From May 19 to 23, the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Industries of the University of Parma, will host the final Spring School of the Erasmus+ BIP “Intensive ENCODE: Digital Competences in Ancient Writing Cultures”.
The Spring School, which will bring around 60 students from 10 European universities to Parma, aims to train students and researchers in the rapidly evolving field of Digital Humanities and AI. The goal is to prepare, with the contribution of about 20 Italian and international experts, professionals capable of using and creating new digital resources for the study, conservation, and dissemination of ancient written artifacts in languages and writing systems of the ancient Mediterranean area.
The Blended Intensive Programme and the Spring School that marks its culmination are coordinated by Cristina Carusi (University of Parma) and directed by Cristina Carusi with Alice Bencivenni (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna), Federico Aurora(University of Oslo), and Holger Essler (Julius Maximilian Universität Würzburg).
Online participation in conferences on Monday, Thursday and Friday is open to anyone who is interested. Links are provided below.
Monday May 19, 2025
Dipartimento di Discipline Umanistiche, Sociali e delle Imprese Culturali Via d’Azeglio 85, Aula B
Teams link
9:00am-9:30am Welcome
9:30am-10:00am Massimo Magnani, Cristina Carusi (Università di Parma) Institutional greetings
10:00am-11:00am Monica Berti (Universität Leipzig) Detecting and Extracting Named Entities from Epigraphic and Papyrological Texts
11:00am-11:30am Coffee Break (Aula H)
11:30am-12:30pm Franziska Naether (Universität Leipzig) – Online Digital Egyptology Projects / The Digital Rosetta Stone Project
12:30pm-01:00pm Discussion
01:00pm-03:00pm Lunch break
03:00pm-04:00pm Chiara Zanchi (Università di Pavia) Wordnets and Ancient Languages: Challenges, Insights, and an LLM-Powered Case Study
04:00pm-05:00pm Edward Ross (University of Reading) Ethics and Efficacy: Teaching and Learning Ancient Greek and Latin with Generative AI
05:00pm-05:30pm Break
05:30pm-06:30pm Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello (Universität Basel) – Online Digital Palaeography of Greek Papyri
06:30pm-7:00pm Discussion
Thursday May 22, 2025
Dipartimento di Discipline Umanistiche, Sociali e delle Imprese Culturali Via d’Azeglio 85, Aula B
Teams link
9:30am-10:30am Elina Boeva (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski) TELAMON, AIAX and their offspring – adapting a tool and workflow for multiple purposes
10:30am-11:00am Coffee Break (Aula F)
11:00am-12:00pm Francesco Mambrini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) Linguistic Linked Data and Semantic Web technologies for ancient languages
12:00pm-01:00pm Francesca Dell’Oro (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) Encoding linguistic information from Greek and Latin inscriptions with a focus on semantics (anthroponomastics and modality)
01:00pm-01:30pm Discussion
Friday May 23, 2025
Dipartimento di Discipline Umanistiche, Sociali e delle Imprese Culturali Via d’Azeglio 85, Aula B
Teams link
9:00am-10:00am Kristiyan Simeonov (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski) Front-End Data Processing and Visualization for Digital Scholarship
10:00am-11:00am Jérôme Mairat (University of Oxford) – Online EpiDoc-based and AI-aided edition of coins (RPC Project)
11:00am-11:30am Coffee Break (Aula F)
11:30am-12:30pm Pietro Liuzzo (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute) Metrica – Reuse and Cooperation in Digital Epigraphy
12:30pm-02:30pm Lunch break
02:30pm-03:30pm Daniele Fusi (Universität Stuttgart) Sowing the Dragon’s Teeth: A Modular Solution to Create Complex Resources
03:30pm-4:00pm Discussion
Full programme available here: https://site.unibo.it/encode/it/agenda/erasmus-bip-intensive-encode-digital-competences-in-ancient-writing-cultures-in-presence-week