Program

13 May 2024

09:15
Registration

09:40    
Welcome & Introduction to BerGSAS
Stephan G. Schmid (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

09:50    
Inroduction to OIKOS
Teun Tieleman (Universiteit Utrecht)
Matthew Payne (Universiteit Leiden)

Chairperson: David Eich (Freie Universität Berlin)

10:00    
Daniele Zampierin (Freie Universität Berlin)
Gradient Boosting and Automatic Image Retrieval: a digital method for the comparison of archaeological pottery drawings and morphological data

10:20
Discussion

10:30    
Maria Chiara Parisi (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
On the Starting Points of Science: Disentangling Common Notions, Axioms, and Principles in Ancient Philosophy

10:50
Discussion

11:00    
Coffee Break

Chairperson: Willemijn Havenaar (Freie Universität Berlin) and Carmen Marcks-Jacobs (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

11:20    
Thomas Peeters (Freie Universität Berlin)
Digital Tools Old and New: Unravelling Ancient Astronomical Tables

11:40
Discussion

11:50    
Angelo Gargiulo (Universiteit Gent)
Digital databases: opportunities and questions based on the concrete experience of creating one

12:10
Discussion

12:20    
Lunch Break

Chairperson: Sofía Carreño (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

14:00    
Clarine Rijpstra-van Daal (Universiteit Utrecht)
Keep it simple for beginners: on the frequency of some causal connectives in Galen

14:20
Discussion

14:30    
Silvia Stopponi (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Computational Linguistics of Ancient Greek, a Way Forward

14:50
Discussion

15:00    
Coffee Break

Chairperson: Marie-Christin Künzelmann (Freie Universität Berlin)

15:20    
Mattia Lauretti (Freie Universität Berlin)
Applications of QGIS to topographical analysis of indigenous sanctuaries in the Roman Sardinia’

15:40
Discussion

15:50
Sophie Schmidt (Freie Universität Berlin)
Describing and disseminating digital data: Using an ontology and controlled vocabularies to create FAIR data sets

16:10
Discussion

16:20

Coffee Break

Chairperson: Ramona D’Alfonso (Freie Universität Berlin)

16:40    
Kyriaki Giannikou (Universiteit Gent)
Navigating Digital Frontiers: Unveiling Formulaicity in Byzantine Book Epigrams

17:00
Discussion

17:10
Douglas Watson (Freie Universität Berlin)
Network analysis with NetworkX (Python) and Gephi: the experiences of an Ancient Historian

17:30
Discussion

17:40
Workshop closing

18:10 Keynote lecture
Markus Schnöpf (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
AI in the Humanities – Chances and Limitations 

Reception

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14 May 2024

9:00 – 14:30
Visit to the partner organizations of BAK/BerGSAS (not open to the public)

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Registration

Please send an email until 22nd April to:
carmen.marcks-jacobs@berliner-antike-kolleg.org

Organizers

Regina Attula
Sofía Carreño
Ramona D’Alfonso
David Eich
Willemijn Havenaar
Marie-Christin Künzelmann
Carmen Marcks-Jacobs
Thomas Peeters