Monica Berti

Hi!
I'm Monica Berti

I am a Classicist and Digital Humanist.

My research is focused on the Graeco-Roman World and the Computational Analysis of Ancient Greek and Latin.

I teach academic courses in Ancient History, Digital Classics, Digital Philology and Digital Humanities.

Welcome to my personal website!

About me

Who Am I?

I am assistant professor and DFG project leader at the University of Leipzig, where I teach courses in Digital Humanities, Digital Philology and Digital Classics, and I'm developing Named Entity Recognition and Annotation of Ancient Greek with a focus on bibliographic references to authors and works (DFG Project nr. 434173983).

My research interests are mainly focused on the Graeco-Roman World, the Computational Analysis of Ancient Greek and Latin, and the Digital Humanities. I have been extensively publishing and leading projects in these fields as part of the Open Greek and Latin (OGL) initiative at the Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig and of the Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University.

As part of my teaching activities, I am program director of Sunoikisis Digital Classics, which is an international consortium of Digital Classics programs developed in collaboration with the Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies and the Institute of Classical Studies of the School of Advanced Study at the University of London.

Ancient Greek and Latin

Digital
Classics

Digital
Philology

Computational Linguistics

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., Università di Genova, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità e del Medioevo, 2003. Dissertation title: L’egemonia dell’Areopago ad Atene (478-462 a.C.). Per una lettura dei capitoli 23-25 dell’Athenaion Politeia aristotelica.
Laurea summa cum laude in Lettere Classiche, Università di Torino, Dipartimento di Storia, 1997. Dissertation title: Gli ostraka e un decennio di lotte politiche ad Atene (490-480 a.C.).

Work Experience

DFG Leader, Alte Geschichte, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Leipzig. DFG Project number 434173983. Topic: Text-based Extraction, Analysis, and Annotation of Ancient Greek References to Authors and Works. 2020-
Akademische Assistentin (AR) (Assistant Professor), Institüt für Informatik, Universität Leipzig (Alexander von Humboldt-Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities), 2013-2020.
Lecturer, Tufts University, Department of Classics, Medford, MA, 2010-2013.
Visiting Scholar, The Perseus Project, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2009. Research Project: Building a Digital Corpus of Greek Fragmentary Authors.
Lecturer, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Dipartimento di Antichità e Tradizione Classica, 2005-2013.

Fellowships

Visit Scholarship, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Berlin, April 2011 and October 2012.
Post-doctoral Fellowship, Università di Torino, Dipartimento di Storia, 2004-2008. Research Project: Storia e istituzioni dei Greci in Egitto dal VII al I secolo a.C. attraverso le testimonianze della cultura letteraria e materiale.
PhD Fellowhsip, Università di Genova, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità e del Medioevo, 2000-2003. Research Project: L’egemonia dell’Areopago ad Atene (478-462 a.C.). Per una lettura dei capitoli 23-25 dell’Athenaion Politeia aristotelica.
Post-lauream Fellowship, Università di Torino, 1997-1999.

Honors and Awards

Premio Optime 1997-1998 – Riconoscimento al Merito nello Studio (Unione Industriale Torino): Award to the best students graduated from the University of Turin in the Academic Year 1997-1998.
Theodor-Litt-Preis 2018 (Die Vereinigung von Fördern und Freunden der Universität Leipzig).

Publications

Authored Books

Co-authored Books

Edited Books

Digital Classical Philology. Ancient Greek and Latin in the Digital Revolution. Age of Access? Grundfragen der Informationsgesellschaft 10. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter 2019 (and Oapen library)

Edited Proceedings

Papers

Entries in Encyclopedias and Other Collections

"Istros Cyrenaeus (FGrHist 334)". In Brill’s New Jacoby. Ed. in chief I. Worthington. Brill 2015
"Boule". In Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Ed. by R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A. Erskine, and S. Huebner. Blackwell Publishing 2013, 1176-1177. DOI: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah04056 (PDF)
"Hipparchos son of Charmos". In Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Ed. by R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A. Erskine, and S. Huebner. Blackwell Publishing 2013, 3223 (PDF) - 2019 (second edition), DOI: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah04132.pub2 (PDF)
"Jason of Argos (FGrHist 94 = BNJ 94)". In Brill’s New Jacoby. Ed. in chief I. Worthington. Brill 2010
Lucrezio, De rerum natura, libri II-III. In Musisque Deoque. Archivio digitale della poesia latina (ed. P. Mastandrea): electronic edition and critical apparatus (2009)

Posters

"Per un catalogo annotato della letteratura greca antica"." AIUCD 2021, Università degli Studi di Pisa, January 19-22, 2021 (book of abstracts) (poster)
"Text-based Extraction, Analysis, and Annotation of Ancient Greek References to Authors and Works". Digital Humanities Day Leipzig 2020, Leipzig, December 2, 2020 (poster)
"Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG)". Digital Humanities Day Leipzig 2019, Musikinstrumentenmuseum Leipzig (Konzertsaal), December 2, 2019 (poster)
"Egyptology meets Computer Science: the Digital Rosetta Stone project". 50. Neue Forschungenzur ägyptischen Kultur und Geschichte. Sommersemester 2018, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, May 24, 2018 (poster)
"The Open Philology Project". In Digital Humanities 2014 - Lausanne, July 7-12, 2014 (poster)
"Representing Humanities Research Data Using Complementary Provenance Models". In Building Global Partnerships - RDA Second Plenary Meeting - Washington DC, September 16-18, 2013 (with B. Almas, S. Choudhury, D. Dubin, M. Senseney, K.M. Wickett) (PDF)

