Digital Humanities and Islamic Studies

Online Workshop
Saturday, 20 November 2021
Workshop

This online workshop will explore how scholars in Islamic studies engage with the Digital Humanities in order to confront the question of how repositories of digital surrogates together with computational methods are changing the meaning of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences. 

If you would like to attend, please register to obtain your Zoom link.

Please do not hesitate to contact academic.office@oxcis.ac.uk if you encounter any difficulties with registration or have any queries related to the content and coverage of the workshop.

As this workshop is hosted by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (UK), all hours are GMT (UTC).

The workshop will not be recorded.

 

Programme

10:00-10:15

Welcome

10:15-13:00

Panel 1: Digital Humanities and Islamic Studies  

10:15-10:20

Andrew Cusworth (University of Oxford), chair
Introduction

10:20-10:50

Megan Gooch (University of Oxford)
The View from Outside of Islamic Studies

10:50-11:20

Daniel Burt (University of Oxford)
Digital Humanities at the Khalili Research Centre

11:20-11:50

Yasmin Faghihi (University of Cambridge)
FIHRIST and Challenges of Sustainability and Funding in Digital Humanities

11:50-12:00

Q&A

Break

 

13:00-15:00

Panel 2: Computational Tools for Research in the Arabic Script Humanities

13:00-13:10

David Wrisley (NYU Abu Dhabi), chair
Introduction

13:10-13:40

Suphan Kirmizialtin (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Handwritten-Text-Recognition for Arabic Script

13:40-14:10

Nizar Habash (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Arabic Language Processing Tools and Resource from CAMeL Lab

14:10-14:30

Nora Elizabeth Barakat (Stanford University)
Text Creation from Arabic Historical Sources

14:30-15:00

Q&A

Break

 

15:30-17:00

Panel 3: Collaborative Projects as DH Case Studies

15:30-15:35

Mohammad Emami (University of Oxford), chair
Introduction

15:35-16:00

Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)
Orient Digital
Project description: https://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/die-staatsbibliothek/abteilungen/orient/projekte/dfg-projekt-orient-digital

16:00-16:25

Arezou Azad (University of Oxford)
Invisible East: Developing a Digital Corpus of Local Texts from the Islamicate East (800-1300 CE)
Programme description: https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/home#/

16:25-16:50

Alba Fedeli & Alicia Gonzalez Martinez (both of the Universität Hamburg)
InterSaME: Encoding and Analyzing the Diacritical Layer of Qur'anic Manuscripts
Project summary: https://www.intersame.uni-hamburg.de/project.html

16:50-17:00

Q&A

17:00-17:30

Conclusion

 

 

Organizers:

Dagmar Riedel
Talal Al-Azem

 

Published, 18 November 2021