The full programme for the annual Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar series is available on our 2012 seminar page. As always, abstracts are there in advance and the slides and audiocast will appear soon after each seminar. Previous seminars and other Digital Classicist events (conference panels etc) are on the main seminar page.

Looking through, you will see that most, if not all, range far beyond an interest in the ancient world. Each paper must have an innovative digital component and many incorporate Digital Humanities techniques and methodologies. The series seeks to accommodate broader theoretical consideration of the use of digital technology in Classical Studies. The content should be of interest both to classicists, ancient historians, or archaeologists, and to information scientists or digital humanists, as well as having an academic research agenda relevant to at least one of those fields.

All are welcome; these are public events with no need to book.

Durham is a great University town and I’m looking forward to a trip up there for the 2011 Classical Association Conference. The Digital Classicist community are presenting two panels there this year, one chaired by myself, Teaching and Publication of Classics in the Internet Age, and another, Ancient Space, Linked Data and Digital Research, by a friend and colleague Gabriel Bodard. In addition to the conference itself, Durham Classics and Ancient History are hosting a Digital Classicist Training Day where we will have a morning session looking at and playing with Generic Web Tools and an afternoon one introducing participants to the Papyrological Editor.

It’ll be good to visit the Venerable Bede, Binchester Roman Fort and of course to catch up with the friends and colleagues we only see at conferences.

I hope the weather holds!

Why is it that there are so many Digital Classicists who do such great reserach? Undoubtedly this is one of those enternal imponderables of DH, but we are lucky enough to have two classicists coming to give a seminar next week as part of the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship series. Charlotte and Gabby will be talking about their work on encoding ancient documents. Do come and join us to hear all about it.

Digital Classicist 2010 summer seminar programme
Institute of Classical Studies

Meetings are on Fridays at 16:30
in room STB9 (Stewart House)
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU (map)

*ALL WELCOME*
Seminars will be followed by refreshments

• Jun 4 Leif Isaksen (Southampton)
  Reading Between the Lines: unearthing structure in Ptolemy’s Geography
• Jun 11 Hafed Walda (King’s College London) and Charles Lequesne (RPS Group)
  Towards a National Inventory for Libyan Archaeology
• Jun 18 Timothy Hill (King’s College London)  
  After Prosopography? Data modelling, models of history, and new directions for a scholarly genre.
• Jun 25 Matteo Romanello (King’s College London)       
  Towards a Tool for the Automatic Extraction of Canonical References
• Jul 2 Mona Hess (University College London)  
  3D Colour Imaging For Cultural Heritage Artefacts
• Jul 16 Annemarie La Pensée (National Conservation Centre) and Françoise Rutland (World Museum Liverpool)
  Non-contact 3D laser scanning as a tool to aid identification and interpretation of archaeological artefacts: the case of a Middle Bronze Age Hittite Dice
• Jul 23 Mike Priddy (King’s College London)
  On-demand Virtual Research Environments: a case study from the Humanities
• Jul 30 Monica Berti (Torino) and Marco Büchler (Leipzig)
  Fragmentary Texts and Digital Collections of Fragmentary Authors
• Aug 6 Kathryn Piquette (University College London)
  Material Mediates Meaning: Exploring the artefactuality of writing utilising qualitative data analysis software
• Aug 13 Linda Spinazzè (Venice)
  Musisque Deoque. Developing new features: manuscripts tracing on the net

For more information on individual seminars and updates on the programme, see http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.html