Reviews

Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras. History without Historians, ed. by John Marincola, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, and Calum Maciver, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2012. In Classical Review 64:1 (2014), 22-24
B. Mojsov, Alexandria Lost. From the Advent of Christianity to the Arab Conquest, Duckworth Publishers, London 2010. In Sehepunkte. Rezensions journal für die Geschichtswissenschaften 11:5 (2011)
Vyacheslav Tsypine, Sergey Lebedev, Vassily Lebedev, Antiquarium 2.0. A search engine for the TLG #E and PHI 5/7 CD-ROMs. Quadrivium Software $100.00. In BMCR 2005.09.10 (with V. Costa)
S. Brenne, Ostrakismos und Prominenz in Athen. Attische Bürger des 5. Jhs. v. Chr. auf den Ostraka, Tyche, Suppl. 3, Wien 2001. In Minima Epigraphica et Papyrologica 9-10 (2004-2005), 387-394 (PDF)
H.-A. Rupprecht, Introduzione alla Papirologia, a cura di Livia Migliardi Zingale, G. Giappichelli Editore, Torino 1999. In Minima Epigraphica et Papyrologica 6 (2001), 539-543 (PDF)
Le «Elleniche di Ossirinco» a cinquanta anni dalla pubblicazione dei Frammenti Fiorentini 1949-1999. Firenze, 22-23 novembre 1999. In Minima Epigraphica et Papyrologica 5 (2001), 231-244 (PDF)

Translations

Th. R. Martin, "La natura «frammentaria» delle storie di Erodoto e di Sima Qian". In Tradizione e trasmissione degli storici greci frammentari in ricordo di Silvio Accame. Ed. E. Lanzillotta, V. Costa, and G. Ottone. Tivoli (Roma): Edizioni Tored 2009, 695-729 (with V. Costa) (PDF)
B. Currie, "Euthymos di Locri: uno studio sull'eroizzazione nel periodo classico". In Polis 1:1 (2003), 84-102 (PDF)

My Scholarly Work

Projects and Research

The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS)

LOFTS establishes open editions of ancient works that survive only through quotations and text reuses in later texts (textual fragments). The project undertakes two tasks: 1) digitize paper editions of fragmentary works and link them to the source texts from which the fragments have been collected, and 2) produce new digital editions of fragmentary works.

The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series

Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG)

The Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG) is the digital version of the five volumes of the Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (FHG) of Karl Müller (1841-1872). The DFHG is a digital collection of structured data that provides textual, philological, and historiographical solutions for representing fragmentary authors and works in a digital environment. The DFHG offers many tools and services that can be applied to other collections of fragmentary texts.

Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum

Digital Athenaeus

The Digital Athenaeus is the digital edition of the Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis with a focus on annotating quotations and text reuses in order to provide an inventory and a data model of authors and works referred to in the Deipnosophists. The Greek text of the Deipnosophists is based on the Teubner edition of Georg Kaibel (1887-1890) and the Digital Athenaeus provides users with tools for accessing the text and getting information about authors and works quoted by Athenaeus.

Digital Athenaeus

Digital Marmor Parium

The Digital Marmor Parium Project is a new digital edition of the Parian Marble, which is a Hellenistic chronicle on a marble slab coming from the Greek island of Paros and preserving a Greek chronology (1581/80 - 299/98 BC) with a list of kings and archons accompanied by short references to historical events mainly based on the Athenian history. The project provides images and drawings of the inscription, and digital data about named entities, chronological expressions, and linguistic information preserved by the text of the Parian Marble.

Digital Marmor Parium

demo.fragmentarytexts.org

demo.fragmentarytexts.org is a project for experimenting tools and devising methods for representing quotations and text reuses of lost authors and works (textual fragments). It collects different examples from ancient Greek authors, whose texts are rich of quotations and text reuses of lost works. The project uses Ajax technology to represent fragmentary texts and an Open Source CMS enriched with plugins created ad-hoc in order to add visual functionalities.

demo.fragmentarytexts.org

Digital Rosetta Stone

The Digital Rosetta Stone (Der Stein von Rosette digital) is a project for producing a digital edition of the Rosetta Stone with textual alignment, translation alignment, and morphosyntactic annotations of the three scripts of the inscription. The project is developed in collaboration with the Ägyptologisches Institut at the University of Leipzig, the British Museum, and the Digital Epigraphy Project.

