From Stylianos Chronopoulos:

We are very pleased to post the invitation to participate in the conference “Commenting Fragments: the Case of Ancient Comedy”, that will be held at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau – July 2-7, 2012.

The project “Kommentierung der Fragmente der altgriechischen Komödie” (“A Commentary on the Fragments of Ancient Greek Comedy”) invites applications to participate in a one-week conference/workshop, “Commenting Fragments: The Case of Ancient Comedy”, to be held July 2–7, 2012 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. The workshop is part of a multi-year research project supported by the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften and directed by Bernhard Zimmermann. The goal of the project, which has been underway at the Albert Ludwigs University since January 1, 2011, is to produce commentaries on all surviving fragments of Greek comedy.

Applications are open to all, but younger scholars (including graduate students) and other individuals interested in producing commentaries on individual comic poets are particularly encouraged to apply. Further information on the project (which builds on the textual work of R. Kassel and C. Austin, Poetae Comici Graeci), and on its publications to date, is available at the homepage of the Seminar for Classical Philology: http://www.altphil.uni-freiburg.de/komfrag

The workshop will have two separate but related agenda.

Mornings (9-12 AM) will be occupied with a series of round-table style discussions of some of the challenges of commenting on fragmentary comedies. The first two sessions will be devoted to sample commentaries produced collectively by the participants, and will consider methodological and practical problems such as the use of parallels, argumentative structure, textual matters, handling of sources, citation practices, reconstruction of scenes and plays, and the like. More information will be provided with the application, but every participant in the conference will be expected to produce a sample commentary on 5–6 lines of Greek text. These samples will be due June 1, and will be combined and precirculated to all workshop participants. The final three morning sessions will be devoted to close discussion of substantial samples of draft commentaries produced by individual workshop participants. The precise number and arrangement of these sessions will depend on the number of samples submitted. These samples (25–30 doublespaced pages) will be due April 30, and will be similarly precirculated to all workshop participants. A final round-up session will be held on Saturday, 7 July.

Afternoons (3-7 PM) will be devoted to talks by recognized experts in the field on the general theme: “The Periodization and Dramatic Form of Greek Comedy”.
The provisional schedule of afternoon talks is as follows:

Monday July 2:
Bernhard Zimmermann (University of Freiburg) – “The Periodisation of Greek Comedy as Necessary – and Problematic.” (the talk will be in German)
Eric Csapo (University of Sydney) – “The Earliest Phase of Ancient Greek Comedy.”

Tuesday July 3:
Andreas Willi (University of Oxford, Worcester College) – “Epicharmos and Attic Comedy.”
Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University) – “Pherecrates and Athenian Comedy between 450 and 420 BC.”

Wednesday July 4:
Guiseppe Mastromarco (University of Bari) – “Euripidaristophanizein (Cratinus, fr. 342 K.-A.): Aristophanes and Euripidean Paratragedy.” (the talk will be in Italian)
Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (University of Göttingen) – “Periodisation of Ancient Greek Comedy in Hellenistic Philology.” (the talk will be in German)

Thursday July 5:
Ioannis Konstantakos (University of Athens) – “Tendencies and Variety in Middle Comedy.”
Benjamin Millis (University of Oxford) – “Comedy in- and outside of Athens in the 4th Century BC.”
S. Douglas Olson (University of Minnesota / University of Freiburg) – “And on to Rome. Aristophanes and Athenaeus.” (Key-note lecture)

Friday July 6:
Antonis Petridis (Open University of Cyprus) – “Before and after Menander.”
Michael Scott Fontaine (Cornell University) – “From Athens to Rome: From Greek to Latin Comedy.”

Talks will last 45-50 min. and will be followed by a one-hour discussion period. Those interested in participating should submit proposals by March 30, 2012. Proposals must include
(1) a short CV (no more than one A4-page)
(2) a statement of purpose (no more than 600 words) describing why you want to participate; if you have any previous experience working with fragmentary texts, ancient Greek Comedy or writing a commentary; and how you intend to use participation to advance your research.

