Lab Notes & Meetings

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…