Digital Mapping and the Humanities
In the spring 2016 semester, the CFDE is co-sponsoring a series of workshops and lectures that will deeply examine the growing ways humanities scholars are engaged in cutting-edge digital mapping projects. Throughout the semester, seven scholars—each at different stages of their careers, from PhD candidate to full professor, including two in careers outside the tenure track—will come to Emory to talk and work with faculty and graduate students about their digital mapping and the humanities projects. The projects featured in the series offer the Emory community an opportunity to consider a variety of approaches to the joining of geo-spatial analysis and humanistic inquiry.
During their visits, all seven will each teach a three-hour workshop for graduate students and faculty. Six of the seven visiting scholars will also deliver public presentations of their work.
Digital mapping promises to transform the humanities by offering fresh tools with which to develop research questions, analyze data, and publish findings. Humanists at the forefront of this innovative approach are providing new looks and insights into history, art, photography, soundscapes, cities, and developments in the art market.
Workshops
These three-hour sessions will take place on Tuesdays from 9am until noon. They will be hands on and will take place in a room equipped with individual computers for each participant, up to eighteen people. Graduate students enrolled in Art History 789R: Mapping and Art History will participate in the workshops, scheduled to take place at the course's regular meeting time. Other Emory graduate students and faculty are invited to register for the workshops on a first-come, first-served basis.
The visiting scholars will discuss with the workshop group their research questions, why they turned to digital mapping to answer the questions, how digital mapping has informed their findings, and how they intend to disseminate results. They will also reflect on possibilities and challenges that come with using an emerging method for art-historical study and other humanistic inquiry.
Workshops will take place in the Woodruff Library Room 312 unless otherwise indicated.
George Philip LeBourdais
Tuesday, 26 January 2016, 9.00 AM-12.00 PM
PhD candidate, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
Nicholas Bauch
Tuesday, 2 February 2016, 9.00 AM-12.00 PM
Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University
John Russell
Tuesday, 9 February 2016, 9.00 AM-12.00 PM
Associate Director, Center for Humanities and Information, Pennsylvania State University
Russell will reflect on the range and quality of digital humanities projects across the United States and funding for them. This workshop will also be open to other Emory graduate students and faculty interested in digital humanities. *LOCATION TO BE DETERMINED
Niall Atkinson
Tuesday, 16 February 2016, 9.00 AM-12.00 PM
Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
S. Wright Kennedy
Tuesday, 1 March 2016, 9.00 AM-12.00 PM
PhD candidate, Department of History, Rice University
Pamela Fletcher
Tuesday, 29 March 2016, 9.00 AM-12.00 PM
Professor of Art History, Bowdoin College
Ellen Prokop
Tuesday, 12 April 2016, 9.00 AM-12.00 PM
Associate Photoarchivist, Frick Art Reference Library
Lectures
All lectures scheduled to take place in the Woodruff Library Jones Room.
Tracing The Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th-Century Photographs of Greenland
Monday, 25 January 2016, 5.30-7.00 PM
George Philip LeBourdais, PhD candidate, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Monday, 1 February 2016, 5.30-7.00 PM
Nicholas Bauch, Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University
Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes
Monday, 15 February 2016, 5.30-7.00 PM
Niall Atkinson, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Tuesday, 1 March 2016, 5.30-7.00 PM
S. Wright Kennedy, PhD candidate, Department of History, Rice University
Mapping the Commercial Gallery System in Nineteenth-Century London
Monday, 28 March 2016, 5.30-7.00 PM
Pamela Fletcher, Professor of Art History, Bowdoin College
A Modern Old Master? Using Historical GIS To Chart El Greco's Influence on the French Avant-Garde
Monday, 11 April 2016, 5.30-7.00 PM
Ellen Prokop, Associate Photoarchivist, Frick Art Reference Library
Co-Sponsorship
Through this series of public presentations and focused workshops, Emory students and faculty will investigate fresh methods for study in the humanities and begin to build a community of scholars working on digital mapping in the humanities. In addition to the CFDE, the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship and the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry are originating co-sponsors of the series. The Art History, English, Environmental Sciences, French and Italian, History, Sociology, Spanish and Portuguese Departments as well as the Laney Graduate School, Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program are also co-sponsors. Additional support for the series comes through cost-sharing with the Future of the Monograph in the Digital Era initiative for the visit of Nicholas Bauch, who will deliver a separate presentation related to that initiative.