UPDATED SCHEDULE (April 10, 2012)
Pre-Institute Readings:
1. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy (available through MediaCommons Press or from NYU Press).
Pre-Institute Tools and Projects:
1. Social Explorer: http://www.socialexplorer.com
2. HyperCities: http://www.hypercities.com
3. Google Earth
Week 1: The Geospatial Humanities
Mon, June 18 (9-12): Introductions
What is “Digital Cultural Mapping”? Discussion of goals of the Summer Institute (Presner, Johanson, Favro, and 12 participants)
(1-5): Exploring HyperCities (Presner, Johanson, Favro); Using Google Maps/Earth (Sullivan)
- Demos: Digital Karnak in Google Earth; “Visualizing Statues” in HyperCities
Suggested readings:
- Todd Presner, “HyperCities: A Case Study for the Future of Scholarly Publishing”
- Diane Favro, “Meaning in Motion. A Personal Walk Through Historical Simulation Modeling at UCLA,” in: Visualizing Statues in the Late Antique Forum; http://inscriptions.etc.ucla.edu/
- Christopher Johanson, “Immersive Coordinates, Geo-temporal Motion,” in: Visualizing Statues in the Late Antique Forum; http://inscriptions.etc.ucla.edu/
Tues, June 19 (9-12):
Geospatial Analysis and Narrative Strategies in Architectural History, Urban Studies, Ancient Studies, Archaeology, and Classics (Favro and Johanson): What does it mean to design a geo-temporal argument? How are discipline-specific assumptions and methodologies transformed in 4D digital environments?
- Christopher Johanson, “Visualizing History: Modeling in the Eternal City,” in: Visual Resources 25:4 (2009): 403-18.
- Diane Favro and Christopher Johanson, “Death in Motion: Funeral Processions in the Roman Forum,” in: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 69.1 (2010): 12–37.
- Digital Roman Forum
Tues (1-3): Video-cast presentations with Indiana University NEH Summer Institute (lectures by May Juan and Ian Gregory)
(3-5) Developing courses using HyperCities: A discussion of learning outcomes, collaborative process, design, and experimentation.
- Demos: HyperCities Los Angeles, Berlin, Rome
- Tools: Understanding KML (Keyhole Mark-up Language)
Wed, June 20 (9-12): “Geospatial Methodologies in Digital History” (Ethington and Reiff). Ghost Metropolis (Ethington)
- Janice Reiff, “Two Ideas, Two Cities, Two Projects: A Digital Urban World.” Perspectives on History. May 2009. American Historical Association. 15 June 2009.
- Philip Ethington, selections from the HyperCities “Ghost Metropolis” collection
- Google Maps Mash-up: “Digital Harlem” (http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/harlem/)
Wednesday (1-5): Hands-on “how-to” use Scalar and HyperCities (Ethington, Reiff, Presner)
- Tools: Scalar (Ethington), HyperCities (Presner), editing KML in Google Earth (Kawano, Johanson)
- Institute participants’ projects (demos)
Thurs, June 21 (9-12): “From Information Visualization to Critical Cartography and Neo-Geo” (Presner, Kawano, Shepard)
- Social Media Mapping: Tehran Election Protests HyperCities collection; HyperCities Egypt Twitter Map: http://egypt.hypercities.com
Thursday (1-5): Community GIS and Neighborhood Knowledge
- Mapping LA’s Historic Filipinotown through video, census data, historical maps, and oral histories (Ethington, Reiff, Presner)
- Tools: Integrating GIS Map Services (Kawano, Chen, Shephard)
- Institute participants’ projects (demos)
Fri, June 22 (9-12): Discussion with Kathleen Fitzpatrick on future of Digital Publishing
(1-5): “Geospatial Tools in Literature and Corpus Analysis” (Presner, Borovsky, Brunner): A discussion of network analysis, visualization, and mapping of literary texts and corpora.
- Demo: “Litmap” project by Barbara Hui: http://barbarahui.net/litmap/
- Tool: Google Fusion Tables to generate maps
- Institute participants’ projects (demos)
Week 2: Generating Transformative Scholarship
Building on the broad introduction to the geospatial humanities in week one, this week focuses on practice and implementation, in which each participant works intensively with Institute faculty and staff to design their geo-temporal argument.
