"Ancient Studies; New Technology II:
The World Wide Web and Scholarship in Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies"
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
December 6th to 8th, 2002

Conference Organizers:

Ralph Mathisen, University of South Carolina
Michael DiMaio, Salve Regina University
Brian Hancock, Rutgers University

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6

8:00-8:45 Registration
Coffee, doughnuts, conversation

8:45-9:00 WELCOMES, INTRODUCTIONS.
Marianne Gaunt, University Librarian, Rutgers University
Corey Brennan, Classics Department, Rutgers University
Michael DiMaio, Philosophy Department, Salve Regina University

9:00-10:30 SESSION I.   HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION.

Chair: Corey Brennan

[9-9:30] 2. "Alexander Online"
Guy MacLean Rogers (Wellesley College)

[9:30-10] 3. "Fayum Villages and the Prosopographia Ptolemaica: Connecting a Database with an On-Line Gazetteer" [abstract] | [presentation]
Bart Van Beek (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

[10-10:30] 4. "The Social World of John Chrysostom" [abstract] | [presentation]
Wendy Mayer, David O'Brien (Australian Catholic Univ.)

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30 SESSION II.   DATABASES: ACCESS TO MUSEUM COLLECTIONS.

Chair: Michael DiMaio

[11:00-11:30] 1. "The Index of Christian Art and The Internet" [abstract]
Colum Hourihane (Princeton Univ.)

[11:30-12:00] 2. "Documenting a University Collection Online" [abstract]
Eunice Dauterman Maguire, Ana Rosner and Jessica D'Amico (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

[12-12:30] 3. "The Reckoning of Time: The Middle Ages on the Metropolitan Museum's Timeline of Art History" [abstract]
Melanie Holcomb, Teresa Lai (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-4:45 SESSION III.   DATABASES: ACCESS TO MATERIAL CULTURE.

Chair: Michael DiMaio

[2-2:30]1. "Semantic Markup of Latin Inscriptions and the U.S. Epigraphy Project" [abstract]
Ilaria Marchesi (Hofstra Univ.)

[2:30-3] 2. "Roman Republican Coins Database" [abstract]
Samantha Doherty, Jeffery Triggs, Brian Hancock (Rutgers Univ.)

3:00-3:15 Break

[3:15-3:45] 3. "Baptisteria Sacra: An Iconographic Index of Baptismal Fonts" [abstract]
Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens, Miguel A. Torrens (Univ. of Toronto)

[3:45-4:15] 4. "Christian Initiation in Asia Minor" [abstract]
Richard Rutherford (Univ. of Portland)

[4:15-4:45] 5. "Modeling the Visitatio Sepulchri: Some Problems of Representation" [abstract] | [presentation]
Michael L. Norton (James Madison Univ.)

4:45-5:00 Break

5:00-6:30 SESSION IV.   DATABASES: ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS.

Chair: Brian Hancock

[5-5:30] 1. "Diffusing and Studying Medieval Manuscripts in the Twenty-First Century: The Example of 'The Charrette Project'" [abstract]
K. Sarah-Jane Murray (Princeton Univ.)

[5:30-6] 2. "Ius Commune Electronicum: collecting, organizing, and presenting Medieval source documents." [abstract]
Donald Prudlo (Univ. of Virginia)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7

8:00-8:30 Coffee, doughnuts, conversation

8:30-10:00 SESSION V.   TECHNICAL AND CONCEPTUAL CONSIDERATIONS.

Chair: Brian Hancock

[8:30-9] 1. "Authoring Dynamic, Data-Driven Web Sites: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX" [abstract]
Shawn A. Ross (William Patterson Univ.)

[9-9:30] 2. "Streaming Video for Instruction in Medieval Studies Research" [abstract]
Virginia Cole (Cornell Univ. Library)

[9:30-10] 3. "Virtual Spaces Using Adobe Atmosphere" [abstract]
Glenn Gunhouse (Georgia State Univ.)

10:00-10:30 Break

10:30-12:30 SESSION VI.   PEDAGOGY.

Chair: Edward James

[10:30-11] 1. "Tela Latina: Teaching Latin on the Web in the 21st Century" [abstract] | [presentation]
Janice Siegel (Illinois State Univ.)

[11-11:30] 2. "Medieval Latin Palaeography Online: A Teaching Bibliography ("The Electronic Boyle") [abstract]
Luciana Cuppo Csaki (Lake Peekskill, NY)

[11:30-12] 3. "A Student Journey through the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: A Web-based Undergraduate Instructional Tool" [abstract]
Kirstin Noreen, Marchita Mauck and Tanya Ruffin (Louisiana State Univ.)

[12-12:30] 4. "Interactive Introduction to Ancient and Biblical Greek" [abstract]
Dora Pozzi (Univ. of Houston)

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:00 SESSION VII.   OUTREACH AND COMMUNICATION.

Chair: Brian Hancock

[2-2:30]1. "A Project to Build an Online Library of Historical Culinary Texts" [abstract]
Cindy Renfrow

[2:30-3] 2. "oldmoney.vassar.edu: A Case Study in Scholarly Communication and Student Participation in the Digital Age" [abstract]
Bert Lott (Vassar College)

3:00-3:30 Break

3:30-5:30 SESSION VIII.   ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION CONSIDERATIONS.

Chair: Corey Brennan

[3:30-4] 1. "Digital Information and Information Literacy" [abstract] | [presentation]
Jacqueline de Ruiter (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

[4-4:30] 2. "Post-Roman Britain and Dynamic Web Design: The Case of the Saxon Shore Electronic Journal" [abstract]
Jason Godesky (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

[4:30-5] 3. "BethMardutho.org: An Electronic Resource for Syriac Studies" [abstract]
George A. Kiraz (Syriac Institute)

[5-5:30] 4. "Beyond the Print Index Model" [abstract]
Margaret Schaus (Haverford College)

7:00-10:00 Dinner (Menu) at Neilson Hall which is close to the University Inn

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8

8:30-9:00 Coffee, doughnuts, conversation

9:00-10:00 SESSION IX.   TEACHING WORKSHOP.

"Out of olde bookes cometh al this newe science that men leren. Teaching Medieval Studies with Technology: E-books, Microsoft Viewer, and Web Pages" [abstract]
Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby, Bryon Grigsby (Centenary College)

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15-11:45 SESSION X.   ROUNDTABLE. UNRESOLVED ISSUES: "WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE"

Chair: Brian Hancock

Discussants:

Celia Chazelle (The College of New Jersey) (Discussion Lists; A Registration Concept for Articles Published on the Web) [abstract]

Jeffery Triggs (Rutgers Univ.) (Searching Text Images)

Edward James (University of Reading and Rutgers Univ.)

Martina Caroli (University of Bologna)

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