Applicants who also wish to have their own work discussed in one of the morning sessions are invited to send a 20-pages sample of their work by April 30. No participation fee for the workshop is required. A presentation of the project “Kommentierung der Fragmente der griechischen Komödie” and a grand conference banquet will be held after the talks on the first day. Various free-time activities (e.g. city tours of old Freiburg, hiking in the Black Forest, a guided visit to the Freiburg Cathedral, collective readings of aristophanic comedies) will be offered as part of the unofficial program.
The working languages for the conference and workshop will be English, German and Italian.

Due-dates:
Applications for participation March 30, 2012
Sample commentary (on 5-6 lines of Greek text), that each participant has to submit as basis for the discussion in the first two morning sessions June 1, 2012
Samples of draft commentaries (work in progress) to be discussed in the final three morning sessions April 30, 2012

Invitation for Participation (pdf)

For more information or to submit applications, please contact stylianos.chronopoulos@altphil.uni-freiburg.de

We are going to present a paper on Alexander the Great and Aristotle in the Libro de Alexandre at the 3rd international conference of Aliento (Analyse Linguistique et Interculturelle des Énoncés sapientiels et de leur transmission de l’Orient à l’Occident et de l’Occident à l’Orient)

3rd International Call – Sapiential Statements and Exemplary Literature: a Complex Intertextuality
Nancy (MSH Lorraine) – Paris (INALCO) 22-24 novembre 2011

Program (in French)

The ALIENTO scientific team organises every year a three-day encounter on medieval sapiential tradition (VIIIth-XVth C.) in the Iberian Peninsula, its sources and its posterity in the perspective of the data base that is being built up.

In March 2009 took place the first international conference untitled: “Sapiential sentences: cultures et transmissions”. Its main purpose was the presentation of the project content, its aims and its methods. The November 2010 Conference: Ancient corpora and data bases” focussed on the Ancient sources of the Medieval corpus from the Iberian Peninsula and the articulation of the project with other data bases dealing with Ancient corpora (GASC – Corpus der arabischen und syrischen Gnomologien, SAWS – Sharing Ancient Wisdom).

At this stage of the work, a presentation of the first results obtained by textual crossings will be made and conclusions on our primary experimentations will be drawn with the specialists of the texts of the ALIENTO corpus. We will also organise the future work. A session will be devoted to the appended data bases: normalisation of files and bibliography.

This year, the papers will be on Intertextuality between our corpora and the exemplary literature that circulated in the Iberian Peninsula during that period. A particular attention will be paid to Calila and Dimna.

ALIENTO collaborators are invited to present a paper on the connections between wisdom literature, sapiential units and fables, exempla, Mirrors for Princes, adâb literature… from the same epoch.

The 22 and 23 November sessions will take place in Nancy and the 24 November session will be in Paris. On 23 November, there will be workshops; the sessions of the 22 and the 24 will be devoted to papers. The presentations will not exceed 30 minutes; a fifteen-minute discussion will follow.

Program of the Conference

Mardi 22 novembre 2011: Université Nancy2
(MSH Lorraine – 91 avenue de la Libération – 3e étage salle internationale)

9h00-10h00: Accueil et ouverture du colloque par Gerhardt Heinzmann, directeur de la MSH Lorraine et Mathieu Pétrissans, Vice-Président du Conseil Scientifique

10h00-10h30: María Jesús Lacarra  (Université de Saragosse, Espagne)
El Exemplario contra los engaños y peligros del mundo: cuentos, proverbios e imágenes

10h30-11h00: Marta Haro Cortés (Université de Valencia, Espagne)
La traducción castellana inédita del Calila árabe (José Antonio Conde, 1797)

Discussion et pause-café

11h30-12h00: Monica Berti (Rome, Italie)
Alexander the Great and Aristotle in the Libro de Alexandre

12h00-12h30: María Conca et Josep Guía (Université de Valencia, Espagne)
Européismes dans le Llibre de paraules e dits de savis e filòsofs, une collection sapientielle catalane du XIIIe siècle 

Discussion suivie du déjeuner

14h00-14h30: Carlos Mota (Universidad del País Vasco /Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea)
Usos y estrategias de uso de elementos proverbiales en la poesía cortesana hispánica del siglo XV

