Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2011
Friday July 8th at 16:30
Court Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
Timothy Hill (New York University)
Semantics and Semantic Constructs in Cultural Comparison:
The Case of Late Antiquity
ALL WELCOME
As increasing numbers of historical datasets are made available online,
the question of how best to mediate among them becomes more pressing.
But the standard computational approach to such mediation–the creation
of a unifying framework ʻoverʼ the datasets–is problematic in the
context of historiography: often, for historians, the question of
overarching ʻframeʼ is itself the point at issue. This paper explores,
with particular reference to Late Antique urban culture, the potential
for electronic tools to free the historian from this reflexive bind, and
facilitate an ʻexperimentalʼ research approach to history, as advocated
by e.g. Marcel Detienne and other classicist anthropologists.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
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http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html
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Dr Gabriel BODARD
(Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy)
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL
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