Call for abstracts

The conference is open to anyone studying ancient or historical cultures by applying digital or computational methodologies.

We welcome contributions on but not limited to ancient West Asian / Near Eastern and Mediterranean cultures (4000 BCE – 800 CE). Contributions may employ methodologies within the disciplines of Digital and Computational Humanities, Cultural Heritage, Ancient and Historical Philology, Archaeoinformatics, Histoinformatics, Computational Linguistics, Image Recognition, amongst others.

Specifics

• Presentation types: paper (20 min), project (10 min), poster.
• Max. 350 words.
• Deadline: 21st of March 2025.
• Notification of acceptance: 1st of May 2025.
• Double-blind reviewing process.

How to submit

Submissions are through the following platform: https://www.babsubmissions.ugent.be/. You have to create a user and then write your submission in the platform itself. On the platform you can select between the three different types of presentations and you will also have to declare which of the themes (see below) you will participate in. For submissions that does not fit one of the themes neatly, use the category: Others.

Themes

Sessions will be organised around four main tracks:

• Digitisation
• Language Technology
• Image Analysis
• Digital Cultural Heritage and Application

Inspiration

Suggested topics that fall under these tracks include, but are not limited to:

Digital data publishing and sharing; International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF); Language Modelling; Stylometry; Network Analysis; Optical Character & Handwritten text recognition (OCR/HTR); Geospatial analysis and Geographic Information System (GIS); Linked Open Data (LOD); Natural Language Processing (NLP); Ancient Language Processing (ALP); Image feature annotation & analysis; Photogrammetry; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) framework; Gaming.