Complete information on events in central North Carolina can be found on the Fasti Carolinenses, an on-line calendar of events related to ancient studies. Note also the Geography Department’s colloquia series and the Anthropology Department’s upcoming events.
John W. Docktor maintains an excellent Calendar of Cartography Events. Its coverage is global and comprehensive.
Additional information on the following events is available:
July 2005
Digital Resources for the Humanities 2005
The
tenth DRH conference will focus on critical evaluation of the use of digital resources in
the arts and humanities. What has the impact really been? What kinds of methodologies are being
used? What are the assumptions that underlie such work? How do we know that the work ... is truly
new and innovative? How does technology change the way that scholars work?
[ read article ]
June 2005
Open Source Geospatial '05
Open Source Geospatial
'05, an international conference addressing geospatial data technologies
developed by or of relevance to the Open Source community, will be held June 16-18,
2005 in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA.
The conference will bring together the MapServer, EOGEO, and OSGIS communities, but
seeks to be more broadly inclusive.
[ read article ]
Travel and Religion in Antiquity
Travel and Religion in
Antiquity is the website of an ongoing seminar within the
Canadian Society of
Biblical Studies [exploring] the ways in which travel and mobility
influenced, constrained, and facilitated religious activity and cultural interaction
in antiquity.
The seminar’s website provides on-line access to
interesting papers and useful bibliography. [ read article ]
April 2005
How Western Were the Greeks and Romans?
On Friday, 29 April 2005, from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., there will be a forum held in 116 Murphey Hall on the UNC-CH campus on the theme “How Western Were the Greeks and Romans?” It will feature the following talks: [ read article ]
- N. Gregson Davis, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Duke University, “How Western Were the Greeks?”
- Sharon L. James, Associate Professor of Classics, UNC, “Women and Popular Entertainment in Antiquity”
- Werner Riess, Assistant Professor of Classics, UNC, “Roman History from the Bottom (Banditry)”
Bernard Frischer at UNC
We have just learned that the Department of Classics will host Professor Bernard D. Frischer (Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and Professor of Art History and Classics, University of Virginia) for two public lectures in Chapel Hill next week: [ read article ]
- “The Horace’s Villa Project, 1997-2003: New Discoveries in the Field and in the Archives”
Wednesday, 20 April 2005 at 4:30 p.m., Murphey Hall 104 - “Rome Reborn: Using 3D Computer Technologies to Reconstruct the Ancient City”
Thursday, 21 April 2005, at 11:00 a.m., Murphey Hall 118
November 2004
GIS Planet 2005
GIS Planet 2005 will be held 30 May - 2 June 2005 in Estoril, Portugal (near Lisbon). The first call for papers is now open (due: 26 November 2005), with a second round due on 1 March 2005. [ read article ]
Tribal identities in the frontier provinces of the Roman empire
Daniëlle Slootjes (Department of History at the Radboud University Nijmegen), writes to alert us to an up-coming workshop on “Tribal identities in the frontier provinces of the Roman empire.” [ read article ]
Archaeology of Ancient Alexandria
The Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology has announced its International Archaeology Conference 2004, entitled “City and Harbour: The Archaeology of Ancient Alexandria.” [ read article ]
ASOR 2004 Annual Meeting
The 2004 annual meeting for the American Schools of Oriental Research is scheduled for November 17-20, 2004 in San Antonio, TX. A complete program and all other relevant information is available on the ASOR Annual Meeting page. [ read article ]
Joint Meetings of the AIA/APA 2005
The annual joint meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association are scheduled for 6-9 January 2005 in Boston, MA.
Early-bird registration deadlines are approaching! [ read article ]
GIS Day 2004
GIS Day 2004
formalizes the practice of geographic information systems (GIS) users and vendors of opening their doors to schools, businesses, and the general public to showcase real-world applications of this important technology.
Here on campus in Chapel Hill, mark your calendar to attend presentations on internet mapping and GIS resources available from Davis Library (as well as informal conversations about GIS, courses and the new GIS certificate — plus refreshments): Wednesday, 17 November 2004, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m., Davis Library, Rooms 214 A, B and C. [ read article ]
Mediterranean Encounters
By way of a notice to the AEgeaNet mailing list, Megan Cuccia alerts us to a conference on the exchange and interaction between various peoples within the Mediterranean in the areas of trade, culture, literature and relations of power in Cambridge during February 2005. [ read article ]
Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Richard Talbert and Richard W. Unger have announced a conference on ancient and medieval cartography, to be held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in late October 2005. The scope of the conference will match that of J. Brian Harley and David Woodward (eds.), The History of Cartography, vol. 1. This conference will offer a unique forum to highlight, distill and reflect upon the remarkable progress made in the 18 years since its publication while fostering closer interaction between scholars of antiquity and of the Middle Ages. Proposals are especially welcome which discuss recent discoveries, the value of fresh perspectives and methodologies, insights gained from the exploitation of new technology, relationships between ancient and medieval cartography, and significant current work in progress. [ read article ]
October 2004
Mediterranean Crossroads Conference
Please provide an appropriate summary paragraph here. It is this paragraph that will get displayed on the main page of the website. [ read article ]
A New Ancient Map?
