twelve months the talented young scholar and EMLO visitor Marc Kolakowski has brought him to life. Funded by the Université de Lausanne with a Swiss National Science Foundation doctoral mobility study grant, Marc applied to Cultures of Knowledge to be based within the project for the academic year 2014–15. Seizing the baton from our inaugural visiting fellow, Liège doctoral student Charlotte Marique, he divided his time between work on his doctoral thesis, learning EMLO’s editorial procedures and practices, helping to develop and trial our epistolary collation and visualization tools, and assisting in the preparation of large quantities of late sixteenth-century metadata for upload: Justus Lipsius, Christophe Plantin, Theodor Zwinger, Philippe Duplessis Mornay, and Amandus Polanus von Polansdorf, to name but a few. As he pursued his archival research, Marc also created his own catalogue of metadata using EMLO’s collation tools for more than a thousand letters to and from Stucki. This metadata, now combined with other correspondences in our working area EMLO-Edit, has just nudged us over the 100,000 mark [sorry, no pun intended!]. But because this material is still work-in-progress, Marc will continue to refine, enhance, and hone his significant contribution prior to making it public at a time of his choice.

The desiderata and needs of scholars are at the heart of everything we do and all we hope to develop. During his stay, Marc has been involved in the testing processes and discussions held during EMLO’s second phase of development. His input, as a scholar working with manuscript letters, has been invaluable, and we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to him and to wish him every good fortune from this point forward. As Marc’s period of residency here, although thankfully not his involvement with EMLO, draws to a close, we would be extremely interested to hear from other scholars, young and old, who might wish to pursue their studies for a period under the aegis of Cultures of Knowledge. Is early modern correspondence central to your research? Are you at, or are you about to embark upon, post-graduate studies? Would you be interested in gaining editorial experience as well as significant insight into the inner workings of a major project in the digital humanities? Do you like the idea of contributing in some meaningful way as we work to record a second hundred thousand letters within the union catalogue? If so, and you would like to discuss a potential residency with us, please be in touch. We’d love to hear from you!

Philip Sidney: a herald of correspondences

OUPetcfinallogos4We could not be more delighted to announce today’s publication in EMLO of a fascinating sixteenth-century correspondence catalogue: that of Philip Sidney, the poet and Elizabethan diplomat and courtier, which comes to us as the result of an exciting new partnership between EMLO and Oxford University Press’s major digital publishing enterprise, Oxford Scholarly Editions Online [OSEO].

When discussion began between these two projects at the end of last year, little did we at EMLO realise that, as a pilot dataset, we would be presented with meticulously prepared metadata for this gem of a correspondence from Roger Kuin’s exemplary publication, The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney, which was published in hard copy by OUP in 2012 and released on OSEO in September 2013.

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Detail from the portrait of Sir Philip Sidney, after an unknown artist. (© National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 2096)

For those who have yet to explore the veritable virtual library that is OSEO — launched just three years ago to widespread critical acclaim — there is a treat in store. Over 600 scholarly editions are mounted online already under the banner of this landmark OUP digital project, including letters, plays, poems, and a host of prose works from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. In the case of Sidney, alongside the letters, OSEO offers texts of this remarkable young man’s poems and prose. In coming years, OSEO will release correspondence calendars of many other key early modern figures for republication in EMLO, with each letter record linking back to the OUP’s edited text. EMLO users within subscribing institutions will be able to move seamlessly from EMLO to the printed texts in OSEO, whilst even those without full access will be able to take advantage of the relevant bibliographic information, including page numbers, for the hard-copy volumes.

Diplomat to the core, the iconic English poet Sidney heralds a glimpse into what lies ahead for us all. We hope our users will enjoy exploring Sidney’s correspondence, his short life, and his remarkable literary work, and will relish also the appearance within EMLO of a long series of OSEO corespondences to be added in the coming months and years as a result of this invaluable partnership.

‘All Change! All Change!’

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‘Old Maude’, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s mallet locomotive. Postcard, c.1900–06.
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Most of her friends would probably agree: Lizzy Williamson does not look like a locomotive. Yet in reviewing the year and a half in which CofK’s Digital Project Manager pulled this weighty, complicated, and sometimes troublesome project forward with steadily increasing velocity through sheer force of will, this is the image which comes irresistibly to mind. Or at least it would be irresistible if locomotives were capable also of moving trains on multiple tracks simultaneously, of re-engineering their rolling stock while continuing to build up speed, and of decoupling themselves and racing round a few countries at the pace of a TGV before returning to their main task before it had lost an ounce of momentum.

lizzyFor those readers who can scarcely imagine Cultures of Knowledge without Lizzy in the driver’s seat, it is my sorrowful duty to confirm the implication of this opening paragraph: yes, our friend and colleague, Lizzy Williamson, has headed west for a life in the New World. Oxford to Baltimore is a difficult commute and so, armed with her green card, Lizzy has taken the decision to move continents and to settle with her husband in Maryland.

