People
Sharing Ancient Wisdoms
In 2009 the Joint Reseach Programme, Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) launched a call for proposals under the title Cultural Dynamics: Inheritance and Identity. This initiative has enabled a group of scholars in Austria, Sweden and the UK, working on different aspects of the tradition of gnomologia, to come together, and collaborate in a manner which would never otherwise have been possible. One of our aims is to facilitate further international collaborations in the future.
Austria
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Professor Stephan Prochazka, of the University of Vienna, is an expert on Arabic language and literature
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The principal researcher, Dr Elvira Wakelnig, specialises in the study of collections of philosophical sayings, in Arabic, and their transmission from Greek.
Sweden
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Dr Denis Searby, of the Newman Institute, Uppsala, is a specalist in the study of Greek gnomologia, and has published a major collection, the Corpus Parisinum.
United Kingdom
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Professor Charlotte Roueché, Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, is the project leader. She has been interested for many years in the tradition of gnomologia, and their influence on Byzantine texts. She has also worked to publish Greek and Latin texts - principally inscriptions on stone - online, using agreed international protocols and schemata.
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A team comprised of researchers at the King's Centre for e-Research (CeRCH) and the Department of Digital Humanities at King's will design and implement the web-based research framework.
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Dr Stuart Dunn (CeRCH) will be responsible for the overall design of the workspace and the web-resource. Researchers in the Department of Digital Humanities, including Dr Charlotte Tupman as lead analyst, will design and implement the framework for editing and publishing text-based materials.