Project News from Syriaca.org

Syriaca.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.

On 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,…

Vanderbilt 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…

Syriaca.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.

Syriaca.org assistant director Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent will present a workshop on the two volumes of Gateway to the Syriac Saints (Volume I: Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica or BHSE on hymns, homilies, and lives of Syriac saints, and Volume II: Qadishe on the persons or the saints themselves). The workshop is…

Syriaca.org assistant director Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent will present a paper “Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica-Syriac Saints Lives ” as part of the  XVII. International Conference on Patristic Studies at Oxford University on 8/11/2015. This is part of a two panel session on Digital Humanities and the Study of Patristics. A demo…