[Digital_humanities] Egyptomania & Çatalhöyük: Join UCI Digital Humanities & Early Cultures Next Week!

Tue Oct 19 11:31:03 PDT 2021

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Join the Digital Humanities Exchange for a special presentation

by
UCI Professor Ian Straughn

“Egyptomania in the Mail & Online:
Digital Archives and Imperial Imaginings of an 'Antique Land' through Vintage Postcards”

Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 12:30PM - 1:50PM PST

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Dr. Straughn<https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=6380> researches the archaeology and material culture of the Islamic world with particular attention to the ways in which religious traditions shape and are shaped by the lived landscape.

For the past few years, in collaboration with UCI Libraries<https://www.lib.uci.edu/>, Dr. Straughn has led multiple cohorts of undergrads in his Egyptomania course in the development of a digital collection of 300 vintage, early 20th-century postcards depicting ancient Egyptian archaeological heritage, using the Omeka-S<https://omeka.org/s/> platform. Dr. Straughn will discuss his digital pedagogy and partnership with UCI Libraries as well as showcase the Egyptomania digital project.

This event will be presented remotely. It is co-sponsored by the Digital Humanities Exchange and UCI LIbraries

Join the Digital Humanities Exchange<https://sites.uci.edu/dhexchange/> in collaboration with the Center for Early Cultures<https://www.humanities.uci.edu/earlycultures/> for a Hybrid Lunchtime Lecture

with
Nicoloa Lercari

Friday, October 29, 2021, 12PM - 1PM PST

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For the first Lunchtime Lecture of the 2021-22 academic year, Prof. Lercari<https://www.ucmerced.edu/content/nicola-lercari> will present his talk, “Modeling the Neolithic: 3D Simulation, Knowledge Representation, and Toolmaking (Theirs and Ours).”

This talk explores crucial digital humanities concerns about simulating the past in 3D, curating digital data, and producing knowledge digitally. Prof. Lercari examines these topics by presenting results, DH tools, and digital collections developed over a decade of work at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük (7100-5600 BCE, present-day Turkey).

The discussion will critically engage with the role of computational thinking and knowledge representation applied to several digital case studies from Çatalhöyük to answer the following questions: What is the power of visualizing the past for the 3D simulation’s users? How can we ensure public participation in producing knowledge on archaeological/cultural heritage using digital technology? How can we prevent the loss of knowledge of the ancient world due to the lack of publication and preservation of primary archaeological and cultural heritage data?

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