Digital Rosetta Stone
YouTube (the Digital Rosetta Stone project part 1)
YouTube (the Digital Rosetta Stone project part 2)

Teaching

Courses and Schools

Digital Humanities

Sunoikisis Courses (Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University)

Greek Hellenistic Literature (Consultants: Ivana Petrovic and Andrej Petrovic) (Fall 2016)
Greek Comedy (Consultant: J. S. Rusten) (Fall 2014)

Sunoikisis Digital Classics (Universität Leipzig and ICS London)

Greek History

Storia Greca: Università di Roma Tor Vergata (2005-2010)

Greek Historiography

Greek Historians GREEK 0103: Tufts University, Department of Classics (Spring 2012) (Syllabus)

Hellenistic History

Graeco-Roman Alexandria CLS 185-02/ARCH 188-02: Tufts University, Department of Classics (Fall 2010) (Syllabus)

Classical Civilization

Greek Political Thought CLS 0084: Tufts University, Department of Classics (Spring 2013) (Syllabus)
Greek Political Thought CLS 0084: Tufts University, Department of Classics (Spring 2012) (Syllabus)
Antichità Greche: Università di Roma Tor Vergata (2005-2013)

Greek Epigraphy

Epigrafia Greca: Università di Roma Tor Vergata (2005-2013)

Latin Epigraphy and Roman History

Latin Epigraphy LAT 181-01: Tufts University, Department of Classics (Spring 2013) (Syllabus)
The Stones of Ancient Latium LAT 0191: Tufts University, Department of Classics & Università di Roma Tor Vergata (Summer 2011)
Latin Epigraphy LAT 181-01: Tufts University, Department of Classics (Fall 2010) (Syllabus)

conferences and talks

Conferences and Talks

2021

Towards a Shared Definition of Needed Digital Competences of Graduate Students in the Programmes Focusing on Written Cultural Heritage: ENCODE Project Conference and Digital Greek and Latin Epigraphy Workshop, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, January 25, 2021 (program)
Per un catalogo annotato della letteratura greca antica: AIUCD 2021, Università degli Studi di Pisa, January 19-22, 2021 (poster)

2020

Named Entity Recognition for a Text-Based Catalog of Ancient Greek Authors and Works: Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, December 15, 2020
Text-based Extraction, Analysis, and Annotation of Ancient Greek References to Authors and Works: Digital Humanities Day Leipzig 2020, December 2, 2020 (poster)
Digital Canons and Catalogs of Fragmentary Literature: Fragmente einer fragmentierten Welt: Gespräche zur Problematisierung eines traditionellen Begriffes in der modernen klassisch-philologischen Forschung, Universität Trier, November 27-28, 2020 (program and flyer) (hand-out)
Tools for Digital Classical Philology: Teaching Classics in the Digital Age. International Conference, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, June 15-16, 2020 (program)
Digital Humanities and the Classics: Akademische Woche 2020, SanktAfra, Sächsisches Landesgymnasium Sankt Afra zu Meißen, Meißen, February 6, 2020 (program)
Historical Fragmentary Texts in the Digital Age: Workshop The World in Pieces: Fragments and the Fragmentary, Leiden University Library, Leiden, January 23-24, 2020 (program)

2019

Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG): Digital Humanities Day Leipzig 2019, Musikinstrumentenmuseum Leipzig (Konzertsaal), December 2, 2019 (program) (poster)
Digital Editions of Historical Fragmentary Texts: Workshop Klassische Philologie und Digitalisierung. Digitalisierung der alten Sprachen in Wissenschaft und Didaktik, Institut für Klassische Sprachen und Literaturen, Philipps-Universität Marburg, November 18-19, 2019 (program)
Digital Humanities and the Classics: OIKOS Nunspeet Seminar 2019, Nunspeet, The Netherlands, November 8-9, 2019 (program) (slides)
Named Entity Annotation for Ancient Greek with INCEpTION: CLARIN Annual Conference 2019, Leipzig, September 30 – October 2, 2019 (program) (slides) (video) (conference summary) (conference pictures)
The Digital Marmor Parium: Materiality of ancient Greek fragmentary historiography: Digitales Edieren in der Klassischen Philologie, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Friedrich-von-Gärtner-Saal, München, September 25-27, 2019 (program) (slides)
Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG) (long paper): Digital Humanities 2019, Utrecht, July 9-12, 2019 (slides)
Digital Methods in Classical Studies: Ringvorlesung Transdisziplinäre Aspekte digitaler Methodik in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, July 3, 2019 (slides)
Named Entity Recognition: Digital Editions in Practice. An NEH Two-Day Workshop. Perseus Project, Tufts University, May 31 – June 1, 2019
Computer assisted language learning with Ancient Greek historiographical corpora: Workshop Digital Approaches to Teaching Historical Languages (DAtTeL), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum – Auditorium, Berlin, March 28-29, 2019 (Book of Abstracts)
Workshop “Classical Philology goes Digital”: Mixed Methods in the Humanities? Support for projects combining and synergizing qualitative-hermeneutical and digital approaches, Volkswagen Stiftung Mid-term Meeting, Hildesheim, February 21-22, 2019

