
Insights from the joint TOME–VERITRACE workshop in Plzeň (May 2025): digital humanities, prisca sapientia, alchemy, and early modern thought.

Insights from the joint TOME–VERITRACE workshop in Plzeň (May 2025): digital humanities, prisca sapientia, alchemy, and early modern thought.

DR Eszter Kovacs About two montha ago, I had the opportunity to participate in the second ConCorDial Conference, held in Lyon, at the École normale supérieure de Lyon. This event followed the first ConCorDial Conference, held in Grenoble in 2022, and gathered together linguists, literary scholars, historians, historians of ideas, even if the conference’s main…

Dr Jeffrey Wolf & Nicolò Cantoni VERITRACE is a digital humanities project through-and-through. Because of this, it is worth saying something about why we think taking an approach from the Digital or Computational Humanities adds value to the intellectual research we are conducting. To recap, the intellectual goals of VERITRACE are to answer the following…

Eszter Kovács These days almost everybody does “distant reading”, even if he or she has never heard or used this term, attributed to Franco Moretti, emeritus professor and co-founder of the Stanford Literary Lab. We do distant reading when searching a passage in a book, or searching for the source of a quotation, etc. (“Something…

Demetrios Paraschos Almost four months have passed since the VERITRACE journey started. It is now a good moment to reflect on the unexpected intersections between the ancient and the (early) modern and what working in an interdisciplinary environment really means for a classicist. Since my studies until now have been dedicated to Classics and Ancient…

Jeff Wolf Each month we will include a short set of reflections about the VERITRACE project: new developments, notable challenges, and lessons learned. Generally, we will rotate authors, so that each team member has a chance to write a post. This inaugural reflection will focus on the technical side of the project. October and a…
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