At moments such as these, CofK’s Director should pause and take stock of where the Project is now and how it could possibly have got here without the assistance of such gifted and devoted collaborators. Lizzy joined us just five months into our second phase of funding when Cultures of Knowledge was coming to grips with major technical challenges. EMLO was emerging from the Project’s first phase with its in-depth focus on six pilot correspondences; we needed to re-engineer our self-contained union catalogue to enable it to incorporate metadata from a wide range of partners, from independent scholars to scholarly projects, from publishers of digital and hard-copy editions alike to compilers of repository catalogues. Lizzy came on board at this pivotal moment and in the twenty months during which we have been fortunate to have her working with us, EMLO has been substantially re-engineered, relaunched with a new-look user interface, begun a phase of rapid and sustained growth, and found itself at the centre of exciting discussions about ambitious future developments in a COST network involving over thirty countries.

This remarkable transition has been made possible in no small measure by Lizzy’s extraordinary combination of passion for the project and coolness in the face of adversity, and of a chameleonic capacity to reinvent herself as constantly evolving demands require, together with constancy of underlying purpose. Lizzy’s contribution to setting the stage for the project’s third and most expansive phase has been immense, and our gratitude for her foundational contribution has only been increased by the assistance she has continued to give in recent weeks as we transition into a new era in the history of the project.

Thankfully, the sorrow felt among Project staff as Lizzy departs has also been countered by our excitement at the arrival of her successor as Digital Project Manager, Arno Bosse. arnoOnce again, CofK seems to have attracted just the person it needs to confront a new set of challenges. For six years before his recent period as Digital Humanities Research Associate in the Research and Development Department of Göttingen State and University Library, Arno was Director of Technology in the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago. Only a few weeks into his new post and it is already crystal clear that the wealth of experience obtained in these roles equips him admirably for confronting the unprecedented technical challenges of growing EMLO into a collaboratively designed, built, and populated resource.

Of course there can be no delay on our CofK train, coupled as it is with the rapidly evolving COST Action and, as we pass through this particular station, we have a few further changes to announce. Our trusty Project Administrator, Emma Curran, has alighted in order to focus on a single part-time job while she brings her PhD to completion, and our admirably efficient inaugural COST administrator, Briony Truscott — although thankfully not leaving the History Faculty — is handing over to a new colleague, Dobrochna Futro, dobwho joins us to combine the dual roles of CofK and COST Administrators. With significant experience in event management and administration, we consider ourselves extremely fortunate that Dobrochna has settled into her crucial seat to enable this invaluable link between the two projects to be created. It may be ‘All Change’ at present the length of the train, but our long term destination remains steadfast ahead, and we would like once again to thank all past and present staff for travelling with us down this particular track.

The advent of Johann Valentin Andreae

We are delighted to bring you news of a momentous arrival: from today, the first instalment of Johann Valentin Andreae’s substantial correspondence HABis available for consultation in the front end of EMLO. This publication marks a significant milestone in the history of Cultures of Knowledge and we could not be more pleased to share with you records for 3,696 manuscript letters (from what will be an eventual total of more than 4,500) contributed by our esteemed partner, the Herzog August Bibliothek [HAB] in Wolfenbüttel.

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Engraving of Johann Valentin Andreae by Wolfgang Kilian (source of image: Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel).

Work on this catalogue extends back to the very first days of CofK when, at a Phase I technical workshop, our Project Director Howard Hotson remembers Jill Bepler leaving Oxford to return to Wolfenbüttel with the remark that it was ‘time to get going on Andreae’. This was in 2010 and, since the HAB obtained the necessary funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 2012, we have worked towards this moment in partnership with staff at the HAB, and in particular with Dr Stefania Salvadori, who is immediately responsible for the exemplary ‘Inventory of the correspondence of Johann Valentin Andreae (1586–1654)‘. The German theologian, reformer, and churchman Andreae, a figure highly representative of his era, now takes his place in EMLO alongside two younger contemporaries inspired directly by his work: Jan Amos Comenius [Komenský] and Samuel Hartlib. This catalogue pilots cooperation also between two of the greatest libraries founded in the century of Andreae, Comenius, and Hartlib: England’s Bodleian Library and Germany’s Herzog August Bibliothek.