14h30-15h00: Elena González-Blanco García (UNED, Madrid)
Los Castigos y Ejemplos de Catón. Estilo, “modus interpretandi”, traducción e intertextualidad

15h00-15h30: Alka Jaspal (New Dehli)
Algunos aspectos jurídicos del Panchatantra en el Calila e Dimna

Discussion

Visite de Nancy (l’Ecole de Nancy)

Dîner de gala

Mercredi 23 novembre 2011: Université Nancy2
(MSH Lorraine – 91 avenue de la Libération – 3e étage salle internationale)

8h30-9h00: accueil

Ateliers
Discutants: Marie-Christine Bornes Varol, Marie-Sol Ortola, Anne-Marie Chabrolle Cerretini, Guy Achard-Bayle, Jean-Daniel Gronoff

9h00-9h45: Bilan de la première phase et présentation de premiers résultats de croisement

9h45-10h30: Préparation de l’étape suivante – Organisation des ateliers – Questions diverses

Pause-café

10h45-11h15: Revital Refael Vivante (Bar-Ilan University – Israël)
The influence of Kalila and Dimna on medieval Hebrew fables literature

11h15-11h45: Hachem Foda (Université Paris VIII)
Structures-type d’énoncés sapientiels brefs médiévaux en arabe

Discussion et Déjeuner

Introduction à l’atelier 1 (13h45-15h):

13h45-14h15: Christoph Storz
A computer assisted analysis of the Muḫtār al-ḥikam of Mubaššir ibn Fātik and the Bocados de Oro, problems and approaches, a work in progress

14h30-15h30: Atelier 1
Etiquetage des énoncés sapientiels
Contenu des étiquettes

15h30– 16h30: Atelier 2
Application de la TEI  aux objets d’ALIENTO
Étiquetage de la « bibliothèque ALIENTO », des notices et des bibliographies

16h30-16h45: Atelier 3
Utilisation du site collaboratif

Collation

18h11: Départ pour PARIS (arrivée : 19h46 – installation)

Jeudi 24 novembre 2011  – INALCO
(65 rue des Grands Moulins – Auditorium du Pôle des langues & civilisations)

8h30-9h00: Accueil

9h-9h30: Ayelet Oettinger (University of Haifa)
Sapiential statements and their transmission, from the Greek book of Barlaam and Josaphat (by Euthymius, 11th century) to the Hebrew book of The King’s Son and the Ascetic (Ibn Ḥasdai, 13th century)

9h30-10h00: Nejmeddine Khalfallah (Université Nancy2)
Équité/justice dans les exempla politiques arabes jusqu’au XIe siècle

Discussion et Pause-café

10h30-11h00: Llúcia Martín (Université d’Alicante, Espagne)
Huellas del Calila e Dimna en la literatura sapiencial catalana medieval 

11h00-11h30: Gilbert Fabre (Université Paris XIII)
De la wasiyya arabe au castigo espagnol, une nouvelle manière de lire le Calila castillan 

11h30-12h00: Tovi Bibring (Bar-Ilan University, Israël)
Intertextualité entre le Mishle Sh’ualim, les fables de Marie de France et quelques exempla 

Discussion suivie du Déjeuner

13h30-14h00: Daniel Bodi (Paris8)
‘Garder sa bouche’ : proverbe akkadien, araméen et hébraïque 

14h00-14h30: Cristiano Leone (Université de Sienne)
Énoncés et exempla dans la Disciplina clericalis: une intratextualité complexe

Discussion et Pause-café

14h45-14h15: María Morrás  (Université Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Para la instrucción del príncipe: Proverbios y exempla en la narrativa caballeresca  

15h15-15h45: Ahmed Salem Mohamed Ould Baba (Université Complutense, Madrid)
Rois, princes et gouverneurs dans le recueil amthâl alkhâssa “proverbes de l´élite” de Azzajjâlî

Discussion suivie du  Cocktail à l’Inalco

Des manuscrits antiques à l’ère digitale. Lectures et littératies
Université de Lausanne, August 23-25, 2011

