COBHUNI Presentations
In this section, COBHUNI gives an insight into the work in progress of the project.
The papers that are published here represent the submissions to and participations at conferences and workshops. They should be considered as inspriration for discussions.
2020-2023 | DFG-AHRC three-year project The Intertwined World of the Oral and Written Transmission of Sacred Traditions in the Middle East, joint project with Geoffrey Khan | University of Cambridge (AHRC)
Funded by Dr. Alba Fedeli
February 2020 | Presentation of the COBHUNI Project | Casa Árabe Madrid, Spain
- Project Layout by Prof. Dr. Thomas Eich
- The prenatal life conceptualized by Maghribi and Andalusi scholars (12th/13th centuries) by Khaoula Trad
- Embryological Imagery in post-Talmudic Judaism by Dr. Doru Doroftei
- Unborn Life in Barhebraeus' "Book of Guidance": Interconfessional Renegotiations through Intertextuality by Florian Jäckel
- Embryological models in the words of Abd al-Majid al-Zindani and Keith Moore in late 20th Century by Melanie Guénon
- Digital challenges in Arabic Script: Experiences from the COBHUNI-Corpus by Dr. Alicia González Martínez
- Digital Encoding of Quranic MSS and their analysis: a by-product of the COBHUNI project by Dr. Alba Fedeli
December 2019 | Conference on The Transmission and Reception of the Qurʾān in Light of Recent Scholarship | Harvard University | Paper Presentation
Early Qurʾānic Manuscripts in a Digital Horizon: Reconsidering Diacritic Meta-markup, and Other Remarks at the conference
by Dr. Alba Fedeli
November 2019 | The Qur’an: Manuscripts and Textual Criticism at IQSA Annual Conference | San Diego, USA
Organization of the panel by Dr. Alba Fedeli
October 2019 | Database of Qur’an Manuscripts, Editions and Translations at the European Quran Launch Conference | Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” | Naples, Italy
Presentation by Dr. Alba Fedeli
https://euqu.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/829/2020/02/Naples-Launch-Conference-Programme.pdf
https://euqu.eu/2019/10/13/16-18-oct-19-in-naples-euqu-launch-conference/
October 2019 | International Conference | Digital Archiving in the Arab World | Abu Dhabi, UAE | Oct 26-27 2019
A working solution for searching in Arabic scripted-texts
by Dr. Alicia González Martínez & Thomas Milo
October 2019 | 43rd Internationalization and Unicode Conference October 16-18, 2019 | Santa Clara, USA
YaKabikaj: a search algorithm for Arabic-scripted languages. Real-time Unicode normalization
by Thomas Milo and Dr. Alicia González Martínez
https://www.unicodeconference.org
October 2019 | 26th International DAVO/DMG Congress 3–5 October 2019 | Asian-Africa-Institute of Hamburg University
Manuscripts in Arabic Script and Digital Humanities
Unbiased Digital Search on Arabic Script: Making Use of the Paleo-Orthographic Layer of Representation Together with the Search Algorithm Yakabikaj
by Thomas Milo & Dr. Alicia González Martínez
September 2019 | Workshop on Language technology for digital historical archives with a special focus on Central-, (South-)Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa, 5 September 2019 | Varna, Bulgaria within the conference RANLP 2019, Recent advances in natural language processing
Graphemic ambiguous queries on Arabic-scripted historical corpora (Keynote lecture)
by Dr Alicia González Martínez
http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2019/workshops.php
August 2019 |Textual Criticism of the New Testament, the Old Testament and the Qur’an at EABS Annual Conference | Warsaw, Poland
Organization of the research Unit and panel by Dr. Alba Fedeli
July 2019 | The 3rd Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-3), 22 July 2019 | Cardiff, United Kingdom within the Corpus Linguistics 2019 Conference
A linguistic representation of script for the Arabic Corpus: from Unicode to manuscripts (Keynote lecture)
by Dr. Alicia González Martínez
July 2019 | ReIRes, Digital Humanities and Historical Religious Studies at Fscire July 3-5, 2019 | Bologna, Italy
Digital problems and solutions for working with manuscripts in Arabic script (Seminar)
by Thomas Milo & Dr. Alicia González Martínez
May 2019 | DATeCH May 8-10 2019 International Conference | Brussels, Belgium | Paper presentation
A New Strategy for Arabic OCR: Archigraphemes, Letter Blocks, Script Grammar, and shape synthesis
by Thomas Milo & Dr. Alicia González Martínez
May 2019 | 1st IDHN Members’ Meeting (online): “Building a Corpus” May 2019
Tutorial on Web Scraping using python
by Dr. Alicia González Martínez
March 2019 | Islam and Pluralism | European Academy of Religion Annual Conference | Paper presentation
The alternative view: plurality of readings in early Qur’anic manuscripts at the Panel Islam and Pluralism
by Dr. Alba Fedeli
https://euareannualconference2019.sched.com/event/K5fJ/6346-islam-and-pluralism
