Digital Cartography: New Maps, Ancient History
Nov. 2-3, 2018
A conference co-sponsored by the Ancient World Mapping Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Duke University’s Departments of Classical Studies and of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
All are welcome. There is no registration fee, but do please notify us by October 28th that you plan to come on either or both days: just send a message with your name to awmc@unc.edu, with “Conference 2018” in the message subject line. You will then receive details about the UNC-Duke Robertson bus and Saturday parking at Duke.
PROGRAM
Friday, November 2nd
2.15-3.45 pm AWMC Open House – drop in at your convenience – with demonstration of current work there, Ancient World Mapping Center, UNC, Chapel Hill, Davis Library 5010
5.15-6.45 pm (Rubenstein 249, in Duke University Rubenstein Library, West Campus) Welcome, and Keynote Address by Dr. George Bevan (Queen’s University, Ontario),
“Photogrammetry and Heritage Documentation in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Past and Challenges for the Future”
7.00-8.00 pm (Duke University Bryan Center) Reception
Saturday, November 3rd
(Rubenstein 249, in Duke University Rubenstein Library, for the entire day)
9.00 am Coffee, tea, juices, pastries
Session 1 (chair: Mary T. Boatwright)
9.15-9.50 am Christopher S. Saladin (University of Minnesota), “City in Transition: Mapping the Transformation of Ancient Carthage”
9.50-10.25 am Loren T. Cowdery (University of Minnesota), “In Search of a Blueprint: Using GIS to Map the Republican Empire in the Western Mediterranean”
10.25-11.00 am Gabriel Moss (UNC, Chapel Hill), “Mapping the Jewish Revolt (66-73 CE): A GIS Analysis of Provincial Resistance”
11.00-11.20 am Break (coffee, tea, juices, pastries)
Session 2 (chair: Maurizio Forte)
11.20-11.55 am Chad Uhl (University of Kansas, Lawrence), “Quod versu dicere non est. Implications of the Unnamed Oppidulum in Horace’s Satires 1.5”
11.55am-12.30 pm Micah Myers and Joseph Murphy (Kenyon College), “Teaching Roman Mobility: Digital Visualization in the Classroom and in Undergraduate Research”
12.30-1.05 pm Lindsey A. Mazurek (University of Oregon) and Cavan W. Concannon (University of Southern California), “Mapping Social History: New Approaches to Epigraphy at Ostia”
1.05-2.15 pm Lunch (Duke campus eateries in the Brodhead Center – on your own)
Session 3 (chair: Richard Talbert)
2.15-2.50 pm Katherine McCusker (Duke University) and Antonio LoPiano (Duke University), “Secrets Beneath the Surface: GPR and Remote Sensing at Vulci”
2.50-3.25 pm Kristen Jones (Queen’s University, Ontario), “Mapping the Original Location of the Forma Urbis Romae: Digital Methods and Technical Constraints”
3.25-4.00 pm Adam Mertel, Peter Ondrejka, David Zbíral, Hana Hořínková (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic), “Early Christian Baptisteries – From Geocoding to Space-time Exploration”
4.00 pm Closing remarks
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