2018

Das Projekt Digital Rosetta Stone: Erfahrungen und Resultate (with Franziska Naether): Digital Humanities Day Leipzig 2018, Bibliotheca Albertina, Leipzig, December 3, 2018 (program) (poster)
Digital Editions of Historical Text Reuse: Digital Humanities Lecture Series “Praxis der Digital Humanities”, Universität Trier, Lehrstuhl für Computerphilologie, November 8, 2018
The Digital Rosetta Stone Project (with Eleni Bozia and Franziska Naether): Digital Classicist Seminar, Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London, June 29, 2018 (abstract) (poster) (YouTube)
Digital total? – Aus der Wissenschaft in den Unterricht: Antike Sprachen im 21. Jahrhundert lernen? Ein Fallbeispiel aus der Ägyptologie (with Miriam Amin, Josephine Hensel, and Franziska Naether): Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften Leipzig, Ägyptisches Museum Georg Steindorff , June 22, 2018
The Digital Rosetta Stone Project (with Miriam Amin, Josephine Hensel, and Franziska Naether): 50. Neue Forschungenzur ägyptischen Kultur und Geschichte. Sommersemester 2018, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, May 24, 2018 (program) (SAW website) (Pressemitteilung Universität Leipzig)
Historical Text Reuse Annotation: Workshop INCEpTION: Towards Interactive Semantic Annotation, Technische Universität Darmstadt, March 12-13, 2018 (program)

2017

The Digital Rosetta Stone Project (with Franziska Naether): Auftakttreffen der 7. Projektkohorte der LaborUniversität, Rektorat, Universität Leipzig, October 5, 2017 (program)
Annotating Historical Text Reuse Data: Historical Text Reuse Data Workshop, Universität Leipzig, July 12-13, 2017
SunoikisisDC: an International Consortium of Digital Classics Programs: #dariahTeach Open Resource Conference, Dorigny Campus, Lausanne, March 23-24, 2017 (program) (conference slides)
Documenting Text Reuse of Greek Fragmentary Authors: Classical Philology Goes Digital. Working on Textual Phenomena of Ancient Texts, Universität Potsdam, February 16-17, 2017

2016

The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS): DigMedText Final Conference. Greek Medical Papyri – Text, Context, Hypertext, Università degli Studi di Parma, November 2-4, 2016
Sunoikisis Digital Classics: Wik-F. Webinars in den kleinen Fächern, Heidelberg Universität, October 12, 2016
The Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG): Global Philology Project. Initial Planning Meeting, Freie Universität Berlin – Dahlem Humanities Center, October 5-7, 2016
Modelling Taxonomies of Text Reuse in the Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis: Declarative Digital Scholarship (long paper with M. Daniels, S. Strickland, and K. Vincent-Dobbins): Digital Humanities 2016, Kraków, July 12-16, 2016
The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS): Linking the Big Ancient Mediterranean Conference, University of Iowa, June 6-8, 2016
Invited Discussant on “The Fragments of Diokles and Demetrios of Magnesia: From Biography to Philosophy” (Pietro Zaccaria, PhD candidate): History Post Graduate Seminar, University of Leuven, May 25, 2016
Representing Influence: Writing about Text Reuse when Everything is Online: Unlocking the Digital Humanities Spring 2016, May 2, 2016 (with Y. Evrigenis)
The Digital Marmor Parium: Epigraphy Edit-a-thon: Editing Chronological and Geographic Data in Ancient Inscriptions, Universität Leipzig, April 20-22, 2016
Digital Classics Panel (with G. Bodard and V. Vitale): The Classical Association Annual Conference 2016, University of Edinburgh, April 6-9, 2016
Beyond Academia and Beyond the First World: Editing as Shared Discourse on the Human Past: DiXiT Convention 2: Academia, Cultural Heritage, Society, University of Cologne, March 14-18, 2016
SunoikisisDC. An International Consortium of Digital Classics Programs: DHd 2016. Modellierung, Vernetzung, Visualisierung, Universität Leipzig, March 7-12, 2016
Documenting Text Reuse in Greek and Latin Sources: High Precision Philology in a Digital Space. A Dialogue on Requirements and Existing Services. A Dariah Experts Seminar, A. von Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities, Universität Leipzig, February 15-16, 2016
Ancient Greek WordNet Meets the Dynamic Lexicon: the Example of the Fragments of the Greek Historians (with Y. Bizzoni, F. Boschetti, G. R. Crane, R. Del Gratta and T. Yousef): Eighth Global WordNet Conference 2016, Bucharest, January 27-30, 2016
Digital Un|Möglichkeitsräume in der Forschungspraxis: 2. Workshop „Digitale Un|Möglichkeitsräume in der Forschungspraxis (digital spaces of im|possibility in research practice)“ , Leipzig, Dittrichtring 5-7, Raum 016, January 15, 2016