February 2019 | Unknown Texts, Hidden and Fake Manuscripts: When the Use and Reuse of Documents become a Detective Story in Libraries and Archives working with Librarians and Curators as part of REIRES workshops (Research Infrastructure on religious Studies) | Bologna, Italy
Train the Trainer Session by Dr. Alba Fedeli
December 2018 | COBHUNI Poster Presentation
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The soul: pre-existence conte(x/s)ted
by Prof. Dr. Thomas Eich & Dr. Doru Doroftei
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by Khaoula Trad & Melanie Guénon
December 2018 | Conference on “Reading the Rasm” | Leiden University, Netherlands | Paper Presentation
Who read the rasm? Segmental Signs and Metalinguistic Mark-up in Interpreting the Text
by Dr. Alba Fedeli
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/binaries/content/assets/geesteswetenschappen/leiden-university-centre-for-linguistics/updated-program-reading-rasm-.5-12pdf.pdf
December 2018 | Akademie Colloquium: Whither Islamicate Digital Humanities? Analytics, Tools, Corpora | Amsterdam, Netherlands
The COBHUNI Corpus: how to develop a robust and modular architecture for collecting and enriching a corpus on Islamic literature
by Dr. Alicia González Martínez
https://islamicdh.org/conference-2018/
December 2018 | Congress: The Maghrib in the Mashriq | Madrid, Spain | Conference Participation
The impact of maghribi hadith commentaries in the Mashriq
by Khaoula Trad
November 2018 | The Qur’an: Manuscripts and Textual Criticism, Theme 1: Manuscripts and Commentaries and Theme 2: Manuscripts and Commentaries, Access and Interpretation at IQSA Annual Conference| Denver
Organization of the panels by Dr. Alba Fedeli
Conference report: https://iqsaweb.wordpress.com/2018/12/24/details-from-denver-2018-annual-meeting-conference-report/
July 2018 | WOCMES 2018 | Sevilla, Spain | Congress
Arabic digital humanities: some challenges and solutions
by Dr. Alicia González Martínez
http://wocmes2018seville.org/web/images/doc/programme/WOCMES_program.pdf
July 2018 | Lilith in the Jewish and Islamic traditions | WOCMES 2018 | Sevilla, Spain | Conference Participation
by Khaoula Trad
February 2018 - 2020 | Collaboration in the AHRC Codex Zacynthius project, University of Birmingham | UK
by Dr. Alba Fedeli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxXb8qBYgPQ and https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/itsee/projects/codex-zacynthius.aspx
2017 | Findings and lessons learned after 3 years into an ERC project 2017 | Naples, Italy | Conference Participation
by Prof. Dr. Thomas Eich
December 2017 | COBHUNI Poster Presentation
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by Khaoula Trad
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The Embryo and the Expert -Medicine, Religion and the Struggle for Authority
by Melanie Guénon
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The COBHUNI Corpus one Year Ahead
by Dr. Alicia González Martínez and Tillmann Feige
September 2017 | DOT 2017 | Deutscher Orientalistentag "Asia, Africa and Europe" | Jena, Germany | Conference Participation
Building a corpus of Islamic embryology based on a robust and elegant architecture
by Dr. Alicia González Martínez & Tillmann Josua
July 2017 | Florilegia: Big Textual Data Workshop 2017 | Leipzig, Germany | Workshop
How-To: Pushing Annotations of Different Languages to Annis
by Dr. Alicia González Martínez
http://www.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/events/global-philology-big-textual-data/
June 2017 | DATeCH 2017 | Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage | Göttingen, Germany | Conference Participation
An efficient and straightforward methodology for OCR-ing and post-correcting Arabic text material on Islamic embryology collected for the COBHUNI project:
Clear-cut methodology for Arabic OCR and post-correction with low technical skilled annotators
by Dr. Alicia González Martínez, Tillmann Feige & Prof. Dr. Thomas Eich
February 2017 | DHd 2017 Digital Humanies im deutschsprachigen Raum | Bern, Switzerland | Conference Participation
Designing and building a corpus of Arabic literature on Islamic bioethics for semantic analysis: set-up and challenges:
Herausforderungen in der Nutzung vorhandener Tools für arabische Daten
by Dr. Alicia González Martínez & Tillmann Josua
December 2016 | COBHUNI Poster Presentation
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An Angel approaches the Unborn - an isnad-cum-matn analysis
by Prof. Dr. Thomas Eich
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by Dr. Doru Constantin Doroftei
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by Florian Jäckel
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by Dr. Alicia González Martínez and Tillmann Feige
September 2016 |FORGE 2016 | Hamburg, Germany | Conference Participation
Reuse: a symbiosis between developers and researchers
by Dr. Alicia González Martínez & Tillmann Feige
