Preliminary program

09:00 – 09:45 | Introduction and Welcoming Remarks

Ephrem Aboud Ishac, Claudia Rapp (solicited), Helmut Reimitz (solicited), Andreas Rhoby, and Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

09:45 – 10:00 | Presentation on Scriptorium Syriacum, Erbil-Ankawa, Iraq

Samer Soreshow Yohanna

10:00 – 10:25 | Coffee Break

10:25 – 11:15 | Syriac Christianity in the Orient (introduced by Adrian C. Pirtea)

Anna-Simona Barbara Üzel & Kevin White

11:15 – 11:30 | Short Break

11:30 – 12:30 | Automated Text Recognition - Possibilities and Challenges (introduced by Anna Dulganov)

Manuela Mayer & Dario Kampkaspar

12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch Break

13:30 – 14:15 | What is Handwritten Text Recognition? (introduced by Ephrem Aboud Ishac)

Anna Michalcová & Jan Odstrčilík

14:15 – 14:45 | Coffee Break

14:45 – 15:45 | Working in Groups

15:45 – 16:15 | Coffee Break

16:15 – 17:00 | Discussions and Remarks

Ephrem Aboud Ishac

Participants

Anna Dolganov | Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI), ÖAW

Dario Kampkaspar | University and State Library Darmstadt (ULB)

Katharina Kaska | Austrian National Library (ÖNB)

Manuela Mayer | Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies (IHB), ÖAW

Anna Michalcová | IMAFO, ÖAW / Czech Academy of Sciences

Ekaterini Mitsiou | IMAFO, ÖAW / University of Vienna

Jan Odstrčilík | IMAFO, ÖAW

Bernhard Palme | University of Vienna / Papyrus Museum, Austrian National Library (ÖNB)

Adrian C. Pirtea | IMAFO, ÖAW

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller | IMAFO, ÖAW

Andreas Rhoby | IMAFO, ÖAW

Anna-Simona Barbara Üzel | Freie Universität Berlin

Kevin White | Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Samer Soreshow Yohanna | Scriptorium Syriacum (Erbil-Ankawa, Iraq)

Team of the Scriptorium Syriacum (Erbil-Ankawa, Iraq)