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The Dialogues of Plato - A New Translation by David Horan - Platonic Foundation www.platonicfoundation.org/translation/
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The Dialogues of Plato - A New Translation by David Horan - Platonic Foundation www.platonicfoundation.org/translation/
Here is a report of some exploratory work transforming a traditional Greek textbook (Crosby and Schaeffer) into something truly digital. sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...
Poster advertising lectures on "Raisonnement Philologique et Modèles Informatiques" stating at 4pm, Thursday, March 12, at 54 Boulevard Raspail, Paris.
Paris friends! Amis parisiens ! This Thursday is the first of four public lectures I'm giving on AI and philology, broadly defined: "Philological Reasoning and Computational Models." The advertisement is in French, but the lectures are in English. I'd also love to meet while I'm here in March! 1/
"[...] se non si impara a scegliere si rischia di rimanere davanti ai libri come Funes di fronte alle proprie infinite percezioni: quando tutto appare degno di essere ricordato, nulla più è degno, e si desidererebbe dimenticare."
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New essay: “A Museum’s Sublime Hallucinations” — Sometimes you need the fake to show you what’s real (a love letter to the Museum of Jurassic Technology) newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/a-mu...
In a new book, “Now I Surrender,” Álvaro Enrigue uses absurdity to tell a fuller truth about historical events, Boris Kachka writes.
Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +
How can AI help institutions make millions of historic photographs more accessible and interesting to public users? 📸
This program is co-hosted by BPL Digital Services and the Leventhal Map & Education Center.
Register for the event here: buff.ly/WAXM9hk or tune in via YouTube at buff.ly/7Oco3jU
‘The collection goes some way to demonstrating the breadth of Yourcenar’s mind; and some way, too, to demonstrating her particular gift for summoning the past out of itself’.’
Tim Smith-Laing reviews a new edition of essays on Michelangelo, Dürer, Piranesi, and more, by Marguerite Yourcenar
The self-taught painter Henri Rousseau had a tremendous sense of self-belief, despite being ridiculed in his lifetime. A landmark exhibition confirms him as a singularly modern artist, writes Susan Moore
New essay: “Can AI Prompt Us to Ask New Questions?” — Not with chatbots as we know them, but perhaps with what comes next
newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/can-...
📄 New paper:
Pre-Editorial Normalization for Automatically Transcribed Medieval Manuscripts in Old French and Latin
Thibault Clérice, @rachelbawden.bsky.social , Anthony Glaise, Ariane Pinche, @dasmiq.bsky.social (2026) arxiv.org/abs/2602.13905
We introduce Pre-Editorial Normalization (PEN).
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[Job 📣] Are you curious about #AI applications in the #humanities? My Print and Probability research group (@print-and-prob.bsky.social) is hiring a postdoc! Come help us develop computational methods for identifying clandestine early modern printers!
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The words "OUR FUTURE MEMORY" are in large bold letters, filled with a collage of various images, on a plain white background.
🏛️ What rights must libraries have online? 🏛️
Join the us for PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY, a webinar introducing a global movement for digital access & preservation.
Hosted by the Internet Archive & partners.
📆 Tues, Jan 27
🕙 10 AM PT
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1968807647...
#libraries
On distant writing, encounters, narrative counterfactuals, and humanity's inexhaustible semantic capital.
I'm thrilled to report that the Perseus Digital Library has been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social! Read more about our plans here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...).
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Behold a Digital Restoration of 655 Plates of Roses & Lilies by Pierre-Joseph Redouté: The Greatest Botanical Illustrator of All Time
I'm honored to be part of the team alongside @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social, @pnadelofficial.bsky.social, @charlespletcher.org, Lisa Cerrato, Gregory Nagy, Riccardo Strobino, Clifford Wulfman and Ph.D. candidates Sarah Abowitz and Si Wu.
“Beyond Translation: Opening up the Human Record” is among the HAVI projects awarded by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social.
Congratulations to PIs @philologistgrc.bsky.social and @dasmiq.bsky.social!
We have been working at Perseus on an initial release of a new browser for the Art and Archaeology collection. You can read more about it here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...)
