Producer(s):
February 21, 2016
There's a lot of handwringing these days about the American Empire. Is it doomed to come crashing down the way the Roman Empire did? We'll find some unexpected lessons from Ancient Rome and even earlier, the collapse of Bronze Age civilization. We also celebrate the wisdom of the ancient classics, and hear how one philosopher teaches Plato to Palestinian students.
[Click on the links below to hear audio files of each talk and the discussion period.]
John Marincola, Florida State University
Introduction: The New Faculty Majority
- Eleanor Dickey, University of Reading
Is There Anything I Can Do? How Individual Academics Can Make A Difference
- John Paul Christy, American Council of Learned Societies
“So Happy a Versatility”: The Uses of Advanced Training in the Humanities
- Stephanie Budin, University of Oregon
What You Do unto the Least of These: Adjuncts and Painful Trends in Higher Education
- C. W. Marshall, University of British Columbia
Reclaiming the Landscape
Achemenet-news (February 19 2016 )
The Achemenet program (including colloquiums, the ARTA journal online, the Persika collection, the publication of corpus, the website www.achemenet.com, etc.) was founded by Pierre Briant in 2000 and developed at the Collège de France between 2000 and 2012. During the summer of 2012 (at the time when Pierre Briant retired) a convention was signed between the Collège de France and the Louvre Museum, which allowed for the transfer of the program to the department of ‘Antiquités Orientales’ at the Museum (AO).
Until October 2015, the program developed as planned, within the framework of cooperation between the department (AO) and the signatories within the editorial committee of Achemenet, which expanded to include two conservators from the AO. In October 2015, the new direction of the Louvre Museum and of the AO modified their policies and decided to revoke the 2012 convention. As a consequence, since the beginning of November 2015 and for the last four months the expert-researchers have been incapacitated to participate in the development of the program. Therefore the announcements published online on achemenet.com since that date, no longer represent decisions made by the Achemenet researchers. The same applies for the organisation of a colloquium on Achaemenid Anatolia on February 29 at the Louvre.
Following letters of protests from the researchers sent to the director of the Museum, the latter has ‘offered’ two options to the scientific team:
--first, to remain at the Louvre but losing the capacity to determine Achemenet policy, and losing two crucial and well-known resources, since Persika and ARTA are judged by the Director not complying with the Louvre policy;
--or second, to leave the Louvre with the entire program.
Coerced and forced, the scientific researchers have opted for the second option, the only viable solution to guarantee the independence of scientific research on the short and long term. This decision was communicated to the director of the Louvre Museum with a letter dated to January 12 2016. He acknowledged the decision with a reply on February 4 2016.
Hence, in the coming weeks the entire program will be transferred to the ARSCAN laboratory (Paris-Nanterre) directed by Francis Joannès (http://www.mae.u-paris10.fr/arscan/). Once the situation stabilizes, the new details of the program will be communicated to the scientific community.
From today onwards, please be reassured that ARTA and Persika will continue to remain well and alive. Any article or book proposal can be addressed to Pierre Briant (p.briant@wanadoo.fr) or to Damien Agut (damien.agut@gmail.com), and the same applies for any communication about the Achemenet program that can be sent to any of those two addresses.
The signatories would like to graciously thank the international scientific community for its involvement and active participation in the past years, and also thank its members in advance for their support during the difficult times that the Achemenet program is currently undergoing.
Signatories: Pierre Briant; Damien Agut; Rémy Boucharlat; Francis Joannès; Kevin Tréhuédic.
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization that, through leadership and innovation, promotes the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations. The NDLTD encourages and supports the efforts of institutes of higher education and their communities to develop electronic publishing and digital libraries (including repositories), thus enabling them to share knowledge more effectively in order to unlock the potential benefits worldwide.A large number of Theses and Dissertations dealing with antiquity are accessible at the NDLTD. Use the following tools to search for your favorite keywords, etc.
Search NDLTD
Kenneth A. Kitchen Ramesside Inscriptions Vol 1What do you think?
We are pleased to announce the release of our newest versions of some of our natural language processing tools for Coptic which incorporate the lemma list of loanwords developed by the Database and Dictionary of Greek Loanwords in Coptic (DDGLC).
The DDGLC is part of the KELLIA partnership between American and German digital Coptic projects funded by the NEH Office of Digital Humanities and the DFG. The DDGLC, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Tonio Sebastian Richter, has been building a database of Greek loanwords in Coptic in order to facilitate the study of language contact, language borrowing, and multilingualism in Egypt.
We have integrated the Greek lemma list into our language of origin tagger, tokenizer and morphology analysis, and lemmatizer.
Our online natural language processing web service (which bundles together all of our NLP tools into one web application) also includes this new data from the DDGLC.
The Greek loanword list should greatly increase the accuracy of many of our tools. If you use them, please let us know how it goes!
We at Coptic SCRIPTORIUM are grateful for this partnership and the generosity of the DDGLC team.
All Issues
Posts
All Comments
Stumble It!