Today we are thrilled to introduce an article based on Elaine Lai’s (@Stanford) keynote paper at the The Digital Orientalist’s Conference 2025, "AI and the Digital Humanities for the Study of Asia, Africa, and Oceania." Link in bio #newpost #AIresearch #humanities&AI

🚨Job Klaxon: The ERC project COALA (Computational Corpus Annotation for Quantitative Analysis of Latin Lexical Semantics) is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Latin Linguistics. 📍 King’s College London, UK ⌛ Duration: 3 years ⏰ Deadline: 2 December 2025 ➡️ To apply: tinyurl.com/rme6rczh

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS - VI COIMI 2026 Thematic Symposium 32: "Povos indígenas e missões religiosas na Abya Yala (séculos XVI-XIX)" 🎓 VI International Congress Indigenous Worlds (COIMI - Abya Yala) 📍 UNEB, Salvador, Bahia 🇧🇷 📅 Feb 25-28, 2026

📣📚New publication: S. van Haaren, The Digital Medieval Manuscript - Material Approaches to Digital Codicology, Brill (2025) ▶️ tinyurl.com/45vj7z23 #medievalsky #digitalhumanities

The IHR Black British History seminar series is now on BlueSky! Follow us for updates and keep your eyes peeled for information about our upcoming seminars 👀 @ihr.bsky.social #BlackBritishHistory #historians #academia

🔔 Do not forget that today is the deadline. And thank you for all the wonderful proposals already submitted! #IMC2026

I'm incredibly honored and excited to have been invited by Schmidt Sciences to attend the Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI) Convening in Paris next week! tinyurl.com/ycxw2ynb

⏰ You still have one week to send us your proposals!

🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Open rank Professorship in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods 📍Institute of History, University of Bern (🇨🇭) 📆Deadline: 19 October 2025 ▶️ Information: tinyurl.com/56ywncuj #Medievalsky #DigitalHumaniities

We are looking forward to receiving your contributions! #Medievalsky #Digitalhumanities #LLMs #Manuscripts

📜Call for Papers: Digital Medievalist sponsored sessions International Medieval Congress 2026 (Leeds, UK). We seek proposals on the following themes: - 'Large Language Models and Medieval Texts' - 'Digital Methods and Materiality of Manuscripts' ▶️Full call: tinyurl.com/f82tcrzk 📆21 Sept 2025

📣 CfP: The endless scroll - Digital approaches to Medieval Time, IMC 2026, Leeds UK The Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts invites contributions that explore how digital methods and tools can illuminate, represent, and reinterpret medieval temporalities. 📅 Deadline: 1/09/2025

This is your ONE week reminder that the deadline for #IMC2026 Paper Proposal is Sunday 31 August!😱 Click here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2026/ to submit a proposal, and click here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2026/pro... to read our handy proposal criteria guide.😊 #medievalsky #skystorians

🎉 Election Results Are In! 🎉 We're thrilled to announce the new members of the Digital Medievalist Executive Board for the 2025-2029 term. A huge thank you to all the members who voted this year!🗳️

🏛️ Historic Homecoming 🏛️ Three historic documents from 1598 have been recently returned from the US to Paraguay's National Archives of Asuncion, and I'm thrilled to have played a crucial role in facilitating this repatriation. 📚

El nombre "Urutau" según Montoya significa "ave nocturna" y también "gavilocho ave de rapiña".

📜 CfP: Minimal Computing and the Middle Ages, IMC2026, Leeds (UK) The session will explore the intersection of #minimalcomputing and #medieval studies for sustainable, accessible, and ethical approaches to #digital scholarship in a time of limited resources. 📅Deadline: 23:59 BST, 10/09/25

According to Montoya, the name ‘Urutau’ means ‘night bird’ and also ‘hawk bird of prey.’ Cadogan records that the Urutau (Nyctibius griseus cornutus) is, in the mythical texts of the Tavyterã and Chiripa, the sister of the Sun and Moon Twins.

📣 CfP: Big Data and medieval manuscripts, IMC2026, Leeds (UK) This session brings together scholars using #BigData, #AI, and machine learning to advance the study of #medieval manuscripts through methods as quantitative codicology and paleography. 📆 Deadline for abstract: 23:59 BST, 29/05/2025

Francisco Uruta estaba probablemente en Asunción actuando como yanacona, un indígena trabajador forzado en la casa de su encomendero.

Francisco Uruta was probably in Asunción working as a yanacona, an indigenous servant forced to work in the house of his encomendero.

El padrón de 1685 registra a "Don Francisco Uruta ausente en la ciudad" y "Cristóbal Uruta ausente con su mujer".

The 1685 census records "Don Francisco Uruta absent in the city" and "Cristobal Uruta absent with his wife." Don Francisco had the colonial title "Don" before his baptismal name, revealing that the Spaniards considered him a Guarani leader.