Although most of Andreae’s earliest correspondence was destroyed by a fire in the city of Calw in 1634, the surviving collection amounts to more than 4,500 manuscript letters to and from the theologian. By far the greatest portion of this vast correspondence is the care of the HAB: some 5,672 folios entered the library over a short period of time, not only because Andreae wrote tirelessly to Duke August the Younger himself, but also as a result of the collection and purchase of others by Wolfenbüttel’s librarians in the years following Andreae’s death. The 3,715 letters published in EMLO today range in date from 1630 to 1654. Work to prepare the remaining section of this enormous correspondence is underway, to be added in a second instalment during the coming months. Each letter record in EMLO links straight through to both the HAB’s OPAC catalogue entry and to the relevant MS guardbook, and we hope very much that interested users are able to carve out time over these summer months to explore this large and magnificent jewel of an early modern correspondence.

Thomas Gray: ‘Full many a gem of purest ray serene …’

Today sees the launch in EMLO of a discrete jewel of a catalogue: that of English scholar and elegiac poet Thomas Gray. Although he could not be described as particularly prolific in verse, at present his calendared letters number 651 and his correspondents comprise an intriguing selection of the ‘great and the good’, including Horace Walpole (of Strawberry Hill fame), physician Thomas Wharton, and fellow poet Richard West. The exemplary database of his correspondence, the Thomas Gray Archive, to which each letter record in EMLO is linked, has catalogued the corpus of letters to and from this polymath and scholar, who was described by his biographer William Mason as perhaps ‘the most learned man in Europe’.

Within the Thomas Gray Archive, you will find scans of and links to manuscript versions and printed copies as well as detailed information about the poet — his writing, his publications, his correspondence, and his circle — and we at CofK are truly delighted to count among our contributing partners this invaluable resource. We hope very much you enjoy consulting the correspondence and exploring in depth the Thomas Gray Archive, and we look forward greatly to enhancing our eighteenth-century metadata in EMLO with the numerous correspondences now in preparation for upload over the course of the coming year.

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Early Stage Researcher (PhD and Postdoc) funding opportunities with COST

We are pleased to announce a second call for applications for Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMS) relating to COST Action IS 1310: Reassembling the Republic of Letters, 1500-1800.

COST Action Reassembling The Republic of Letters

This funding promotes international mobility between COST Countries participating in this Action, particularly for Early Stage Researchers. A total of €24,000 is available to fund up to 16 STSMs, to a maximum of €2500.

Most successful applications will contribute directly to fulfilling the agendas of one or more of the Action’s six Working Groups, a summary of which is attached here.  The deadline for completed applications is midnight on 27 July 2015.

Applications are invited for missions occurring between 1 August 2015, and 30 June 2016 (the end of our second financial year).

Further information regarding the programme and the eligibility criteria is also attached.

Purpose of a STSM
STSM are aimed at strengthening existing networks and fostering collaborations by allowing researchers participating in a given COST Action to visit an institution in another participating COST country. A STSM should contribute to the specific scientific objectives of the COST Action, while at the same time enabling Researchers to learn new techniques or gain access to specific expertise, instruments and/or methods not available in their own institutions.

In the specific case of COST Action “Reassembling the Republic of Letters”, this call explicitly addresses persons who deal with the digital processing of (early modern) learned correspondence, from different professional perspectives: librarians and archivists; scholars; IT specialists; digital humanities and media experts.  For detailed information on COST Action IS1310, please see the Memorandum of Understanding (available at http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS1310 ).

STSMs are especially (although not exclusively) targeted at persons at early stages of their professional career (defined as eight years since the award of the PhD or equivalent). We also particularly encourage the application of women, and/or persons from “inclusiveness countries” (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, FYR Macedonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey).

Please download the full call for STSM Applications here.

For COST STSM funding rules, please visit Section 6 of the COST Vademecum Part 1: COST Action (available at http://www.cost.eu/participate/guidelines).

Timetable:
Deadline for applications to be submitted: 27/07/2015
Notification of application outcome: 31/7/2015
Period of STSM: between 1/8/2015 and 30/6/2016
All STSM activities must occur in their entirety within the period specified above.

Contact person for clarifications:
Prof. Vanda Anastácio (STSM Coordinator)
University of Lisbon
Faculdade de Letras
Alameda da Universidade
Lisboa 1600-214  Portugal
vandaanastacio@mail.telepac.pt