Lab Meeting: Sept 7, 2018
Our Fall 2018 welcome and informational meeting took place Friday September 17 in PAC 422. Advertising poster below:
Lab Meeting: April 26, 2018
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…
Constantinople as Palimpsest: Now with Words!
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…
Turning Geographic References into Maps with Recogito: Part 2 (of 2)
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…
Constantinople as Palimpsest: Now Live!
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…
Turning Geographic References into Maps with Recogito: Part 1(of 2)
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…
Lab Meeting: December 7, 2017
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…
Mapping the Communication Network of the Datini Company
[This project had significant technical assistance from Pavel Oleinikov at Wesleyan University and Logan Davis, Marlboro class of 2017.] I have been working with the Datini metadata and letter collection for about a year, but have had more ideas and questions rather than actual analyses and observations. Just this semester, … Continue…
Exploring Institutional Structures and Individual Networks
by Helen Birkett I’ve been in residence at the Traveler’s Lab this semester and have taken the opportunity to work with Wesleyan students to extend my study of Caesarius of Heisterbach’s social network. The results, so far, are promising… Background My project uses the Dialogue on Miracles by Caesarius of … Continue…
Traveler’s Lab papers from SSHA (Montreal): Lab Meeting Nov 9, 2017
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…