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This workshop series offers faculty across Academic Areas practical, hands-on sessions covering AI fundamentals, tools, and real-world applications in teaching and research on discipline-specific use cases.
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Maroussia Bednarkiewicz
Maroussia’s research projects consist in developing algorithms for the study of large textual corpora, mainly in Classical Arabic, to bring new perspectives on how people derive authority from the past and build the ground for new cultural memories. On a broader scale she is interested in supporting digital studies of under-resourced and under-represented languages. Hence, she first co-founded the Islamicate Digital Humanities Network to organise international conferences online every year for scholars to share their latest research and methods in the study of Islam and its languages, such as Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish, or Urdu for instance. And following her fellowship at the Centre for Digital Humanities at Princeton, she became the co-chair of DARIAH Multilingual DH Working group.
Previously she studied German, Russian as well as Translation in Geneva, and worked as a professional translator for national and international organisations, authors and artists. In parallel, she did a Master in Islamic studies and History at Oxford and, in her doctoral thesis, delved into the origins of the Islamic call to prayer and the premises of Muslim cultural memory. She then contributed to the ERC project KITAB (Knowledge, Information, Technology and the Arabic Book) towards the development of the OpenITI corpus, the largest, open-source digital collection of Classical Arabic texts.