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Julia Jennifer Beine @juliajbeine.bsky.social · 19h

Just in time for #Halloween, my article on the uncanny in #Plautus’ “Ghost Play” is now available open access on Zenodo:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Find out how the scheming slave Tranio creates the perfect haunted house on stage to scare his master and... (1/2)
#ClassicsBluesky #RomanComedy

a black and white cartoon of mickey mouse sitting on a set of stairs with a skeleton in the background .

ALT: a black and white cartoon of mickey mouse sitting on a set of stairs with a skeleton in the background .

media.tenor.com

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Julia Jennifer Beine @juliajbeine.bsky.social · 19h

... how #Heywood, #Fielding, and #Holberg adapted the Roman model for their contemporary audiences. (2/2)

#ClassicalReceptionStudies #ClassicsBluesky #servuscallidus

Julia Jennifer Beine @juliajbeine.bsky.social · 19h

Just in time for #Halloween, my article on the uncanny in #Plautus’ “Ghost Play” is now available open access on Zenodo:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Find out how the scheming slave Tranio creates the perfect haunted house on stage to scare his master and... (1/2)
#ClassicsBluesky #RomanComedy

a black and white cartoon of mickey mouse sitting on a set of stairs with a skeleton in the background .

ALT: a black and white cartoon of mickey mouse sitting on a set of stairs with a skeleton in the background .

media.tenor.com

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Julia Jennifer Beine @juliajbeine.bsky.social · 6d

Danke schön!

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Tagesschau Bot @tagesschau.bsky.social · 13d

Wie die Römer über die Donau#Römer#Boote#RömischesReich

Wie die Römer über die Donau

Der Nachbau eines Schiffes der alten Römer zeigt, wie sie ihr Reich auch an Flüssen verteidigen konnten.

www.tagesschau.de

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dehypotheses @dehypotheses.bsky.social · 21d

Academia[dot]edu recently updated its Terms of Service, leading researchers to reconsider their presence on the platform. From the beginning, "its business model consisted in harvesting free labor from academics", writes @petertarras.bsky.social. On leaving academia[dot]edu:

medisi.hypotheses.or...

Leaving academia.edu. AI and information oss.

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Julia Jennifer Beine @juliajbeine.bsky.social · 18d

You may now find my presentation slides of today's NeoLatDraCor talk on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

@ianls.bsky.social @dracor.org #NeoLatin #DraCor #DH

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Julia Jennifer Beine @juliajbeine.bsky.social · 19d

I am very much looking forward to presenting approaches to building a digital Neo-Latin Drama Corpus (NeoLatDraCor) at the "Digital Neo-Latin studies: ideas and perspectives" event this morning. Here is the programme: ianls.com/wp-content/u...
#DraCor #NeoLatin #DH
@ianls.bsky.social @dracor.org

ianls.com

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Julia Jennifer Beine @juliajbeine.bsky.social · 19d

I am very much looking forward to presenting approaches to building a digital Neo-Latin Drama Corpus (NeoLatDraCor) at the "Digital Neo-Latin studies: ideas and perspectives" event this morning. Here is the programme: ianls.com/wp-content/u...
#DraCor #NeoLatin #DH
@ianls.bsky.social @dracor.org

ianls.com

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DraCor @dracor.org · 22d

The idea to attach an Ibsen corpus to #DraCor is almost 10 years old. Thanks to our colleagues at the Centre for Ibsen Studies (University of Oslo) 🇳🇴, we are delighted to announce today the official release of #IbsDraCor with 37 plays:
dracor.org/ibs

#DigitalHumanities

Screenshot of the Ibsen Drama Corpus in action.

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Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · 27d

Next up at #TEI2025: @danja.bsky.social presents our work on the Ukrainian Drama Corpus 🇺🇦

So far, we encoded 47 plays (1810s–1920s) by Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka & others.

