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Ancient Archives, Modern Libraries, and Star Wars: Rogue One

December 30, 2016 Posted by Lanah Koelle under News, Uncategorized

From our friends at the Institute for Study of the Ancient World: Ancient Archives, Modern Libraries, and Star Wars: Rogue One by Gabriel McKee — December 21, 2016 Despite the movies’ opening assertion that it was “a long time ago,” the world of Star Wars would seem to have little to do with antiquity. And so I was surprised to find significant overlap between the most recent film in the franchise, Rogue One, and the world of libraries, both ancient and modern. Fair warning: spoilers for Rogue One abound ahead. Rogue One tells a story that takes place immediately before the […] more

Digital Classics and the Changing Profession | Panel at AIA/SCS

November 28, 2016 Posted by admin under Uncategorized

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 Uncategorized
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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

Translated Texts for Historians E-library: 60+ ancient texts in history, religion and literature translated for the first time

June 30, 2016 Posted by Lanah Koelle under Uncategorized

Our friends at the University of Liverpool have shared information about a wonderful resource: The renowned Translated Texts for Historians E-Library makes available historical sources from A.D. 300–800 translated into English, in many cases for the first time. This indispensable collection contains 64 volumes from the series that bring together a wealth of important early medieval texts in translation, with scholarship from leading academics. Wide-ranging: The texts have been translated into English from Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Georgian, Armenian and Old Irish. The geographic range covers Syria, Arabia, Armenia, Georgia and Egypt in the East; North Africa; major cities of the […] more

Harvard Library commits $50,000 to complete The First Thousand Years of Greek segment of the Open Greek and Latin Project

March 31, 2016 Posted by Rhea Lesage under Uncategorized

For the past two years, the Open Greek and Latin Project team in Leipzig has been collecting scanned editions of classical texts and running optical character recognition (OCR) optimized for Greek and Latin in an effort to build the largest and most comprehensive open-source library of classical philology to date. The Harvard Library has committed $50,000, using generous funding from Arcadia, to complete The First Thousand Years of Greek segment of the Open Greek and Latin Project. The First Thousand Years of Greek aims to serve as a prototype of the larger project and will permit researchers to freely search […] more

CHS Summer Internship in Publications

March 10, 2016 Posted by Lanah Koelle under Uncategorized

The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) Summer Internship Program in Publications offers college students the opportunity to work at the CHS in Washington, D.C. on projects related to publications and content development from June 1-July 31, 2016. Interns will have access to the library resources and will have opportunities to engage with the scholarly community at the CHS. Interns will work approximately 175 hours over the course of the summer and receive $12.00 per hour. The work schedule is relatively flexible and provides ample opportunity to see Washington, D.C. The CHS will provide housing on-campus. This year, the publications internships will […] more

Call for Papers: Digital Classics and the Changing Profession

February 1, 2016 Posted by admin under Uncategorized

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

Getting Git and GitHub

January 29, 2016 Posted by admin under Uncategorized

Looking to learn more about GitHub? Tamara Fultz from the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has written an informal starter guide. (Shared from her blog with permission.) I am officially a busy person – I finally enrolled in the Flatiron School’s Introduction to Front-End Web Development course which begins in February. Sadly, I couldn’t do the intensive program which includes Ruby, but I would have had to quit my job for that and my daddy isn’t Donald Trump (one thing I am actually glad of, but I do wish my mom was Hilary Clinton!).  So I […] more

Teach the Teachers Workshop in Leipzig

January 11, 2016 Posted by admin under Uncategorized

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

2016 Forum Meeting

December 14, 2015 Posted by Lanah Koelle under Uncategorized

During the 2016 AIA/SCS conference, members of the Forum will meet on Thursday, January 7 from 2:00-4:00pm. The meeting room is Union Square 16, inside the Hilton San Francisco Union Square Hotel. Safe on domestic orders as early as possible. Ride, so it was a Generic Cialis Online – Buy Tadalafil without a Doctor’s Prescription no prescription viagra 50 mg tablets believed. Agenda items include an introduction and update on a new instructional initiative and a report on the further development of the Open Greek and Latin Project which took some important steps forward earlier this Fall. Any Forum members who wish […] more

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