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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>(With apologies for cross-posting)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Dear colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>As part of D-scribes project, the International Conference <i>Neo-Paleography: Analysing Ancient Handwritings in the Digital Age</i> will be held in Basel between January 27 and 29, 2020. This conference will gather specialists of Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Coptic Manuscripts and combine traditional paleographic analyses to the most recent computerized approaches.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Please find the program below, also available along with the abstracts on the project website (see <a href="https://d-scribes.philhist.unibas.ch/en/events-179/neo-paleography-conference/">here</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Entrance is free, for logistic reasons, please notify your interest to attend via email to <a href="mailto:i.marthot-santaniello@unibas.ch">i.marthot-santaniello@unibas.ch</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Looking forward to possibly welcoming you to this event,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>All the best<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>PI D-scribes project<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>Neo-Paleography: Analysing Ancient Handwritings in the Digital Age<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=DE>Basel 27-29 January 2020<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>Kollegienhaus, Regenzzimmer 111, Petersplatz 1, 4001 Basel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>Monday 27 January<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>14:00 Welcome<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>14:15 Nachum Dershowitz, Adiel Ben-Shalom in abs., Lior Wolf in abs. (Tel Aviv): Computerized Paleography: Tools for Historical Manuscripts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>14:45 Mladen Popović, Lambert Schomaker, Maruf Dhali (Groningen): Digital Palaeography of the Dead Sea Scrolls for Dating Undated Manuscripts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>15:15 Gemma Hayes, Maruf Dhali (Groningen): Identifying Dead Sea Scribes: A Digital Palaeographic Approach<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>15:45 Discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>16:00 Coffee break<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>16:30 Vinodh Rajan Sampath (Hamburg): Script Analyzer: A Tool for Quantitative Paleography <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>17:00 Timo Korkiakangas (Helsinki): Quantifying Medieval Latin handwriting with Script Analyzer <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>17:30 Elena Nieddu, Serena Ammirati in abs. </span><span lang=EN-US>(Roma): IN CODICE RATIO: a gateway to paleographical thesauri<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>18:00 Discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>Tuesday 28 January<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>9:00 Peter Stokes (Paris): (Still) Describing Handwriting: With Archetype and Beyond<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>9:30 Simona Stoyanova (Nottingham): The Python in the letterbox – epigraphic palaeography with Archetype<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>10:00 Lorenzo Sardone (San Marino): For a Palaeography of Demosthenic Papyri<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>10:30 Discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>10.45 Coffee break<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>11:00 Yasmine Amory (Ghent): More than a simple intuition. Towards a categorisation of palaeographical features <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>11:30 Loreleï Vanderheyden (Heidelberg): How to unmask a digraph scribe? Apollos’ Greek and Coptic styles in the Aphrodito Byzantine Archive<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>12:00 Discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>12:30 Lunch <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>14:00 Anne Boud’hors (Paris): Identifying hands and styles in the Coptic papyri from Edfu (Papas' archive)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>14:30 Esther Garel (Strasbourg): The Fayyumic Coptic Documentary Papyri: Issues of Palaeography, Formats and Dating<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>15:00 Christian Askeland (Cambridge): How to clean up a Papyrustastrophe? Using empirical data and common sense to reconnect shattered fragments <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>15:30 Discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>15:45 Coffee break<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>16:00 Katharina Schröder (Münster): Searching for Relatives: Palaeographical Analysis of Coptic New Testament Manuscripts in the Institute for New Testament Textual Research Münster <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>16:30 Alin Suciu, Ulrich Schmid in abs. </span><span lang=EN-US>(Göttingen): Digital Support for a Paleographical Assessment of the White Monastery Manuscripts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>17:00 Discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>Wednesday 29 January<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>9:00 Marie Beurton-Aimar, Cecilia Ostertag in abs. (Bordeaux): Re-assembly Egyptian potteries with handwritten texts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>9:30 Vincent Christlein (Nuremberg): Writer identification in historical document images <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>10:00 Imran Siddiqi (Islamabad): Dating of Historical Manuscripts using Image Analysis & Deep Learning Techniques <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>10:30 Discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>10.45 Coffee break<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>11:00 Tanmoy Mondal (Montpellier): Efficient technique for Binarization, Noise Cleaning and Convolutional Neural Network Based Writer Identification for Papyri Manuscripts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>11:30 Andreas Fischer (Fribourg): Recent Advances in Graph-Based Keyword Spotting for Supporting Quantitative Paleography<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>12:00 Discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>12:30 Lunch <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>14:00 Vlad Atanasiu, Peter Fornaro (Basel): On the Utility of Color in Computational Paleography<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>15:00-17:00 Visit of the Digital Humanities Lab and the papyrus collection in the University Library<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>