CEMS Mini-Symposium: Mapping People and Places in the Early Modern World
A CEMS Digital Humanities Mini-Symposium
A variety of Digital Humanities experts will speak to the central theme.
A Centre for Early Modern Studies seminar | |
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Date | 3 May 2018 |
Time | 13:30 to 17:00 |
Place | Digital Humanities Laboratory Seminar Room 1 |
Event details
Thursday 3 May 2018
Digital Humanities Lab seminar room 1, 1:30-5:30. All welcome!
Our theme will explore how digital humanities approaches of GIS/mapping and network analysis are being applied to early modern studies.
1.30 – 2.15: Nick Terpstra (University of Toronto) and Colin Rose (Brock University): ‘Following Threads: Mapping Gendered Labour in the Florentine Textile Industry’
2.15 – 2.30: Speed round 1: Richard Ward, ‘The Digital Panopticon: Mapping Convict Life Courses in Britain and Australia, 1780-1925’
2.30 – 2.45: Speed round 2: Ayesha Mukherjee, ‘Famine Chorographies in Mughal Courtly Chronicles and European Travel Tales’
3.00 – 3.30: Coffee Break
3.30 – 4.15: Dr Ruth Ahnert (Queen Mary’s, University of London) and Dr Sebastian Ahnert (Kings College, Cambridge): ‘Tudor Networks of Power’
4.15 – 4.30: Speed round 3: Dana Durkee, ‘Location, location, location: Mapping Britain’s early modern medical community’
4.30 – 4.40: Speed round 4: Andrew McRae, ‘Places of Poetry’
4.40 – 4.50: Speed round 5: Fabrizio Nevola, ‘Immersive Renaissance: harnessing digital technologies for innovation in art historical methods, interpretation and display’
Drinks Reception to follow.
This event is linked to a morning training workshop (10:30-12:30): Mapping with the DECIMA project, with Nick Terpstra and Colin Rose. Sign up via CEMS event page.
Location:
Digital Humanities Laboratory