Hugoye Symposium IV: Syriac and the Digital Humanities

March 6, 2014

Hosted by:

Beth Mardutho Research Library, Piscataway, N.J.
Rutgers University Libraries
Rutgers Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literature
Rutgers Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal

Alexander Library, Scholarly Communication Center (4th Floor)

169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901

 *This event will be live streamed for free, thanks to the support of Rutgers Libraries. Further details on how to access the live stream will be added here.*

Friday, March 6: Public Symposium

10:00 AM      Symposium Opening

First Mawtb? / D?w?n: Syriac Digital Libraries I

10:30 AM      The Syriac Corpus, Kristian Heal (Brigham Young University)
11:00 AM      eBethArké, Grace Agnew & Isaiah Beard (Rutgers University)
11:30 AM      Electronic Critical Editions of Syriac Texts, James Walters (Princeton Theological Seminary)

12:00 PM      Lunch

Second Mawtb? / D?w?n: Syriac Digital Libraries II

1:00 PM      Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity, Daniel Salem (The Hebrew University) & Sergey Minov (University of Oxford)
1:30 PM      eKtobe, A Portal for Syriac Manuscripts, Andre Binggeli (CNRS, France)
2:00 PM      vHMML, OLIVER, & Reading Room, Columba Stewart (Hill Museum & Manuscript Library)
2:30 PM      Syriaca.org: Linking Data from the Syriac Heritage, David Michelson (Vanderbilt University) & Tony Davis (University of Arkansas, Little Rock)

3:00 PM      Coffee Break

Third Mawtb? / D?w?n: Digital Tools for Historical Research

3:15 PM      The Cult of the Saints, Sergey Minov (University of Oxford)
3:45 PM      Gateway to the Syriac Saints, Jean-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent (Marquette University)
4:15 PM      SPEAR: Syriac Persons Events and Relations, Daniel Schwartz (Texas A&M University)

4:45 PM      Coffee Break

Fourth Mawtb? / D?w?n: Tools for Syriac Digital Philology

5:00 PM      Automatic Dotting of Ruk?kh? and Qush?y? Points, George Kiraz (Beth Mardutho)
5:30 PM      The SEDRA 4 Database, A Syriac Lexical Resource, James Bennett (Beth Mardutho)
6:00 PM      Prospects for Syriac OCR, James Prather (Abilene Christian University) & George Kiraz (Beth Mardutho)

6:30 PM      Adjourn

7:00 PM      Dinner for Presenters

Saturday, March 7: Private Workshop

A digital workshop for collaborators on Syriaca.org will be held on the day following the Symposium. Interested participants should contact info@syriaca.orgfor further details.