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Humanist Archives: May 3, 2025, 7:23 a.m. Humanist 38.486 - events: Digital Classicist seminars (London); metaphysics of fictional things (Potsdam)

				
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    [1]    From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
           Subject: Digital Classicist London 2025 Seminars - programme and links (56)

    [2]    From: Digital Humanities Potsdam <digital-humanities@uni-potsdam.de>
           Subject: Code & Culture talk (12.05): Genres of existence: Network graphs, genre theory, and the metaphysics of fictional things (Porter) (30)


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        Date: 2025-05-02 20:38:44+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: Digital Classicist London 2025 Seminars - programme and links

[From:   Katharine Shields 
The Digital Classicist List <DIGITALCLASSICIST@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>]


Dear colleagues,

The organisers of Digital Classicist London 2025 (Gabriel Bodard and
Elizabeth Koch-Kölük at the ICS, Stephen Kay at the British School in
Rome, and Katharine Shields at King’s College London) are delighted to
share the programme of seminars <https://blog.stoa.org/archives/4332>,
all of which will be streamed live as well as delivered in person in
London. The rich variety of presenters, methodologies and subject areas
represented in this programme is especially pleasing to us, and helps to
showcase both the depth and breadth of this thriving discipline.

All seminars are held at 17:00 BST (UTC+1) on Fridays, live on
Youtube and in person in Senate House MakerSpace, room 265, University
of London. Booking is recommended for in-person attendance. Links for
the Youtube stream (live or any time after) are below, no booking required.

Friday June 6: Matteo Romanello (University of Zurich) & Charles
Pletcher (Tufts University), Introducing Kōdōn, a Minimal Computing
Library for Publishing Digital Commentaries (youtube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ut8f968ZZM>) (register
<https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/introducing-kodon-a-minimal-computing-library-
publishing-digital-commentaries>)

Friday June 20: Valentina Lunardi (University of California, Los
Angeles) & Barbara McGillivray (King’s College London), Static and
contextual embeddings for tracing semantic change: the case of Christian
Latin (youtube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHxdU4hDA8c>) (register
<https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/static-and-contextual-embeddings-tracing-semantic-
change-case-christian-latin>)

Friday July 11: Thibault Clérice (Inria, Paris), Distributed Text
Services for Digital Classics (youtube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1po4jVKkys>) (register
<https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/distributed-text-services-digital-classics>)

Friday July 18: Ester Salgarella (University of Aarhus), Sort It, See
It, Say It. Digital strategies to revive a Bronze Age Aegean Script
(youtube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykCEYh_I1A0>) (register
<https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/sort-it-see-it-say-it-digital-strategies-revive-a-
bronze-age-aegean-script>)

Friday July 25: Chiara Senatore (La Sapienza, Roma), Digital editions
of classical texts for GLAMs (youtube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkuk6sflQjw>) (register
<https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/digital-editions-classical-texts-glams>)

We look forward to seeing you there!

Katharine Shields
Lecturer in Greek and Latin Language Education
King’s College London, Strand Campus
Strand, London WC2R 2LS

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        Date: 2025-05-02 10:10:08+00:00
        From: Digital Humanities Potsdam <digital-humanities@uni-potsdam.de>
        Subject: Code & Culture talk (12.05): Genres of existence: Network graphs, genre theory, and the metaphysics of fictional things (Porter)

Dear DH colleagues,

The Digital Humanities Network at the University of Potsdam cordially
invites you to the next lecture in the 'Code & Culture' talk series
<https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/aktivitaeten/code-and-culture-
lecture-series>.

Our guest this time is J.D. Porter (University of Pennsylvania), with
a talk titled "Genres of existence: Network graphs, genre theory, and
the metaphysics of fictional things (full abstract here
<https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/activities/code-culture-
lecture-series>).

Time and place: May 12, 2025, 17:00 (CEST), online via Zoom.

Please register here to get the Zoom link:
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/activities/code-culture-
lecture-series/genres-of-existence-network-graphs-genre-theory-and-the-
metaphysics-of-fictional-things.


Best wishes,
DH Network Potsdam

--
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/Philosophische Fakultät, Universität Potsdam/
/Am Neuen Palais 10, Haus 4, Raum 2.11/
/14469 Potsdam
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/digital-humanities/


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