Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to let you know of the following symposium of interest to scholars of the medieval middle east: http://www.bethmardutho.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&am...

There is no fee for attendance and the program is attached below.

Best,

David A. Michelson

Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity Vanderbilt University

www.syriaca.orghttp://syriaca.org/

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 08901https://www.google.com/maps/place/169+College+Ave,+Rutgers%E2%80%93New+Brunswick,+New+Brunswick,+NJ+08901/@40.5052221,-74.4524333,17z/data=%213m1%214b1%214m2%213m1%211s0x89c3c7aa9dc78fb7:0xafda785469417534

*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 Corpushttp://cpart.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/home/sec/, Kristian Heal (Brigham Young University) 11:00 AM eBethArkéhttp://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/projects/ebetharke/, 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 Christianityhttp://csc.org.il/db/db.aspx?db=SB, Daniel Salem (The Hebrew University) & Sergey Minov (University of Oxford) 1:30 PM eKtobe, A Portal for Syriac Manuscriptshttp://www.mss-syriaques.org, Andre Binggeli (CNRS, France) 2:00 PM vHMMLhttps://vhmml.wordpress.com, OLIVERhttp://www.hmml.org/oliver.html, & Reading Room, Columba Stewart (Hill Museum & Manuscript Library) 2:30 PM Syriaca.orghttp://www.bethmardutho.org/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 Databasehttps://sedra.bethmardutho.org/sedra/search, 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.orghttp://www.bethmardutho.org/syriaca.org will be held on the day following the Symposium. Interested participants should contact info@syriaca.orgmailto:info@syriaca.orgfor further details.