Overview
To help you explore SHANTI technologies and their academic applications, SHANTI provides scheduled consultations, presentations, and workshops to all members of the University community – individuals, as well as groups, large and small. Contact us via the SHANTI Contact page on this site to make arrangements. In addition, we host various talks and events detailed below.
Special Events for 2012-13
UVa Digital Humanities Speakers Series
(Co-Sponsored by SHANTI, the Scholars’ Lab & IATH)
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Walter Scheidel (Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, and Chair, Department of Classics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA)
Title: “Redrawing the Map of the Roman World”
Venue: The Scholars’ Lab
Time: 9:30am
Reception immediately following.
Abstract
Ancient societies were shaped by logistical constraints unimaginable to modern observers. The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World (ORBIS) is an interactive database that integrates geographic, economic, environmental, technological, and other data sets, via computationally intensive methods, into a tool that allows us for the first time to understand the true cost of distance in building and maintaining a huge empire with pre-modern technology. This talk explores the ways in which this novel tool changes and enriches our understanding of ancient history.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Alan Liu (Professor, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA) and Rama Hoetzlein (Project Scientist)
Presentation:
“The History of Thought as Networked Community: The RoSE Prototype”
Abstract
What if bibliographies of past authors and works could be modeled as a dynamic, evolving society linked to today’s scholars and students? What if scholars and students could add data about biographical, historical, and intellectual relationships to the bibliographical entries, thus using present-day crowdsourcing to make more socially meaningful the crowds of history? And what if visualizations could help us actively “storyboard” intellectual movements and not just spectate them? Alan Liu and Rama Hoetzlein present the conceptual framework and some of the discoveries and challenges of the RoSE Research-oriented Social Environment (in beta at the conclusion of a NEH Digital Humanities Start-up grant).
Venue: Harrison Small Auditorium
Time: 3:00pm
Reception immediately following.
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