Category: Conferences and Workshops
Ancient Makerspaces | Workshop at AIA/SCS
| December 12, 2016 | Posted by Lanah Koelle under Conferences and Workshops, Professional Development |
Forum members attending the 2017 Society for Classical Studies and Archaeological Institute of America meetings in Toronto may be interested in the workshop, “Ancient Makerspaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship.” The workshop takes place on Saturday, January 7 from 8:30am – 4:00pm in the Sheraton Centre VIP Room. The organizers describe the workshop as “a space for students and scholars to interact with a variety of digital techniques and digital projects of broad application, providing participants the opportunity to engage in hands-on, peer-based learning.” No registration is required. View the schedule of demonstrations and presentations at https://diyclassics.github.io/ams/. more
Digital Classics and the Changing Profession | Panel at AIA/SCS
| November 28, 2016 | Posted by admin under Conferences and Workshops |
Forum members attending the 2017 Society for Classical Studies and Archaeological Institute of America meetings in Toronto may be interested in the Digital Classics Association panel, “Digital Classics and the Changing Profession.” The panel takes place on Friday, January 6 from 1:45 – 4:45 pm with the following speakers (titles link to abstracts): Gregory Crane (Leipzig University/Tufts University) “Greco-Roman Studies and Digital Classics“ Bruce Robertson (Mount Allison University) “Working in Digital Humanities and Classics at the Small Undergraduate University“ Marie-Claire Beaulieu (Tufts University) “Digital Work, Student Research, and the Tenure Track“ Christopher Blackwell (Furman University) “Philology, Technology, Collaboration: 16 Years of the […] more
Save the Date: 2017 Forum Meeting
| November 17, 2016 | Posted by Lanah Koelle under Conferences and Workshops, News |
During the 2017 AIA/SCS conference, the Forum will meet on Saturday, January 7 from 9:30-11:30am in the Norfolk Room at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel (view floor plan). Forum members are invited to submit agenda items via the online form. Minutes from previous meetings are available here. We look forward to seeing you in Toronto! Colin McCaffrey, chair, and Lanah Koelle, secretary more
Call for Papers: Digital Classics and the Changing Profession
| February 1, 2016 | Posted by admin under Conferences and Workshops |
The Digital Classics Association will sponsor a session at the Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting in Toronto on January 5-8, 2017. See the call for papers below: “Digital Classics and the Changing Profession” Sponsored by the Digital Classics Association Organized by Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, SUNY The growth of the digital humanities is increasingly affecting the professional life of classicists. Job ads have begun to ask for digital humanities experience. Job seekers who have digital skills face an expanded employment landscape, including not only to academic teaching positions, but also post-docs on funded research projects, work at NGOs, and […] more
Teach the Teachers Workshop in Leipzig
| January 11, 2016 | Posted by admin under Conferences and Workshops, Professional Development |
A great opportunity from our friends at Perseids: Teach the Teachers, Leipzig April 18-19th, 2016 The Perseids Project, in collaboration with the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig and the Department of Classics at Tufts University is calling for participants in the first Teach the Teachers workshop. The two-day workshop aims to present and develop lesson plans and syllabi including digital methods for the high school and university Humanities curriculum. Registration for the workshop will be free and financial support for travel and lodging will be provided. We are looking for participants who teach at the […] more
Collaborating on a Corpus of Open Greek and Latin
| December 2, 2015 | Posted by admin under Conferences and Workshops, News |
The Open Greek and Latin Project (OGLP) held an organizational meeting on November 19-20. The Project aims to develop an open corpus of Classical Greek and Latin “for the c. 100 million words produced through c. 600 CE and…the billions of words produced after 600 CE in Greek and Latin that survive” (project website). Meeting organizers were Greg Crane, the Editor-in-Chief of Perseus and the Humboldt Professor of Computer Science at the University of Leipzig, and Lenny Muellner, Director of IT and Publications at the Center for Hellenic Studies. Participants discussed ways in which distributed teams of librarians, students, and […] more
Update on the OGLP
| November 9, 2015 | Posted by admin under Conferences and Workshops |
On November 19-20, the Center for Hellenic Studies will host a meeting to address the goals of the Open Greek and Latin Project (OGLP) and outline a workflow for libraries to contribute materials. The meeting will be run by Greg Crane, the Editor-in-Chief of Perseus and the Humboldt Professor of Computer Science at the University of Leipzig, who is the head of the OGLP. Project staff as well as librarians from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Mount Allison, UVA, and Yale will attend. The major goal of the meeting is to identify practical steps that libraries can undertake to increase the number of available open […] more
Fall 2015 Events at ISAW
| September 14, 2015 | Posted by admin under Conferences and Workshops, News |
Digital Antiquity Coffee House Friday, October 2nd, 2015 10am to 4pm An informal meeting organized by the ISAW Library and the Digital Programs team that will provide an opportunity for NYC-area scholars and students exploring digital approaches to the study of the ancient world to present and discuss their work. More information here: http://isaw.nyu.edu/events/diglib-grad-fall2015. FCLSC Forum “Building Instructional Support for Classics Research and Teaching” Friday, November 13, 2015 ca. 11am to 5pm Organized by the ISAW Library and the Yale University Classics Library, this informal meeting of greater New York area classics and ancient-studies librarians will foster collaboration on the development […] more
NY Regional Meeting of the Forum, May 1st at ISAW
| April 7, 2015 | Posted by Colin McCaffrey under Conferences and Workshops |
The Forum for Classics, Libraries and Scholarly Communications is organizing a meeting of greater New York-area classics and ancient world librarians on Friday, May 1st, from noon to five pm. It is hosted by the Library at the Institute of the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) with the support of the Yale Classics Library. We hope the meeting will provide an opportunity to discuss issues of common concern and explore areas of potential collaboration including collection development, instruction, and digital projects. If you are interested in attending, please contact Colin McCaffrey, colin.mccaffrey@yale.edu, if you have not already been in […] more
Call for Papers: Digital Resources for Teaching and Outreach
| February 2, 2015 | Posted by Lanah Koelle under Conferences and Workshops |
From our friends at the Digital Classics Association, who are sponsoring a panel at the next AIA/SCS meeting: American Institute of Archaeology and the Society for Classical Studies (AIA / SCS) Meetings, January 6-9, San Francisco, CA. Digital resources are increasingly opening up new opportunities for classics education and outreach. Some, like MOOCs, have been intensively discussed. The goal of this session is to highlight new and less familiar approaches and encourage reflection on how we can best achieve our educational mission in this changing environment. We now have access to free online language textbooks with exercises. Students can play online […] more
