Dear Colleagues, Syriaca.org is gathering information on how to best meet the needs of those who use our site. We recently benefited from an anonymous survey (thank you to those who participated!). We are now looking for volunteers to give detailed input through a live interview over Zoom. If you…
read moreSyriaca.org general editor, David Michelson moderated a panel on “Syriac Studies: New Conversations” as part of the Regional Late Antiquity Consortium Southeast (ReLACS) held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN with panelists Samuel Barry (Eastern Tennessee State University) and Tina Shepardson (University of Tennessee). Among the projects discussed were:…
read moreOn 8/21/2018, Syriaca,org editors Nathan P. Gibson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; David A. Michelson, Vanderbilt University; and Daniel L. Schwartz, Texas A&M University will present on “Syriaca.org and Perseids Editorial Review” a presentation on how Syriaca.org is implementing the Perseids platform for editorial review (http://www.perseids.org/). A copy of the slides from the…
read moreThe Digital Cultural Heritage Research Cluster at Vanderbilt University has announced the hiring of Dr. Michelle M. Taylor as the first Post-Doctoral Fellow in Digital Cultural Heritage. A biography and interview with Dr. Taylor is posted here. An experienced scholar in TEI XML, Dr. Taylor will undertake a number of…
read moreSyriaca.org General Editor David A. Michelson presented a lightning talk at the site visit “Integrating Digital Humanities into the Web” held at Vanderbilt University by the the project team for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Humanities Advancement Grant “Integrating Digital Humanities into the Web of Scholarship with SHARE”. For…
read moreOn March 23, 2018, Syriaca.org Associate Director Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent will give a public lecture at the Catholic University of America in the School of Theology and Religious studies entitled “Enslaved Saints, Monastic Lineages, and the Computer: Digital Horizons for the Study of Syriac Hagiography.” More details are posted here:…
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