Explore the corpus here:
dracor.org/u

#DraCor @dracor.org @teiconsortium.bsky.social @schwindt.bsky.social

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Frederik Elwert @felwert.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 29d

Der #dhdayrub ist gerade gestartet, der mittlerweile 7. #dhday an der @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Und zugleich ein Jubiläum: Der 5. Geburtstag des Digital Humanities Center DHC. Ein wirklich schönes Programm für die nächsten zwei Tage: https://dhday.rub.de/

RUB DH Day #7

dhday.rub.de

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Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · Sep 5

✨ Check out #ToolFindr: A Lightweight Explorer for Discovering Research Tools in the #DigitalHumanities

furesh.github.io/toolfindr/

Blogpost (in German):
blogs.hu-berlin.de/furesh/?p=683

#Wikidata #TaDiRAH

Screenshot of the "ToolFindr" landing page.

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 3

Equivalent characters from parallel plays (source and translation) tend to speak at similar length at similar moments — Lucas van der Deijl (@rug.nl) presents a computational method to align characters from parallel plays in different languages
#DraCorSummit #DraCor
Read: zenodo.org/records/1693...

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DraCor @dracor.org · Sep 3

We're kicking off the Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis at #DraCorSummit 2025 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social!

Exciting line-up of 11 presentations, full programme here:
summit.dracor.org/computationa...

The 195-page conference reader was uploaded to Zenodo:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#DraCor

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 2

From Ancient Greek to 20 century Yiddish, and from Spain to Georgia: the #DraCor Corpora Conference at #DraCorSummit 2025 is starting right now! 18 @dracor.org corpora presentations to go! The first one is by @juliajbeine.bsky.social about the #NeoLatDraCor

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Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · Sep 1

Wonderful keynote by Clarisse Bardiot (@univrennes2.bsky.social) at #DraCorSummit on turning theatre programmes into structured data with ontologies + LLMs opening new horizons for Performing Arts Analytics, from micro to macro history.

#DraCor @juliajbeine.bsky.social

Title slide of the keynote presentation.

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Julia Jennifer Beine @juliajbeine.bsky.social · Sep 1

I am very much looking forward to the first day of the #DraCorSummit. Join @danja.bsky.social and me for our From Dramatic Text to DraCor TEI training session.
summit.dracor.org/dracoros_tra...

#DH #CLS
@dhpotsdam.bsky.social
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
@teiconsortium.bsky.social
@dracor.org

Title slide of the training session "From Dramatic Text to DraCor TEI".

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Julia Jennifer Beine @juliajbeine.bsky.social · Sep 1

I am very much looking forward to the first day of the #DraCorSummit. Join @danja.bsky.social and me for our From Dramatic Text to DraCor TEI training session.
summit.dracor.org/dracoros_tra...

#DH #CLS
@dhpotsdam.bsky.social
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
@teiconsortium.bsky.social
@dracor.org

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Dîlan Canan Çakir @dilan-c.bsky.social · Aug 21

Huhu, I’d love your help! Any favorite quotes on activism? Please send me quotes on activism (any language + source) for my research project on activism. All contributions will be credited =D

Current collection/database here:
dilancakir.github.io/whatisactivi...

#activism #litwiss #Aktivismus

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Universität Potsdam @unipotsdam.bsky.social · Aug 25

Im #DramaCorporaProjekt sind tausende von Dramen der europ. Literaturgeschichte frei verfügbar. Das #DraCorSummit2025 für internat. Forschende wird vom @dhpotsdam.bsky.social mit der Professur für #DigitalHumanities der @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social ausgerichtet: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/medieninf...

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Julia Jennifer Beine @juliajbeine.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thank you very much! I will!

Julia Jennifer Beine @juliajbeine.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thank you!

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Julia Jennifer Beine @juliajbeine.bsky.social · Aug 25

I am happy to share some news: I will start a Junior Research Group in the research field “Sustainability in Translation” @uni-wuerzburg.de. I am very much looking forward to my new role. (1/2)
#ClassicsBluesky #DH #DigitalClassics #CLS #Translation #SDGs #PostcolonialStudies #GenderStudies

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Julia Jennifer Beine @juliajbeine.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thanks! :)