Digital Humanities and Islamic Studies
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 |
10:20-10:50 |
Megan Gooch (University of Oxford) |
10:50-11:20 |
Daniel Burt (University of Oxford) |
11:20-11:50 |
Yasmin Faghihi (University of Cambridge) |
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 |
13:10-13:40 |
Suphan Kirmizialtin (NYU Abu Dhabi) |
13:40-14:10 |
Nizar Habash (NYU Abu Dhabi) |
14:10-14:30 |
Nora Elizabeth Barakat (Stanford University) |
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 |
15:35-16:00 |
Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) |
16:00-16:25 |
Arezou Azad (University of Oxford) |
16:25-16:50 |
Alba Fedeli & Alicia Gonzalez Martinez (both of the Universität Hamburg) |
16:50-17:00 |
Q&A |
17:00-17:30 |
Conclusion |
Organizers:
Dagmar Riedel
Talal Al-Azem