Digital Humanities Week-End

Organised at the CHS in Greece, the "Digital Humanities Week-End" was a multidisciplinary event aimed at bringing together Greek academic librarians and other specialists engaged in the digitization of texts and objects relating to the humanities. The centerpiece was the conference (closed to the public) on Saturday morning and afternoon which was attended by specialists from the Academy of Athens, the National Technical University of Athens, the Universities of Crete, Ioannina, Patras and the Peloponnese and other Greek institutions. Professors Gregory Nagy and Leonard Muellner took part in the afternoon session via teleconference from House A on the Washington DC CHS campus. The Saturday event resulted in a most useful exchange of information between participants. Perhaps a sign of its success was the participants' resolution to meet henceforward every two years at the CHS in Greece. The conference was chaired by I. Petropoulos.

Emeritus Professor Dimitrios Maronitis opened the "Digital Humanities Week-End" with his public lecture on Friday. The next day he treated participants to a spell-binding private reading of excerpts from his recent translation of the Iliad. The week-end reached its climax on Sunday morning when Dr. Manfred Meyer from the University of Graz gave a public lecture and live demonstration of the use of the "cradle", now housed in the Nafplio Center. Meyer's absorbing presentation was preceded by a brief excursus by Ioannis Petropoulos on the Venetus A manuscript and its former owner, Cardinal Bessarion.