The conference is organised by the Friends of History Society in Wrocław, Branch of the Polish Historical Society, in collaboration with the Institute of History, University of Wrocław, Institute of History, University of Opole, and the Benedictine Abbey of Tyniec.

Topics:

1. Presentation of the history of monasteries and religious orders on the internet (monasticons, portals and blogs, websites, databases, maps etc.).
2. Digital reconstruction of former monasteries, virtual monastery libraries, utility rooms in monasteries etc.
3. Digitisation of the written legacy of monasteries.
4. Creation of platforms providing information and bringing together scholars researching monasteries.
5. Dissemination of knowledge of monasteries and religious orders online.
6. Possibilities of creating an online monasticon encompassing monasteries located both in Europe (including Poland) and other parts of the world.
7. Digital tools and resources in humanities research. Problems – solutions – proposals.

11 September (Monday)

Afternoon and evening: Arrival of participants

20⁰⁰ Dinner (Restaurant in the Pilgrim House)

12 September (Tuesday)

7⁰⁰–9³⁰ Breakfast (in restaurant in the Pilgrim House, from 12 til 16 September)

8³⁰–9³⁰ Registration of participants (The entrance hall in the Pilgrim House)

9³⁰–9⁴⁰ Opening ceremony (Chapel in the Pilgrim House)

1. State of research

9⁴⁰–10⁰⁰ Juliusz Raczkowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń), Poland), Digital humanities in Poland. Possibilities, opportunities and threats

10⁰⁰–10²⁰ Arvydas Pacevičius (absent), Vigintas Stancelis (Vilnius University), Lithuania), Digitisation and communication of documental heritage of monasteries in Lithuania: current state and prospects

 

10²⁰–10⁴⁰ Maksymilian Kuśka (John Paul II Pontifical University in Cracow; Archives and Library of the Brothers Hospitallers in Cieszyn, Poland), Digitalisation of archive records in monasteries of the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God in Poland – current state and prospects

10⁴⁰–11⁰⁰ Discussion

11⁰⁰–11³⁰ Coffee Break

1. Monastic presence online

11³⁰–11⁵⁰ Isabelle Jonveaux (University of Graz, Austria; École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France), Reception of monastic presence online. Expectations, critics and online experience

11⁵⁰–12¹⁰ Marcin Jewdokimow (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland), Autopresentations of monks and presentations of Benedictine monasteries – a visual analysis of selected web-sites

 

12¹⁰–12³⁰ Laszlo Ferenczi (Central European University in Budapest, Hungary), The Cistercian network and social network analysis – building a database

 

12³⁰–12⁵⁰ Father Aleksander Krzysztof Sitnik (Franciscans Observants Monastery in Cracow, Poland), Popularisation of knowledge of monasteries of the Franciscan Observant Monks and Nuns in Poland online

12⁵⁰–13²⁰ Discussion

13³⁰–14³⁰ Lunch (Restaurant in the Pilgrim House)

 

III. Institutions

15⁰⁰–15²⁰ Peter Heyrman (absent), Joris Colla (KADOC-Documentation and Research Centre for Religion, Culture and Society, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium), Towards a digital research infrastructure on the history of 19^th– and 20^th-century religious institutes in Flanders/Belgium. The contextual web database ODIS, the catalogues and the digital repository of KADOC, the Documentation and Research Centre for Religion, Culture and Society of KU Leuven – Catholic University of Leuven

15²⁰–15⁴⁰ Bärbel Kröger (Germania Sacra, Göttingen Academy of Sciences, Germany), A database of monasteries, convents and collegiate churches of the Old Empire. Germania Sacra online

15⁴⁰–16⁰⁰ Geert Van Reyn (Katholieke Universitit Leuven, Belgium), The digital component of the study and documentation centre ”Capuchins in the Low Countries”

16⁰⁰–16²⁰ Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider (RISM Tirol-Südtirol & OFM Austria, Institut für Tiroler Musikforschung, Innsbruck, Austria), Music sources of Tyrolean monasteries on the internet (short paper]

16²⁰–16⁵⁰ Discussion

16⁵⁰–17²⁰ Coffee Break

1. Websites

17²⁰–17⁴⁰ Maria Rottler (University of Vienna, Austria), Blogging about the history of monasteries and religious orders: the multi-author blog “Ordensgeschichte“

 

17⁴⁰–18⁰⁰ Kateřina Charvátová (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic), Radka Těšínská-Lomičková (Prague, Czech Republic), The website “Klášterní stezky” (“Monastic itineraries”)

18⁰⁰–18²⁰ Yannick Van Loon (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium), Jesuitica.be: the growth of a virtual research porta

