[MES Forum] Upcoming events, No forum this week

[McClimans, Melinda]

Dear MES Forum,

We’ve decided to forego the MES Forum we had scheduled for this week in order to make a little more time available for everyone this busy Spring semester. The presentation on Kuwaiti Oral histories was a remarkable event and I feel grateful to have been a part of it. The past weeks have been quite full, though, and we do not expect the pace of events to slow down. Please cancel the forum Thursday, March 28 at 4:00 from your calendars. Thank you!

Thank you for understanding! We also encourage you to check out the following opportunities to learn from world experts and join together in community:


§  April 1-4 Guest Lectures by Bronson Brown-deVost.

We’re excited to announce that the week of April 1–4 we (NESA and the Digital Humanities Librarian Series) are hosting Dr. Bronson Brown-deVost from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities (i.e., Niedersäschsische Akademie der Wissenschaft zu Göttingen).

His first lecture, April 3rd, is titled Digital-Humanities in Realtime: Physical/Computational Constraints and their Philosophical Underpinnings. https://library.osu.edu/events/digital-humanities-series-digital-humanities-in-realtime-physicalcomputational-constraints

This talk is designed with those interested in the future of the field in mind. @Grad Students: your best chance of getting a job in the field will be a postdoc which has a digital component or is fully digital.

His second lecture, April 4th, is titled Creating Collaborative Editions of Dead Sea Scrolls: A Hands-on Demonstration and Discussion.

https://library.osu.edu/events/digital-humanities-series-creating-collaborative-editions-of-dead-sea-scrolls-a-hands-on

While Bronson will present this Dead Sea Scrolls specific digital platform, the power of the resource including its state-of-the-art advances in photographic manipulation and text recognition can be built into the api of nearly any textual dataset.

His field specific expertise is in Hebrew Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls, Akkadian literature and intellectual history, Ethiopic, with full training in Classics. In terms of digital humanities, he is a full stack developer (i.e., front- and backend).
§  Wednesday, April 10th, 11:00am, Workshop on Mistakes in Theatre https://nesa.osu.edu/events/workshop-mistakes-theatre-0
§  Friday, April 12th, 12:45, Syrian Theatre Institutions and Enmity https://nesa.osu.edu/events/syrian-theatre-institutions-and-enmity-0
§  April 16, 2024 4:00PM - 6:00PM Hagerty Hall Room 251 Wouter Henkelman on The Institutional Landscape of Ancient Parsa: Trees, Babylonians, and Lance-bearers
He is the world’s leading scholar of Achaemenid history and the Elamite language and is a professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. https://mesc.osu.edu/events/institutional-landscape-ancient-parsa-trees-babylonians-and-lance-bearers <https://mesc.osu.edu/events/institutional-landscape-ancient-parsa-trees-babylonians-and-lance-bearers>
§  Wednesday, April 17th at 10:00am, MES Forum, Fireside in Hagerty Hall Crane Café area, end-of-year celebration showcasing faculty and student work.
§  Monday, April 22nd, Last day of classes
§  Tuesday, April 23rd, from 1:00 to 5:00, Reading Day, MESC "Read and Feed" Hagerty Hall, room 180, Middle Eastern food served in the hall next to room 180 in coordination with the Crane Cafe and the CLLC

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