This summer the Digital Classicist will be offering a series of seminars to run through June, July, and August at the Institute of Classical Studies, to fill the slot left by the popular postgraduate Work in Progress series on Fridays at 16:30. The Work in Progress seminars are traditionally a non-threatening environment for postgrads to present their current work to an audience of other students. The summer seminar series are usually less exclusive than this, with non-postgrads also both presenting and in the audience, but the informal tone is retained. In addition, we should like to encourage presentations that introduce a broad audience to new topics, techniques, and technologies, and may have a pedagogical rather than a purely expository tone. (Of course, the focus should also include research topics of classical/historical/archaeological interest.)
We are inviting both students and established researchers involved in the application of the digital humanities to the study of the ancient world to come and introduce their work. The focus of this seminar series is in line with that of the Digital Classicist as a whole, in that the aim is to bring together scholars to address issues of collaborative work and the new methodologies enabled and in some cases necessitated by the digital academy. As we know, these digital methods are far from being marginal to traditional classical scholarship; they offer new perspectives and new ways to approach essential research questions, thus both underpinning and becoming central to the advancement of our discipline.
We would be grateful if members of this group would either consider speaking in this series, or could recommend someone involved with relevant work to present to the DC/ICS Work in Progress seminar. Please feel free to circulate this invitation anywhere it might be welcome.
Please contact both simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk and gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk if you have any further questions about the seminars. A programme will be arranged and circulated once we have assigned dates that suit all proposed speakers.
The DC/ICS WiP seminars are sponsored by the Institute of Classical Studies and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London.
