Hi everyone,
I’d like to make you aware of an upcoming symposium on Syriac and DH. Knowledge of Syriac is not required to follow the presentations.The program looks extremely enticing, with researchers coming from near and far. The event takes place on March 6, from 10:00 am to 6:30 pm in Alexander Library (169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ). The following announcement was sent to me by George Kiraz of the Beth Mardutho Research Library.
With best regards,
Francesca
Francesca Giannetti
Digital Humanities Librarian
Research and Instructional Services
Archibald S. Alexander Library
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1163
848-932-6097 | francesca.giannetti@rutgers.edu
francescagiannetti.com
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The Syriac Institute (Piscataway), Rutgers University, and Syriaca.org (Vanderbilt University) are co-hosting a symposium on Syriac and the Digital Humanities. Knowledge of Syriac is not necessary to follow the talks. The symposium is open to the public, and there is no registration fee. There will be live streaming of the event, thanks to the support of the Rutgers University library staff. Also, feel free to follow along with those of us who will be live tweeting the meeting (you can check in with the @bethmardutho account on the day of the conference to get the details).
The program and other details are available on the following web page: http://www.bethmardutho.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=627
The study of Syriac and other ethnoreligious minority languages and literatures from the Middle East has greatly benefited over the last few decades from the digital revolution. Syriac studies has one of the oldest and longest-lived open access electronic journals (Hugoye, started in 1998, currently in volume 18) and Syriac was one of the earliest minority languages to be incorporated into Unicode (starting with version 3.0.0 in 1999). The relative paucity of scholars currently engaged in research on Syriac has served as an impetus to adopt digital and particularly open access means of scholarly publication.
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