Week 12

Movement

READINGS

1. Walter Scheidel, “The Shape of the Roman World: Modelling Imperial Connectivity,” Journal of Roman Archaeology 27 (ed 2014): 7–32.
   1. Orbis: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
   2. Elijah Meeks, “Why Update ORBIS,” Hestia (blog), January 9, 2014.
   3. Elijah Meeks and Karl Grossner, “Modeling Networks and Scholarship with ORBIS,” Journal of Digital Humanities 1, no. 3 (Summer 2012).
2. Don Lafreniere and Jason Gilliland, “Revisiting the Walking City: A Geospatial Examination of the Journey to Work,” In Historical Geography, GIScience and Textual Analysis: Landscapes of Time and Place, edited by Charles Travis, Francis Ludlow, and Ferenc Gyuris (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020) , 85–111.
3. Paula Lupkin, “‘Auteur’ or Architectural Historian? Digitally Modeling the New York YMCA,” Visual Resources 25, no. 4 (December 1, 2009): 379–402.  [focus on the section on circulation in the building]
4. Harmony Bench, and Kate Elswit, “Katherine Dunham’s Global Method and the Embodied Politics of Dance’s Everyday,” Theatre Survey 61, no. 3 (September 2020): 305–30.
   1. Dunham’s Data

SUGGESTED PROJECTS

• Erdem Kabadayi, Piet Gerrits and Grigor Boykov, “Geospatial mapping of a 16th century transport corridor for Southeast Europe,” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 37, 3 (2022): 788-812.
• Patricia Murrieta-Flores, Christopher Donaldson, and Ian Gregory, “GIS and Literary History: Advancing Digital Humanities Research through the Spatial Analysis of Historical Travel Writing and Topographical Literature,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 011, no. 1 (November 29, 2016).
• Spanish Travelers Project
  • Eugenia Afinoguénova, Stephen Appel, Andrea Ballard, and Mackenzi McGowan, “Letters from Spain in a Space-Time Box: Historical GIS with Timestamped Itineraries for Understanding the Chronotopes of Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing,” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 14, no. 1–2 (February 26, 2020): 119–33.
• Andrew Sluyter, “Death on the Middle Passage: A Cartographic Approach to the Atlantic Slave Trade,” Esclavages & Post-Esclavages. Slaveries & Post-Slaveries, no. 3 (November 27, 2020).
  • Atlantic Networks (Deaths on Slave Voyages)
• Catherine Clarke, “Place, identity and performance: spatial practices and social proxies in medieval Swansea,” Journal of Medieval History 41, 3 (2015): 256-72.
  • City Witness Interactive Map