18⁴⁰–19⁰⁰ Discussion

19³⁰ Ceremonial dinner (Restaurant in the Pilgrim House)

13 September (Wednesday)

1. Projects: generals

10⁰⁰–10²⁰ Noëlle Deflou-Leca (Grenoble Alps University, France), The COLÉMON platform: a digital corpus of geolocated monasteries and churches of the Middle Ages

10²⁰–10⁴⁰ Janet Burton (University of Wales Trinity St David, United Kingdom), Karen Stöber (University of Lleida, Spain), Medieval monasticism in a digital age: the Monastic Wales Project

 

10⁴⁰–11⁰⁰ Felicita Tramontana (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, University of Warwick, United Kingdom), Digital tools, monasteries and early modern mobility

 

11⁰⁰–11²⁰ Georg Vogeler (Graz University, Austria), Monasterium.net. Towards a virtual research environment for monastic history

 

11²⁰–12¹⁰ Discussion

12¹⁰–12⁴⁰ Coffee Break

1. Projects: dissolutions

12⁴⁰–13⁰⁰ James G. Clark, Charlotte Tupman (University of Exeter, United Kingdom), The digital Dissolution: developing new critical and comparative perspectives on the end of monasticism in Europe

13⁰⁰–13²⁰ Marek Derwich (University of Wrocław, Poland), The project “Cultural heritage of dissolved monasteries on the territory of former Poland and in Silesia in 18^th and 19^th century: fate, significance, cataloguing” and monasteries in Poland online

13²⁰–13⁴⁰ Marek Wójcikowski, Szymon Sztajer (Razor s.c., Wrocław, Poland), Challenges involving in designing a web application for cataloguing and publishing historical data, as exemplified by the Hereditas Monasteriorum Knowledge Portal (pw.kasaty.pl)

13⁴⁰–14⁰⁰ Discussion

14¹⁰–15¹⁰ Lunch (Restaurant in the Pilgrim House)

VII. Projects: GIS

15²⁰–15⁴⁰ Xavier Costa Badia (University of Barcelona, Spain), Monasteries in time and space: the possibilities of GIS for mapping spiritual landscapes in the Early Middle Ages

 

15⁴⁰–16⁰⁰ Jan Kremer (CKS-Centre for Medieval Studies in Prague, Czech Republic), Medieval Benedictine foundations in Central Europe: development and perspectives of the database and GIS project

 

16⁰⁰–16²⁰ Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen (University of Copenhagen, Danemark), “KlosterGIS DK” and “Diplomatarium OP Dacie” online

 

16²⁰–16⁴⁰ Discussion

16⁴⁰–17¹⁰ Coffee Break

VIII. Projects: architecture

17¹⁰–17³⁰ Anna Bojęś-Białasik (Cracow University of Technology, Poland), Digital techniques in architectural research of monasteries

17³⁰–17⁵⁰ Anna Bojęś-Białasik (Cracow University of Technology, Poland), Marcin Szyma (Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland), 3D scanning and digital reconstructions as a method of architectural research of mendicant monasteries in Kraków

17⁵⁰–18¹⁰ Aurelio Stoppini, Raffaella Brigante (absent) Andrea Brozzi (absent), Fabio Radicioni (absent) University of Perugia, Italy), The Monastery of San Mamiliano at the Montecristo island: geomatic technologies from surveys to a 3D model

18¹⁰–18³⁰ Marcin Szyma, Marek Walczak (Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland), Mapping the Dominican Convent in Cracow

18³⁰–18⁵⁰ Eduardo Carrero Santamaría (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain), Monasteries Santes Creus and Piedra. A project on Cistercian architecture, liturgy, sound and digital humanities

18⁵⁰–19³⁰ Discussion

20⁰⁰ Dinner (Restaurant in the Pilgrim House)

14 September (Thursday)

1. Projects: female monasticism

9⁰⁰–9²⁰ Delfina Isabel Nieto Isabel (University of Barcelona, Spain), Spiritual landscapes: a digital doorway to female monasticism in medieval Iberia

 

9²⁰–9⁴⁰ Sebastian Roebert (Leipzig University, Germany; University of Barcelona, Spain), “Claustra” and “Paisajes espirituales”: cartography of female monasticism in the Iberian Peninsula and the Western Mediterranean

 

9⁴⁰–10⁰⁰ Bronagh Ann McShane (RECIRC, National University of Ireland in Galway, Ireland), Digitaly mapping the reception and circulation of female-authored texts among Catholic religious orders across Europe

