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Digital Humanities Initiative

The CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative (CUNY DHI), launched in Fall 2010, aims to build connections and community among those at CUNY who are applying digital technologies to scholarship and pedagogy in the humanities. All are welcome: faculty, students, and technologists, experienced practitioners and beginning DHers, enthusiasts and skeptics.

We meet regularly on- and offline to explore key topics in the Digital Humanities, and share our work, questions, and concerns. See our blog for more information on upcoming events (it’s also where we present our group’s work to a wider audience). Help edit the CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide, our first group project. And, of course, join the conversation on the Forum.

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  • 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]

    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 | [email protected]
    francescagiannetti.com

    —

    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.”

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