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,…
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.
read moreSyriaca.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…
read moreSyriaca.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…
read moreSyriaca.org general editor David A. Michelson will present a paper “Quid ergo Silicon Valley et Hierosolymis? Potential and Perils of the Digital Humanities for Patristic Studies” 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…
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