[D-Scribes List] TR: [Papy] Alpha Aleph and AI: Languages of the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East (University of Bristol, UK, 14-15 June 2023)

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Objet : [Papy] Alpha Aleph and AI: Languages of the Ancient Mediterranean
and Near East (University of Bristol, UK, 14-15 June 2023)

Dear all,

Registration is now open for Alpha Aleph and AI: Languages of the Ancient
Mediterranean and Near East (University of Bristol, UK, 14-15 June 2023).

We warmly invite you to join us in Bristol or online for our two-day
conference, hosted by the University of Bristol and funded by the Institute
of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition. Talks cover AI, ML, Digital
Humanities, linguistics, philology, textual criticism, manuscript studies,
within the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, Africa, and West Asia/Near
East. We will host a wide range of speakers from many career stages, from
four separate continents, representing many fields including Classics,
biblical studies, philology, ancient history, Jewish studies, Christian
studies, data science, linguistics, epigraphy, textual criticism, and
papyrology. 

Attendance in person or online is available for free. Please register via
the link below.

Programme, full abstracts, and Eventbrite registration link here:
<https://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/events/2023/june/languages-of-the-ancient-me
diterranean-and-near-east.html>
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/events/2023/june/languages-of-the-ancient-med
iterranean-and-near-east.html

Sincerely,

Lindsey Davidson (Askin), Benjamin Folit-Weinberg, Martina Delucchi, Maiken
Mosleth King

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Conference Programme

Wednesday 14 June 2023 (Day 1)

Registration from 8:00 until 9:00 AM: our registration table will be set up
in the Breakout Space (enter via 7 Woodland Road Bristol, BS8 1TB)

With coffee & tea available in Breakout Space

Panel 1: 9:00-10:30 AM (20 min talk +10 min Q&A each)

Arts Complex B.H05 Lecture Theatre (enter via 7 Woodland Road)

• Aaron Koller (Yeshiva) “Alphabetical Order and Alphabetical Thinking from
Antiquity to the Middle Ages: The History of an Idea and the Paths of
Transmission”

• Luís Firmino (São Paulo) “The Article with Proper Names in Herodotus and
Thucydides”

• Matthew Robinson (Oxford) “Programming at the Edge of Poetry: a
computerised approach to Latin acrostics”

Coffee/tea break 10:30-11:00AM in Breakout Space

Panel 3: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM (20 min talk + 10 min Q&A each)

Arts Complex B.H05 Lecture Theatre

• Keynote: Mark Depauw (KU Leuven) “Trismegistos: facilitating
(quantitative) research across languages of the Ancient Western World”
(zoom)

• Maroula Salemenou (Oxford) “Negotiating linguistic norms in Sappho and
Alcaeus: some examples from the Graeco-Roman period in papyri”

• Fiona Phillips (Oxford) “A Quantitative Approach to Carian-Greek Language
Contact”

Lunch break 12:30-1:15PM (there will be a catered sandwich lunch for
speakers only, in HUMS Research space)

Panel 4: 1:15-3:30 PM (20 min talk + 10 min Q&A each)

Arts Complex B.H05 Lecture Theatre

• Keynote: Willem Van Peursen (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam) “Back to the Black
Box? Explainable and Unexplainable AI in Semitic Studies”

• Todd Krause (Univ. Texas Austin) “Semitilex: One database to rule them
all”

15 min break 2:15-2:30PM

• Matthew I. Swindall (Middle Tenn. State) “A.I.-Assisted Papyrology:
Integrating Deep Learning into the Scholarly Workflow”

• Keynote: Marja Vierros (Helsinki) “Digging linguistic data from Greek
documentary papyri – Experiences and experiments”

Coffee/tea break 3:30-4:00 in Breakout Space

Panel 5: 4:00-6:45 PM (20 min talk + 10 min Q&A each)

Arts Complex B.H05 Lecture Theatre

• Riccardo Bongiovanni (Pisa) “Tools for a new digital edition of the Corpus
of Iatromagical Papyri”

• David Wilson (SOAS) “The enriching role of bilingualism in Mesopotamian
incantations”

15-min break 5:00-5:15PM

• Ivri J. Bunis (Haifa) “Parallel Morphophonemic Consequences of Guttural
Weakening in Hebrew and Western Neo-Aramaic”

• Tsehay Ademe Belay (Addis Ababa) “Comparative Semitics philological
inquire based on the Ethiopic Book of Joel”

• Eva María Rodrigo Gómez (HUJI) “Greeks Findings in Syriac Texts: an
example in Emmanuel bar Shahhare”

Dinner reservation for speakers (booked in advance at a local Bristol
restaurant): 7:15PM

Thursday 15 June 2023 (Day 2)

Coffee and tea with pastries from 8:00 to 9:00 AM, available to all
registered attendees and speakers (HUMS Research space, enter via 7 Woodland
Road and follow signs)

Panel 7: 9:00-10:30 AM (20 min talk + 10 min Q&A each)

HUMS Research space (enter via 7 Woodland Road and follow signs)

• Minqi Chu (Sorbonne) “Editing, translation, and commentary on a glossary
of anatomy in the Italo-Greek manuscript Paris. gr. 1053” (Digital Grammar
of Greek Documentary Papyri ERC)

• Orly Lewis and Premshay Hermon (HUJI) “Re-animating Greco-Roman Anatomy
through Machine Learning and 3D Modelling”

• Nikos Manousakis (Academy of Athens) “Applying (automated) Authorship
Attribution to Greek drama: An expanding variety of case studies” (zoom)

Coffee/tea break 10:30-11:00AM in HUMS Research space

Panel 8: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM (20 min talk + 10 min Q&A each)

HUMS Research space

• Jonas Schollmeyer (Leipzig) “Towards a History of Hiatus in Greek Prose”

• Toby Hudson (Oxford) “Using acoustic simulations to model stress shift in
Latin”

• Alessia Pezzella (Innsbruck) “Latin Technical Legal Terminology in Greek:
Examples from Egyptian Papyrus Documents”

• Lorenzo Livorsi (Bamburg) “Law and Cursor: Digital Analysis of Prose
Rhythm and Textual Criticism in the Late Roman Constitutions”

Lunch break: 1:00-2:00 (there will be a catered sandwich lunch for speakers
only, in HUMS Research space)

Panel 9: 2:00-3:00PM (20 min talk + 10 min Q&A each)

HUMS Research space

• Keynote: Stefan Hagel (Austrian Acad. Sciences) “Digitally Editing Ancient
Music” (zoom)

• Robert Crellin (Cambridge) “How important is text type in training models
for morphosyntactic annotation of epigraphic texts?”

• Maria Konstantinidou (Democritus Univ. Thrace) “A preliminary authorship
analysis of the New Testament”

Coffee/tea break 3:30-4:00PM in HUMS Research space

Panel 10: AI-themed Roundtable Panel and Concluding Remarks

HUMS Research Space

• 4:00-5:15PM – AI-themed roundtable panel (student and early career
respondents)

• 5:15-5:30PM – Concluding Remarks

Departure 5:30PM

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