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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Apologies for cross-posting<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>This event can interest many on this list.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Do not hesitate to use d-scribes mailing list to advertise similar events<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>All the best<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>d-scribes.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><br><b>Cc :</b> Martina Delucchi <martina.delucchi@bristol.ac.uk><br><b>Objet :</b> [Papy] Alpha Aleph and AI: Languages of the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East (University of Bristol, UK, 14-15 June 2023)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=xxxxmsonormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:#212121'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xxxxmsonormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:#212121'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#212121'>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).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=xxxxmsonormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:#212121'>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. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xxxxmsonormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:#212121'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xxxxmsonormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:#212121'>Attendance in person or online is available for free. Please register via the link below.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xxxxmsonormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:#212121'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xxxxmsonormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:#212121'>Programme, full abstracts, and Eventbrite registration link here:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="https://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/events/2023/june/languages-of-the-ancient-mediterranean-and-near-east.html" title="https://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/events/2023/june/languages-of-the-ancient-mediterranean-and-near-east.html"><span style='color:#0078D7'>https://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/events/2023/june/languages-of-the-ancient-mediterranean-and-near-east.html</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xxxxmsonormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:#212121'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=xxxxmsonormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:#212121'>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#212121'>Lindsey Davidson (Askin), Benjamin Folit-Weinberg, Martina Delucchi, Maiken Mosleth King<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#212121'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#212121'>*</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Conference Programme<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Wednesday 14 June 2023 (Day 1)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>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)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>With coffee & tea available in Breakout Space<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Panel 1: 9:00-10:30 AM (20 min talk +10 min Q&A each)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Arts Complex B.H05 Lecture Theatre (enter via 7 Woodland Road)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Aaron Koller (Yeshiva) “Alphabetical Order and Alphabetical Thinking from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: The History of an Idea and the Paths of Transmission”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Luís Firmino (São Paulo) “The Article with Proper Names in Herodotus and Thucydides”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Matthew Robinson (Oxford) “Programming at the Edge of Poetry: a computerised approach to Latin acrostics”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Coffee/tea break 10:30-11:00AM in Breakout Space<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Panel 3: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM (20 min talk + 10 min Q&A each)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Arts Complex B.H05 Lecture Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Keynote: Mark Depauw (KU Leuven) “Trismegistos: facilitating (quantitative) research across languages of the Ancient Western World” (zoom)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Maroula Salemenou (Oxford) “Negotiating linguistic norms in Sappho and Alcaeus: some examples from the Graeco-Roman period in papyri”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Fiona Phillips (Oxford) “A Quantitative Approach to Carian-Greek Language Contact”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Lunch break 12:30-1:15PM (there will be a catered sandwich lunch for speakers only, in HUMS Research space)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Panel 4: 1:15-3:30 PM (20 min talk + 10 min Q&A each)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Arts Complex B.H05 Lecture Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Keynote: Willem Van Peursen (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam) “Back to the Black Box? Explainable and Unexplainable AI in Semitic Studies”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Todd Krause (Univ. Texas Austin) “Semitilex: One database to rule them all”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>15 min break 2:15-2:30PM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Matthew I. Swindall (Middle Tenn. State) “A.I.-Assisted Papyrology: Integrating Deep Learning into the Scholarly Workflow”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Keynote: Marja Vierros (Helsinki) “Digging linguistic data from Greek documentary papyri – Experiences and experiments”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Coffee/tea break 3:30-4:00 in Breakout Space<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Panel 5: 4:00-6:45 PM (20 min talk + 10 min Q&A each)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Arts Complex B.H05 Lecture Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Riccardo Bongiovanni (Pisa) “Tools for a new digital edition of the Corpus of Iatromagical Papyri”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• David Wilson (SOAS) “The enriching role of bilingualism in Mesopotamian incantations”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>15-min break 5:00-5:15PM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Ivri J. Bunis (Haifa) “Parallel Morphophonemic Consequences of Guttural Weakening in Hebrew and Western Neo-Aramaic”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Tsehay Ademe Belay (Addis Ababa) “Comparative Semitics philological inquire based on the Ethiopic Book of Joel”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Eva María Rodrigo Gómez (HUJI) “Greeks Findings in Syriac Texts: an example in Emmanuel bar Shahhare”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Dinner reservation for speakers (booked in advance at a local Bristol restaurant): 7:15PM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thursday 15 June 2023 (Day 2)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>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)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Panel 7: 9:00-10:30 AM (20 min talk + 10 min Q&A each)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>HUMS Research space (enter via 7 Woodland Road and follow signs)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• 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)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Orly Lewis and Premshay Hermon (HUJI) “Re-animating Greco-Roman Anatomy through Machine Learning and 3D Modelling”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Nikos Manousakis (Academy of Athens) “Applying (automated) Authorship Attribution to Greek drama: An expanding variety of case studies” (zoom)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Coffee/tea break 10:30-11:00AM in HUMS Research space<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Panel 8: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM (20 min talk + 10 min Q&A each)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>HUMS Research space<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Jonas Schollmeyer (Leipzig) “Towards a History of Hiatus in Greek Prose”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Toby Hudson (Oxford) “Using acoustic simulations to model stress shift in Latin”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Alessia Pezzella (Innsbruck) “Latin Technical Legal Terminology in Greek: Examples from Egyptian Papyrus Documents”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Lorenzo Livorsi (Bamburg) “Law and Cursor: Digital Analysis of Prose Rhythm and Textual Criticism in the Late Roman Constitutions”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Lunch break: 1:00-2:00 (there will be a catered sandwich lunch for speakers only, in HUMS Research space)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Panel 9: 2:00-3:00PM (20 min talk + 10 min Q&A each)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>HUMS Research space<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Keynote: Stefan Hagel (Austrian Acad. Sciences) “Digitally Editing Ancient Music” (zoom)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Robert Crellin (Cambridge) “How important is text type in training models for morphosyntactic annotation of epigraphic texts?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• Maria Konstantinidou (Democritus Univ. Thrace) “A preliminary authorship analysis of the New Testament”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Coffee/tea break 3:30-4:00PM in HUMS Research space<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Panel 10: AI-themed Roundtable Panel and Concluding Remarks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>HUMS Research Space<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• 4:00-5:15PM – AI-themed roundtable panel (student and early career respondents)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>• 5:15-5:30PM – Concluding Remarks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Departure 5:30PM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>