Fwd: Francesca Giannetti started the topic Event: Hugoye Symposium on Syriac and DH, 3/6 at Rutgers in the forum NYCDH Announcements [NYC Digital Humanities]

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  Posted by Matthew K. Gold (he/him) on February 18, 2015 at 3:08 pm

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  Francesca Giannetti started the topic Event: Hugoye Symposium on Syriac and
  DH, 3/6 at Rutgers in the forum NYCDH Announcements

  “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.”

• Bob Kosovsky

  Participant

  February 18, 2015 at 3:30 pm

  On a whim and seeking to go beyond my usual comfort zone, I attended a really interesting session at the recently-passed conference of the American Historical Society:
  The Digital Humanities and the Study of Christianity in Late Antiquity: Reflections on a Disciplinary Intersection

  They all indicated how important Syriaca.org is for research, and the person who gave the talk on Syriac and linked data was heavily involved with the website. All of which suggests this will be a fascinating talk.