Recent Developments in Digital Assyriology - Zoom Workshop, Helsinki, August 26-27 2020

The “Recent Developments in Digital Assyriology” workshop is organized by Prof. Saana Svärd and Team 1 at the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires (ANEE) at the University of Helsinki. The focus of the workshop is particularly on text-based studies. General themes addressed in the presentations include producing electronic text data, annotating texts, visualizing textual information, and using the text data.

Program

26th August

15.45-16.00 Signing in to Zoom

16.00-16.10 Saana Svärd: “Opening remarks”

16.10-16.40 Keynote by : “Changing the Business of Assyriology: Data and Data Analysis”

Session 1: Creating and enriching text data

16.40-17.00:

17.00-17.20 :

17.20-17.40 & :

17.40-17.55 BREAK

17.55-18.15 :

18.15-18.35 :

18.35-18.55 , , & :

18.55-19.15 : .

27th August

Session 2: Prosopographical work

15.45-16.00 Signing in to Zoom

16.00-16.20 :

16.20-16.40 & :

16.40-17.00 Heather D. Baker: “PNAo: Towards a Digital Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire”

17.00-17.20 &:

17.20-17.40 BREAK

Session 3: Using Text Data, Publishing and Digital Assyriology

17.40-18.00 :

18.00-18.20 :

18.20-18.40 Alessandro Di Ludovico and Vanessa Bigot-Juloux:

18.40-19.00 :

 

Registration

The event is open to registered audience members and there will be time for audience questions. The timetable allows scholars to participate from the US and Canada as well.

Registration is free of charge and closes on August 19th. Anyone interested in the event can fill in the e-registration form: .