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Interview with Peter Brown and David Michelson about Syriaca.org: Il mondo siriaco ritrovato

Balzan.org recently spoke with Professor PETER BROWN, 2011 Balzan Prizewinner for Ancient History (Graeco-Roman World), about the Project he undertook with the half of the Prize devoted to research. Since 1986, Peter Brown has been the Phillip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, at Princeton University. Previously he was Professor of Modern History at Royal...... KEEP READING

Posted on Wednesday, March 29th, 2017 in News | Comments Off on Interview with Peter Brown and David Michelson about Syriaca.org: Il mondo siriaco ritrovato


Vanderbilt University Press Release: Preserving the history of Syriac Christianity in the Middle East

Vanderbilt University has issued a press release about recent publications by Syriaca.org. via Preserving the history of Syriac Christianity in the Middle East.... KEEP READING

Posted on Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 in News | Comments Off on Vanderbilt University Press Release: Preserving the history of Syriac Christianity in the Middle East


David Michelson and Daniel Schwartz essay, “Syriaca.org: New Digital Tools for the Study of the Medieval Middle East”

David Michelson (General Editor of Syriaca.org) and Dan Schwartz (Director of Syriaca.org) have recently published an essay,  “Syriaca.org: New Digital Tools for the Study of the Medieval Middle East,”  in Istoričeskij Opyt Mirovyh Civilizacij I Rossiâ: Materialy IV Meždunarodnoj Naučno-Praktičeskoj Konferencii 13 Noâbrâ 2015 G., edited by I. K. Lapšina and O. V. Zaharova, 19–23. Vladimir: Vladimirskij...... KEEP READING

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New Publication: A Guide to Syriac Authors

Syriaca.org is pleased to announce the release of a new online publication: A Guide to Syriac Authors Editors: David A. Michelson, Vanderbilt University Nathan P. Gibson, Vanderbilt University A Guide to Syriac Authors is a scholarly manual with entries on nearly 1,000 authors who wrote in Syriac or otherwise had an influence on Syriac literature....... KEEP READING

Posted on Tuesday, October 4th, 2016 in Publications | Comments Off on New Publication: A Guide to Syriac Authors


New Publication: Qadishe: A Guide to the Syriac Saints

Syriaca.org is pleased to announce the release of a new online publication: Qadishe: A Guide to the Syriac Saints Editors: Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Marquette University David A. Michelson, Vanderbilt University Qadishe (from the Syriac word meaning “saints”) is a scholarly catalogue of over one thousand persons venerated in the Syriac Christian traditions. Qadishe includes entries...... KEEP READING

Posted on Tuesday, October 4th, 2016 in Publications | Comments Off on New Publication: Qadishe: A Guide to the Syriac Saints


New Publication: Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica

Syriaca.org is pleased to announce the release of a new online publication: Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica Editors: Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Marquette University David A. Michelson, Vanderbilt University P. Ugo Zanetti, Monastère de Chevetogne Claude Detienne, Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Goias The Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica (BHSE) is a guide to over one thousand Syriac stories, hymns,...... KEEP READING

Posted on Tuesday, October 4th, 2016 in Publications | Comments Off on New Publication: Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica


9/29/2016 “Modeling a Body of Literature in TEI” @TEI Conference & Members’ Meeting

Syriaca.org editor Dr. Nathan P. Gibson will present a poster coauthored with Prof. David A. Michelson, “Modeling a Body of Literature in TEI: The New Handbook of Syriac Literature”, at the TEI Conference & Members’ Meeting in Vienna, Austria on September 29, 2016. The poster and poster text, not including the schema and commentary, is...... KEEP READING

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8/20/2016 “Syriaca.org: Frameworks for Digital Research in Syriac Studies” @Symposium Syriacum XII, Pontificio Instituto Orientale

Syriaca.org editor Prof. David A. Michelson will present a paper, “Syriaca.org: Frameworks for Digital Research in Syriac Studies”, at the Symposium Syriacum XII, held at the Pontificio Instituto Orientale in Rome, Italy on August 20, 2016. The abstract for the paper is below: Syriaca.org is a set of digital tools and reference resources designed to...... KEEP READING

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6/7/2016 “Syriaca.org: Bridging the digital gap between libraries, specialists, and the public” Big Ancient Mediterranean #BAM2016 @ U of Iowa

Syriaca.org editor David Michelson will present “Syriaca.org: Bridging the digital gap between libraries, specialists, and the public” as part of the workshop: Linking the Big Ancient Mediterranean held at the University of Iowa: June 6-8, 2016 (#BAM2016). An abstract of the paper is as follows and a full link to the presentation is posted below:...... KEEP READING

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6/2/2016 “Syriaca.org: Meeting Digital Infrastructure Needs for Endangered Cultural Heritage” @ Vanderbilt U. “Cultural Heritage at Scale” #CHAS16

Note: Updated with links. Syriaca.org General Editor David Michelson will present on “Syriaca.org: Meeting Digital Infrastructure Needs for Endangered Cultural Heritage” as part of “A Semantic Web Symposium: Cultural Heritage at Scale,” June 2-3, 2016, Vanderbilt University · Nashville, Tennessee (http://heritage-at-scale.info/). Those attending the conference may use the following link (with caveats!) to view the...... KEEP READING

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4/19/2016 Syriaca.org Developing Linked Open Dataset

During the spring 2016 semester, Syriaca.org received support from Vanderbilt University’s Jean & Alexander Heard Library for the project “Linked Data from the Medieval Middle East.” The project was funded as part of the Library Dean’s Fellows Program (http://library.vanderbilt.edu/about/deans_fellows/df_projects.php). The goal of the project was to enhance the digital data of Syriaca.org by serializing (rendering)...... KEEP READING

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11/13/2015 “New Digital Tools” @Vladimir State University / “Новые цифровые средства для исследования средневекового Ближнего Востока” @Владимирский государственный университет

On November 13, 2015, Syriaca.org general editor Dr. David A. Michelson and director Daniel L. Schwartz presented in absentia a paper titled “Syriaca.org: New Digital Tools for the Study of the Medieval Middle East” at the International Conference on Scholarship and Practice: Russia and the Historical Experience of World Civilizations, Vladimir State University, Vladimir, Russia....... KEEP READING

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8/11/2015 “Quid ergo Silicon Valley et Hierosolymis? Potential and Perils of the Digital Humanities for Patristic Studies” #oxpats15 @Oxford University

Syriaca.org general editor David A. Michelson will present a paper “Quid ergo Silicon Valley et Hierosolymis? Potential and Perils of the Digital Humanities for Patristic Studies” as part of the  XVII. International Conference on Patristic Studies at Oxford University on 8/11/2015. This is part of a two panel session on Digital Humanities and the Study...... KEEP READING

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8/10/2015 “Encoding Western and Non-Western Names for Ancient Syriac Authors” Short Talk at #balisage #culturalHeritage

On August 10, 2015, Syriaca.org team members Nathan Gibson and Winona Salesky will be presenting a short talk, coauthored with David Michelson, at the Balisage Pre-Conference Symposium on Cultural Heritage Markup in Bethesda, MD. (See details in the full program here.) The theme of the symposium is “using markup to preserve, understand, and disseminate cultural...... KEEP READING

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6/24/2015 “Syriac Studies and Digital Research” Panel at #NASS7

Syriaca.org editors will be presenting on their work in the digital humanities in sessions at the 2015 North American Syriac Symposium held June 21-24, 2015 at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Details are here  and here. On Wednesday, June 24 from 9:00-10:30 AM, these same scholars will be participating in a panel...... KEEP READING

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