A team of scholars led by Thierry van Compernolle at Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier III) in France has announced the discovery of a map, scratched into the surface of a fragment of 5th century BC pottery. The map, excavated at Soleto in Italy last year, reportedly depicts the coastline of the Salentine peninsula (the “boot-heel” of Italy) together with thirteen sites indicated by point symbols and toponyms. If the map proves to date to the period of the potsherd, then this will be by far the oldest surviving map from classical antiquity. A colloquium on the map has been scheduled for 10-12 March 2005 in Montpellier. [ read article ]
Shifting Frontiers VI
Ralph Mathisen writes to alert us to the sixth biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference to be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign, 17-20 March 2005 [ read article ]
Central Places In Roman Lower Germany
Daniëlle Slootjes writes to alert us to a workshop on Lower Germany in Roman times, scheduled for 26-27 October 2004 in Nijmegen. She forwarded a detailed announcement from the conference organizers. [ read article ]
September 2004
Congress of Ancient Topography 5
Michele Fasolo writes to inform us about the the fifth meeting of the Congresso di Topografia Antica, to be held 5-6 October 2004 in Rome at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Council on Research) on Piazzale Aldo Moro. The theme of the meeting is I Porti del mediterraneo in età classica (Mediterranean Ports in the Classical Age). [ read article ]
NACIS 2004
The 2004 Annual Meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society will be held 6-9 October 2004 at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland, Maine. [ read article ]
August 2004
ICHC 2005
Via a note to the MapHist discussion list, Zsolt Torok has communicated to us the publication of the Call for Papers for the 21st International Conference on the History of Cartography, to be held in Budapest, Hungary between 17-22 July 2005. [ read article ]
July 2004
PNC 2004
In a recent note, Paul Ell (chair of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Program Committee) wrote to issue a call for papers for the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium’s annual conference, to be held from 17-22 October 2004 in Taipei, Taiwan. [ read article ]
XXth ISPRS Congress
The Twentieth Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing is meeting in Istanbul, Turkey from 12 – 23 July 2004. This article extracts papers of interest from the final program on the congress website. [ read article ]
June 2004
Mapping the Past: Boundaries, Communications and Transnational Exchanges
David Hopkin writes to issue a call for papers for “Mapping the Past: Boundaries, Communications and Transnational Exchanges,” a thematic strand at the next Social History Society Annual Conference. [ read article ]
Society of Cartographers Summer School 2004
Steve Chilton, the chair of the Society of Cartographers writes to inform us about the society’s 40th anniversary summer school. [ read article ]
Geoscience Information Society 2004 Meeting
Linda Musser writes to issue a call for papers for the next annual meeting of the Geoscience Information Society, to be held in conjunction with the Geological Society of America in Denver, Colorado on 7-10 November 2004. [ read article ]
GIScience 2004
GIScience 2004, the Third International
Conference on Geographic Information Science, is an interdisciplinary meeting focused on emerging topics and basic research findings across all
sectors of geographic information science.
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[ read article ]
May 2004
Archaeology and GIS: Old Methods, New Uses
Shaun Phillips is organizing a session on “Archaeology and GIS: Old Methods, New Uses” for the next meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah (30 March - 3 April 2005). He has just issued the call for papers. [ read article ]
April 2004
International Institute for GIS in the Arts and Humanities
The Polis Center at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (not to be confused with the Copenhagen Polis Centre), in association with the University of Portsmouth announces the 2nd International Institute for GIS in the Arts and Humanities, a four-day summer workshop (6-9 July 2004). The workshop will provide practical, hands-on experience in the use of GIS software focusing on data and techniques relevant to historians, historical geographers, demographers, archaeologists and others with an interest in the past. [ read article ]
GIS Workshops at Appalachian State University
The Spatial Outreach Laboratory of the Department of Geography and Planning at Appalachian State University will offer a number of GIS workshops during summer 2004. Topics to be covered in different workshops include: Introduction to ArcGIS, remote sensing and GPS. [ read article ]
Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER: 14th Conference (31 August 2004)
The conference, to be held in Cambridge (England) from Tuesday 31 August 2004 to Saturday 4 September 2004 inclusive, is entitled: Map Collections and GIS or Digital Data — the death of the paper Map? . The Conference is open to all interested parties. [ read article ]
Ninth annual UCLA graduate late antiquity conference (1 May 2004)
Some of the papers to presented at the conference on Saturday, 1 May 2004, have geographical content. [ read article ]
September 2001
Chacmool 2001: An Odyssey of Space
A conference organized by the Chacmool undergraduate archaeology association at the University of Calgary, 14-17 November 2001. [ read article ]
