Distinguished Lectures in Digital Humanities: Computational models for complex text traditions
Event details
| Date | 26.01.2016 |
| Hour | 14:00 › 15:00 |
| Speaker |
Dr Tara L. Andrews, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, Uni Bern Bio: Tara Andrews obtained her D.Phil. in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford in 2009; she also holds an M.Phil. in Byzantine Studies (2005) from Oxford and a B.Sc. in Humanities and Engineering (1999) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her doctoral work focused on the twelfth-century Armenian-language Chronicle of Mattʿēos Uṙhayecʿi (Matthew of Edessa). More broadly, Tara's research interests include Byzantine history of the middle period (in particular the tenth to twelfth centuries), Armenian history and historiography from the fifth to the twelfth centuries, and the application of computational analysis and digital methods to the fields of medieval history and philology. From 2010–2013, Tara worked at the KU Leuven with Prof. Caroline Macé on the 'Tree of Texts' project, which is an investigation of the theory behind stemmatic analysis of classical and medieval manuscript texts. The suite of online tools developed for the project are freely available online as Stemmaweb. |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
In this talk I will present my ongoing work to elaborate a computational model for how texts written in the classical and medieval era changed as they were copied, and how we have been using these models to test hypotheses about the stemma, or "manuscript family tree" of a text.
Along the way I will touch on the interesting problems that arise when we begin to make computational models of phenomena in the humanities.
Along the way I will touch on the interesting problems that arise when we begin to make computational models of phenomena in the humanities.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
Organizer
- Institute of Digital Humanities
Contact
- Sabine Süsstrunk