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Revised Atlas of Classical History Now Published March 2023

March 20, 2023 in E-resource, Interest, News

Atlas of Classical History flyer 2-01

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Mapping Ottoman Turkey 1883-1923 Virtual Exhibition URL CORRECTION

December 9, 2022 in E-resource, Interest, News

Part I of the exhibition can now be viewed, but – apologies – the url has changed to: https://arcg.is/PTCOm

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Mapping Ottoman Turkey 1883-1923 Virtual Exhibition

November 29, 2022 in Interest, News

The exhibition will be launched with a talk at Princeton University Library on Monday, December 5th.  To register, visit https://libcal.princeton.edu/event/9924868.

To view the exhibition from December 5th onwards, visit https://arcg.is/0Xb8OP0.

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New Publication: “The Exploration of Asia Minor: Kiepert Maps Unmentioned by Ronald Syme and Louis Robert”

November 1, 2022 in Interest

This article by Richard Talbert has just been published in the online journal History of Classical Scholarship. Here is the link: https://www.hcsjournal.org/ojs/index.php/hcs/article/view/79

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UNC-Chapel Hill Job Posting of Interest

October 11, 2022 in Interest, News, Of Interest

Assistant Professor in Ancient History

Posting Information

Posting Information 

Department History – 315900
Posting Open Date 10/07/2022
Application Deadline 11/06/2022
Open Until Filled No
Position Type Permanent Faculty
Working Title Assistant Professor in Ancient History
Appointment Type Tenured/Tenure Track
Vacancy ID FAC0004249
Full-time/Part-time Full-Time Permanent
Hours per week 40
FTE 1
Position Location North Carolina, US
Hiring Range Dependent on Experience and/or Qualifications.
Proposed Start Date 07/01/2023
Position Information 

Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit The UNC-Chapel Hill Department of History is one of the largest academic departments within the College of Arts and Sciences. The Department is committed to the purposes of a research university, to the teaching of history at the undergraduate level as a core discipline in a liberal arts education, and to the training of graduate students.
Position Summary The area of historical specialization for this position is open, but the research and teaching expertise falls within the history of the broader Mediterranean world between 800 B.C.E. and 500 C.E. This position is expected to develop a teaching profile centered on Greek and/or Roman history. This position also should contribute to the initiatives of the Ancient World Mapping Center (https://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/). Additionally, the successful applicant would be encouraged to develop connections, in both research and teaching, with colleagues in the Department of History and those in other subject centers at UNC, as well as within North Carolina’s Research Triangle and beyond.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements Applicants must have Ph.D. in History or a related field in hand by July 1, 2023.
Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience The Department would be especially interested in inviting applications from those who could contribute to the initiatives of the Ancient World Mapping Center (https://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/).

The area of historical specialization for this position is open, but the research and teaching expertise falls within the history of the broader Mediterranean world between 800 B.C.E. and 500 C.E. The successful applicant would be expected to develop a teaching profile centered on Greek and/or Roman history. Additionally, the successful applicant would be encouraged to develop connections, in both research and teaching, with colleagues in the Department of History and those in other subject centers at UNC, as well as within North Carolina’s Research Triangle and beyond.

Special Physical/Mental Requirements n/a
Campus Security Authority Responsibilities Not Applicable.
Special Instructions Please include a statement on engagement with diversity and inclusion
Quick Link https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/240887
Department Contact Information 

Department Contact Name and Title David Culclasure, Business Officer
Department Contact Telephone or Email davidnc@ad.unc.edu
Academic Personnel Office Contact Information If you experience any problems accessing the system or have questions about the application process, please contact the University’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost office at (919)-962-1091 or send an email to facultyrecruitment@unc.edu.

Please note: The Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost office will not be able to provide specific updates regarding position or application status.

If you have any questions about the job requirements or the hiring department notify the Department Contact.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran.

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Required Documents

  1. Curriculum Vitae / Resume
  2. Cover Letter
  3. Other Document
  4. List of References

Optional Documents

Supplemental Questions

Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).

