Guests talks

Piotr Głogowski gives a guest talkWritten by on 3/30/2022
On 28 and 29 March, our project hosted dr Piotr Głogowski, a researcher in quantitative epigraphy based in Wrocław. Piotr gave a talk titled “The epigraphic culture of southern Levant in antiquity” at the papyrological and epigraphical seminar, and then participated in our project meeting, offering useful hints on completing our lists of editions of […]
Mara Nicosia on Syriac monastic schoolsWritten by on 1/22/2022
On Thursday, 27 January 2022, our project is hosting another guest speaker! Mara Nicosia (Universiteit Gent) will give a talk titled: “Syriac monastic schools and the teaching of rhetoric”. Since education was crucial for the spread of languages and varieties of a given language, and could subsequently result in different preferences for language choices, this […]
E-Twoto team hosted at the Warsaw Late Antique SeminarWritten by on 1/21/2022
On 20 January our team hosted Jimmy Daccache (Yale) and Flavia Ruani (CNRS) from the project ‘E-Twoto: Digital Paleography of Syriac Inscriptions’ which has just been launched thanks to the funding of PSL-Scripta, Paris, while the third member of this project, Simon Brelaud (University of California, Berkeley), joined us online. Their experience proved invaluable to boost our […]
Philipp Pilhofer gives a talk for EpIdentityWritten by on 10/14/2021
Philipp Pilhofer (Humboldt Universität Berlin) gives a talk on the sanctuary of Saint Thekla at Ayatekla, near Seleucia (today Silifke, Turkey) ‘A very pleasant spot to walk and spend time’ – Thecla’s cave at Seleucia 14 October 2021 Philipp Pilhofer, an internationally recognized authority on the epigraphy of Isauria and Cilicia (both parts of the […]
ERC-CoG project LiLa guest talkWritten by on 3/15/2021
Marco Passarotti and Francesco Mambrini from the ERC-CoG project LiLa: Linking Latin (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) give a guest talk for EpIdentity On 18 March 2020, at 4:45pm CET, prof. Marco Passarotti and dr Francesco Mambrini presented an overview of their ERC-funded project building new digital instruments for the study of lemmatized resources […]