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Escola Europea de Pensament Lluis Vives

Series of conferences El mundo clásico en la realidad occidental (The Classical World in Western Reality)

Conference

From the Library to the Aleph: The Classical World in the Digital Age.

María Fátima Díez

Professor of Art History, University of Santiago de Compostela

Coordinator of the series

Marco Antonio Coronel Ramos

Professor of the Classical Philology at the Universitat de València

Fátima Díez Platas

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Geography and History and in Classical Philology, a DEA in Art History, and a Ph.D. in Classical Philology, and is a professor of Art History at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She studied to be a researcher at the Harvard University, Oxford University and The Warburg Institute in London and she specializes in Greek art, ancient aesthetics, the iconography of myth, and the relationship between art and literature.

Since 2003 till this day, she has been a principal researcher of seven nationally funded projects on the illustration of Ovid’s works between the 15th and 19th centuries, which have been brought to life on the website OVIDIUSPICTUS-Biblioteca Digital Ovidiana. In the context of working with her team at the Biblioteca Digital Ovidiana, she is developing a research study on the relation between the humanistic knowledge of myth, its representations, and its reception, as well as the potential for discovering new insights through the application of digital technologies and artificial intelligence. From 2001 to 2025 she has been the president of the Sociedad Internacional de Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas (HDH) (International Society for Hispanic Digital Humanities).

Synopsis

The evident digital transformation and the burgeoning field of Digital Humanities have affected—and continues to affect—the realm of knowledge and the way we approach and understand research and teaching. This conference aims to demonstrate how this digital transformation has unfolded within the fields of Philology and Classical Studies, what its origins are, and what effects it has had on how we approach the discipline and tackle teaching and research processes and procedures.

Free admission, limited capacity

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