Category: Lev Shadrin
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The SRA team recently met with Adam Jatowt and Joseph Wang-Kathrein from the Forschungszentrum Digital Humanities for a productive exchange on current digital workflows and infrastructure. During the meeting, the SRA’s digital committee introduced the Neo-Latin in the Modern World Semantic MediaWiki, discussing its underlying technical architecture and the implementation of new tools to query,…
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From 21 to 25 September, Lev Shadrin took part in the Machine Learning for Digital Scholarly Editions summer school organized by the Department of Digital Humanities at Uni Graz and sponsored by CLARIAH-AT and DARIAH-EU. The summer school comprised five days of live coding sessions on BERTopic, a modular Python framework for topic modelling. The sessions covered…
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From 24 to 29 August 2026, the University of Vienna hosted the 25th International Congress of Byzantine Studies (ICBS), the world’s largest academic gathering dedicated to the Byzantine Empire, its history, and its culture. Held under the patronage of Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen and themed “Byzantium beyond Byzantium,” the congress attracted approximately 1,500 scholars…
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On the 8-10 July, the conference New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies took place at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Organised by the Hellas Belgicaproject, the conference brought together perspectives on the long history of New Ancient Greek as a dynamic cultural phenomenon from scholars working across Europe, the UK and United States. The Innsbruck…
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On 2nd July 2026, a group of seven team members visited the library at Stift Wilten to explore the monastery’s collection of Greek materials. The group, brought together by W. Barton under the aegis of the SRA’s Early Modern Classics project, was particularly interested in rare editions of classical works on the library’s shelves, prominent Byzantine authors…