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New Host for Maptiles

June 23, 2022 in E-resource, Interest, News

Warmest thanks for this message from Professor Sarah Bond, University of Iowa:

As many of you know, the Mapbox servers previously used for hosting the AWMC maptiles have been down for a number of months as we figured out a better way for them to be hosted and funded. Digital preservation is one of the hardest parts of any DH project. This has caused much disruption with digital projects that rely on these as maptiles as base maps for interactive, spatial components. As such, we want to announce that the AWMC maptiles have been migrated to a server at the University of Iowa libraries within The Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio. You can download or use the maptiles in a number of formats: http://cawm.lib.uiowa.edu/index.html

Below you can see more about the official licensing (still a CC BY 4.0) and attribution. We are calling this spinoff CAWM (the Consortium of Ancient World Mappers), but it is still made up of many former heads of the AWMC (e.g. Ryan Horne, Richard Talbert), Pleiades editors (e.g. me) and Pelagios partners. We hope these freely available maptiles will be used widely and that the stability of their provision will be relied upon as you rebuild or create new digital projects with spatial aspects. http://cawm.lib.uiowa.edu/#tiles/ol3

In addition to the digital tiles, we are working on new versions of Antiquity à-la-carte to help people to make their own accurate maps for articles and books. In the meantime the older version is still up and able to be used to create maps for analog publications: http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/alacarte/

We are all excited about this new venture with amazing partners, and have huge gratitude for the original AWMC mapmakers who created these tiles in 2014.

Questions about these maptiles or future pedagogy workshops with Pelagios on how to use them can be directed at me. I also want to give a huge thanks to Jay Bowen, our GIS specialist at the Studio, for his aid in coming up with a solution for hosting the maptiles from Iowa.

 

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Pliny the Elder’s World: Natural History, Books 2-6 Now Published

May 23, 2022 in Interest, Publication

This new translation of Pliny’s Books about the universe and the world by Brian Turner (former Center Director) and Richard Talbert is now available in Europe from Cambridge University Press, and will be published in North America in July.

Pliny the Elder's World

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Call to Help Update the Peutinger Map Viewer

August 30, 2021 in E-resource, Interest, News

The Ancient World Mapping Center, in collaboration with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, seeks Expressions of Interest from freelance and contract web developers interested in a small project to replace an online viewer for the so-called “Peutinger Map” of the Roman World. The current HTML+JavaScript web application has been in production on the Web since 2011, providing a seamless “pan and zoom” interface to a raster image of the map, with switchable SVG layers highlighting thematic features. Raster tile services were implemented in the application using the free and open-source Djatoka server application, which is now defunct.

We seek a developer or small team to replace the application with a new software stack that makes as much use as possible of off-the-shelf, free and open-source code as possible, and that leverages applicable widely-used standards like the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF).

Interested parties should email ISAW’s Tom Elliott (tom.elliott@nyu.edu) — not later than 6pm US Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 — in order to indicate their interest in learning more about the scope of the project and its technical aspects. Elliott will organize a prospective vendor teleconference or other forum for questions during the month of October, after which AWMC will solicit proposals for completion of the work. Meantime, the code has been posted to GitHub for review by interested parties.

This call supersedes that made on September 21, 2020.

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New Book of Interest

February 12, 2021 in Interest, Publication

This is volume 1 of the first-ever Russian translation of Pliny’s Natural History.  There is a concise apparatus criticus for the Latin text, and concise notes accompany the translation.

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Service Updates

January 26, 2021 in Interest, News

The Center is aware with much regret that two resources it offers are no longer functioning as they should. Unfortunately, in both instances the problems which have arisen lie outside the Center’s control. The Djakota software package which facilitates the functioning of Map A on the Peutinger Map site is now considered outmoded by its provider and thus no longer maintained. Consequently, the background image of the map itself no longer functions. Similarly, Mapbox.com has ceased to support the data format used to create and deliver the Center’s Map Tiles. Any map using Map Tiles is affected in consequence (such as that developed in association with Duane Roller’s translation of Strabo, Geography).

Please be assured that the Center is striving to identify and install satisfactory replacements which will enable these resources to resume functioning. How soon that can be achieved, however, is as yet impossible to say.

Also be assured that the Center’s Antiquity-A-La-Carte is not affected by similar problems, and should continue to function smoothly.

A further update will follow when there is progress to report.

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