Computational Approaches to Textual Multiplicity in Curricular Manuscripts

KImafo ① – KI und Mittelalterforschung | Lecture by Christine Roughan (Princeton)

In late antiquity there circulated a collection of Greek texts arranged to serve the study of astronomy; in the ninth century, these texts were translated into Arabic and soon arranged into a corresponding curriculum called the Middle Books. The centuries-long usage of these texts in didactic contexts meant that they were not static: contemporary teachers and scholars would intervene in the collection and in the texts themselves. This lecture will explore how computational methods such as database approaches, handwritten text recognition, and automated text alignments can facilitate research into the multiple recensions, translations, and editions of these curricular texts.

Christine Roughan is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Digital Humanities and Manuscript, Rare Book and Archive Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in the Ancient World from New York University in January 2023, where her doctoral work explored a premodern astronomical curriculum and its continued use in Greek and Arabic between the second and thirteenth centuries CE (with some influences also on scholarly activities in Syriac, Latin, Hebrew, and Persian). Christine's research applies computational approaches to the study of manuscript transmissions in the Mediterranean world, particularly of mathematical and scientific works. During her postdoctoral term at Princeton, Christine is leveraging deep learning tools to classify and analyze visual data from digitized manuscripts, with a particular focus on paratextual material. Her research and teaching in the digital humanities includes relational and graph database design, data visualization, natural language processing, computer vision, and machine learning. Since 2022, Christine has also been involved with the Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine (IIP) digital epigraphy project at Brown University.

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Tuesday, 18 June 2024
5:00 pm

Venue:

Besprechungsraum 7+8
PSK, 5^th Floor
Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna

Organisation:

Institut für Mittelalterforschung, ÖAW
Princeton University

co-funded by
ERC StG 101039572 ARITHMETIC

Contact:

Maximilian Diesenberger (IMAFO)
Helmut Reimitz (Princeton University)

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