Neo-Paleography: Analysing Ancient Handwritings in the Digital Age

Held in Basel University, 27-29 January 2020, with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW/ASSH), the Swiss Society for Ancient Studies (SVAW/ASEA), the Swiss Society for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (SGOA) and Max Geldner Foundation.

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Click here for directions. Venue: Kollegienhaus, Regenzzimmer 111, Petersplatz 1, 4001 Basel

Sietis N. (2020) ‘Neo-Paleography: Analysing Ancient Handwritings in the Digital Age, Basel, 27–29 January 2020 (Conference Report)’, Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, 6: 91–93. https://www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/record/1110

Programme

Monday 27 January

14:00	Welcome
14:15	Nachum Dershowitz, Adiel Ben-Shalom in abs., Lior Wolf in abs. (Tel Aviv): Computerized Paleography: Tools for Historical Manuscripts
14:45	Mladen Popović, Lambert Schomaker, Maruf Dhali (Groningen): Digital Palaeography of the Dead Sea Scrolls for Dating Undated Manuscripts
15:15	Gemma Hayes, Maruf Dhali (Groningen): Identifying Dead Sea Scribes: A Digital Palaeographic Approach
15:45	Discussion
16:00	Coffee break
16:30	Vinodh Rajan Sampath (Hamburg): Script Analyzer: A Tool for Quantitative Paleography
17:00	Timo Korkiakangas (Helsinki): Quantifying Medieval Latin handwriting with Script Analyzer
17:30	Elena Nieddu, Serena Ammirati in abs. (Roma): IN CODICE RATIO: a gateway to paleographical thesauri
18:00	Discussion
18:30	Buffet in Dep. Altertumswissenschaften (for the speakers)

Tuesday 28 January

9:00	Peter Stokes (Paris): (Still) Describing Handwriting: With Archetype and Beyond
9:30	Simona Stoyanova (Nottingham): The Python in the letterbox – epigraphic palaeography with Archetype
10:00	Lorenzo Sardone (San Marino): For a Palaeography of Demosthenic Papyri
10:30	Discussion
10:45	Coffee break
11:00	Yasmine Amory (Ghent): More than a simple intuition. Towards a categorisation of palaeographical features
11:30	Loreleï Vanderheyden (Heidelberg): How to unmask a digraph scribe? Apollos’ Greek and Coptic styles in the Aphrodito Byzantine Archive
12:00	Discussion
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Anne Boud’hors (Paris): Identifying hands and styles in the Coptic papyri from Edfu (Papas' archive)
14:30	Esther Garel (Strasbourg): The Fayyumic Coptic Documentary Papyri: Issues of Palaeography, Formats and Dating
15:00	Christian Askeland (Cambridge): On the History of the Alexandrian Majuscule
15:30	Discussion
15:45	Coffee break
16:00	Katharina Schröder (Münster): Searching for Relatives: Palaeographical Analysis of Coptic New Testament Manuscripts in the Institute for New Testament Textual Research Münster
16:30	Alin Suciu, Ulrich Schmid in abs. (Göttingen): Digital Support for a Paleographical Assessment of the White Monastery Manuscripts
17:00	Discussion
19:00	Dinner (for the speakers)

Wednesday 29 January

9:00	Marie Beurton-Aimar, Cecilia Ostertag in abs. (Bordeaux): Re-assembly Egyptian potteries with handwritten texts
9:30	Vincent Christlein (Nuremberg): Writer identification in historical document images
10:00	Imran Siddiqi (Islamabad): Dating of Historical Manuscripts using Image Analysis & Deep Learning Techniques
10:30	Discussion
10:45	Coffee break
11:00	Tanmoy Mondal (Montpellier): Efficient technique for Binarization, Noise Cleaning and Convolutional Neural Network Based Writer Identification for Papyri Manuscripts
11:30	Andreas Fischer (Fribourg): Recent Advances in Graph-Based Keyword Spotting for Supporting Quantitative Paleography
12:00	Discussion
12:30	Coffee break
14:00	Vlad Atanasiu, Peter Fornaro (Basel): On the utility of color in computational paleography
15:00 - 17:00	Visit of the Digital Humanities Lab and the papyrus collection in the University Library

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