Category Archives: Academia

Summary of Byzantine survey colloquium via Bill Caraher

Posted on April 3, 2013 by James Newhard

Bill Caraher has summarized his thoughts from the recent colloquium on Byzantine survey, held at Dumbarton Oaks last weekend.

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Modeling Connectivity

Posted on February 18, 2013 by James Newhard

THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS AND THEODORE B. GUÉRARD LECTURE SERIES PRESENT Classical Charleston Modeling Connectivity: Cultural Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean New approaches and technologies for interpreting space – “the spatial turn” — are having a profound impact on human communication, and … Continue reading →

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Managing Archaeological Data in the Digital Age: Best Practices and Realities

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Jim Newhard

Reblogged from The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World: This past week, Deb Brown, who co-organized our panel at the Archaeological Institute of America’s annual meeting made the talks available on the YouTubes. All the papers were very solid on this … Continue reading →
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Digital Classicist London 2013: Call for Papers

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Jim Newhard

From the Stoa Consortium: Call for Papers January 24th, 2013 by Gabriel Bodard The Digital Classicist London seminar series, which provides a forum for research into the ancient world that employs digital research methods, invites submissions for Summer 2013. We … Continue reading →
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Graduate Symposium in GIS Applications in Archaeology

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Jim Newhard

Middle East Technical University Graduate Program in Settlement Archaeology Graduate Symposium Series 5 29-30 April 2013, METU Ankara   GIS Applications in Archaeology Understanding  the distribution of material culture in time and space forms the basis of archaeological studies. While … Continue reading →
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Some More Thoughts on Digital History

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Jim Newhard

Reblogged from The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World: Our panel yesterday on Managing Archaeological Data in a Digital Age was really nice. There was an engaged audience and a diverse but cohesive group of papers. What more could you want … Continue reading →
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AIA 2013 Meeting, Seattle WA

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Jim Newhard

I am sitting in the Sheraton’s bar, watching the Seattle/Washington game (and geekily enough, blogging).  Will write a short note now, just to say that the times spent discussing the state of geospatial studies in archaeology formed some of the … Continue reading →
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Call for Papers: Digital Perspectives on the Classical World

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Jim Newhard

CALL FOR PAPERS Word, Space, Time: Digital Perspectives on the Classical World An interdisciplinary conference organized by the Digital Classics Association University at Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo, NY 14261, USA April 5 – 6, 2013 Archaeological GIS, digital historical mapping, literary … Continue reading →
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Online Resource for Augustan Roman Monuments

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Jim Newhard

David Romano at the Archaeological Mapping Lab and a team of scholars has been putting together an online geographically organized resource entitled ‘Digital Augustan Rome.’ From the website: ‘Digital Augustan Rome is a long term mapping project that is prepared to provide … Continue reading →
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