2015

Ancient Greek-Latin Extraction and the Dynamic Lexicon Applied to the Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (with T. Yousef): Corpus-based Research in the Humanities (CRH), Warsaw, Poland, December 10, 2015
The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS): Tradition digital: Digitale Standards für die Erstellung historisch-kritischer Editionen in den Altertumswissenschaften, Berliner Antike-Kolleg, November 20, 2015
The Digital Rosetta Stone: textual alignment and linguistic annotation (with F. Naether, J. Jushaninowa, G.G.A. Celano, P. Yordanova): DHEgypt15: Altertumswissenschaften in a Digital Age: Egyptology, Papyrology and Beyond, Universität Leipzig, Institut für Informatik and Ägyptologisches Institut, November 4-6, 2015
Computational Techniques for Editing the Fragments of the Greek Historians (with T. Yousef): Humanités numeriques: l’exemple de l’Antiquité, Universitè Stendhal-Grenoble 3, September 2-4, 2015
Digital Editions of Fragmentary Texts (with A. Trachsel): Texte Messen – Messungen Interpretieren, The First Workshop (Digital Classics: Methods, Scholarly Communication and Genres of Scholarly Production), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, July 23-25, 2014
Sunoikisis DC – An International Consortium of Digital Classics Programs: Digital Classicist London 2015 Seminar Series (with G.R. Crane and K. Morrell). London, Senate House, July 10, 2015
The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS): Text, Kontext, Kontextualisierung. Moderne Kontextkonzepte und antike Literatur. Universität Potsdam – Klassische Philologie, July 3-4, 2015 (program)
Sunoikisis Digital Classics: Sunoikisis CHS Faculty Seminar Common Day 2015, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC, June 10, 2015 (live broadcast)
Sunoikisis DC Common Sessions: Visible Words – Mots à savoir: Research and Training in Digital Contextual Epigraphy. Thasos (Greece), May 11-19, 2015
Perseids Text Reuse Hackathon. Tufts University, March 23-27, 2015
Seminar on Athenaeus’ Deipnosophists and Attic Prosopography. Furman University, Classics Department, Greenville SC, March 16-21, 2015
The Digital Marmor Parium: Digital Classics. Oxford Ancient History Seminar. Ancient History Seminar, Hilary Term 2015. Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, March 3, 2015 (podcast)
Sunoikisis DC Planning Seminar 2015. University of Leipzig, Institute of Computer Science, February 16-18, 2015

2014

Looking for Lost Texts: Microquotations and Text Reuses of Fragmentary Authors: Plenary Panel How Do You Edit a Billion Words? Digital Collaborative Methods for Editing Classical Texts (Chair Gregory R. Crane). 11th Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS 2014) Textual Trails Transmissions of Oral and Written Texts. Helsinki, October 30 – November 1, 2014 (Program)
The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS): Risorse digitali e strumenti collaborativi per le Scienze dell’Antichità. Venezia, Università Ca’ Foscari, October 2-3, 2014
Digital Marmor Parium: for a digital edition of a Greek chronicle (with S. Stoyanova): EAGLE 2014 International Conference on Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Digital Cultural Heritage in the Ancient World. Collège de France Chaire Religion, institutions et société de la Rome antique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, September 29 – October 1, 2014
The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS): The Open Philology Workshop. University of Leipzig, July 14-16, 2014
The Open Philology Project (poster): Digital Humanities 2014. Lausanne, July 10, 2014
The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS): Rethinking Text Reuse as Digital Classicists (panel). Digital Humanities 2014. Lausanne, July 10, 2014
The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS) and the Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG) Projects (with G. Franzini and S. Stoyanova): Digital Classicist London 2014 Seminar Series. London, Senate House, June 27, 2014 (Abstract)
The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS): International Workshop on Computer Aided Processing of Intertextuality in Ancient Languages. Lyon, June 2-4, 2014 (program) (booklet)
The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS): Libraries and Open Greek and Latin. Videoconference at the Center for Hellenic Studies. Washington DC, May 2, 2014
Presentation of the Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS) and teaching programs developed at the University of Leipzig: NEH Workshop – Working with Text in a Digital Age. Tufts University, March 28-29, 2014
The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS): Séminaire de Méthodologie de l’École Doctorale I (Mondes anciens et médiévaux) de l’Université Paris IV Sorbonne – Année Académique 2013-2014. Paris IV Sorbonne, March 4, 2014 (program) (report)
The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS): Intertextualité et humanités numériques: approches, méthodes, tendances – Intertextuality and digital humanities: approaches, methods, trends. Fondation Hardt, Vandœuvres (Genève), February 14-15, 2014 (program)
Big Data in the Humanities. The Open Philology Project (with M. Büchler): IBM Big Data Workshop. IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH – Böblingen, January 31, 2014
The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS): 2. Workshop “Digital Humanities and Social Sciences”. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, January 30-31, 2014 (program)
Presentation of LOFTS and Practice with DFHG (with S. Stoyanova): Winter School in Digital Philology at the Tbilisi State University. Tbilisi (Georgia), January 14-18, 2014
Approaches to Greek and Latin Text Reuse: Digital Classics Panel at the 2014 APA Annual Meeting: Getting Started with Digital Classics, organized by the Digital Classics Association (Joint APA/AIA Panel). Chicago, January 3, 2014

