Gregory Ralph Crane – Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2013
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April 19 2013
Rediscovering Philology
Gregory Crane Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Digital Humanities University of Leipzig Professor of Classics Tufts University Editor in Chief, Perseus Project This paper began as a contribution to the debate on whether or not the APA should change its name. A hundred and forty years later, the central leadership of the American Philological Association […]
April 5 2013
The Open Philology Project and Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at Leipzig
Initial Research Plan (April 2013) Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities The University of Leipzig Abstract: The Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig sees in the rise of Digital Technologies an opportunity to re-assess and re-establish how the humanities can advance the understanding of the past and to support a […]
March 20 2013
Word, Space, Time: Digital Perspectives on the Classical World – Conference Program
An interdisciplinary conference organized by the Digital Classics Association University at Buffalo, SUNY, North Campus, Center for the Arts Screening Room, Buffalo, NY 14261 April 5-6, 2013 Archaeological GIS, digital historical mapping, literary text mining, and other computational techniques are increasingly shaping how we understand classical antiquity. Digital methods are breaking down sub-disciplinary barriers, allowing […]
March 6 2013
Protrepticus – a Reconstruction of Aristotle’s Lost Dialogue
From Doug Hutchinson and Monte Johnson: The Protrepticus was an early work of Aristotle, written while he was still a member of Plato’s Academy, but it soon became one of the most famous works in the whole history of philosophy. Unfortunately it was not directly copied in the middle ages and so did not survive in its […]
March 4 2013
DCA at APA / AIA Chicago 2014 Call for Papers – Deadline March 29
From Neil Coffee: Digital Classics Association is organizing panels at the American APA/AIA meetings in January for the next four years. The call for abstracts for the first panel, “Getting Started with Digital Classics,” is now posted at the APA website. The deadline for submissions is March 29, 2013.
February 18 2013
Presenting Fragments as Quotations or Quotations as Fragments
Dr. Alexandra Trachsel (King’s College London/University of Hamburg), Presenting Fragments as Quotations or Quotations as Fragments Tuesday, 19 February 2013 17:00-18:30 TOPOI-Haus Dahlem, Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin (map)
February 15 2013
Possible Jobs in Digital Humanities at Leipzig
Possible Jobs in Digital Humanities at Leipzig The Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities and Department of Computer Science at the University of Leipzig is looking for candidates for two possible collaborating research groups, one focused on reinventing scholarly communication for Greek and Latin, as a case study for historical languages in general, with the other […]
