Hugoye Symposium IV: Syriac and the Digital Humanities, Alexander Library, Scholarly Communication Center, Rutgers University, March 6

Speakers:

First Mawtbā / Dīwān: Syriac Digital Libraries I
The Syriac Corpus
Kristian Heal (Brigham Young University)
eBethArké
Grace Agnew & Isaiah Beard (Rutgers University)
Electronic Critical Editions of Syriac Texts
James Walters (Princeton Theological Seminary)

Second Mawtbā / Dīwān: Syriac Digital Libraries II
Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity
Daniel Salem (The Hebrew University) & Sergey Minov (University of Oxford)
eKtobe, A Portal for Syriac Manuscripts
Andre Binggeli (CNRS, France)
vHMML, OLIVER, & Reading Room
Columba Stewart (Hill Museum & Manuscript Library)
Syriaca.org: Linking Data from the Syriac Heritage
David Michelson (Vanderbilt University) & Tony Davis (University of Arkansas, Little Rock)

Third Mawtbā / Dīwān: Digital Tools for Historical Research
The Cult of the Saints
Sergey Minov (University of Oxford)
Gateway to the Syriac Saints
Jean-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent (Marquette University)
SPEAR: Syriac Persons Events and Relations
Daniel Schwartz (Texas A&M University)

Fourth Mawtbā / Dīwān: Tools for Syriac Digital Philology
Automatic Dotting of Rukākhā and Qushāyā Points
George Kiraz (Beth Mardutho)
The SEDRA 4 Database, A Syriac Lexical Resource
James Bennett (Beth Mardutho)
Prospects for Syriac OCR
James Prather (Abilene Christian University) & George Kiraz (Beth Mardutho)

This event will be live streamed for free, thanks to the support of Rutgers Libraries.