#ancientstudies — Public Fediverse posts
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📢 Call for Papers: AI4AS 2026 — AI for Ancient Studies
A mini-conference at #DH2026 (Daejeon, South Korea, July 27–31) examining how generative AI impacts the study, interpretation, and dissemination of ancient non-alphabetic languages. Themes: engagement & fragility.
📅 Submission deadline: April 7, 2026 (AoE)
📝 Max 500-word abstracts in English (PDF)
Full CFP 👉 https://ai4asconference.github.io/2026/call-for-papers.html
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The research portal @Propylaeum SEARCH has been expanded with a new subject section on the Ancient Near East. This now also makes it possible to represent and search our subject‑specific holdings in Halle within this search space.
Further details:
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CripAntiquity is an international advocacy organization for disabled and neurodivergent students, teachers, scholars, staff, artists, and writers in ancient studies.
"Our mission is to combat ableism by amplifying disabled and neurodivergent perspectives; creating resources that will empower individuals and transform institutions; and fostering community among our members." -
AO THROWBACK - A recent study of medical and religious texts suggests that men were diagnosed with infertility as far back as Medieval times, and indeed may be held responsible for the inability to have children. https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/medieval-men-unsuitable-seed-prescribed-ground-pig-testicals-008508
#AncientOrigins #ancient #history #historyfacts #historylovers #historymatters #ancienthistory #archaeology #mythology #Medieval #Infertility #AncientStudies -
Archaeology in the age of Big Data: AI-powered software AutArch automatically extracts data from archaeological drawings and photographs, ensuring that findings preserved in libraries contribute to the ongoing digital revolution in archaeology 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/archaeology-in-the-age-of-big-data/
#archaeology #BigData #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AncientStudies #DigitalHumanities
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The Pythagorean Way – International Conference
📍 Guardavalle, Italy
🗓️ 24–26 April 2025Exploring Pythagorean philosophy, mathematics, music, cosmology & mysticism. Scholars are invited to submit abstracts (max 350 words) on all aspects of the Pythagorean legacy.
Deadline: 28/02/2025
https://magnagraecia.net/THE-PYTHAGOREAN-WAY/CALL-FOR-PAPERS/
#Philosophy #AncientStudies #Pythagoras #HistoryOfScience #Musicology #MusicScience
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Save #AncientStudies Alliance’s 2024 Annual Virtual Conference, Opening the Ancient World, will take place on Sunday and Monday, July 21st-22nd, 2024. The conference is for ALL Ancient Studies scholars & anyone interested in the Ancient World. This year’s theme is “Representations of the Past in Ancient and Modern Times.”
To learn more, please visit https://www.saveancientstudies.org/virtual-conference.
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2023-2024 Cluster Hire in Asian Studies
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County invites applications for four tenure track faculty members in Ancient Studies, History, Philosophy, and Political Science as a part of a cluster hire in Asian Studies.
https://cahss.umbc.edu/cluster-hire/
#AcademicJobs #HigherEd #AsianStudies #AncientStudies #History @histodons #PoliticalScience #UMBC
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I see that Prof. Sarah Bond (Dept. of History, U of Iowa) is giving a free, online lecture on Tuesday, 3 May 2022 at 12 noon US Central Daylight Time entitled "The #Epigraphy of Women, Work and Labor Unions (collegia) in the #Roman Mediterranean".
More information and to register (required): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-epigraphy-of-women-work-and-unions-in-the-roman-mediterranean-tickets-328877721117
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By way of his pinned introduction post (https://mastodon.social/@rdmond/108198788689241507), I've come across some #Python #AncientStudies packages by @rdmond, including:
"juliandata: Simple conversions between Julian Dates and Julian/Gregorian calendar dates, supporting ancient dates (BCE)": https://pypi.org/project/juliandate/
plus packages for working with some ancient Athenian and Babylonian calendric and numeric systems