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Alan Turing: The Man Behind The Machine, Christopher D. Goff Oct 2016

Alan Turing: The Man Behind The Machine, Christopher D. Goff

College of the Pacific Faculty Presentations

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Assyriology At The Liberal Arts College: A Report From The Field, Alan Lenzi Jul 2016

Assyriology At The Liberal Arts College: A Report From The Field, Alan Lenzi

College of the Pacific Faculty Presentations

There is an ideal in American Assyriology that active scholars will work at a research university, where they will teach Akkadian and/or Sumerian and lead philological seminars on selected texts from their sub-specialty. Although such an Assyriologist may teach an undergraduate course or two each year, their most important pedagogical efforts will be directed at graduate students. The reality of the academic job market makes this career path available to relatively few scholars. Those who remain in academia often find employment teaching undergraduates in a department of history, religious studies, art history, or comparative literature. The present paper shares my …


Samuel Chen, The Primeval Flood Catastrophe: Origins And Early Development In Mesopotamian Traditions, Alan Lenzi Feb 2016

Samuel Chen, The Primeval Flood Catastrophe: Origins And Early Development In Mesopotamian Traditions, Alan Lenzi

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

This article is a review of The primeval flood catastrophe: origins and early development in Mesopotamian traditions by Chen, Y S. (Yi Samuel). ISBN: 9780199676200. AN: ATLAn3824206


Alan Turing: The Man Behind The Machine, Christopher D. Goff Jan 2016

Alan Turing: The Man Behind The Machine, Christopher D. Goff

College of the Pacific Faculty Presentations

No abstract provided.


Christina Normore. A Feast For The Eyes: Art, Performance And The Late Medieval Banquet, Ken Albala Jan 2016

Christina Normore. A Feast For The Eyes: Art, Performance And The Late Medieval Banquet, Ken Albala

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

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Raiders Of The Lost Corpus, Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes Jan 2016

Raiders Of The Lost Corpus, Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

Coptic represents the last phase of the Egyptian language and is pivotal for a wide range of disciplines, such as linguistics, biblical studies, the history of Christianity, Egyptology, and ancient history. It was also essential for "cracking the code" of the Egyptian hieroglyphs. Although digital humanities has been hailed as distinctly interdisciplinary, enabling new forms of knowledge by combining multiple forms of disciplinary investigation, technical obtacles exist for creating a resource useful to both linguists and historians, for example. The nature of the language (outside of the Indo-European family) also requires its own approach. This paper will present some of …


Applying The Canonical Text Services Model To The Coptic Scriptorium, Bridget Almas, Caroline T. Schroeder Jan 2016

Applying The Canonical Text Services Model To The Coptic Scriptorium, Bridget Almas, Caroline T. Schroeder

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM is a platform for interdisciplinary and computational research in Coptic texts and linguistics. The purpose of this project was to research and implement a system of stable identification for the texts and linguistic data objects in Coptic SCRIPTORIUM to facilitate their citation and reuse. We began the project with a preferred solution, the Canonical Text Services URN model, which we validated for suitability for the corpus and compared it to other approaches, including HTTP URLs and Handles. The process of applying the CTS model to Coptic SCRIPTORIUM required an in-depth analysis that took into account the domain-specific scholarly …


The Digital Humanities As Cultural Capital: Implications For Biblical And Religious Studies, Caroline T. Schroeder Jan 2016

The Digital Humanities As Cultural Capital: Implications For Biblical And Religious Studies, Caroline T. Schroeder

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

Although the study of the Bible was central to early Humanities Computing efforts, now Biblical Studies and Religious Studies are marginal disciplines in the emerging field known as Digital Humanities (English, History, Library Science, for example, are much more influential in DH.) This paper explores two questions: First, what does it mean for Biblical Studies to be marginal to the Digital Humanities when DH is increasingly seen as the locus of as transformation in the humanities? Second, how can our expertise in Biblical Studies influence and shape Digital Humanities for the better? Digital Humanities, I argue, constitutes a powerful emerging …