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New mailing list: Greek and Latin Treebanking

A new mailing list intended for the discussion of Ancient Greek and Latin treebanking, GLTreebank, has been created. We expect and welcome questions, announcements and colleagial conversation about all aspects of morphosyntactic annotation of the ancient languages, including but not … Continue reading

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DCO 3,2 (2017) is out!

A new special issue of the Digital Classics Online journal was published a few days ago, and it contains a selection of papers presented at the Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin during its first four years (2012-2015). Table of Contents: Editorial … Continue reading

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Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin 2017/18

We are delighted to announce that the programme for this year’s Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin 2017/18 is now available. You can find it online at http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/seminar2017, at the bottom of this email or as a ready-to-print poster. The seminar series will … Continue reading

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Classical Philology Goes Digital, University of Potsdam, February 16-17, 2017

Classical Philology Goes Digital. Working on Textual Phenomena of Ancient Texts University of Potsdam, February 16-17, 2017 Organization: Karen Blaschka (Universität Potsdam) and Monica Berti (Universität Leipzig) Funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung Thursday, February 16, 2017 9.00 Welcome Address by … Continue reading

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Digital Classicist London: 2016 seminars

Institute of Classical Studies Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Fridays at 16:30 in room 234 Jun 3 Gregory Crane (Leipzig & Tufts), Philological Education and Citizenship in the 21st Century Jun 10 Matteo Romanello (Lausanne & DAI), Of … Continue reading

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Institute of Classical Studies Library survey

A message from the Institute of Classical Studies and Joint Library, University of London: Please help us improve our services by taking a few minutes to complete our 2016 survey and letting us know your views about the ICS / … Continue reading

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Epigraphy Editathon, (April 20-22, 2016 – Leipzig)

Epigraphy Editathon (Editing chronological and geographic data in ancient inscriptions) April 20-22, 2016 Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities – University of Leipzig Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig P 402 April 20, 2016 Morning (paper presentations) 09:00-09:15: Monica Berti: Welcome … Continue reading

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UCLDH Seminar

Details of the upcoming seminar in the UCLDH 2016 series follow: The ancient cultures of Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia have left a rich written legacy, in the form of many hundreds of thousands of clay tablets, inscribed in the complex, … Continue reading

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MicroPasts: Crowd and community fuelled archaeological research

UCL Centre for Digital Humanities seminar Daniel Pett, ‘MicroPasts: Crowd and community fuelled archaeological research’. When: Wednesday 24th February 17:30 – 19:00 Where: Arts and Humanities Common Room, G24, Foster Court, UCL, London, WC1E 6BT This seminar, given by Daniel … Continue reading

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Treebanking Ancient Greek in High School: what my students learned, what I learned

Treebanking methodology has proven to be successful in the linguistic analysis of ancient Greek and Latin texts, and it has aroused a continuously increasing interest over the last few years. It is certainly one of the most exciting innovations in … Continue reading

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Digital Humanities Quarterly CFP

Existing digital tools and related models carry assumptions of knowledge as primarily visual, thus neglecting other sensory or experiential detail and sustaining traditional and often ocularcentric humanities research (Howes, 2005, p. 14; Classen, 1997, pp. 401-12). The excuse is that … Continue reading

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Post-doctoral Research Position in Interactive Text Visualization

Via Sam Huskey on the Digital Classicist List: The Digital Latin Library (DLL) project at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a post-doctoral research position in interactive text visualization. The DLL project is led by Drs. Sam Huskey (Classics), … Continue reading

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CfP: Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities

The Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities (GDDH) has established a new forum for the discussion of digital methods applied to all areas of the Humanities, including Classics, Philosophy, History, Literature, Law, Languages, Social Science, Archaeology and more. The initiative is … Continue reading

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Survey: Disciplinary analysis of Digital Humanities

The following survey from Clare Hooper (IT Innovation Centre, Southampton) will contribute to ongoing work analysing the disciplinary and thematic contributions to DH from a combination of quantitative study of published papers and response from experts. Full survey at https://www.isurvey.soton.ac.uk/14422 … Continue reading

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Round table: Linking Ancient People, Places, Objects and Texts

Linking Ancient People, Places, Objects and Texts a round table discussion Gabriel Bodard (KCL), Daniel Pett (British Museum), Humphrey Southall (Portsmouth), Charlotte Tupman (KCL); with response by Eleanor Robson (UCL) 18:00, Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 Anatomy Museum, Strand Building 6th … Continue reading

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