We would like to remind you that the deadline for submission of abstracts to the
We are also pleased to announce that Prof. Charlotte Roueché (King’s College London) will give the opening keynote of this year’s series on Tuesday 14 October at 18:00
We would be grateful if you could forward this reminder to colleagues and students who may be interested. Please refer to the original CfP below for details or visit the website: <
Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin 2014/15: Call for Papers
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We are pleased to announce the Call
for Papers for the third series of the Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin
[1]. This initiative, inspired by and connected to London’s Digital
Classicist Work in Progress Seminar [2], is organised in association
with the German Archaeological Institute and the Excellence Cluster
TOPOI. It will run during the winter term of the academic year 2014/15.
We invite submissions on any kind of research which employs digital
methods, resources or technologies in an innovative way in order to
enable a better or new understanding of the ancient world. We encourage
contributions not only from Classics but also from the entire field of
"Altertumswissenschaften", to include the ancient world at large, such
as Egypt and the Near East.
Themes may include digital editions, natural language processing,
image processing and visualisation, linked data and the semantic web,
open access, spatial and network analysis, serious gaming and any other
digital or quantitative methods. We welcome seminar proposals addressing
the application of these methods to individual projects, and
particularly contributions which show how the digital component can
facilitate the crossing of disciplinary boundaries and answering new
research questions. Seminar content should be of interest both to
classicists, ancient historians or archaeologists, as well as to
information scientists and digital humanists, with an academic research
agenda relevant to at least one of these fields.
Anonymised abstracts [3] of **300-500 words max.** (bibliographic
references excluded) should be uploaded by **midnight (CET) on 01 August
2014** using the special submission form [4]. Although we do accept
abstracts written in English as well as in German, the presentations are
expected to be delivered in English (when submitting the same proposal
for consideration to multiple venues, please do let us know via the
submission form). The acceptance rate for the first two seminar series
was of 41% (2012/13) and 31% (2014/15).
Seminars will run **fortnightly on Tuesday evenings (18:00-19:30)**
from October 2014 until February 2015 and will be hosted by the
Excellence Cluster TOPOI and the German Archaeological Institute, both
located in Berlin-Dahlem. The full programme, including the venue of
each seminar, will be finalised and announced in September. As with the
previous series, the video recordings of the presentations will be
published online and we endeavour to provide accommodation for the
speakers and contribute towards their travel expenses. There are plans
to publish papers selected from the first three series of the seminar as
a special issue of the new open access publication from TOPOI [5].
[1]
http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/[2]
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/
[3]
The anonymised abstract should have all author names, institutions and
references to the authors work removed. This may lead to some references
having to be replaced by “Reference to authors’ work”. The abstract
title and author names with affiliations are entered into the submission
system in separate fields.
[4]
http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/submit[5]
http://journal.topoi.org/