We are happy to inform you that the IDEA directorial committee met yesterday to evaluate the seven applications we received for the CIEGL financial support call and award the grants. After a thorough review of all the proposals, the committee decided to award a 650€ grant to each of the following candidates: Marta Fogagnolo, who will present a...
Read More »Ithaca: Restoring and attributing Greek inscriptions using Artificial Intelligence
We are pleased to announce the publication of the paper titled “Restoring and attributing ancient texts using deep neural networks” on the cover of this week’s issue of the scientific journal Nature. This work is the result of a collaboration between the Universities of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Oxford and Athens AUEB, and Google’s DeepMind. The...
Read More »Call for two postdoctoral researchers in Byzantine Studies and Digital Humanities
Feature image: Michael, magistros und stratelates, Avers (Sammlung Sopracasa no. 59) Foto: https://bit.ly/3rJz7o6 ***ENGLISH BELOW*** Chers/Chères Collègues, dans le cadre du projet “DigiByzSeal – Dévoiler la richesse cachée des sceaux : nouvelles méthodologies pour la recherche historique dans le domaine des études byzantines”...
Read More »Financial support to CIEGL participants
The International Digital Epigraphy Association (IDEA) decided to sponsor young scholars who are going to participate to the next AIEGL Congress that will be held in Bordeaux from August 29th to September 2nd, 2022. We will happily receive proposals from young scholars who have completed their PhD in the last 15 years, presenting a paper or a poster to...
Read More »Call for applications for the award of 4 EAGLE scholarships
The Italian Institute for Ancient History announces a call for four scholarships lasting five months as part of the agreement with EAGLE (the Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy), in order to promote training of graduates who work in the field of computer applications to Epigraphy. Candidates must have obtained a master’s degree in...
Read More »IDEA call for small grants 2021
We are happy to inform you that the IDEA call for small grants 2021 is now open. Also this year IDEA will be able to support up to two 1.000 EUR grants and the deadline to submit your proposals is November 30th, 2021. We remind you that the grant will be assigned to small projects submitted by members of the association and coherent with the scope...
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