TOMORROW, March 4, is the last day to register for GIS Basics for Byzantinists with Becky Seifried. March 13 (Making Your Own Data) & March 20 (Designing Maps) on Zoom. More info: maryjahariscenter.org/events/gis-b...
See you this afternoon!
Last year I had the opportunity to participate in the 2025 Summer Institute: Digital Humanities for Hellenic Studies at Princeton Athens Center. It was an extremely rewarding experience; rich learning, inspiring people, and insightful conversations. Highly recommend applying if you're interested!
Hard copies have arrived!
A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire
go.nature.com/4nHZmoM
This account is now bridged on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
Congratulations everyone! This was a great and exciting opportunity to work collaboratively on #PleiadesGazetteer
A big thank you to @paregorios.bsky.social who took the time and patience to guide me through my very first contributions!
🎉 The Bernat Klein Studio has been saved!
A coalition of Scottish heritage orgs secured it at auction for £279,000.
This modernist gem by Peter Womersley will now be restored for public + creative use.
👏 Huge congratulations to all involved!
Professor Machiel Kiel (February 25, 1938-July 7, 2025) passed away yesterday.
A special loss for Greek ottoman history as well. Machiel Kiel was the first to show, in a couple of publications he co-authored with the architect Dimitris Karydis in the early 1980s, that Greek populations
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A concrete building, made up of a series of cantilevered terraces.
Excellent news that the Bernat Klein studio has been bought by a coalition of heritage groups. The hard work starts here. Photo by me in 2016.
Very cool! Just to confirm, is this drop-in or do we need to book ahead? Thanks!
A research tool built by journalists on Greece's intense demolition and construction activity is also a strong example of a digital humanities project in architectural history, that utilizes crowdsourcing methods. Let's record our lost architectural heritage and raise awareness!
Excellent research! Congratulations @dankon.bsky.social
📢 CLS INFRA Online Workshop 📢
All welcome! Registration now open at link below.
📆 Wed 9 July
🕐 10:30 CEST
ℹ️https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfStVJr02CwYGQ0DvmCpmqfdn000dhP_L0bNDNe3CtRzCBjjQ/viewform
Excellent news!! Thank you!
Looking forward to this conference, it is online as well, if anyone is interested!
We're currently looking for someone to join us in Architectural History at Edinburgh for the 2025-26 year (and a little bit after) to cover a colleague's research leave: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Last week I had the opportunity to join the hands-on workshop on Network Analysis by @mjcbac.bsky.social & BSANA; an insightful, rich, and well-organized experience! Many thanks to the fantastic workshop leaders and the organizers!
Registration for Introduction to Network Analysis for Byzantinists with Alexander Brey, Zachary Chitwood, Ryan Horne, Christian Raffensperger, & Katerina Ragkou closes in one week, on May 1, 2025. May 12–16 on Zoom. More info: maryjahariscenter.org/events/intro...
The first person to discover a link between increased levels of CO2 and #globalwarming was a New Yorker named Eunice Newton Foote. Read her 1856 paper, and how she went unacknowledged for more than a century, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #earthday #climatechange
This goes along with the DH Advancement Grant funding opportunity cancellation for 2026.
Seems like we are taking another step backwards. www.neh.gov/grants/odh/d...
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📷 INTIME
Today marks a terrible day for Greek history. Two years ago 57 people -mostly students- died in a head-on collision of two trains in Tempi. Today inconceivable number of people filled the streets even in the less populated areas, for justice and against govt cover-up & corruption. We have no oxygen.
Second Meeting of Balkan History - Reconsidering Balkan rebellions in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman era: concepts, interpretative frameworks and methodologies
Program: ims.forth.gr/el/news-item... (incl. a paper by yours truly).
Live streaming : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fuaz...
Happy #DayofDH2024!
My DH day found me on QGIS mapping Ottoman khans and caravanserais in northern part of Greece for an article submission! 🗺️
Please share:
Call for Applications
Winter School: Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources
March 17-25, 2025, Rethymno (Greece), IMS/FORTH
www.ims.forth.gr/en/news-item...
