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…
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…
On October 26, 2017 the Traveler’s Lab met on Wesleyan Campus to walk through the initial stages of converting and migrating our data sharing and storage activities to Github. Led virtually by our own Prof. Adam Franklin-Lyons (Marlboro College), students and professors walked through the various organizational models, and decided … Continue…
On October 17, 2017 the Traveler’s Lab gathered to hear presentations from Elliot Williams (’18) and Elizaveta Kravchenko (’19) on their proposal for the lab to move from and eclectic and individual approach to data storage and shared working files on Google Drive and Dropbox to a single site model … Continue…