A conference on the results of and prospects for the project was held on November 7, 2020. The conference can be heard here, and the concluding discussion is here.
Here is the program:
Herodotos Project 2020: Ethnohistory and Digital Science — A Virtual Conference
Organized by Christopher Brown, Marie Catherine de Marneffe, Micha Elsner, and Brian Joseph, Co-PIs for the Herodotos Project
Saturday November 7, 2020
9:30 – 9:40 — Christopher Brown, Marie Catherine de Marneffe, Micha Elsner, and Brian Joseph, Words of Welcome – Outline of Project
9:40 – 9:50 — Morley Stone (OSU Office of Research), “The Herodotos Project and the OSU research scene”
9:50 – 10:00 — Brian D. Joseph (OSU), “Whose land?”
10:00 – 10:15 — Stanley Dubinsky and Harvey Starr (University of South Carolina), “The Language Conflict Project: Modern conflicts and their connections to the ancient world”
10:15 – 10:35 — Clayton Marr (OSU), “Means and Ends of Latinization in Gaul”
10:35 – 10:55 — Rex E. Wallace (OSU / University of Massachusetts), “Thoughts on the Etrusco-Italic koine”
BREAK
11:15 – 11:35 — Mark Janse (Ghent University), “The Cappadocians: A case study in ancient ethnohistory”
11:35 – 11:55 — Anthony Kaldellis (OSU), “The extinction of ethnicities and languages in late antiquity”
11:55 – 12:15 — Jon Frey (Michigan State University), “Roman renovation of the Greek sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia”
LUNCH (on your own)
1:15– 1:45 — Elton Barker (UK Open University), “Mapping texts, annotating places, linking data”
BREAK
2:00 – 2:30 — Maximilian Schich (Tallinn University), “Groups and Other Topics of Confusion”
2:30 – 2:50 — Benjamin Allen (OSU B.A.), Cristina Perez Diukina (OSU), and Junyu Ruan (OSU), “Designing a database for the Herodotos Project”
BREAK
3:10 – 3:30 — Colleen Kron (OSU / Stockholm University), James Wolfe (OSU), and Morgan Amonett (OSU), “Greek and Latin Annotation for the Herodotos Project: Challenges and Prospectus”
3:30 – 3:50 — Charles Woodrum (OSU B.S.), “Applying the Humanities Entity Recognizer (HER) to stylometry”
3:50 – 4:10 –Christopher G. Brown (OSU), “The Herodotos Project and ethnohistorical research”
4:10 – 5:00 – General discussion – Quo vadimus?