Mapping Sense, Space, and Time
A Digital Mapping Workshop
This workshop includes 10 presentations by visiting scholars and University of Toronto faculty, librarians, and graduate students that cover a range of themes in digital mapping and the humanities, as well as a variety of time periods and geographical locations.
This all day workshop takes place from 9:00am-5:00pm in the Natalie Zemon Davis Conference Room - Sidney Smith 2098, 100 St. George St.
Schedule of Speakers:
9:00-10:30 - Collaboration Across Boundaries
Visualizing Venice: The Life and Times of a Digital Collaboration
Caroline Bruzelius (Duke University)
Building the Serai Collaboratory
The Serai Group (University of Toronto Scarborough)
10:30-10:45 - Break (refreshments provided)
10:45-11:45 - Locating Stories
Story Nations: A Digital Storytelling Project in Conversation with the Rainy River First Nation
Pamela Klassen (University of Toronto)
Mapping Medieval Romance: An Index of Place-Names in GIS
John Geck (Memorial University)
11:45-12:45 - Environmental & Social Mapping
Mapping Environment: Climate Change and Landscape at Late Medieval Herstmonceux
Stephen Bednarski (University of Guelph)
Inhabiting Florence: Space and Networks across Time
The DECIMA Group (University of Toronto)
12:45-2:00 - Lunch (audience members are on their own)
2:00-3:30 - Visualizing London’s Layers
From Locating London’s Past to the Layers of London: Building on and Beyond
Methodological & Technical challenges
Matthew Davies (University of London)
Mapping Early Modern Southwark: Data Visualization for Old and New Purposes
Sally-Beth MacLean & Byron Moldofsky (University of Toronto)
3:30-3:45 - Break
3:45-4:45 - Imagined and Psycho Geographies
The Psycho-Geographies of the Florentine Traveler
Niall Atkinson (University of Chicago)
Project Paradise: The Book of John Mandeville, the Hereford Mappa Mundi, and
Imagined Geographies
Alexandra Bolintineanu (University of Toronto)