Digital Classics Association

Monica Berti of Leipzig University and LOFTS speaks at DCA APA / AIA 2014.

DCA hosted its first panel at the annual meetings of the American Philological Association and American Institute of Archaeology in Chicago on January 3, 2014, entitled “Getting Started with Digital Classics.”

 The program, with links to screencasts on Youtube where available, is below.

 Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

 Introduction

Diane Cline, George Washington University
Social Network Analysis and Ancient History

Neil Bernstein, Ohio University
Comparative Rates of Text Reuse in Latin Epic

 Monica Berti, University of Leipzig
The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS) (no screencast; website)

 Adam Rabinowitz, The University of Texas at Austin
Living Pictures: Computational Photography and the Digital Classics

Francesco Mambrini, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin
The Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank (no screencast; related presentation)

Ryan Baumann, Hugh Cayless, and Joshua D. Sosin, Duke University
After Integrating Digital Papyrology

Gregory Crane, Tufts University and University of Leipzig
Respondent (no screencast; website)

Abstracts are invited for the Digital Classics Association colloquium at SCS / AIA Annual Meetings in New Orleans, Louisiana, January 8-11, 2015. The topic is “Making Meaning from Data,” and the abstract submission deadline is February 3, 2014.

The call for papers is below and available on the SCS (APA) website.

 We are again seeking to make this a joint colloquium with AIA, and hope that the success of this year’s joint colloquium augurs well for AIA approval. Abstracts suitable to the memberships of SCS, AIA, or both are welcome. Once a panel with AIA member contributions is composed, it will be submitted to AIA for approval.

CFP: Making Meaning from Data. Proposed joint panel for AIA / APA Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 8-11, 2013

Sponsored by the Digital Classics Association
Organizers: Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Gregory Crane, Tufts University; Christopher Blackwell, Furman University; Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox, University of Missouri Kansas-City

Digital techniques hold the promise of providing a consistent and comprehensive basis for the interpretation of classical culture, yet they also raise significant questions of method. Do digital approaches lead us away from certain kinds of interpretation and toward others? How does the quantitative and aggregate nature of argumentation common to digital humanities relate to other modes of understanding the ancient world? Papers are invited for this session that reflect theoretically on the study and understanding of classical antiquity in light of the growing importance of digital methods. Participants may take as their object material any aspect of classical culture, including, but not limited to: history, language, literature, material and visual culture, and philosophy.

Anonymous abstracts of no more than 400 words should be sent to digitalclassicsassociation@gmail.com, with identifying information in the email. Abstracts will be refereed anonymously by three readers in accordance with APA regulations. In your email, please confirm that you are an AIA or APA member in good standing. Abstracts should follow the formatting guidelines of the instructions for individual abstracts on the APA website. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 5 p.m. Eastern Time, February 3, 2014. This panel is already approved for APA. Once a panel with AIA member contributions is composed, it will be submitted to AIA for approval.

Contact: Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, SUNY, ncoffee@buffalo.edu

From NEH blog:

Mary Downs, Senior Program Officer in the Division of Preservation and Access, National Endowment for the Humanities, will be at the upcoming Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association (Chicago, Jan. 2-5, 2014) and is available to meet with those interested in learning more about NEH funding opportunities, particularly in Preservation and Access, the Digital Humanities, Research, and Education.

The following grant programs may be of interest to attendees: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources; Digital Humanities Implementation Grants; Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants; Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Humanities; as well as Collaborative Research,  Scholarly Editions, Fellowships, Summer Stipends, and Summer Seminars and Institutes. Projects may be at any stage of development, so come with your ideas and questions!

To schedule a time to meet, please email Mary (mdowns@neh.gov) the top two or three 15- or 20-minute blocks of time that are most preferable from the following windows:

Thurs., Jan. 2: 5:30-6:30 pm

Fri., Jan. 3: 10 am- 12 noon

Sat., Jan. 4: 10 am – 12 noon

DCA will host a joint session at the American Philological Association and American Institute of Archaeology annual meetings entitled “Getting Started with Digital Classics.” The session scheduled to take place Friday, January 3, from 1:30 to 4:00 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.

There will also be an informal reception Saturday, January 4, 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. in the Columbian room. If you are attending the meetings, please join us!

The 2013 DCA Conference “Word, Space, Time” was held April 5-6 at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Those interested can find the conference program here, which can serve as a guide to the conference video.