2013

L’Open Philology Project dell’Università di Lipsia. Per una filologia “sostenibile” in un mondo globale (with G. Celano, G.R. Crane, E. Franzini, G. Franzini): AIUCD 2013. Secondo convegno annuale dell’AIUCD: Ricerca collaborativa e piattaforme condivise per l’informatica umanistica. Padova, December 11-12, 2013
The Linked Fragment: TEI and the Encoding of Text Re-uses of Lost Authors (with B. Almas): The Linked TEI: Text Encoding in the Web. TEI Conference and Members Meeting 2013. Università di Roma Sapienza, October 2-5, 2013 (program)
Perseids Collaborative Platform for Annotating Text Re-Uses of Fragmentary Authors (with B. Almas): DH-Case 2013. Collaborative Annotations in Shared Environments: metadata, vocabularies and techniques in the Digital Humanities. Florence, September 10, 2013 (Program)
Fragmenta Historica 2.0: Quotations and Text Re-uses in the Semantic Web: Word, Space, Time. Digital Perspectives on the Classical World. An interdisciplinary conference organized by the Digital Classics Association. University at Buffalo, SUNY, April 5-6, 2013
The Significance of Fragmentary Texts in Plutarch’s Life of Pericles (invited lecture): College of the Holy Cross, Classics Department – Fenwick 420 (CLAS 338-01), March 12, 2013

2012

Ateneo fruitore di Istro: echi di critica storiografica e cultura bibliotecarica: Ritorno ad Alessandria. Storiografia antica e cultura bibliotecaria: tracce di una relazione perduta. Incontro Internazionale di Studi. Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, November 28-29, 2012
The Laments of the Philosophers at the Tomb of Alexander: an Example of Text Re-Use in Oriental Languages (with U. Pietruschka): 4ème Colloque International Aliento. Énoncés sapientiels brefs, traductions, traducteurs et contextes culturels et historiques du Xe siècle au XVe siècle: les textes transmis à l’Occident. (MSH Lorraine) – Paris (INALCO), November 6-8, 2012
Detecting and Marking up Quotations and Text Re-uses of Historical Texts: Computerunterstütztes Arbeiten mit historischen Texten. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, June 27, 2012
Istro alla scuola di Callimaco. La biblioteca di Alessandria e la tradizione attidografica: Giornate di studio sulla storiografia greca frammentaria III edizione – Gli storici greci frammentari e le età della trasmissione: Alessandria, Roma, Bisanzio. Università degli Studi di Genova, 29-30 maggio 2012
Collecting Quotations by Topic: Degrees of Preservation and Transtextual Relations among Genres: Round Table Collecting Fragments in the 21st Century (Part I): Lectio. Leuven Centre for the Study of the Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance – Laboratory for Critical Text Editing, May 14, 2012
Assembling Bricks in the Toy Box: Quotations and Text Re-use Detection of Lost Works: eTraces Talks. Universität Leipzig – Raum 0-18, Johannisgasse 26, June 26, 2012
Digital Editing of Ancient Sources for the Golden Age of Athens (invited lecture): College of the Holy Cross, Classics Department, Fenwick Room 428, April 20, 2012

2011

Alexander the Great and Aristotle in the Libro de Alexandre: Aliento – Third International Conference – Sapiential Statements and Exemplary Literature: a Complex Intertextuality. Nancy – Paris, November 22-24, 2011
Storie e personaggi della Grecia e della Magna Grecia in occasione della presentazione dei libri Il mantello della Sosandra… Come un Ateniese apprese la storia della fine di Sibari, Pericle di Gaetano De Sanctis e Filippo e Alessandro. Dal regno macedone all’impero universale di Gaetano De Sanctis: Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino, Torino, May 12, 2011 (invitation) (program)
Fragmentary Texts: Collecting and representing quotations of lost authors and works (Informationsgespräch): Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg – Seminar für Klassische Philologie, April 4-5, 2011
Citazioni e dinamiche testuali. L’intertestualità e la storiografia greca frammentaria: Tradizione e Trasmissione degli Storici Greci Frammentari. Terzo Workshop Internazionale. Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, February 24-26, 2011
Fragmentary Texts: SAWS (Sharing Ancient Wisdoms) Workshop 2011. University of Vienna – Department of Oriental Studies, February 16-17, 2011
Representing Fragmentary Texts: Exploring Formulaic Knowledge through Languages, Cultures and Time. International Workshop. University of Trier, February 11-12, 2011

2010

Bridging Ancient Cultures across Countries and Media: Classics & Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series. The Center for the Humanities at Tufts, October 25, 2010
Fragmentary Texts and Digital Collections of Fragmentary Authors (with M. Büchler): Digital Classicist Seminars 2010. Institute of Classical Studies, King’s College, London, July 30, 2010
Memorie di Alessandro e di Alessandria in occasione della pubblicazione de L’impresa di Alessandro Magno e La Biblioteca di Alessandria (with V. Costa, E. Lanzillotta, G. Ottone): Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino, Torino, May 14, 2010 (invitation) (program)
Fragmentary Texts & Digital Libraries: Workshop on Historical Texts. Perseus Project, Tufts University, Medford, MA, January 13-14, 2010

