BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ceres.rub.de//events// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:DiGA Kickoff Workshop DTSTART:20220207T090000Z DTEND:20220208T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260417T122933Z UID:diga-kickoff-workshop-7929@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The first DiGA workshop aspires to establish and consolidate d ialogue among scholars variously engaged in South Asian studies and Digita l Humanities. Drawing sharp borders between disciplines and fields of rese arch negatively affects the progress of knowledge\; at DiGA we advocate fo r interoperability and exchange. \n\nThe DiGA project does not intend to exist in isolation\; it aims at exploring similar initiatives\, focusing o n the common objective of bringing collections to the Digital Space. The f irst DiGA workshop wants to showcase examples of best practice in South As ian studies in connection to the use of digital tools for dissemination\, sharing and preservation of cultural heritage. Such an approach has long b een adopted for manuscripts studies both in Buddhist and Brahmanic context s\; these results and ongoing endeavors cannot be ignored by archaeologist s and art historians. This is particularly relevant when bridging collecti ons of images and texts\, one of DiGA's objectives. Key to the interoperab ility between databases of collections originally in various media is the implementation of vocabularies.\n\nThe DiGA workshop is organized in four thematic sessions and includes two roundtables for end of the day discussi ons. Our project will be introduced at the opening\, then the floor for th e following sessions is left to invited experts. The first session\, devot ed to Gandharan studies\, will present recent studies and projects dedicat ed to this specific cultural area from the point of view of material cultu re. In the second session renowned experts in Digital Humanities will shar e their best practices and present a range of digital possibilities that h ave the potential to improve research in Gandharan studies and more broadl y in South Asian studies. The third session includes projects focused on S outh Asia to surpass over-compartmentalization and aiming at a full interc hangeability of data. The fourth and last session\, is dedicated to curren t projects of Digital Humanities in Greater Gandhara and Central Asia\, an d shows how this field continuously progresses into the Digital Space. DiG A is already part of a network of DH applied to Buddhist studies\, but int ends to further cultivate its network\, opening to other facets of digital South Asian studies\, archaeology\, art history\, Indology. The sessions are split over two days\, and\, on both days\, discussions will be concent rated in group roundtables that will invite participants to converse about selected topics. A key objective of the roundtables is to generate a netw ork of scholars sharing common views on the future of South Asian studies and to build a community with a common interest in the intersection betwee n South Asian Studies and Digital Humanities.\n\n\nPlaces are only availab le with registration and can be booked via this link:\n\nhttps://ruhr-uni- bochum.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Akdu2trj8sGNIhrmslrL8LIVorzIyb2ahO\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Program\n \n \n \n \n DAY 1 – 7 February 2022\n \n \n \n \n 10:00-11:00\n \n \n Greetings and DiGA Project Presentation (DiGA Team)\n \n \n \n \n 11:00-11:15\n \n \n C offee Break\n \n \n \n \n 11:15-12:45\n \n \n Session 1 – Ongoing research on Gandhara (Jessie Pons)\n \n \n \n \n 11:15-11: 45\n \n \n Abdul Samad (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Directorate of Archaeolog y and Museums)\n \n \n Recent Developments in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa arc haeology: an overview\n \n \n \n \n 11:45-12:15\n \n \n Stef an Baums (Ludwig‐Maximilians‐University\, Munich)\n \n \n Gandha ri.org – A Corpus and Research Environment for Inscribed Gandhāran Arte facts\n \n \n \n \n 12:15-12:45\n \n \n Peter Stewart (Unive rsity of Oxford)\n \n \n The Classical Art Research Centre: Resource s for Ancient Greek and Gandharan Art in Oxford\n \n \n \n \n 12:4 5-13:45\n \n \n Lunch Break\n \n \n \n \n 13:45-15:15 \n \n \n Session 2 – Digital Humanities: Best practice (Frederik Elwert )\n \n \n \n \n 13:45-14:15\n \n \n Gethin Rees (The British Library\, London)\n \n \n Connecting Gandharan Places using Pelagio s Methods\n \n \n \n \n 14:15-14:45\n \n \n Florian Kräutli (University of Zürich)\n \n \n Bridging Digital Collections\n \n \n \n \n 14:45-15:15\n \n \n Isabella Nicka (University of Sa lzburg)\n \n \n Modelling Visual Narratives. Insights from the REALo nline and ONAMA Projects\n \n \n \n \n 15:15-15:30\n \n \n C offee Break\n \n \n \n \n 15:30-16:30\n \n \n Roundtable: Te chnical strategies and interoperability of Data - Present and Future\n \ n \n \n \n 16:30-17:00\n \n \n Concluding remarks\n \n \n \ n\n\n\n \n \n \n DAY 2 – 8 February 2022\n \n \n \n \n 11:0 0-12:30\n \n \n Session 3 – Digital Humanities in South Asian Stud ies (Serena Autiero)\n \n \n \n \n 11:00-11:30\n \n \n Camer on Petrie (University of Cambridge)\n \n \n Introducing the MAHSA [ Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia] project: collaborative mapp ing of the distribution of archaeological heritage sites in South Asia by combining analysis of historic maps\, legacy data and remote sensing image ry with ground truthing\n \n \n \n \n 11:30-12:00\n \n \n Cs aba Kiss (“L’Orientale” University of Naples) \n \n \n From t yping text to creating text: Experiments while editing the Śivadharma cor pus\n \n \n \n \n 12:00-12:30\n \n \n Camillo Formigatti (Bo dleyan Library\, Oxford)\n \n \n Behind Digital Humanities\, or Glim pses into the Cabinet of Shame\n \n \n \n \n 12:30-13:30\n \n \n Lunch Break\n \n \n \n \n 13:30-15:00\n \n \n Session 4 – Digital Humanities in Greater Gandhara and Central Asia (Cristiano M oscatelli)\n \n \n \n \n 13:30-14:00\n \n \n Jason Neelis ( Wilfrid Laurier University\, Waterloo)\n \n \n Prospects for Digital Preservation of Upper Indus Petroglyphs and Inscriptions in Northern Paki stan\n \n \n \n \n 14:00-14:30\n \n \n Laurianne Bruneau\, M artin Vernier\, Ani Danielyan and Philippe Pons (East Asian Civilizations Research Centre (CRCAO\, Paris\, France)\n \n \n An introduction to the Himalayan Rock Art Database (HiRADa)\n \n \n \n \n 14:30-15:00 \n \n \n Ines Konczak-Nagel and Erik Radisch (Saxon Academy of Scien ces and Humanities)\n \n \n The Digital Information System of the Pr oject “Buddhist Murals of Kucha on the Northern Silk Road” of the Saxo n Academy of Sciences and Humanities\n \n \n \n \n 15:00-15:30\n \n \n Coffee Break\n \n \n \n \n 15:30-16.30 \n \n \n Roundtable: Heuristic value of digital strategies and impact on discipline s in South Asian studies\n \n \n \n \n 16.30-17.00 \n \n \n Concluding remarks\n \n \n \n\n\nTime specification: UTC/GMT +1 | Subj ect to change without notice \n\nDownload the PDF Version here. \n\nTh e Roundtables Format is available here.  LOCATION:Online Event URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/diga-kickoff-workshop/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR