Digital Classics and Medieval Studies is an emergent
subfield of the Digital Humanities where the objective is to apply computational
and statistical approaches to the study of Classical Antiquity and the Middle
Ages. The field has seen a substantial growth in recent years and will become
an indispensable part of any Classicist's and Medievalist's toolkit in the near
future. It is also a field both the University of Oslo and the Finnish
Institute in Rome seek to develop in international collaboration. Both the
institutions consider it necessary to keep on the crest of the wave in the
current atmosphere where the Humanities experience external utilitarian
pressures all over the world and are constantly challenged to show their
potential to adopt cutting-edge methods and technologies.
The University of Oslo has profiled itself as an innovative
player in the Digital Humanities not only for its solid digital traditions in
building the Syntactically Annotated Parallel Corpus of Indo-European Languages
(PROIEL), but also because of the first Nordic Digital Humanities Conference
taken place in Oslo in March 2016. Timo Korkiakangas also conducts his
post-doctoral research project "Scribes and Late Latin Charters: a
treebank-based study of the language competence of scribes" in Oslo.
Likewise, the research focus of the Finnish Institute in Rome has become
prominently digitally oriented as a consequence of Director Tuomas Heikkilä's
activity in the field of computer-assisted stemmatology. This makes Rome a
natural venue for a Digital Classics and Medieval Studies workshop.
Objectives
The objective of the workshop is to gather together both advanced
and budding researchers in Digital Classics and Digital Medieval Studies. The
focus will be on textual digital scholarship on written media in Latin,
Greek, and other historical languages, including digital philology and
computational linguistics in their various forms. Consequently, digital
approaches concerning material culture, such as visualization of archaeological
data, will not be covered in order to keep the focus sharp enough for an
effective dissemination of ideas. The participants will be asked to give a
30-minute paper each (including ca. 10 minutes of discussion) on their own
research:
- concerning the methodological or technical problems they have encountered and/or
- concerning the solutions they have found to those methodological or technical problems
The intention is to be as down-to-earth as possible and to
avoid general overviews with no practical application. There will also be two
one-hour special lectures. To ensure a high scientific as well as performative
quality, we request in advance short abstracts (deadline 15th of
May, 2017). The abstracts will become available on this website.
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