Classicizing Philadelphia is now part of the Classical Reception Studies Network, based at the Open University in Great Britain. CRSN is a group of institutions, projects, and people “formed in 2004 with the goal of promoting collaboration among institutions with research interests in Classical Reception Studies. Membership of the network includes institutions both in Britain and across the world.”
With the 2013-2014 academic year, Classicizing Philadelphia begins an exciting new phase. A Presidential Initiative Grant from the Classical Association of the Atlantic States will allow us to develop systems for data management and use and post preliminary content. Classicizing Philadelphia welcomes Sara Sieteski as Project Associate for Design and Implementation. Sara is a Senior IT Specialist at the University of Pennsylvania and holds masters degrees in digital humanities from Penn and in Classics from Bryn Mawr and the University of Colorado.
This blog will continue to report on planning for Classicizing Philadelphia as we move toward our goals:
• To be a focal point for research on classical receptions in Philadelphia
• To be a gateway to documents of classical reception in Philadelphia collections
• To inform the citizens of Philadelphia about and engage them in our city’s long conversation with Greece and Rome
Stay tuned!
Lee Pearcy
Project Director
“. . . our past and our heritage are not things preserved for all eternity but processes that must continually revalidate themselves.”
–Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, “Switching Partners: Dancing with the Ontological Engineers,” in T. Bartscherer and R. Coovers eds., Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts (Chicago 2011), 103-124; quotation on p.111.
“Observing how a community chooses to engage with antiquity sheds light not only on how it views antiquity, but also on how it views itself and how it may wish to be viewed.”
-Amanda Wrigley, Performing Greek drama in Oxford and on tour with the Balliol Players (Exeter 2011), p. 6.