2009

Participation in the Liberty Fund Seminar Political Liberty, Moral Responsibility, and the Formation of States in South America: Andrés Bello and Joseph Conrad (conference director: D. Womersley). Avignon, France, November 5-8, 2009
Perseus 2009. Rappresentazione digitale dei testi frammentari (invited lecture): Università di Roma Tor Vergata, October 20-26, 2009
Le tecnologie digitali e l’epigrafia: esempi applicativi (invited lecture): Università di Roma Tor Vergata, October 20-26, 2009
Collecting Fragmentary Authors in a Digital Library: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2009). Austin, TX, June 15-19, 2009
The Ancient Library at Alexandria (ALA Project) (with V. Costa): International Symposium on the Scaife Digital Library. University of Kentucky, Vis Center, Lexyngton, KY, March 13, 2009

2008

Da Istro alla Suda. La biblioteca di Alessandria e la tradizione attidografica: Incontro Internazionale Gli storici greci in frammenti e il lessico Suda. Università di Vercelli, November 6-7, 2008

2007

Alexandria and the Mirage of a Million Book Library (with V. Costa): The World’s Greatest Libraries: from Ancient Alexandria to the 21st Century. College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, October 10, 2007
Istro il Callimacheo, I, Testimonianze e frammenti su Atene: Doing Fragmentary History in a Global Context: International Projects to Preserve Ancient Greek Historians (Brill’s New Jacoby, FGrHist Continued, and I Frammenti degli Storici Greci). College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, May 16-17, 2007 (program)

2006

Diallagai e diallaktai, forme e strumenti della riconciliazione: Convegno Internazionale di Storia Greca Salvare le poleis, costruire la concordia, progettare la pace. Torino, April 5-7, 2006
Istro e la tradizione dei rapporti tra la Grecia e l’Egitto (FGrHist 334 FF43-47): I Frammenti degli Storici Greci. II Workshop Internazionale. Tradizione e trasmissione degli Storici Greci Frammentari, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, February 16-18, 2006
Per una nuova edizione delle Elleniche di Ossirinco (with S. Bianchetti): I Frammenti degli Storici Greci. II Workshop Internazionale. Tradizione e trasmissione degli Storici Greci Frammentari, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, February 16-18, 2006
Gli ostraka e l’istituzione dell’ostracismo ad Atene (invited lecture): Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Brescia, February 10, 2006

2005

L’Areopago, presidio venerando del territorio e della polis (Aesch., Eum., 681-710): Convegno Internazionale Territorialità ed insularità tra concordia e conflittualità. Università di Palermo, January 28-29, 2005
Istros the Callimachean: 136th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association. Boston, January 6-9, 2005

2004

PUG inv. DR 107: 24th International Congress of Papyrology. Helsinki, August 1-7, 2004
Die Ostraka und das Scherbengericht in Athen (invited lecture): Universität Konstanz, January 28, 2004

2003

Licurgo e il tradimento di Ipparco (Lyc. Leocr. 117 sg.): I Incontro Internazionale di Storia Antica Il cittadino, lo straniero, il barbaro, fra integrazione ed emarginazione. Università di Genova, May 22-24, 2003
L’Egitto nella commedia greca del V e del IV secolo a.C.: VIII Convegno Nazionale di Egittologia e di Papirologia: La visione dell’altro nell’antico Egitto, Torino, April 11-13, 2003

2002

L’egemonia dell’Areopago ad Atene (478-462 a.C.): Convegno Internazionale di Storia Greca Poleis e Politeiai. Esperienze politiche, tradizioni letterarie, progetti costituzionali. Torino, May 29-31, 2002
Origini e finalità dell’ostracismo ateniese (invited lecture): Università di Genova, March 11, 2002

2001

Participartion in the Liberty Fund Colloquium Liberty and Virtue in Plato (conference director: Th.R. Martin). Key West, FL, December 6-9, 2001
Papiri tolemaici da cartonnages dell’Università di Genova: 23. Internationaler Kongreß für Papyrologie. Wien, July 22-28, 2001

1999

Ostracismo e ostrakophoriai ad Atene (490-470 a.C.). Profili istituzionali e fonti epigrafiche: I Incontro Internazionale di Epigrafia e Papirologia Giuridica. Università di Reggio Calabria, March 12-15, 1999

1998

Gli ostraka nel mondo antico: Dottori/trici e dottorandi/e di ricerca in egittologia e papirologia. Presentazione e confronto delle ricerche in corso. Torino, Museo Egizio, June 21, 1998

