Spring 2013
This seminar series is a collaboration of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing (ITSEE) and the Department of Classics and Ancient History (IAA).
It is open to anyone interested in the study and editing of texts and the use of digital methods and tools for analysis.
Attendance is expected for research postgraduates in Classics and ITSEE.
It meets on Thursdays at 5:15 p.m. in the Museum (Arts Building, Room 305)
To join the email list for circulation of abstracts and reminders of events, please contact Hugh Houghton
10th January
Professor Ken Dowden (IAA, Birmingham)
Will the real Poseidonios stand up? The History and its recyclage
24th January
Dr David Gange (LCAHM, Birmingham)
The Book of the Dead in Nineteenth-Century Britain
7th February
Dr Alan Sexton (Computer Science, Birmingham)
The Optical Neume Recognition Project
21st February
Dr Diana Spencer (IAA, Birmingham)
Romespeak: Why de Lingua Latina?
7th March
Dr Gideon Nisbet (IAA, Birmingham)
Meleager rides the rails: Kenneth Rexroth's Greek Anthology
21st March
Dr Antony Makrinos (UCL, London)
Homeric commentaries and paraphrases: Eustathius of Thessalonica in search of Demosthenes Thrax