[D-Scribes List] CfP: Perceptions of Writing in Papyri. Crossing Close and Distant Readings (online conference, Dec.7-8)

[Isabelle Santaniello]

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Dear members of d-scribes mailing list

 

Please find below a Call for Papers for the online conference Perceptions of
Writing in Papyri. Crossing Close and Distant Readings, online from Lausanne
& Basel (CH), 7-8 December 2023, organized by Claire Clivaz (DH+, SIB,
Lausanne) and myself.

 

Wishing you a very nice weekend,

Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello

d-scribes.org

Faculty of Arts and Humanities, 

University of Basel

 

Call for Papers

 

Argument: This online conference will analyze how digital culture has
changed the perceptions of writing styles in papyri. Studies conducted by
modern scholars have always been the main way of evaluating papyri,
determining their dates and content. From the beginning of the century, the
clearly subjective nature of this research has been highlighted by scholars
such as Kim Haines-Eitzen in Guardians of Letters (2000) and Brent Nongbri
in God’s Library (2018).

We will evaluate the current ways scholars view the aesthetics of papyri in
a world where close and distant readings are intersecting more every day. A
large part of ancient scholarship successfully used the traditional close
read, whereas today, a small group of newer scholars have integrated
computer analysis into their research. The following questions will be
addressed: To what extent is computer analysis of quantitative data bringing
objectivity into the study of writing styles in papyri? What are the
potential limits or biases of computer analysis? Does this confirm insights
from the past, or to the contrary, does this change our evaluation of dates,
content, and genre implications within papyri studies? We will review these
questions considering the various fields currently working with papyri in
different languages. Papers of the conference will be proposed to the OJS
journal  <https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/pylon/> Pylon.
Editions and Studies of Ancient Texts.

 

Please submit paper proposals of ca. 300 words by the 30th of April 2023 to
<mailto:claire.clivaz at sib.swiss> claire.clivaz at sib.swiss and
<mailto:i.marthot-santaniello at unibas.ch> i.marthot-santaniello at unibas.ch. 

 

Confirmed Guests Speakers (alphabetical order):

-        Garrick Allen and Kelsie Rodenbiker, University of Glasgow

-        Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin, University of Oslo

-        Claire Clivaz, DH+, SIB, Lausanne

-        Jean-Luc Fournet, Collège de France, Paris

-        Pedro Garcia-Baro and Olga Serbaeva Saraogi, Universities of Zurich
and Basel

-        Nesina Grütter, University of Fribourg

-        Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello, University of Basel

-        Pasquale Orsini, Ministry of Culture, Central Institute for
Archives, Rome

-        Mladen Popovic, University of Groningen

-        Dominique Stutzmann, IRHT, Paris and Humboldt-Universität, Berlin

-        Marja Vierros, University of Helsinki

 

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