Mon, June 25 (9-5 PM):
Six participants will each be paired with a faculty or staff designer who will spend the morning reviewing and assessing the state of the digital data provided by the participant during the pre-Institute phase of the project. Together, they will each complete a data evaluation, which will inform the nature of the work over the week. During this time, the other six participants will be in a single group guided by Presner and Ethington, discussing the nature of story-boarding an argument. Questions of curation, annotation, navigation, interaction, interface design, symbology, and systems of reference will figure prominently into the discussion. In the afternoon, the two groups will switch.
Tues, June 26 and Wed, June 27 (9-5 PM): Design, Story-boarding, and Implementation
Over the two days, participants will begin “staging” their arguments in Scalar, HyperCities, Google Earth/Maps, and/or ArcGIS/ArcMap. Staff support will depend on the exact technical needs of the participants. Additional individual instruction in specific digital platforms will be included on an as-needed basis.
Thurs, June 28 (9-5 PM): Site choreography: how to inter-relate components and link elements of the argument together, focusing on visual signposting, interface design, legibility, and integration of various kinds of multimedia.
Fri, June 29 (9-5 PM): Participants will reach a milestone in the development of their projects by creating a draft ready for initial presentation and review by the Institute participants. The faculty and staff will focus on technical problem-solving and “reality-checking.” Video-cast session #2 with Indiana University Summer Institute (Time TBA)
Sat, June 30 (10-3 PM): “Lightning talks over Brunch”: Participants will each present the state of their project in a 10-minute lightning talk to fellow conference attendees and Institute staff and faculty.
Sunday, July 1 (optional): Project work and preparation for Monday meetings
Week 3: Creating and Evaluating Transformative Publications
The purpose of this week is to have a two-way dialogue between the seminar participants and a group of editors, publishers, and librarians working on innovative platforms for geospatial humanities scholarship. The impact and evaluation process will go in both directions: Editors, publishers, and librarians will evaluate the digital projects created by Institute participants, discussing possible criteria by which such projects may be judged, reviewed, and archived; and participants will evaluate existing publication and archiving platforms and discuss how they might be transformed to better accommodate multimodal, geo-temporal scholarship.
Outside guests will attend the Institute over two days. The guests are: Nancy Levinson, editor of the online journal Places and founding editor of Harvard Design Magazine; Mary Francis, Humanities editor at the University of California Press; Philip Ethington, North American and Multimedia Editor for Urban History (Cambridge Journals Online); Kazys Varnelis, Director of the Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and multimedia editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians; Tara McPherson, founding editor of Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular and the Scalar platform; Marta Brunner, Head of the Collections, Research, and Instructional Services at the UCLA Library and steering group member of the Open Humanities Press.
Mon, July 2 and Tues, July 3 (9-5): Six presentations by Institute participants per day with a moderated discussion with Levinson, Francis, McPherson, Ethington, Brunner, and Varnelis on creating, evaluating, sustaining, and preserving geospatial humanities scholarship. The forum will last two days and represent the culminating event of the Institute
Wednesday (July 4th holiday, no sessions scheduled)
Thurs, July 5 and Fri, July 6 (9-5 PM – OPTIONAL): Institute participants make final revisions to projects with Institute faculty and staff.
Suggestions for further reading:
- Mark Monmonier, How to Lie with Maps (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 1-42.
- Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press, 1983), 13-27, 52-105.
- JB Harley, “Texts and Contexts in the Interpretation of Early Maps,” in: The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), 34–49
- Denis Cosgrove, “Moving Maps,” in: Geography and Vision: Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World (London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008), 155-68.
- Richard Brilliant, “Prolegomena to a Very Long Book on the City of Rome,” in: In Memoriam Otto J. Brendel: Essays in Archaeology and the Humanities, ed. Larissa Bonfante, Helga Heintze, and Carla Lord (Mainz: von Zabern, 1974), 255-261.
- Stuart Dunn, “Space as an Artefact: A Perspective on ‘Neogeography’ from the Digital Humanities,” in: Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity (2010): 53-69.
- “The Power of Geographic Visualizations,” Geographic Visualization, eds. M. Dodge, M. MacDerby and M. Turner (John Wiley & Sons, 2008), 1-10.
- Anne Knowles, “Historical Maps in GIS,” Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History (ESRI Press, 2002), 1-22.
- Amy Hillier “Redlining in Philadelphia,” Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History, ed. Anne Knowles (ESRI Press, 2002
- Denis Cosgrove, “Moving Maps,” in: Geography and Vision: Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World (London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008), 155-68.
- Denis Cosgrove, “Carto-City,” in: Geography and Vision: Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World (London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008), 169–182.