Digital Humanities and Ritual Space
19-21 October 2018

The second international meeting of the Unlocking Sacred Landscapes
(UnSaLa) network, will be held from 19-21 October 2018 in the
Laboratory of Geophysical-Satellite Remote Sensing and
Archaeo-environment (Melissinou & Nikiforou Foka 130) at Rethymnon,
Crete.

The meeting will focus on digital approaches both to ritual space and
to artefacts relating to ritual practice and cult. The terms ritual
and cult are used broadly to include sanctuaries, temples, and
churches, as well as the domestic and funerary spheres of life. We
particularly welcome papers with a strong methodological focus on
computational developments, digitisation processes and spatial
analysis. Although the main focus of the network is the Mediterranean
region, we also warmly welcome relevant papers from colleagues working
in other areas of the world, with a view to stimulating wider
methodological dialogues and comparative approaches. The chronological
range is also open, ranging from prehistory to the recent past, and
including cultural heritage management.

In particular, we welcome archaeological, art-historical,
anthropological, ethnographic, historical, computational, cultural
heritage or inter-disciplinary papers dealing with:

(1) inter- and intra-site Geographic Information System (GIS)
approaches and spatial statistics and modelling of ritual space and/or
its associated material assemblages,

(2) digitisation and virtual reconstruction of ritual space and/or its
associated material assemblages,

(3) remote sensing\aerial\satellite approaches to ritual space,

(4) other computational methods and developments (e.g. space syntax
and 3D modelling) applied to ritual space and/or its associated
material assemblages,

(5) digital approaches to culture heritage management and culture
heritage studies of ritual space and/or its associated material
assemblages,

(6) digital approaches to phenomenological, performative and
experiential analyses related to ritual space and/or its associated
material assemblages.

Papers should be 20 minutes long. Posters may also be accepted. The
official language of the workshop is English. Selected papers of the
workshop will be published in the form of a peer-reviewed collection
of studies and not as conference proceedings.

There will be a registration fee (60 euros) to cover coffee-breaks,
one dinner, and an excursion on 21st of October.

Please submit a 300 words (maximum) abstract to [log in to unmask] by 30
March 2018. Notification of acceptance will be made by April 30th
2018.

Further information: http://www.ucy.ac.cy/unsala/

Convenors:
Dr Giorgos Papantoniou (University of Bonn)
Dr Apostolos Sarris (Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas)
Dr Christine E. Morris (The University of Dublin, Trinity College)
Dr Athanasios K. Vionis (University of Cyprus)


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Dr Giorgos Papantoniou
Research Training Group 1878: Archaeology of Pre-Modern Economies
Abteilung für Klassische Archäologie
Institut für Archäologie und Kulturanthropologie
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Lennéstr. 1
D-53113, Bonn
Germany

http://www.wirtschaftsarchaeologie.de/en/persons/postdocs/dr-giorgos-papantoniou/

Unlocking Sacred Landscapes Network:
http://www.ucy.ac.cy/unsala/

Facebook Page of the Network:
https://www.facebook.com/unlockingsacredlandscapes/

Academia webpage:
https://uni-bonn.academia.edu/GiorgosPapantoniou