Full Program

Among the papers presented at this conference, we signal the following ones:

• Leonard Muellner et Mary Ebbott (Boston): Multitextual Reading and the Future of the Homer Multitext (August 24)

• Marie-Claire Beaulieu, Francesco Mambrini & J. Matthew Harrington (Tufts University, Boston – Perseus Project): Toward a Digital Editio Princeps: Using Digital Technologies to Create a More Complete Scholarly Edition in the Classics (August 24)

• Alexandra Trachsel (Université de Hambourg): Collecting Fragments Today: What Status Will Have a Fragment in the Era of Digital Philology? (August 24)

This international conference is proposed by Claire Clivaz (IRSB, FTSR), Jérôme Meizoz (FDi, Lettres) and François Vallotton (SHC, Lettres). It seeks to demonstrate the major impact of the Digital Era on knowledge, by studying the history of cultural technologies. The present evolution of the Ancient manuscript allows one to detect this turning-point, notably with the digital editions of Homer and the New Testament. The notions of authorship and critical edition are questionned : modern history and contemporary analysis have to be enrooted in ancient memory to reflect upon the digital turn.

Philology in the Digital Age – 2011 Annual Conference and Member’s Meeting of the TEI Consortium
University of Würzburg, 10-16 October, 2011

The University of Würzburg with its Centre for Digital Editing in cooperation with the German Archive of Literature / Museum of Modern Literature Marbach and the international Programme Committe welcome you to the 2011 International Conference and Members’ Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative.

• Date: 10-16 October 2011
• Deadline for submissions: 1 May 2011
• Venue: University of Würzburg, Hubland Campus

All information regarding the conference will be published step-by-step on this website.

See here for the preliminary program.

The Call for Papers and Proposals is now available.

We post the programme of the Digital Classicist 2010 summer seminars, which will be held at the Institute of Classical Studies, London.

One of the seminars (July 30) is on Fragmentary Texts and Digital Collections of Fragmentary Authors (Monica Berti & Marco Büchler)

Meetings are on Fridays at 16:30 in room STB9 (Stewart House)
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

*ALL WELCOME*
Seminars will be followed by refreshments

• Jun 4 Leif Isaksen (Southampton)

• Reading Between the Lines: unearthing structure in Ptolemy’s Geography

• Jun 11 Hafed Walda (King’s College London) and Charles Lequesne (RPS Group)
  Towards a National Inventory for Libyan Archaeology

• Jun 18 Timothy Hill (King’s College London)
  After Prosopography? Data modelling, models of history, and new directions for a scholarly genre

• Jun 25 Matteo Romanello (King’s College London)
  Towards a Tool for the Automatic Extraction of Canonical References

• Jul 2 Mona Hess (University College London)
  3D Colour Imaging For Cultural Heritage Artefacts

• Jul 16 Annemarie La Pensée (National Conservation Centre) and Françoise Rutland (World Museum Liverpool)
  Non-contact 3D laser scanning as a tool to aid identification and interpretation of archaeological artefacts: the case of a Middle Bronze Age Hittite Dice

• Jul 23 Mike Priddy (King’s College London)
  On-demand Virtual Research Environments: a case study from the Humanities

• Jul 30 Monica Berti (Torino) and Marco Büchler (Leipzig)
  Fragmentary Texts and Digital Collections of Fragmentary Authors

• Aug 6 Kathryn Piquette (University College London)
  Material Mediates Meaning: Exploring the artefactuality of writing utilising qualitative data analysis software

• Aug 13 Linda Spinazzè (Venice)
  Musisque Deoque. Developing new features: manuscripts tracing on the net

For more information on individual seminars and updates on the programme, see Digital Classicist 2010 summer seminar programme

Get a pdf copy of the poster of the programme

Here is a post on a new conference on the fragmentary author Duris of Samos, which will be held in Paris in late 2010:

Douris de Samos (env. 340 – 280), polygraphe, auteur d’ouvrages relevant de la critique littéraire, de l’histoire de l’art, sans doute de la musicologie, et surtout de livres historiques. Il reste 96 fragments de l’œuvre de Douris, essentiellement tirés de ses textes historiographiques. Le naufrage presque total de l’œuvre de Douris a longtemps obscurci la place qu’il a occupée dans la tradition historiographique: mais les jugements opposés qu’il a suscités laissent à penser qu’il était non seulement lu et commenté à l’époque d’Auguste, mais qu’il a influencé l’historiographie issue des traditions hellénistiques. La perception de la personnalité de Douris dans l’histoire littéraire et dans l’encyclopédisme antique est l’un des angles d’approche qui doivent être retenus dans cette journée d’étude.