Uruta y Urutau son nombres guaraníes que se encuentran en los documentos coloniales del siglo XVII, particularmente en el registro de la población de San Francisco de Yuty, correspondiente al año 1685.

Uruta and Urutau are Guarani names found in 17th-century colonial documents, particularly in the population register of San Francisco de Yuty for the year 1685.

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The name "Aguara", according to Montoya, means "fox," and Cadogan records that the Mbyá associate it with the jaguar, while for the Pai Tavyterã, it represents one of the "terrestrial souls" (angüé) that transmigrates.

El nombre "Aguara" según Montoya significa "zorro", y Cadogán registra que los Mbyá lo asocian con el jaguar, mientras que para los Pai Tavyterã representa una de las "almas telúricas" (angüé) que transmigra.

When the resisters shouted Aguara Guazu's name, this cacique disarmed himself and negotiated with them, convincing them to retreat without eliminating the priest.

Over 3 years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has conserved, catalogued and digitised 190 manuscripts, containing 7000+ pages of medieval medical recipes. These recipes are now freely available on Cambridge Digital Library: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

Cuando los resistentes gritaron el nombre de Aguara Guazu, este cacique se desarmó y negoció con ellos, convenciéndolos de retirarse sin lograr eliminar al sacerdote.

On that day in 1629, approximately 300 Guarani warriors arrived to attack the mission and confront Father Pedro Romero.

Ese día de 1629, aproximadamente 300 guerreros guaraníes llegaron para atacar la misión y confrontar al Padre Pedro Romero.

Aguara Guazu was a Guarani leader who, on October 21, 1629, played a leading role in a controversial moment during an attack on the Jesuit mission of Candelaria.

Aguara Guazu era un cacique guaraní que el 21 de octubre de 1629 protagonizó un momento controvertido durante un ataque a la reducción jesuítica de Candelaria.

Queridos seguidores, pronto estaré compartiendo nuevos retratos de indígenas que vivieron en el Paraguay colonial. Estén atentos !!! Dear followers, soon I will share new portraits of indigenous people who lived in colonial Paraguay. Stay tuned !!!

Thank you for joining @invisibleeast.bsky.social for our @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social #takeover this week. It has been a pleasure to share some of our news, in an especially busy & exciting week, with your community here on Bluesky. 🧵 #digitalhumanities #medievalsky

Hear a Jewish merchant in Ghazna (modern-day #Afghanistan), writing over 1,000 years ago — torn between his work and his family. Explore this document on the @invisibleeast.bsky.social #digitalcorpus, where four more newly published #Judeo-Persian texts have been added... 🧵

The takeover continues on @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social with some insights on @invisibleeast.bsky.social digital corpus new release! #medievalsky #manuscripts #historysky

@invisibleeast.bsky.social's latest 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩, 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘖𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘘𝘶𝘳’𝘢𝘯𝘴, explores treasures from the #Bamiyan and #Firuzkuh Papers, which feature in our #digitalcorpus. Read Alya Karame's piece now at bit.ly/InvisibleEastQurans #documents #qur'an

The takeover is still going on, stay tuned! @invisibleeast.bsky.social @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social

Published now open access ✨️ Scholars have invented men to explain away women's labor in the British print trades. In this ex, a misgendering travels from a catalog to WorldCat and Amazon. It shows how linked data's fragmentation perpetuates old assumptions. oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

Travel with our Programme Co-ordinator, Hayley Smith, to the incredible Treasured exhibition at the Weston Library... visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/treasu...

Day2 of @invisibleeast.bsky.social takeover! Do not miss it! #takeover #medievalsky #archives #fragment

People often think medieval archives are dry—and maybe a little dusty. Sure, there are taxes, receipts, and official forms. But that’s not all. These archives also show us what people 𝘥𝘪𝘥, what they 𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵, and sometimes… what they 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥. 🧵

We were going to call this 'A Portrait of The @invisibleeast.bsky.social Persian Team Hard at Work', but at this point on a scorching #Oxford June day it could more accurately be described as 'A Portrait of The Persian Team Hot at Work'! (Out of sight are three fans as we try to cool the office!)

The @invisibleeast.bsky.social team is busy making final preparations for a hybrid film-screening and panel discussion we are hosting in #Oxford tomorrow afternoon - and you're invited! The event will explore the ethical and practical challenges facing scholars and heritage institutions today...

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🔔 We're thrilled to announce that @invisibleeast.bsky.social will be taking over our account next week! Join us as we explore the fascinating intersections between #digitalhumanities methodologies and the rich cultural heritage of the medieval Islamicate world. ▶️ invisibleeast.web.ox...#digitalhumanities