The conference, which is free and open to the public, features a variety of presentations applying the techniques of digital mapping to the challenges of ancient Greek and Roman history and archaeology. Tom Elliott of New York University, managing editor of the Pleiades project, will deliver a keynote address entitled "Stable Orbits or Clear Air Turbulence: Capacity, Scale, and Use Cases in Geospatial Antiquity."
Contact Email: awmc[at]unc.edu
Schedule
Thursday, April 7
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Workshop: GIS Technology for Historians1(Davis Library, Room TBA), Gabriel Moss (Director, Ancient World Mapping Center)
Friday, April 8
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Keynote Address2(Hamilton Hall, Room 569)
- Stable Orbits or Clear Air Turbulence: Capacity, Scale, and Use Cases in Geospatial Antiquity - Tom Elliott (New York University; Pleiades Managing Editor)
Saturday, April 9
- (all Saturday events will be held in Hamilton Hall, Room 569)
8:30 am – 9:00 am: Light Refreshments
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Panel 1: Mapping Archaeology in Greece and Asia Minor
- The Terra Incognita of Athamania in Classical Antiquity: The Wild West of Thessaly or an “In-between”? Mapping and Analysing the Archaeological Evidence - Morgan Di Rodi (University of Oxford) / Maria Kopsacheili (University of Oxford)
- Pilot Project in the Hinterland of Nicaea, Bithynia - Barbora Weissova (Free University of Berlin)
- Mapping Ancient Athens in a Classroom: “The Digital Athens Project at Duke University” - Tim Shea (Duke University)
10:30 am – 11:00 am: Break, Light Refreshments
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Panel 2: New Approaches to Visualizing the Ancient Worl
- Mapping the Invisible in Archaeology: From Maps to Virtual Reality - Nevio Danelon (Duke University)
- Mapping Ancient Texts: Visualizing Greek and Roman Travel Narratives - Micah Myers (Kenyon College)
- BAM: Text, Networks, and GIS Mapping in the Big Ancient Mediterranean - Sarah Bond (University of Iowa) / Ryan Horne (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
- Break for Lunch
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Panel 3: GIS and the Power of Rome
- Success in Battle, Success in Building?: An ArcGIS Model of Roads, Campaigns, and Colonies in Republican Italy - Amanda Coles (Illinois Wesleyan University)
- Mapping Changes in Water Supply and Distribution in Rome under Claudius - Melissa Huber (Duke University)
- Circulating Consensus: Regionality and the Communication of Imperial Ideology through Coinage - Corey Ellithorpe (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)