The program for the third edition of Digital Coptic is now online. Check out the workshop website for the list of projects, talks and presenters.
Please join us for the workshop on July 12 and 13 – participants will receive a Zoom link and password for interactive presentations and discussion, and the workshop will also be cast to YouTube for larger audiences and offline viewing after the workshop. We look forward to hearing all the talks!
Coptic Scriptorium is busy this summer conference season.
I had the privilege of teaching one of the Sunoikisis Digital Classicist summer session earlier in July.
The UCLA-St Shenouda Society conference participants, 2019
I also presented some research on girls and girlhood using the Coptic Scriptorium Corpora and the Online Coptic Dictionary at the annual UCLA-St. Shenouda Society Coptic Studies Conference. This year was the 20th anniversary conference, and the theme was Shenoute and the White Monastery.
C. Schroeder presenting at ACH 2019; photo courtesy Melissa Dollman via Twitter
This week, the American Digital Humanities organization, the Association for Computational Humanities, held a conference in Pittsburgh. There I talked about colonialism, Coptic manuscripts, and resisting continuing colonialist tendencies in digitizing these manuscripts.
Meanwhile we’ve also been working on digitizing and annotating more texts, which we hope to release in the fall.
Happy summer everyone!
Rebecca Krawiec presenting in the Canisius College Digital Humanities speaker series
Project participant Rebecca Krawiec, Professor and Chair of Religious Studies and Theology at Canisius College, presented her work with Coptic Scriptorium as part of the Digital Humanities speaker series at Canisius. Her talk, “Studying Ancient Egyptian Christianity in a Modern Digital World,” discussed how the many layers of annotation in Coptic Scriptorium’s corpora enhance research into late antique Christianity. Read a description of this event on the Canisius College website or watch the lecture online.
Rebecca Krawiec, Elizabeth Platte, Amir Zeldes, Caroline T. Schroeder at Georgetown University, 2018
This fall, Coptic Scriptorium team members have presented their work in a number of environments.
In September, as part of the Georgetown University Department of Linguistics Friday Speaker Series, the project presented a summary of our latest work and our goals for the new NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant we received. “A Linked Digital Environment for Coptic Studies”. Caroline T. Schroeder provided an overview of the project. Amir Zeldes presented the technology required to machine-process Coptic text in order to produce an annotated, digital corpus and linked online lexicon. Rebecca Krawiec discussed the research potential of an annotated digital corpus for research in early monasticism. Elizabeth Platte introduced the concept of linked data and demonstrated our linked geographic data features. (Christine Luckritz Marquis was scheduled present research on space and place in monastic literature but was unfortunately sidelined by a hurricane.)
Rebecca Krawiec, Elizabeth Platte, Amir Zeldes, Caroline T. Schroeder at Georgetown University, 2018
In December, Caroline T. Schroeder gave a paper at the Material of Christian Apocrypha Conference hosted at the University of Virginia, under the auspices of the North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature. Dr. Schroeder’s paper, “The Materiality of Digital Apocryphal Studies,” addressed the role of digital humanities in studying the colonial history of manuscripts, people and places in early Christian literature, and public humanities. It was part of a panel on Christian Apocrypha and the Digital Humanities, which also included papers by James Walters (Rochester College) on “The Digital Syriac Corpus: A New Resource for the Study of Syriac Texts” and Brandon Hawk (Rhode Island College) on “The Medieval Social Network of the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew”. Datasets used in the presentation are available at Dr. Schroeder’s GitHub site.
Caroline T. Schroeder presenting about the manuscripts digitized by Coptic Scriptorium
Caroline T. Schroeder presenting visualizations of occurrences of proper names in some of Coptic Scriptorium’s corpora
Coptic SCRIPTORIUM’s Carrie Schroeder presented a paper on our project’s latest work at the nineteenth annual UCLA-St. Shenouda Society Coptic Studies Conference. As usual, the conference showcased papers from a diverse set of presenters, with scholarship on early monasticism all the way to modern Coptic architecture. We thank Hany Takla, President of the Society and longtime friend of the project, for the opportunity to attend.
Presenters and attendees of the 19th annual UCLA-St. Shenouda Society Coptic Studies Conference
This has been a summer of writing, annotating, and conferencing!
German PI Dr. Prof. Heike Behlmer and US PI Caroline T. Schroeder at Schroeder’s recent visit to the Coptic Old Testament Project at the University and the Goettingen Academy.
We are winding up our collaborative grant with our German partners (Coptic Old Testament Project, the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, the DDGLC, and the INTF). Our German and US PI’s met in Göttingen, Germany, earlier this summer. We’re working on writing our final reports and exchanging data and technologies. We’re hoping to publish more annotated texts later this year.
We also have had a series of conference papers, including a paper on one of our collaboration’s proudest achievements, the online Coptic Dictionary. Here are some of the lectures and conference presentations this summer:
Miyagawa, So and Zeldes, Amir (2018) “A Semantic Map of the Coptic Complementizer če Based on Corpus Analysis: Grammaticalization and Areal Typology in Africa,” International Workshop on Semantic maps: Where do we stand and where are we going? Liège, Belgium. June.
Schroeder, Caroline T. (2018) “A Homily is a Homily is a Homily is a Corpus: Digital Approaches to Shenoute,” The Transmission of Early Christian Homilies from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages Conference, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. June.
Schroeder, Caroline T. (2018) “Coptic Studies in the Digital Age,” Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University. July.
Schroeder, Caroline T. (2018) “Coptic Studies in a Digital Age,” UCLA-St. Shenouda Foundation Coptic Studies Conference, Los Angeles. July.
Feder, Frank,Maxim Kupreyev, Emma Manning, Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes. “A Linked Coptic Dictionary Online”. Proceedings of LaTeCH 2018 – The 11th SIGHUM Workshop at COLING2018. Santa Fe, NM. August. [paper online]
As always, thanks to all our contributors, collaborators, and board members for their insight and labor.
Coptic SCRIPTORIUM’s Caroline T. Schroeder will be giving the keynote at the “Future Philologies” Conference at Institute for the Study of the Ancient World today in New York City. We’re looking forward to conversations with colleagues old and new.
Coptic Scriptorium team members Caroline T. Schroeder and Rebecca Krawiec recently led a workshop on Digital Corpora and Digital Editions at the North American Patristics Society annual meeting. We created detailed tutorials useful to both beginners and more advanced users on our GitHub site. These tutorials cover:
We invite everyone to use these tutorials on their own. They’re designed for for self-paced work.
We were pleased to participate in the pre-conference Digital Humanities workshops that included another session on mapping led by Sarah Bond and Jennifer Barry. We had attendees from four countries, who ranged in their careers from graduate students to senior professors. Thanks to NAPS for hosting these workshops, and to the NEH and the DFG for making our work possible.
Much of the Coptic SCRIPTORIUM team is in Claremont this week for the Congress of the International Association of Coptic Studies.
We started out with a pre-conference, 2-day workshop with our KELLIA partners from Germany, where we worked on sharing data and technologies across digital Coptic projects. Look here soon for an announcement about a really cool fruit of our labors.
Thursday there are two panels, and Friday there are two workshops.
Thursday 2-4 pm Coptic Digital Studies (Burkle 16)
David Brakke chair
Prof. Dr. Caroline Schroeder, Coptic SCRIPTORIUM: A Digital Platform for Research in Coptic Language and Literature
Dr. Christine Luckritz Marquis, Reimagining the Apopthegmata Patrum in a Digital Culture
Prof. Amir Zeldes, A Quantitative Approach to Syntactic Alternations in Sahidic
Dr. Rebecca Krawiec, Charting Rhetorical Choices in Shenoute: Abraham our Father and I See Your Eagerness as case-studies
Thursday 4:30-6:30 Coptic Digital Humanities (Burkle 16)
Caroline T. Schroeder, Chair
Dr. Paul Dilley, Coptic Scriptorium beyond the Manuscript: Towards a Distant Reading of Coptic Texts
Mr. So Miyagawa and Dr. Marco Büchler, Computational Analysis of Text Reuse in Shenoute and Besa
Mr. Uwe Sikora, Text Encoding – Opportunities and Challenges
Ms. Eliese-Sophia Lincke, Optical Character Recogition (OCR) for Coptic. Testing Automated Digitization of Texts with OCRopy
Friday 11-12:30 Workshop on Coptic Fonts & Coptic Bible (AA)
Christian Askeland, Frank Feder
Friday 4:30-6 Digital Tools for Beginners (Workshop on Coptic SCRIPTORIUM)
Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes, Rebecca S. Krawiec
The 2015 SBL conference is the largest gathering of scholars interested in the study of religion in the world. The latest research and the fostering of collegian contacts is present at each showcase. The 2015 meeting is taking place in Atlanta , GA and members of the Coptic SCRIPTORIUM team will be presiding at the conference.
Digital Humanities in Biblical, Early Jewish, and Christian Studies; Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds will have Caroline T. Schroeder chairing , Taking place in International A (International Level) – Marriot on 11/23/2015 at 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM.
Also,
“A Wild Patience Has Taken this Far”: Future Avenues of Feminist Scholarship will also have Caroline T. Schroeder presenting, Taking place in Room A602 (Atrium Level) – Marriot at 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM.
and
Art and Religions of Antiquity; Violence and Representations of Violence among Jews and Christians will have Christine Luckritz Marquis chairing, Taking place in Room 209 (Level 2) – Hilton on 11/23/2015 at 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM.
We are looking forward to their presentations and hope others are as well!
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