Syriaca.org director Daniel L. Schwartz will present on “The Social Context of Religious Change in Late Antique Syria” at the conference Faith and Community around the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages at the New Europe College in Bucharest, Romania. Abstract of the paper is as follows: The unprecedented…
read moreSyriaca.org director Daniel L. Schwartz will present on “The Social Context of Religious Change in Late Antique Syria” at a workshop on Open Sourcing Religion organized by the Center for Science and Innovation Studies at the University of California, Davis. Abstract of the paper is as follows: Best practices in…
read moreSyriaca.org director, Dr. Daniel L. Schwartz gave a lightning talk on Syriaca.org to the Digital Humanities Working Group, part of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University. The meeting included presentations on ten additional Digital Humanities projects at Texas A&M University.
read moreOn November 13, 2015, Syriaca.org general editor Dr. David A. Michelson and director Daniel L. Schwartz presented in absentia a paper titled “Syriaca.org: New Digital Tools for the Study of the Medieval Middle East” at the International Conference on Scholarship and Practice: Russia and the Historical Experience of World Civilizations,…
read moreVanderbilt University and Syriaca.org are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Nathan P. Gibson as a Postdoctoral Scholar in Syriac Studies and Digital Humanities, effective October 1, 2015. Dr. Gibson will undertake a two-year research project at Vanderbilt University under the direction of Prof. David A. Michelson as part…
read moreSyriaca.org editor, Professor Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent will be presenting on the Gateway to the Syriac Saints at “Imagining Digital Scholarship & Learning: A Symposium” at Marquette University on Thursday, Oct. 1, at 11 am in Raynor Library. A demo link for this presentation is found here.
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