Dear all, Please see the invitation below to join our online colloquium on digital history with a talk by Riham Mokrani titled Manuscript Meets Model: Digital Approaches to Arabic Paleography. All the best, Till

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From: Philipp Schneider <[email protected]> Subject: [Offenes-Kolloquium-Digital-History] Vortragseinladung: Riham Mokrani – Manuscript Meets Model: Digital Approaches to Arabic Paleography (May 28th 2025) Date: 26. May 2025 at 11:44:57 CEST To: [email protected]

Dear list members of the Open Research Colloquium Digital History,

We cordially invite you to the next talk of this semester on Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 4-6 p.m. (c.t.; CET).

Riham Mokrani (EPHE Paris) will present "Manuscript Meets Model: Digital Approaches to Arabic Paleography" offering a critical exploration of Arabic paleography at the intersection of traditional analysis and digital innovation. The presentation will focus on the application of digital methods in Arabic paleography, particularly the development of standardized descriptive frameworks for Arabic scripts through ontology engineering and the use of machine learning and computational models for script classification and manuscript analysis.

More detailed information on the talk can be found on the Chair's blog: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/10533

The colloquium takes place via Zoom. You can join via the following link: https://hu-berlin.zoom.us/j/98682719801 Meeting-ID: 986 8271 9801

After the lecture, we are happy to invite you to our virtual DH bar to continue the discussions: https://www.kumospace.com/dh-berlin-bar.

We look forward to your attendance and the discussions.

With kind regards, Torsten Hiltmann

_________________________________ Prof. Dr. Torsten Hiltmann

Professur für Digital History Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Unter den Linden 6 D-10099 Berlin