Dr. Thomas Carlson will be presenting a paper, “Syriaca.org: Religious Geography Over Time and the Challenges of Digital Classification” as part of the Religion and Digital Technologies Workshop hosted on February 7, 2014 by the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University. A Program for the event is here.
read moreOn Dec 3, Syriaca.org general editor David Michelson will be presenting a demonstration of the Syriaca.org collaborative tools to the Digital Humanities Seminar at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. A general overview of the entire Syriaca.org project is here. A very rough visualization of…
read moreSyriaca.org is pleased to announce that Dr. Thomas Carlson, postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University and co-editor of the Syriac Gazetteer, has been awarded Second Prize in the Global Digital Humanities Essay competition sponsored by the University of Lethbridge, Global Outlook::Digital Humanities, and the journal Digital Studies/Le champ numérique. An…
read moreThe Syriaca.org team will be giving a private demo at the AAR SBL. Temporary links to the demo site for that presentation are: The Gazetteer homepage may be viewed at demo.syriaca.org A list of all places is viewable as a Browse Menu. Our model entry is Edessa. A general overview…
read moreOn November 15, David Michelson will give a presentation of the Syriac Gazetteer to the Geographic Imagination and the Spatial Humanities Seminar at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. Temporary links to the demo site for that presentation are: The Gazetteer homepage may be viewed at demo.syriaca.org A…
read moreOn Nov. 1, David Michelson will be presenting a demonstration of the Syriaca.org tools to the SEC regional faculty workshop “Cultures of the Late Antique Mediterranean” hosted at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Temporary links to the demo site for that presentation are: A general overview of the project is…
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