Author Archives: Gabriel Bodard

Report on Roman Society Heritage Placement in Institute of Classical Studies

Heritage Placement Report: 3D imaging in the Institute of Classical Studies Guest post by Nori Tang, Durham University Last summer I joined a two-week placement at the Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) as part of the Roman Society’s Museum and … Continue reading

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Digital Approaches to Sacred Space in Roman Britain (London, 19th May 2026)

Digital Approaches to Sacred Space in Roman Britain Tuesday 19th May 2026, 10:00-17:30 Institute of Classical Studies, University of London Registration (in person or online) Description Temples and shrines in Roman Britain have been examined since the early modern period, … Continue reading

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Report on LP11 activity: Epigraphic Data in Wikidata

Linked Pasts 11 – Epigraphic Data in Wikidata: From Ontology to Practice Dates: 2–3 December 2025 Duration: 1h30 each day Convenors: Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini, Maxime Guénette, Anne Chen, Emily Helm Format: Online How participants joined: SAS event (LP11 programme) … Continue reading

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A Feasibility Study for an EFES publication of the Inscriptions of Roman Pollentia, Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)

by Sarah Williams (University of London) (Note: to see my EpiDoc files and EFES customisation, and for local links in this post to work, you will need to download my fork of EFES from https://github.com/Minna-Loushe/EFES-Pollentia, install and run from the … Continue reading

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Digital Classicist London 2026 programme

The Digital Classicist London seminars present aspects of the ancient or pre-colonial worlds, including archaeology, cultural heritage, history, language, literature and their reception, and address innovative digital approaches to research, teaching, dissemination or engagement, especially work across or between disciplines, … Continue reading

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Report on PN People WG Sample Data Hackathon at LP11

Gabriel Bodard, University of London Jun Ogawa, University of Tokyo On the 1st and 4th of December 2025 we held two meetings of the Pelagios Network’s People Working Group (which works towards consensus and standards for common representation of historical … Continue reading

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Digital Classicist London 2026 call for papers

The Digital Classicist London seminar invites proposals for the Summer 2026 series. We are looking for papers on any aspect of the ancient or pre-colonial worlds, including archaeology, cultural heritage, history, language, literature and their reception, and that address innovative … Continue reading

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Review of Ugarit and Translation Alignment using Petronius

By Lucy Yang (KCL) Texts aligned in Ugarit iAligner for this project: Satyricon 132.1, 132.2, 132.3, 132.4 The Satyricon by Petronius enjoys its modern reception as both a social satire to Neronian Rome, as most scholars believe its date to … Continue reading

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University of London Digital Humanities Placement report

By Shibo Wu and Matthew O’Connor This spring we, two students of the Digital Humanities MSc at UCL, undertook a three-week placement at Senate House Library and the Makerspace in the University of London, digitising artefacts from the Harry Price … Continue reading

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Digital Classicist London 2025 programme

This year’s Digital Classicist London summer seminar series, hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, invited proposals on any aspect of the ancient or pre-colonial worlds, including archaeology, cultural heritage, history, language, literature and their reception, that … Continue reading

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Material Digital Humanities seminar 2025

The Material Digital Humanities seminar is organised by Gabriel Bodard (Digital Humanities, University of London, UK) and Chiara Palladino (Department of Classics, Furman University, USA) in 2025. This series presents a range of discussions around materiality and the research possibilities … Continue reading

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Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage 2024 Collaborative Reading List

The students attending my masters-level class on Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage in Spring 2024 were drawn from the London Intercollegiate Classics programme (students in Classics, Ancient History, Classical Art and Archaeology, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, and Reception of … Continue reading

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Digital Humanities student placement in Institute of Classical Studies 2024

Guest post by Wei Hei Nip As part of the MSc Digital Humanities programme at UCL, I had the opportunity to contribute to the ongoing project on 3D digitisation and documentation of the Ehrenberg Bequest at the Institute of Classical … Continue reading

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Digital Classicist London 2024 programme

The programme for Digital Classicist London seminar 2024 is now up. The seminar takes place on Fridays in late June and throughout July. Two seminars are online only; three take place in the Senate House MakerSpace and are also live-streamed. … Continue reading

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Data Driven Classics (London, July 5, 2024)

This free one-day workshop looks like it would be particularly valuale for classicists (within reach of London) with no previous experience of working with digital datasets or corpora, who want a good hands-on and theorertical introduction to the possibilities. (Forwarded … Continue reading

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