Hélène Rey

Our new blog post by Michel Wong (@humboldtuni.bsky.social ) is a curated guide to online repositories of Chaghatai Turkic manuscripts and printed texts, covering collections in Central Asia and beyond.

Read more on our blog!
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/02/20/a...

Very much looking forward to this! (can be attended online)

Conference "Ethics and Aesthetics in Islamic Heritage" by Pluriel, the University platform for research on Islam. Cordoba, Spain, 10-14 February 2026

Day 1 of the 5th Pluriel conference - "Ethics and Aesthetics in Islamic Heritage" (Cordoba 🇪🇸). Absolutely fascinating!

💡 Today's theme: History, Language and Philosophy.

🔑 Key thinkers mentioned: Ibn Hazm, al-Tawḥīdī, Ibn Arabi & Averroes

🎥 Follow on Zoom: pluriel.fuce.eu/congres/ethi...

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!
We're delighted to announce details of this year's SMA Annual Conference. Theme is Heritage Science & the call for papers is now open. Full details on the conference & how to submit abstract are available here: medievalarchaeology.co.uk/sma-c…
We look forward to hearing from you!

View down open valley and across wider landscape showing old and new growing pine forest. Photo credit: Regenerating Pine Forest, National Trust for Scotland, Mar Lodge, Scotland

📢 Call for papers and discussion participation:

Into the Wild Conference & Discussion Meeting - 21st & 22nd May 2026, Glasgow.

Multidisciplinary event of interest to researchers, practitioners & policy makers.

Deadline: 2 March 2026.
Details: tinyurl.com/8twry2zc

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Trade in Early Modern Orkney kicks off 2026 seminar season A reminder that our 2026 season of free online seminars gets under way on Friday, Janaury 30, with "Traders and Produce in Early Modern Orkney".

A reminder that our 2026 season of free online seminars gets under way on Friday, Janaury 30, with "Traders and Produce in Early Modern Orkney".

A book of funeral liturgies in Syriac, copied in 1883 CE. Collection of the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Baṣrah, Iraq. (CAB 00001)

Digitization & cataloging is complete for one manuscript (CAB 00001) in the collection of the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Baṣrah, Iraq: a book of funeral liturgies in Syriac, copied in 1883 CE.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4hWpyL3

In-person, Edinburgh, UK:

Front and back cover of the book showing a castle in a landscape context

Table of contents showing full chapter titles and author names

New Open Access book co-edited by Prof Michelle Alexander, this multidisciplinary study dives into the frontier landscapes of medieval Spain and Southern France 🇪🇸🇫🇷. Features isotopic analyses from Michelle & Maite García-Collado via York’s BioArCh labs! 🧪 www.jstor.org/stable/jj.36...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Why a Knowledge Graph for SSH? Concrete Use Cases with GRAPHIA. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. This session offers an accessible introduction to the GRAPHIA knowledge graph. Through concrete use cases, participants will explore graph databases and discover how these technologies can relate to t...

"We are building a comprehensive Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Knowledge Graph. Its goal is to connect fragmented SSH data (across disciplines, repositories, and formats) to make research outputs easier to discover, understand, and reuse."

GRAPHIA webinar:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📫 Our January #newsletter is out!

✨ Featuring recent DO posts, our 'AI and Digital Humanities' conference proceedings, and announcements.

🔗 tinyurl.com/do-Jan26

Text image promoting the upcoming Collections Trust pilot hackathon, 16-17 March 2026. The text reads: 'Calling all designers and coders! Be part of Collections Trust’s pilot hackathon - an experimental, collaborative, sprint held over two days - where developers, coders, and museum professionals, will come together to rethink how museums understand and record use of collections. Museum collections are constantly being used - by curators, educators, exhibition designers, researchers, and curious members of the public - but much of this knowledge is lost. Help us design creative, usable solutions to make these interactions visible and shareable. 16-17 March 2026 at York Explore Library and Archive, York Find more information and details on how to express your interest: https://collectionstrust.org.uk/events/rethinking-cataloguing-use-collections/collections-trust-hackathon/'

Skills in UX/UI Design, Coding Web/Application Development, Systems Integration +/or Database Mgmt?

Join us in York (UK) to:
- Experiment with real museum data and problems
- Collaborate with a small, focused group of people
- Influence the future of collections use knowledge

Link in Alt Text 👇

Round paper amulet blockprinted in black ink. Several rows of Sanskrit (I think?) text run in concentric circles around a central image of the Buddha, which is coloured with faded blue, yellow, and green inks. Some Chinese text has been handwritten in the central circle.

Back at work this week and I wanted to share something that's actually a cool history post and not just, like, anti-imperialist rage. This is a Buddhist 'dharani' amulet found in a tomb at Chang'an (modern Xi'an) in northern China. It was *printed* (probably by monks) circa 650-670 CE.

About the congress - Symposium Syriacum Bucharest About the congress

The congress theme is "Peace and Dialogue for the Preservation of Literary & Material Heritage" - deeply relevant work!

Can’t wait to meet colleagues and exploring how we understand intercultural encounters in the medieval world.

🤩 Hope to see you there!

