DS Events at the Institute

2024

Robot Scholar event poster

Digital Scholarship Conversations @IAS
Tuesday, October 22 ,10:00 am in the White-Levy Room
You are all invited to join us and we encourage you to bring and share your questions and concerns.

Robot Scholar: Copyright Law, Fair Use, and AI
Kyle K. Courtney, Esq.

Kyle K. Courtney is a lawyer and librarian serving as the Director of Copyright and Information Policy for Harvard. There he works on copyright and intellectual property polices across all of Harvard’s 73 libraries, museums, and archives. He is a nationally recognized speaker on the topics of copyright, libraries, access, and the law.

 

ARSHEEF

NES and Digital Scholarship @IAS virtual event
November 8, 12:00-1:00 pm
ARSHEEF: Getting Closer to Libraries and Archives, Athina Pfeiffer and Mathias Ghyoot (Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University). ARSHEEF is a collaborative project and a website that makes available up-to-date guides to libraries and archives across North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and South Asia, as well as digital options for those who cannot travel. For the recording of this event visit https://www.ias.edu/hs/islamic-world/videos. 

 

Simtho Unveiled virtual event poster

NES, Digital Scholarship @IAS and Beth Mardutho virtual event
February 5, 12:00-1:00 pm
Simtho Unveiled: Launch of the World’s Most Comprehensive Syriac Corpus. Join us for the official launch of the next version Simtho, the most comprehensive digital corpus of Syriac texts ever assembled. This landmark release represents over five years of dedicated work, from its initial beta version of 6 million words to its current size of over 25 million words. Leveraging cutting-edge OCR technology, artificial intelligence, and the meticulous efforts of the MelthoLab, this first formal release offers unprecedented access to Syriac literary heritage. Attendees will learn how Simtho's vast collection of Syriac texts—spanning printed books and manuscripts—has been curated, corrected, and expanded. Discover how natural language processing (NLP) advances have enabled part-of-speech tagging and integration with the Sedra lexical resources, enhancing the corpus’s functionality for scholars, students, and linguists alike. This session will also highlight the scholarly, educational, and technological significance of Simtho for the fields of Syriac studies, linguistics, and digital humanities. Join us to celebrate this major achievement and explore the future possibilities it unlocks for research and education. Don’t miss this opportunity to witness the unveiling of a transformative resource for Syriac studies. Registration is required: https://bit.ly/SimthoUnveiled. 

 

HIMME Event flyer

NES and Digital Scholarship @IAS virtual event
February 26, 12:00-1:00 pm
Opportunities and Challenges for Indexing a Polyglot Society: The Development of HIMME, Thomas A. Carlson (School of Historical Studies, IAS and Oklahoma State University). More languages and literary traditions existed simultaneously in the medieval Middle East than any individual scholar can hope to master.  Disciplinary norms have mandated that scholars focus on one or perhaps two languages, but the actual historical society was bewilderingly polyglot.  Can digital methods provide an opportunity for overcoming our individual scholarly limitations?  On the other hand, what dynamics of multilingual cultures challenge modern digital approaches themselves?  This talk will open a conversation centered around the development of the Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East (HIMME: https://medievalmideast.org/). Register at https://bit.ly/HIMME.