10⁰⁰–10²⁰ Discussion

10²⁰–10⁵⁰ Coffee Break

1. Projects: libraries

10⁵⁰–11¹⁰ Hannah Busch (Trier Center for Digital Humanities, Germany), Virtual exploration of the mediaeval library of St. Matthias in Trier

11¹⁰–11³⁰ Renáta Modráková (National Library of Czech Republic in Prague), The reconstruction of former Czech Benedictine monasteries libraries in Manuscriptorium Digital Library

 

11³⁰–11⁵⁰ Markéta Holubová (Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, absent: relator: Jan Zdichynec (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)), Rekonstruktion der Bibliothek der Jesuitenresidenz in Mariaschein (Bohosudov) bei Teplitz

11⁵⁰–12¹⁰ Discussion

12¹⁰–12⁴⁰ Coffee Break

1. Projects: archives

12⁴⁰–13⁰⁰ Sarah Barthélemy (Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), Managing archives with basic MS Access databases

 

13⁰⁰–13²⁰ Sister Gabriele Ausra Vasiliauskaitė (Universitetas Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania), Review of existent documents in archive of Benedictine monastery of Kaunas

13²⁰–13³⁰ Iwona Pogorzelska, Iwona Rogowska (State Archives in Kielce, Poland), Monastic sources online in the States Archives in Poland

13³⁰–13⁵⁰ Discussion

14⁰⁰–15⁰⁰ Lunch (Restaurant in the Pilgrim House)

XII: Projects: manuscrits

15³⁰–15⁵⁰ Michael B. Toth (University College London, United Kingdom), Dispersed manuscript leaves offer new digital insight into monastery legacy

 

15⁵⁰–16¹⁰ Maria Stieglecker (Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria), Building Bridges. Watermarks and the network of monastic manuscript production

 

16¹⁰–16³⁰ Matija Ogrin (Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia), The Capuchin convent of Škofja Loka and the related manuscripts of Slovenian Baroque literature. An approach in Digital Humanities

 

16³⁰–16⁵⁰ Stephan Lauper (University of Freiburg, Switzerland), The manuscripts of the commandery of St. John “Zum Grünen Wörth” in Strasbourg

16⁵⁰–17²⁰ Discussion

17²⁰–17⁵⁰ Coffee Break

XIII. Projets: editions

17⁵⁰–18¹⁰ Tobias Hodel (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Connecting charters and chartularies: the digital edition of the Königsfelden Abbey – approaching documentary practices

18¹⁰–18³⁰ Irene Rabl (University of Vienna, Austria), The letters of the Pez correspondence: a transforming edition

18³⁰–18⁵⁰ Maria Rottler (University of Vienna, Austria), Roman Zirngibl, a Benedictine in St. Emmeram, historian and archivist: a digital scholarly edition of his diaries, letters and monthly reports

 

18⁵⁰–19¹⁰ Anastasia Preobrazhenskaya (Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia), Simeon of Polotsk: a monk and a poet in the 17^th century Muscovy. Building a digitised corpus of monastic writings

 

19¹⁰–19⁴⁰ Discussion

20⁰⁰ Dinner (Restaurant in the Pilgrim House)

15 September (Friday)

 

XIV. Projects: religious

9⁰⁰–9²⁰ Rafał Witkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland), From a manuscript necrology to a digital data base. New forms of prosopographic studies based on examples of the monastic communities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

 

9²⁰–9⁴⁰ Hedvika Kuchařová (Royal Canonry of Premonstratensians in Strahov; Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague), Kateřina Bobková-Valentová (Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague), The bio-bibliographical database of members of the religious order living in the Czech lands in the Early Modern Age

9⁴⁰–10⁰⁰ Zsuzsa Pető (Central European University in Budapest, Hungary), The hermits of the king, the hermits of the people: Pauline monastic space in the Carpathian Basin until the mid-fifteenth century

10⁰⁰–10²⁰ Discussion

10²⁰–10⁵⁰ Coffee Break

Workshop 1

11⁰⁰–12³⁰ Tobias Hodel (Historisches Seminar, University of Zurich, Switzerland), READ: Read manuscripts with Transcribus [read.transkribus.eu; READ = Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents]

12³⁰–13⁰⁰ Coffee Break

Workshop 2

13⁰⁰–14³⁰ Michael B. Toth (Honorary Research Associate, University College London, United Kingdom), An Introductory Workshop for Implementing Effective Digitizations

14⁴⁵–15³⁰ Lunch (Restaurant in the Pilgrim House)

15³⁰–18³⁰ Tour of the Paulin Monastery of Jasna Góra

19³⁰ Dinner (Restaurant in the Pilgrim House)

16 September (Saturday)

After breakfast: Departures