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Dear colleagues,
registration is open for an online workshop about DH and Islamic Studies, which I am co-organizing at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wc1P9kT9QziZBNmsjEIG5w
The workshop will take place on Saturday, Nov. 20, 10:00-17:30 (GMT).
The program follows below.
Best wishes,
Dagmar Riedel

 

10:00-10:15       Welcome


10:15-13:00       Panel 1: Digital Humanities and Islamic Studies  

10:15-10:20        Andrew Cusworth (University of Oxford), chair – Introduction

10:20-10:50        Megan Gooch (University of Oxford) – The View from Outside of Islamic Studies

10:50-11:20        Daniel Burt (University of Oxford) – Digital Humanities at the Khalili Research Centre

11:20-11:50        Yasmin Faghihi (University of Cambridge) – FIHRIST and Challenges of Sustainability and Funding in Digital Humanities

11:50-12:00        Q&A

 

Break


13:00-15:00       Panel 2: Computational Tools for Research in the Arabic Script Humanities
13:00-13:10        Irene Kirchner (Georgetown University), chair – Introduction

13:10-13:40        Suphan Kirmizialtin (NYU Abu Dhabi) – Handwritten-Text-Recognition for Arabic Script

13:40-14:10        Eric Atwell (University of Leeds) – SketchEngine for Text Collection and Analysis, WEKA for Classification

14:10-14:30        Maroussia Bednarkiewicz (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) – Digital Humanities Methods for Hadith and Arabic Literature

14:30-14:50        Irene Kirchner (Georgetown University) – Digital Humanities Methods for Islamic Jurisprudence, Qur’an Interpretation and Hadith Studies

14:50-15:00        Q&A

 

Break

 

15:30-17:00        Panel 3: Collaborative Projects as DH Case Studies
15:00-15:05        Mohammad Emami (University of Oxford), chair – Introduction

15:35-16:00        Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) – Orient Digital

Project description: https://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/die-staatsbibliothek/abteilungen/orient/projekte/dfg-projekt-orient-digital

16:00-16:25        Arezou Azad (University of Oxford) – Invisible East: Developing a Digital Corpus of Local Texts from the Islamicate East (800-1300 CE) 

Programme description: https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/home#/

16:25-16:50        Alba Fedeli & Alicia Gonzalez Martinez (both of the Universität Hamburg) – InterSaME: Encoding and Analyzing the Diacritical Layer of Qur'anic Manuscripts

Project summary: https://www.intersame.uni-hamburg.de/project.html

16:50-17:00        Q&A

 

17:00-17:30        Conclusion