Sorry for cross-postings.
This seminar will be streamed live from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill's Digital Innovation Lab to the OId Anatomy Museum,
King's College London, with questions and discussion across both sites
after. It will also be possible for PC users anywhere to view the talk
remotely, and participate via live chat (joining instructions at the end
of this email).
Layers, Flows, Intersections: Historical GIS for 19th-century Rio de
Janeiro
Zephyr Frank, Stamford University
Tuesday, February 19th, 18:15 GMT
Old Anatomy Museum, Strand Campus, King;s College London
Details, including directions to the ATM:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2012-13/layers.aspx
Abstract
A digitized map of 1866 Rio de Janeiro, with historically accurate
renderings of streets and property parcels, provides the setting in
which more than 300,000 historic records including names, addresses, and
other detailed information have been organized in a database and plotted
in space to reveal interconnections, networks, movement, and change over
time. The digitized maps and data created by the project provide the
spatially-oriented resources for dynamic visualizations. In particular,
it is possible to explore movement, social networks, and the intensity
of urban experience through the use of GIS-based visualization
techniques. This paper argues for the use of these techniques as an aide
to understanding historical experience as "felt and lived" in a rich
spatial context.
Biography
Zephyr Frank is Associate Professor of Latin American history at
Stanford University, where he has taught since 2000. His research
interests include quantitative methods for social and economic history,
the application of GIS techniques in historical analysis, and the study
of literature in relation to social and cultural history. His research
has appeared in the pages of the Journal of Economic History,
Comparative Studies in Society and History, the Journal of Social
History, and the Journal of Latin American Geography, among other
venues. He is a founding member of the Spatial History Project and the
current director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA)
at Stanford University.
If attending the event at KCL, please register here:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5177028632. The seminar will be followed
by refreshments.
To participate remotely:
Remote Real Time (PC)
PC users who wish to participate remotely in real time may use this
link: https://meet.ad.unc.edu/plach/R437FWKZ . Participants will need
an updated version of Silverlight, and will need to download Microsoft
Lync Attendee for video and audio access
(http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15755).
Internet Explorer is the recommended web browser for participating remotely.
Remote Real Time (Mac)
We apologize that we cannot support remote Mac users at this time.
Post-Event Recording
We will be recording the talk for anyone who cannot participate remotely
during the event. We will make the recording available on both the DIL
and KCL websites within about twenty-four hours of the event.
--
---------------------------------
Dr. Stuart Dunn
Lecturer
Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London, WC2B 5RL
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel. +44 (0)20 7848 2709
Fax. +44 (0)20 7848 2980
Blog: http://stuartdunn.wordpress.com
|