Neo-Palaeography: Analysing Ancient Greek and Coptic Handwritings in the Digital Age, University of Basel, January 27–29, 2020

The project D-Scribes is pleased to inform you of its conference Neo-Palaeography: Analysing Ancient Greek and Coptic Handwritings in the Digital Age that will take place from the 27th to the 29th of January 2020 at the University of Basel. The goal of the conference is to gather Greek and Coptic papyrologists involved in palaeographic research (identification of hands, dating on palaeographical grounds, characterization of styles and scripts) together with Computer Scientists specialized in Historical Documents and Handwriting Analysis.

Papyrologists are invited to present case-studies built on palaeographical criteria. Computer Scientists will present their work on Writer Identification and Script Classification. Colleagues using Archetype (archetype.ink) for Greek and Coptic are encouraged to apply.

Presentations will last 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes discussion. The proceedings of the conference will be published open access. Accommodation and travel are covered.

Confirmed speakers: Yasmine Amory, Christian Askeland, Anne Boudhors, Esther Garel, Peter Stokes, Loreleï Vanderheyden.