Written by Adam Franklin-Lyons In earlier articles on this blogroll, we have written a couple of times about extracting, analyzing and organizing medieval itineraries as a source of data for doing geographic studies of medieval movement and travel (see: “Itineraries, Gazetteers, and Roads” and “Notes on the Margins“). Currently we … Continue…
Our next collective gathering is Monday, April 8 during the lunch hour, 12.15-1.10. We will be in the same room as last time: Usdan 110.
In March, four Traveler’s Lab profs hit the road to deliver papers that drew (at least in part) on research done in the Traveler’s Lab. Prof. Franklin-Lyons and Professor Jasper both traveled to the Medieval Academy of America annual meeting at the University of Pennsylvania and delivered presentations in a … Continue…
Lab meeting Monday March 4; USDAN 136 – 12.00-1.10. This meeting is a (very important) practical discussion on how our different teams are organizing materials for the Great Github Migration of 2019. Lab members: make every effort to be there as we need everyone’s input on making this work: trouble-shooting, … Continue…
At the end of last year, I wrote a short article for the Newsletter of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. The article talks about our ongoing itinerary project, focusing both on some of the itineraries I have been working on in Spain, but also talks about the … Continue…
Welcome back to the Spring 2019 Semester! Our first (informational and organizational) meeting for the year will be Monday January 28 at 12-1pm in USDAN 110. Lunch will be provided! We will be discussing ongoing projects, ongoing needs, specific semester plans, and how those semester-specific plans fit into the larger … Continue…
Royal Communication Networks in Aragon During Anti-Jewish Riots : 1391-1392 by Kaitlyn Thomas-Franz Introduction This past semester I had the opportunity to work with Professor Franklin Lyons on an exploratory data analysis project relating to a series of anti-Jewish riots that occurred in the crowns of Castile and Aragon between … Continue…
The Traveler’s Lab end-of-semester meeting for Fall 2018 took place on Tuesday December 10, 12-2pm in Allbritton 304. We heard from Kaitlyn Thomas-Franz (working with Prof. Franklin-Lyons on Royal Communication Networks in Aragon During the Anti-Jewish Riots of 1391-1392, from Prof. Gary Shaw (below) with an update on his project … Continue…
On Friday October 12 the lab met 2.30-4pm, in Allbritton 004, for a University-funded visit from Prof. Kathryn Jasper. Dr. Jasper’s visit highlighted the lab’s commitment this year to increasing multi-campus collaborations. This semester Traveler’s Lab students working with Prof. Franklin-Lyons and Prof. Torgerson teamed up with Prof. Jasper’s students … Continue…
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…
