DH Fellow Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, PhD candidate in Classics and Medieval Studies, is building a new database of Greek and Latin incantations to support his dissertation. The Digital Corpus of Texts for the Study of Magical Ritual gathers together 2,000 texts, including Greek sources from the fifth century B.C. through modern Greece, as well as Latin sources from Roman antiquity through the Middle Ages. Among the texts are spells for protection, healing, curses, and erotic power.

Berkeley Prosopography Services, a tool for historical social network analysis originally developed for use with an Uruk text corpus from the Hellenistic period (331-46 BCE), is currently in the process of being generalized for use with a variety of corpora.

The Center for Tebtunis Papyri will be co-hosting a workshop on Digital Humanities and Egyptology with the Townsend Center for the Humanities and the Department of Near Eastern Studies.  Organized by Rita Lucarelli, Assistant Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the workshop will explore topics of digital collaboration, collections metadata, 3D visualization.  

First session (open to public)