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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lectures in Digital Humanities: Computational models
  for complex text traditions
DTSTART:20160126T140000
DTEND:20160126T150000
DTSTAMP:20260416T193029Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Tara L. Andrews\, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities
 \, Uni Bern\nBio: 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 (199
 9) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her doctoral work focus
 ed on the twelfth-century Armenian-language Chronicle of Mattʿēos Uṙha
 yecʿi (Matthew of Edessa). More broadly\, Tara's research interests inclu
 de Byzantine history of the middle period (in particular the tenth to twel
 fth centuries)\, Armenian history and historiography from the fifth to the
  twelfth centuries\, and the application of computational analysis and dig
 ital 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 stemma
 tic analysis of classical and medieval manuscript texts. The suite of onli
 ne tools developed for the project are freely available online as Stemmawe
 b.\nIn this talk I will present my ongoing work to elaborate a computation
 al 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 hyp
 otheses about the stemma\, or "manuscript family tree" of a text.\n\nAlon
 g the way I will touch on the interesting problems that arise when we begi
 n to make computational models of phenomena in the humanities.
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