Il est vu, à partir d’un jugement de Plutarque, comme le représentant de l’«histoire tragique», adepte, contre Théopompe et Éphore, de la mimesis comme principe fondamental de l’esthétique historiographique. C’est aussi un des points que cette journée d’étude aimerait examiner particulièrement: dans quelle mesure, d’après les témoignages et les fragments de Douris, transpose-t-il dans l’historiographie la notion aristotélicienne de mimesis dramatique? Qu’est-ce exactement que la zographia à laquelle Douris avait consacré un traité? Le débat plus général de la nature de l’historiographie hellénistique est en jeu dans cette question. La question de l’utilisation de Douris par Diodore de Sicile mérite également d’être reprise: l’autre grande autorité pour cette section est Timée de Tauroménion, et le poids respectifs des deux historiens est l’objet de divergences. La mise en évidence de traits stylistiques propres à Douris pourrait permettre de réexaminer la question. Son autorité d’historien, ses intérêts ethnographiques doivent être pris en compte. Enfin, il peut être utile de reprendre le dossier de la présence de notices de Douris chez Tite-Live, du regard critique que porte l’historien augustéen sur l’historien hellénistique ; plus généralement, à partir de l’étude du cas de Douris, le tribut de l’historiographie augustéenne à l’égard de l’histoire non-annalistique et des auteurs hellénistiques en particulier peut être mieux mis en évidence.

Depuis la publication de ses fragments par Hulleman en 1841, Douris a fait l’objet de plusieurs études. Cependant, il nous semble que certains aspects de l’œuvre, mais aussi son contexte, et plus largement les enjeux historiques, historiographiques et esthétiques dont elle témoigne mériteraient d’être de nouveau examinés.

Université Paris X-Nanterre / ENS Ulm

Contacts:
Mathilde Simon-Mahé
Valérie Naas
(Paris IV- Sorbonne)

Date de la manifestation : début nov. 2010

Here is the program of a workshop on historical texts, which will be held at the Perseus Project at Tufts University on January 13 and 14, 2010:

Workshop on Historical Texts

Two papers will be devoted to the problem of editing fragments:

• Monica Berti, Fragmentary Texts & Digital Libraries

• Alexandra Trachsel, An Online Edition of Demetrios of Scepsis: A Case Study on Fragment 32

Gregory Crane, editor in chief of the Perseus Digital Library, was invited as a Visiting Professor to the University of Rome Tor Vergata on October 20-27, 2009.

On that occasion, he gave three seminars in Italian on the following topics:

• La storia di Perseus Digital Library e la nascita delle Digital Humanities negli Stati Uniti
• Presente e futuro di Perseus Digital Library
• Frontiere delle Digital Humanities in epigrafia e filologia classica

The seminars were followed by two conferences of Monica Berti and Matteo Romanello on:

• Esempi di marcatura dei frammenti nei Deipnosofisti di Ateneo
• Le tecnologie digitali e l’epigrafia: esempi applicativi

See the Program

The University of Oxford and the Democritus University of Thrace have organized a conference to bring together an international group of distinguished speakers to consider the status of the fragment in antiquity, ancient perceptions of fragments and attitudes to fragmentary texts.

The conference was held in Komitini (Greece) on September 4-7, 2009.

See the Program of the conference

On November 10, 2009 the Humboldt University of Berlin and the German Archaeological Institute held a conference to commemorate Felix Jacoby fifty years after his death. Felix Jacoby was the scholar who collected the fragments of the Greek historians in Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker.

See the Program of the conference

Read the Report of the conference