Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Workshop on Ancient Religion, Modern Technology

WORKSHOP at Brown University on 13-14 February: Ancient Religion, Modern Technology.
This workshop will explore the intersection of ancient religion and the digital humanities. Can digital tools not only allow us to do our work faster and more thoroughly but also enable entirely new kinds of research? How might different digital data (e.g., textual, geographic, and material culture) be used together most productively? One session is devoted to “nuts and bolts” issues of funding, starting, and maintaining a digital project.

There will be a "pre-workshop" session on Monday, February 13, 10 AM - 12 PM. This session will introduce some general tools and concepts of use to digital humanists.

The workshop is free and open to the public. All sessions will take place in the Petteruti Lounge, located in the Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center at Brown University.
Follow the link for the tentative program, etc.

(HT James McGrath, who flags a paper on Digital Analysis of Mandaic Manuscripts.)