Dear Colleagues,
as the conclusion of the European Research Council funded
project Śāstravid: A new research tool for the study of ancient Indian philosophical
texts (see www.sastravid.net)
we will be holding a two-day workshop on Buddhist Studies and Digital
Humanities at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, on 4th and 5th
September 2014. I include the programme below. There is no charge for
attendance, but please email Jan Westerhoff at jan.westerhoff@lmh.ox.ac.uk
if you are planning to come.
We look forward to seeing many of you there.
Very best wishes
Jan Westerhoff
Workshop on Buddhist Studies and Digital Humanities
Lady Margaret Hall
University of Oxford
4-5th September 2014
Programme
Thursday, 4 Sept
11.00 Tea
11.30-12.30 David Gold (Bridgeton Research): Śastravid: A
new research tool for the study of Indian philosophical texts
13.00-14.00 Lunch for speakers
14.00-15.00 Birgit Kellner (Heidelberg University): The
SARIT Project: Enriching Digital Text Collections in Indology
15.00-16.00 Andrew Ollett (Columbia University):
Sarit-prasāraṇam: Developing SARIT beyond “Search and Retrieval”.
16.00-16.30 Tea
16.30-17.30 Nathan Hill (SOAS): Using an annotated corpus to
facilitate the philological study of Tibetan texts
19.00 Dinner for speakers
Friday, 5 Sept
10.00-11.00 Jack Petranker/Ligeia Lugli (Mangalam Research
Center for Buddhist Languages): Thinking like a translator: the Buddhist
Translators Workbench
11.00-11.30 Tea
11.30-12.30 Charles Muller (Tokyo University): Strategies
for Project Development, Management, and Sustainability: The Example of the DDB
and CJKV-E Dictionaries.
13.00-14.00 Lunch for speakers
14.00-15.00 Paul Hackett (Columbia University/American
Institute of Buddhist Studies): Extending Buddhist Canonical Research: New Data
and New Approaches
15.00-16.00 Yigal Bronner (Hebrew University): A
Prosopographical Database for Sanskrit Works in the Early Modern Era (and
Beyond): The Appayya Dīkṣita Project, Phase 3
16.00-16.30 Tea
16.30-17.30 Kiyonori Nagasaki (International Institute for
Digital Humanities, Tokyo): Technical Possibilities of Digital Research
Environments for Buddhist Studies
19.00 Dinner for speakers
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JC Westerhoff
Lady Margaret Hall
University of Oxford
Norham Gardens
Oxford OX2 6QA
United Kingdom
jan.westerhoff@lmh.ox.ac.uk
www.janwesterhoff.net
