You will receive Zoom link and calendar invite upon registration. This lecture will begin at 11am BST (London)/7pm Tokyo. Additional time zone conversions can be found below. The lecture will be via Zoom; as a reminder, it will not be recorded.
So Miyagawa is an Associate Professor at the University of Tsukuba, Japan (Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences / Research Center for West Asian Civilization), specializing in Egyptology, Coptology, historical linguistics, and computational natural language processing. He obtained his Dr.phil. at the Seminar for Egyptology and Coptic Studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany. His research bridges traditional philology and digital humanities, with a focus on building AI-driven tools for ancient and endangered languages. He is the developer of THOTH AI, an LLM- and RAG-based system for the text analysis and machine translation of ancient Egyptian and Coptic texts, and co-leads the ICON Old Nubian corpus project.
Time zone conversions:
London - 11:00 am BST
Rome - 12:00 noon CEST
Tokyo - 7:00 pm JST
Melbourne - 8:00 pm AEST
New York - 6:00 am EDT
Los Angeles - 3:00 am PDT