Project News from Syriaca.org

Syriaca.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…

On 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:…

Syriaca.org editors Daniel Schwartz, David Michelson, and Jamey Walters presented at the workshop: Linked Data and Syriac Sources at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 12–13 March 2018. The workshop is sponsored by the CLARIAH project “LinkSyr“. As part of that project the following presentation was given: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16N9Py1mZYrLPWWd9sZM42B_Czv-DvIxpDYCV2u29FNw/edit?usp=sharing Also demo videos related…

On 2/23/2018 Syriaca.org General Editor David Michelson will give two presentations at the workshop “Linking Manuscripts from the Coptic, Ethiopian and Syriac domain: Present and Future Synergy Strategies.” Michelson will present on “The Syriac Gazetteer” and “New Handbook of Syriac Literature & A Guide to Syriac Authors” and their potential…

On 09/24/17, Syriaca.org General Editor David Michelson will present on “Manuscripts as Data” as part of the “1st Summer School of Digital Humanities: Distant Reading – Potentials and Applications” held at Heidelberg University. The presentation is available here. Links and projects mentioned in the talk are listed below for reference…

Balzan.org recently spoke with Professor PETER BROWN, 2011 Balzan Prizewinner for Ancient History (Graeco-Roman World), about the Project he undertook with the half of the Prize devoted to research. Since 1986, Peter Brown has been the Phillip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, at Princeton University. Previously he was Professor…