Week 3

2 February (class takes place in Chat throughout the day)

We will have a discussion of the videos that were prepared by the 8 groups in class and shared via links to the discussion room. We will open a new thread called Week #3 Asynchronous Class. Our discussion will begin 2 February at 0900 and will continue for a whole day. Please make sure that you comment individually on at least 3 of the presentations. Tag the makers of the presentations in your Chat contribution.

Questions we might address in the asynchronous discussion:

• What places of the world are mapped more fully than others?

• How do maps reinforce biases of the past? How do they tell new stories about the past?

• How do mapping projects help us understand elements of our shared cultural past?

• How can maps be used for social justice? activism?

• How much work goes into mapping projects? Can you tell?

• What did you discover that you never expected maps could do?

• How do mapping projects show signs of "age"? How might you save them as scholarly artefacts?

Homework:

4 February (synchronous zoom class)

Behind every mapping project are structured data (in tabular or serial form).

Today's class will be a live version of this course that will run at the Winter Institute in Digital Humanities. Postgraduate Research Fellow Nada Ammagui will demonstrate how you can develop your skills in Google Sheets for organizing data, and in particular, spatial data in tabular format.