🔗 symposium-syriacum-2026-bucharest.com

Acceptance email for the Symposium Syriacum, Bucharest, August 3-7 2026

🎉 My abstract was accepted for the 14th Symposium Syriacum in Bucharest 🇷🇴

I'll be presenting on how Turco-Mongol communities adapted East Syriac Christianity in 13th-14th century Central Eurasia - looking at archaeological evidence of identity formation along the Silk Roads

#mongolsky #medievalsky

The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library Wayne Torborg, Dr. Catherine Walsh, and John Meyerhofer January 28, 2025, from 11 a.m.–12 p.m. (CT) Free, virtual Winter Lecture Series RSVP at HMML.org

#BookSky: this year’s Winter Lecture Series begins on January 28 at 11 a.m. (CT). Join HMML staff Wayne Torborg, Dr. Catherine Walsh, and John Meyerhofer as they discuss “The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library.”

Register for this free, virtual program at hmml.org/events.

Creation of a Central Asian Cultural Heritage Digital Platform The UCL-led CAAL project has reached an important agreement with Kazakhstan to establish a unified digital platform for the historical and cultural heritage of Central Asian countries.

The @ucl.ac.uk -led CAAL project has reached an important agreement with Kazakhstan to establish a unified digital platform for the historical & cultural heritage of Central Asian countries.

Read more here:
📲 bit.ly/45h72I1

#LocalAndGlobal

📣 MAHSA & MAEASaM host CAA-UK 25!

Last week we welcomed a record number of delegates to Cambridge for the CAA-UK conference on computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology. (1/2) @rebecca-roberts.bsky.social

Flyer for talk today, 16 Dez: 16:15 CET HYBRID BBAW + ZOOM: “Three Perspectives on the Potentials and Limits of Digital Archaeology“ with Raffaele Rizzo / Salent, Michele Pirro Leo / Rom and Vincenzo Ria / Rom.

TODAY 16:15 CET HYBRID @bbaw.bsky.social + ZOOM: “Three Perspectives on the Potentials and Limits of Digital Archaeology“ with Raffaele Rizzo / Salent, Michele Pirro Leo / Rom and Vincenzo Ria / Rom. Info to join: digital-classicist.bbaw.de/programme/pr... #digiclass

Archaeological excavations of the deeply-buried 400, 000-year-old landsurface at Barnham. At Barnham, concentrations of intensely reddened and cracked flint heated to high temperatures indicate the locations of ancient campfires. Picture credits: Pathways to Ancient Britain Project and Jordan Mansfield

Archaeological excavations of the deeply-buried 400, 000-year-old landsurface at Barnham. At Barnham, concentrations of intensely reddened and cracked flint heated to high temperatures indicate the locations of ancient campfires. Picture credits: Pathways to Ancient Britain Project and Jordan Mansfield

Archaeological excavations of the deeply-buried 400, 000-year-old landsurface at Barnham. At Barnham, concentrations of intensely reddened and cracked flint heated to high temperatures indicate the locations of ancient campfires. Picture credits: Pathways to Ancient Britain Project and Jordan Mansfield

A collaborative archaeological team, including @ucl.ac.uk researchers, has found the earliest evidence of early humans intentionally making fire, nearly 350,000 years earlier than previously thought.

📲 bit.ly/4pS0Wq9

#FocusFriday #LocalAndGlobal

Blown away by the quality of the papers at #CAAUK2025 today!

Some favourites:
- Simulating Late Muisca Geopolitical Patterns @ehmalatesta.bsky.social
- Exploring AI for Archaeological Record Digitisation @alientalks.bsky.social

Many foods for thoughts! Next stop: @caaint.bsky.social in Vienna

Merci pour tout le travail qui se cache derrière ce calendrier!

Good Morning - it's Day 2 of #CAAUK2025!

Today we’re diving into modelling the past and exploring new digital horizons — grab a coffee and join us for Session 3 at 09:30 ☕

#DigitalArchaeology #CAAUK

If you want to learn more about the people around Chinggis Khan, follow this very insightful thread! You even get to brush up on your French 😄 #mongolsky

And many other wonderful contributions, in particular from several @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social students! Thanks to @caa-uk.bsky.social for organising and allowing for online participation — looking forward to day 2!

Great 1st day at #CAAUK2025!

Highlights:

👉 Intro to @archesproject.bsky.social, including a step-by-step setup by Jack Tomaney @mahsa-project.bsky.social

👉 Inspiring work by @shriyagautam.bsky.social & the #speakingarchaeologically team - incredible storytelling and #communityarchaeology work

That’s a wrap on #CAAUK2025 Session 1!

A great set of landscape-focused papers with insights into mapping, modelling, GIS limitations, and changing landscapes across Avebury, Africa, India, Europe & Lebanon.

#DigitalArchaeology #CAAUK #Archaeology

CAA-UK starts next Tuesday 9th Dec! 🎉

Whether you’re joining us online or in Cambridge, we look forward to welcoming you.

Conference Programme & More at linktr.ee/caa_uk

Opening Powerpoint slide for a talk on 'Gone Digital: How has digitalisation changed archaeology?'

Thinking I may have bitten off too much ...

www.uib.no/en/nia/17912...
#digitalarchaeology #digitalhumanities

Workshop titled "The Use of LLMs for Content Analysis in the Digital Humanities", at the University of Zürich, organized by the DSI Community Digital Humanities and presented by Prof. Dr. Gerold Schneider and Dr. Tannon Kew.

Inspiring workshop on LLMs for Content Analysis in the Digital Humanities by Prof Dr Gerold Schneider & Dr @tannonk.bsky.social at UZH's Digital Society Initiative yesterday!

Looking forward to apply the learnings to my archaeological research ⛏️🏺

#UZH #digitalarchaeology #syriacstudies #Mongolia