Greg Crane – The Humanities in a Digital Age November 27, 2012 – Digital Humanities McGill – Leacock 232 – 4:00 – 5:30 pm 855 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, H3A2T7, Canada We now live in a pervasively digital world and Humanists have an opportunity to rethink our goals. On the one hand, we can now develop research […]
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November 12 2012
Ritorno ad Alessandria. Storiografia antica e cultura bibliotecaria: tracce di una relazione perduta
Ritorno ad Alessandria. Storiografia antica e cultura bibliotecaria: tracce di una relazione perduta Incontro Internazionale di Studi Università di Roma Tor Vergata 28-29 novembre 2012 Per info contattare Monica Berti o Virgilio Costa La storia della Biblioteca di Alessandria e la letteratura che su di essa è fiorita costituiscono un punto di partenza imprescindibile per tutti coloro che […]
November 4 2012
SimpleTCT (Simple Text Comparison Tool)
SimpleTCT is a simplified management environment designed to assist in textual comparison. Users can display the contents of .rtf files, define themes, highlight passages and add personal notes as required. A document may then be exported containing all of the selected passages, organised thematically, situated alongside the relevant notes.
November 3 2012
The laments of the philosophers at the tomb of Alexander
On November 6-8, 2012, the 4th international conference of Aliento will be held in Nancy (MSH Lorraine) and Paris (INALCO): Énoncés sapientiels brefs, traductions, traducteurs et contextes culturels et historiques. On that occasion, Ute Pietruschka and Monica Berti will present an attempt to study the possible Greek origin of the so-called “Laments” of the philosophers […]
October 10 2012
The banquet of the digital scholars – Athenaeus Hackathon
Humanities Hackathon on editing Athenaeus and on the Reinvention of the Edition in a Digital Space October 10-12, 2012 Universität Leipzig (ULEI) & Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI) Berlin Co-directors: Monica Berti – Marco Büchler – Gregory Crane – Bridget Almas The University of Leipzig will host a hackathon that addresses two basic tasks. On the one […]
October 3 2012
Gregory Crane e i cittadini della repubblica delle lettere
We post an article published by Maria Chiara Pievatolo in the Bollettino telematico di filosofia politica about the role played by Gregory R. Crane in the humanities (see also our post on Humanities in a Digital World). Chi studia l’antichità conosce Gregory Crane anche quando non ne rammenta il nome, non per quello che ha scritto […]
October 1 2012
Humanities in a Digital World
Humanities in a Digital World – Incontro introdotto dal Prof. Gregory R. Crane Università degli Studi di Pisa – Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC-CNR) Palazzo Boileau, Via Santa Maria 85, Pisa (Aula Magna) – 2 ottobre 2012 Il Prof. Gregory Crane, direttore del Progetto Perseus, presso la Tufts University di Boston, USA, esporrà la propria […]
September 19 2012
Version Variation Visualization Project
From Wired a detailed report on the Version Variation Visualization Project and their first prototype Translation Array. A team at Swansea University has developed an online tool that allows researchers to compare multiple translations of Shakespeare at the same time to see how much they vary. The platform can be used for any text, but has been […]
