University of Birmingham Text Seminar, Autumn 2013

Text Seminar

A seminar series for anyone interested in the study and editing of texts and the use of digital methods and tools for analysis. It is a collaboration of the Institute for Textual Scholarship & Electronic Editing (ITSEE) and the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology (CAHA)

Thursdays at 5:15pm – Arts Building, 3^rd Floor, Room 305 (Museum)

24^th October

Dr Antony Makrinos (UCL) – Homeric commentaries and paraphrases: Eustathius of Thessalonica in search of Demosthenes Thrax

Joint Seminar with the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies

PLEASE NOTE: Venue = Arts Building, 4th Floor, Room 436 (Whitting Room)

31^st October

Professor David Ganz – Scribes and Patrons in the Latin West, 400-800

14^th November

Dr Ségolène Tarte (Oxford e-Research Centre) – tba (Digital Humanities)

28^th November

Dr Caroline Petit (University of Warwick) – The Transmission of Galen’s On Simple Drugs

Further information: R.F.MacLachlan@bham.ac.uk, P.H.Burton@birmingham.ac.uk