“An Introduction to Digital Tools for Arabic Geniza Documents” by Marina Rustow

Marina Rustow is Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East at Princeton University and the Director of the Princeton Geniza Lab. Prof. Rustow is a social historian of the medieval Islamic world whose work draws primarily on the unique archive preserved in the Cairo Geniza. Prof. Rustow received a MacArthur Grant in 2015 in recognition of her groundbreaking scholarship.

Lecture on 4 March (11am–1pm)
Recent efforts to digitize Geniza documents have made them more easily accessible than ever before. And new algorithms from the field of computer visualization have made it possible to match fragmentary parts of the same document. This lecture will demonstrate the potential of the new technologies to help piece together lost medieval Arabic archives, as well as some risks inherent in the algorithms.

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