Gregory Ralph Crane – Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2013
Monica Berti on 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 (APA) has resolved to abandon the name of philology and proposed to adopt for the association the name “Society for Classical Studies.”# I would argue against this on three grounds. First, we need to retain a qualifier in our name that reflects the fact that the APA is the organization to which most professional students of Greco-Roman culture in the United States turn. Second, classics and classical studies are now problematic names for a group that focuses primarily upon Greco-Roman culture because the term “classics” has been used to assert the primacy of Greek and Latin and of Western culture in general.
Monica Berti on 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 dialogue among civilizations.
Monica Berti on 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 literary scholars to more easily explore epigraphical inscriptions, archaeologists to place their findings on digital historical maps, and philosophers to explore style and argument with sophisticated search techniques. Digital tools also offer new ways to explain aspects of classical antiquity in the classroom and to the public at large.
The aim of the inaugural Digital Classics Association (DCA) conference is to provide a survey of current approaches to digital methods of research, teaching, and outreach across classical sub-disciplines, with the goals of further opening inter-disciplinary perspectives and establishing common objectives for digital research and education.
Monica Berti on 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 own manuscript tradition. But substantial fragments of it have been preserved in several works by Iamblichus of Chalcis, a third century A.D. neo-Pythagorean philosopher and educator.
Monica Berti on 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.
Monica Berti on 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)
Monica Berti on 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 helping the University Library develop methods to manage and visualize billion of words and associated annotations of many kinds.
