Locations

Remote:

Remote options will be available for all events. Please register to receive the zoom link via email, which will be sent to all registrants the day before the symposium. 

In-Person:

For those who would like to attend fully or partially in-person, please register and let us know which sections you plan to attend. In-person locations are listed below.

Auraria Campus (CU Denver, MSU, CCD) in-person Location: 

• Auraria Library Room EC 111  (note the room change!) 

University of Colorado Boulder in-person Location: 

• Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship, Norlin Library Room E206

University of Colorado Colorado Springs in-person Location:

• Department of Geography and Environmental Studies GIS Lab, Columbine Hall Room 329

We honor and acknowledge that the University of Colorado’s four campuses are on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute, Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, Lakota, Pueblo and Shoshone Nations. Further, we acknowledge the 48 contemporary tribal nations historically tied to the lands that comprise what is now called Colorado. 

Schedule

10:00-10:55 am - Keynote Address:

Generating Historical Data to Map and Archive the Suppression of the Slave Trade.

Henry Lovejoy, Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder

Professor Lovejoy is director of the Digital Slavery Research Lab, which is training students and developing digital humanities publications focused on the global history of Africa and the African diaspora. His first book, Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions, is a biography of an enslaved African who rose through the ranks of Spain’s colonial military and eventually led a socio-religious institution at the root of an African-Cuban religion, commonly known as Santería. It won the Chief Isaac Oluwole Delano Foundation best book prize for Yoruba Studies; and was a finalist for the Albert J. Raboteau best book prize (Journal of Africana Religions). He is also co-editor of the edited volumes Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896 (2020) and Regenerated Identities: Documenting African Lives (2022). Professor Lovejoy is now working on multiple projects related to the history of slavery, abolition, and African migrations, which intersect spatial statistical models, digital archives, and teaching resources. He has published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Journal of African History, History in Africa, Slavery & Abolition, among others. Multiple awards have supported his research, including from the Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, among other opportunities through CU Boulder. 

11:00 am - noon - Showcase: OpenHistoricalMap

Jeff Meyer & Minh Nguyễn, OpenHistoricalMap

Jeff grew up in a military family, is a former Air Force intelligence officer, high tech product manager, and is now an amateur historical mapmaker. He's been working on the idea of a map-based online time machine for too long to mention and OHM since 2012. He hopes that one day, all of the maps in the historical atlases weighing down his sagging bookshelves will be available on OpenHistoricalMap.

Minh has been contributing to OpenStreetMap and OpenHistoricalMap since 2008. On any given day, you’ll probably find him wandering the streets of San José, California, in search of quirky, overlooked details to add to the map.

Please hop on to https://openhistoricalmap.org/ prior to the talk for a preview of the project!

12:00-12:30 pm - Break

12:30-1:25 pm - Career Panel

Get career advice from GIS professionals in local and federal government, private companies, and nonprofits.

• Shannon Day, Consultant

• Mike Walck, Esri

• Carl Churchill, Wall Street Journal

• Vance Harris, GIS Developer

• Elly Evans, City of Boulder

1:30 pm & onward - Project Gallery Showcase and Lightning Talks

Lightning Talks:

• Meghan Thompson, CU Denver Developing a Suitability Analysis for Quarries in Gilpin and Grand County, Colorado 

• Truman Anarella, CU Boulder The NASA DEVELOP Program: Using Remote Sensing and GIS to Detect Invasive Plant Species

• Pat Hall, CU Denver Map Your Process! The Art of Turning Chaos into Cartography

• Jonny Burton, CU Denver Tree Canopy Height Model for USFS

• Brandon Brown, CU Boulder Winds of Change: Spatial Decision-making for Renewable Energy Development in Colorado

• Reese Beeler & Vas Ganushchak, CU Denver Creating an Up-To-Date Mapping Service of Parcel Ownership for US Forest Service Land

• Cameron Weutrich, CU Denver Post-Typhoon Debris Mapping for Local Communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska