Our second meeting of Fall 2018 took place Tuesday Sept 25, from 11.50-1.10p in Allbritton 004. Prof. Pavel Oleinikov presented a workshop on Extracting Place Names from a Text using a bit of R coding. This was an exciting opportunity for all of us to start actively sharing methodologies. It … Continue…
Our Fall 2018 welcome and informational meeting took place Friday September 17 in PAC 422. Advertising poster below:
Our end-of-the-semester (Spring 2018) lab gathering was held over lunch at noon in Allbritton 304. At that session, we heard a bit of what the lab’s been doing—especially from the pilot ‘Roads of the Middle Ages’ project—and from our guest Professor Emilia Jamroziak of Leeds University who talked briefly at … Continue…
Update February 2021: We have published an updated citeable version of Constantinople as Palimpsest on BodoArXiv here. Our beta-version of the Constantinople as Palimpsest (a modest encyclopedia of Byzantium) has now had a few issues corrected and has been updated. Introductory essays now explain each of the different categories of … Continue…
By Caroline Diemer (Wesleyan ’18) (introductory note by Jesse W. Torgerson) This blog post is the second part of a description of our work to see what the “geographic references” that we generated from the Chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor using MAXQDA looked like when projected onto maps. This is in … Continue…
February 2021 update: We have published an updated citeable beta-version of Constantinople as Palimpsest on BodoArXiv here. Constantinople as Palimpsest is an interactive, space-based encyclopedia of Byzantine Constantinople. It was created by Prof. Jesse Torgerson and his Wesleyan undergraduate students as part of their regular coursework, integrated with the Traveler’s … Continue…
By Caroline Diemer Note: This is the sixth in a series devoted to the project “Narrative and Geography in the Chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor”. First post (“place” in history) here; second (“place” in narrative) here; third (how we divided our text) here; fourth (how we coded “geography” in our … Continue…
A busy Fall Semester for the Traveler’s Lab ended with a group meeting on Thursday December 7. Fourteen Wesleyan students joined Profs. Birkett (Exeter, UK), Franklin-Lyons (Marlboro), Koscak (Wake Forest), Oleinikov (Wesleyan), Shaw (Wesleyan), Torgerson (Wesleyan). We were also joined, via video-conference, by our potential collaborators at Laffayette College, Prof. … Continue…
On Thursday November 9, 2017 we resumed our regular meetings in Allbritton 304, 11.50-1.10. We heard, and then discussed, condensed versions of Prof. Shaw, Birkett, and Franklin-Lyons’ papers from the SSHA conference in Montreal the previous weekend (panel schedule and titles to the right –>). Celebrating the success and hard … Continue…
The Traveler’s Lab hosted its own panel — “Mapping Communication in Late Medieval Europe” — as part of the Historical Geography and GIS strand at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association conference (held this year in Montreal). Our papers (below) featured (and credited!) student work done in … Continue…