Events Organization

Organization of Academic Events

Digital Editions in Practice. An NEH Two-Days Workshop. Perseus Project, Tufts University, May 31 – June 2, 2019
Digital Editions, Digital Corpora and new possibilities for the Humanities in the Academy and Beyond. A NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities – Perseus Project, Tufts University, July 16-27, 2018 (co-PI and co-director with Gregory R. Crane and Anke Lüdeling)
Historical Text Reuse Data Workshop. Universität Leipzig, July 12-13, 2017
Classical Philology Goes Digital. Working on Textual Phenomena of Ancient Texts. Universität Potsdam, February 16-17, 2017 (pictures)
Sunoikisis Digital Classics 2017 Planning Seminar. Universität Leipzig, Institut für Informatik, December 12-13, 2016
Epigraphy Edit-a-thon: Editing Chronological and Geographic Data in Ancient Inscriptions. Universität Leipzig, Institut für Informatik, April 20-22, 2016
Sunoikisis Digital Classics 2016 Planning Seminar. Universität Leipzig, Institut für Informatik, December 16-17, 2015
DHEgypt15: Altertumswissenschaften in a Digital Age: Egyptology, Papyrology and Beyond. Universität Leipzig, Institut für Informatik and Ägyptologisches Institut, November 4-6, 2015
Perseids Text Reuse Hackathon. Tufts University, March 23-27, 2015
Sunoikisis Digital Classics 2015 Planning Seminar. Universität Leipzig, Institut für Informatik, February 16-18, 2015
Greek and Latin in an Age of Open Data. Universität Leipzig, Institut für Informatik, December 1-4, 2014
Publishing Text for a Digital Age. Follow-on workshop to the NEH Institute “Working with Text in a Digital Age”. Tufts University, March 27-30, 2014 (co-PI and co-director with Gregory R. Crane and Anke Lüdeling)
The Banquet of the Digital Scholars. Humanities Hackathon on editing Athenaeus and on the Reinvention of the Edition in a Digital Space. Universität Leipzig & Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Berlin, October 10-12, 2012
Ritorno ad Alessandria. Storiografia antica e cultura bibliotecaria: tracce di una relazione perduta. Incontro Internazionale di Studi. Università di Roma Tor Vergata, November 28-29, 2012
Working with Text in a Digital Age. An NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, July 23 – August 10, 2012 (co-PI and co-director with Gregory R. Crane and Anke Lüdeling)
Doing Fragmentary History in a Global Context: International Projects to Preserve Ancient Greek Historians (Brill’s New Jacoby, FGrHist Continued, and I Frammenti degli Storici Greci). College of the Holy Cross, May 16-17, 2007

Scientific Committees

Scientific committees

Teaching and Training Programs

Sunoikisis. A National Consortium of Classics Programs (faculty member)
Sunoikisis Digital Classics (program director)

Working Groups

Conferences

Second European Association for Digital Humanities International Conference (EADH2021), September 21-25, 2021, Krasnoyarsk, Russia (rescheduled due to COVID-19)
- Program Committee
CLiC-it 2020 – Settima Conferenza Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale, Bologna, March 1-3, 2021
- Program Committee
CLiC-it 2019 – Sesta Conferenza Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale, Bari, November 13-15, 2019
- Program Committee
AIUCD 2016, September 7-9, 2016, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
- Scientific Committee (Program)
EAGLE International Conference
- EAGLE 2016 – Program Committee
  EAGLE 2014 – Program Committee
LREC 2016, May 23-28, 2016, Portorož, Slovenia
- Scientific Committee
Corpus-based Research in the Humanities, December 10, 2015, Warsaw, Poland
- Program Committee
Humanités numeriques: l’exemple de l’Antiquité, Universitè Stendhal-Grenoble 3, September 2-4, 2015
- Comité Scientifique

Journals

Rationes Rerum
- Comitato di redazione
Tra Passato (e) Futuro
- Scientific Board
RIDE – A review journal for digital editions and resources
- Peer reviewer

Awarded Grants

NEH

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) nr. HT-500-44-11 (2011-2015) $249,727.
Three-week Institute on Working with Text in a Digital Age (Co-PI with G. R. Crane and A. Lüdeling)

VolkswagenStiftung

VolkswagenStiftung (2016) app. nr. A121302 € 15,600. Workshop Classical Philology Goes Digital. Working on textual phenomena of ancient texts (Co-PI with K. Blaschka, Universität Potsdam)

LaborUniversität Leipzig

LaborUniversität Leipzig – Ausschreibung 7. Projektkohorte (BMBF supported) (2017-2018). 1 WHK MA 19h, 1 SHK 10h + Honorarmittel € 800,00 The Digital Rosetta Stone Project (Der Stein von Rosette digital) (Co-PI with F. Naether, Universität Leipzig)

NEH

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) nr. HT-256958-17 (2017-2019) $249,359. Two-week Institute on Digital Editions, Digital Corpora and new possibilities for the Humanities in the Academy and Beyond (Co-PI with G. R. Crane and A. Lüdeling)

Knowledge Unlatched

Knowledge Unlatched select 2018 € 10,000. Gold open access publication of M. Berti (ed.), Digital Classical Philology. Ancient Greek and Latin in the Digital Revolution. Age of Access? Grundfragen der Informationsgesellschaft 10. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter 2019

DFG

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Projektnummer 434173983
Förderung seit 2020 € 308,840. Thema: Textbasierte Extraktion, Analyse und Annotation antiker griechischer Referenzen auf Autoren und Werke

Get in Touch

Contact

Dr. Monica Berti
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Hi! I'm Monica Berti

I am a Classicist and Digital Humanist. My research is focused on the Graeco-Roman World and the Computational Analysis of Ancient Greek and Latin. I teach academic courses in Ancient History, Digital Classics, Digital Philology and Digital Humanities. Welcome to my personal website!