Syriaca.org and the Digital Lab at Vanderbilt University are pleased to invite applications for a virtual workshop on “Digital Encoding for the Study of Syriac Literature” to be held 29 June to 9 July, 2026 (with 5 days of live instruction). Participation in the workshop is free of charge and…
read moreThe Syriaca.org project has been featured in a recent post from MENALIB: The Middle East Virtual Library (https://www.menalib.de/en/2017/09/syriaca-org/). MENALIB is an information service of the University and State Library of Saxon-Anhalt for the study of the Middle East, North Africa, and Islam. It is the successor to the Middle East…
read moreAn article by Syriaca.org editors Nathan P. Gibson, David A. Michelson, and Daniel L. Schwartz titled “From Manuscript Catalogues to a Handbook of Syriac Literature: Modeling an Infrastructure for Syriaca.org” has been published in the peer-reviewed, open-access Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities (ISSN 2416-5999). The article explores the…
read moreDr. Nathan P. Gibson, postdoctoral scholar at Vanderbilt University and co-editor of Syriaca.org’s New Handbook of Syriac Literature and Guide to Syriac Authors presented a paper titled “Robust Digital Approaches to Literary History: The Case of Syriac” on May 27, 2017 at the North American Patristics Society (NAPS) Annual Meeting.…
read moreSyriaca.org editors Drs. Daniel Schwartz, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, and Nathan Gibson were interviewed May 24, 2017 on WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio by Mitch Teich of the Lake Effect show. Listen to the interview: MP3 or click on “Listen” at http://wuwm.com/post/turmoil-displaces-middle-eastern-christians-scholars-work-preserve-syriac-culture. Read the article: As Turmoil Displaces Middle Eastern Christians, Scholars…
read moreThe Syriaca.org team is pleased to host thirty scholars for a workshop at Marquette University, May 23-24, 2017. Senior scholars and graduate students from the U.S., Canada, France, and Germany will be trained in digital research methods for scholars interested in social history, hagiography, prosopography, Syriac studies, and the application…
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- 4/28/2026 David Michelson interview with Ephrem Ishac @ Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 11/05/2025 Daniel Schwartz Recognized as “Open Access Standout Scholar”
- 10/6/2025 David A. Michelson Presentation to Graduate Students at the Saint Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute (SEERI): “Online Tools for Syriac Studies”
- Digital Encoding for Syriac Studies: A Virtual Workshop (July 29-31, 2025)
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- 11/23/2024 David Michelson and William Potter Presentation to 17th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age hosted by the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Link to The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Studies