Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo wins Caine writing prize

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Source: BBC News, 12 July 2011

NoViolet Bulawayo was born and raised in Zimbabwe and studied in the US

Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo has won this year's Caine Prize for African Writing, regarded as Africa's leading literary award.

The £10,000 ($16,000) prize was given for her story Hitting Budapest about hungry children from a shantytown who steal guavas from an upmarket suburb.

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Open Access Journal: Monumenti Antichi

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Monumenti Antichi

Die „Reale Accademia dei Lincei” in Rom zeigte bereits früh großes Interesse an der Publikation archäologischer Forschungsergebnisse und gab diesen beachtlichen Raum für monatliche Veröffentlichungen in den „Notizie degli Scavi” (erschienen ab 1876). Resultierend aus dem wachsenden Interesse an Klassischer Archäologie bestand bald das Bedürfnis nach mehr Raum für Beschreibungen und Illustrationen der antiken Monumente in Italien und Griechenland und ihrer Entdeckung.

So wurden in den ab 1889 neu herausgegebenen „Monumenti Antichi” nicht nur neuere Ausgrabungen berücksichtigt, die nach wie vor in den parallel weiter erscheinenden „Notizie degli Scavi” bekannt gemacht wurden, sondern auch bereits früher ausgegrabene Grabungsstätten oder Funde konnten nun publiziert werden.

Dabei handelte es sich um Denkmäler von prähistorischem, klassischem, epigraphischem, numismatischem aber auch philologischem Interesse. Als zeitliche Obergrenze wurde der Beginn des frühen Mittelalters angesetzt.

1.1889
2.1893 (1894)
3.1893 (1894)
4: Antichità del territorio Falisco: esposte nel museo nazionale romano a villa Giulia (Parte prima).1894 (1895)
4: Antichità del territorio Falisco: esposte nel museo nazionale romano a villa Giulia (Atlante).1895
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25.1918
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30.1925

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Open Access Journal: The Silk Road

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[First posted in AWOL  11 December 2009. Updated 4 November 2012]

The Silk Road

Our journal is dedicated to public education about the history and cultures of Eurasia, especially in pre-modern times. While we invoke the historic "Silk Road" in our title, our view of the Silk Roads is an expansive one, encompassing pre-history, the era beginning with the establishment of trans-Eurasian trade and cultural interaction some two millennia ago, and the subsequent history of those interactions down through the centuries. Modern evocations of cultural traditions are of interest, especially in the areas which historically have been the domain of pastoral nomads. We publish articles by well known scholars and those who have other expertise on the regions and material of interest. Where possible we are communicating the results of the latest research, including new archaeological investigations. The journal also serves as the means to alert readers about upcoming programs connected with Silk Road topics.

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  January 15, 2003

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Open Access Journal: Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft

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Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft
ISSN: 1437-9074

Das Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft (GFA) macht es sich zur Aufgabe, neueste Forschungsergebnisse auf schnellstem Wege der wissenschaftlichen Öffentlichkeit vorzustellen. Es publiziert Aufsätze und Rezensionen zu Themen aus dem gesamten Bereich der griechisch-römischen Antike und ihren Randgebieten. Es ist insbesondere den Gegenständen der Klassischen Philologie, der Alten Geschichte und der Archäologie gewidmet. Publikationen vonfachübergreifendem Interesse sind sehr willkommen.

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Associations in the Greco-Roman World: A Companion to the Sourcebook

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Associations in the Greco-Roman World: A Companion to the Sourcebook

Welcome to the companion site to Associations in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook (= AGRW).

Using tools in the right sidebar, you can browse or search a growing online database of inscriptions and papyri about associations and guilds in the ancient Mediterranean, including many documents that do not appear in the book (marked with an asterisk*).
The plan is to have more translations and photos contributed to this website by scholarly experts around the world with coordination by Richard S. Ascough, Philip A. Harland, and John S. Kloppenborg (see list of contributors or find out how to contribute).

Browse Selected Exhibits

• ►Browse by Selected Exhibits

Browse by Geography

• ►Browse by Geography

Browse by Topics

• ►Benefactors
• ►Date
• ►Deities or heroes
• ►Group activities
• ►Type of group
• ►Type of monument or document

Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo wins Caine writing prize

To contact us Click HERE
Source: BBC News, 12 July 2011

NoViolet Bulawayo was born and raised in Zimbabwe and studied in the US

Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo has won this year's Caine Prize for African Writing, regarded as Africa's leading literary award.

The £10,000 ($16,000) prize was given for her story Hitting Budapest about hungry children from a shantytown who steal guavas from an upmarket suburb.

Full article

Open Paleography Project

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Open Paleography

The Homer Multitext blog is an appropriate forum to announce a new project growing directly out of experience with the Homer Multitext project, and developing technology that will contribute directly to future work on the HMT project.

For almost three years, the HMT project has been collecting in structured notebooks paleographic observations about the manuscripts we are editing.  With the announcement of the Open Paleography project, we aim to expand this work to a general crowd-sourced collection of paleographic observations.

The Open Paleography project differs from other projects with similar aims in its application of the CITE architecture.  Paleographic observations identify a physical artifact, a textual passage, and a region of interest on a documentary image using technology-independent, machine-actionable URNs.  In turn, each observation itself is identified with a CITE URN.  The openly licensed data set is exposed to the software and end-users in the following ways:

• because all the data sets are CITE Collections, they are available through the CITE Collections Service API
• because data are stored in Google Fusion Tables,  they are available both through Google's programmatic API and through the user interfaces to Google Fusion Tables

The Open Paleography project is currently testing and helping develop two generic applications that work with any CITE Collection. The first is a collaborative CITE Collection editor allowing authorized contributors to add to a CITE Collection from a Web browser.  The second is a general querying and viewing application for end users.  Both of these applications will find immediate application in the HMT project.