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May 2018

University of Manchester

Genealogies of Knowledge Corpus

Genealogies of Knowledge Software – Developments and Enhancements

The Genealogies of Knowledge project has recently announced the release of the GoK corpus browser interface for researchers wishing to work with the range of corpora developed as part of this project. This is a substantial resource which is constantly being expanded. New functionalities have also now been added to the main interface…

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Developing and Translating Rights, 19 June 2018

A half-day event co-hosted by the Genealogies of Knowledge Project and the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester. This event will explore how the concept of ‘rights’, as framed by the complexity of human rights law, is enacted and enabled beyond cultural and linguistic boundaries, through translation and interpreting, and can be articulated from different perspectives…

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A host of tongues…: Multilingualism, lingua franca and translation in the Early Modern periodA host of tongues.. Multilingualism, lingua franca and translation in the Early Modern period

This conference aims to bring together cultural historians, historical linguists and translation studies specialists in an attempt to generate a truly interdisciplinary debate about linguistic behaviour in the Early Modern period. Proposals are invited ….

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Greek Verses on the Goddess Cybele from the Red Sea Port City of Berenike.Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri provides access to fragments of ancient literature

The The Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri (DCLP), a new digital tool for researching ancient literature, is now available. Scholars from Heidelberg University and New York University (USA) spearheaded the development of the newly released open-access database, which offers information about and transcripts of Greek and Latin texts preserved on fragments of papyri…
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