Friday, October 16, 2026
1:30 pm, 204 Clemens Hall
Classics Department Welcome Party
All Classics students (and those interested in Classics) are welcome to join!
Lunch will be provided.
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Friday, October 23, 2026
1:30 pm
Title: The Transparent Box: Building the Tesserae V6 Literary Research Site with Agentic AI
Speaker: Neil Coffee, Department of Classics
Series: Classics Department Talk Series
Time: 1:30-3:00 p.m. (40-minute talk)
Location: Greiner 134C/135C
Link: https://tesserae.caset.buffalo.edu
Tesserae finds intertextual parallels, meaning allusions, echoes and
borrowings, across a corpus of classical and premodern literature in
Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Coptic and English. This talk describes how the
sixth version of the site was built using agentic AI, what the method
made possible, and where it needed human correction.
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Friday, October 23, 2026
2:30 pm
Greiner 134C/135C
Follows Neil Coffee's The Transparent Box: Tesserae V6 and Agentic AI, 1:30–2:30 pm.
Tesserae is a digital humanities project that uses computational methods and AI to make tools that trace echoes, allusion and influence in literary texts in Greek, Latin, English and other languages. Come learn how you can be part of it.
The basics
What Tesserae is and how it works
Current goals and projects
What the team is building and researching now
Ways to get involved
Volunteer and research opportunities for undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers
tesserae.caset.buffalo.edu
If you would like information on events from prior years, please contact Alison Blaszak.