Call for Papers: Zones and Lines, Water and Land: New Conversations on Borders
Today at The Junto, Rachel Herrmann shares a call for papers for a workshop she's co-organizing.
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Theban Waterscapes and Harbours Survey THaWS 2014 – Measure for Measure
The current season of THaWS fieldwork has given the team some time for reflection on the survey results from 2012 and 2013, and has provided an opportunity for addressing some of the outstanding issues related to the mapping of Thebes on the west and east banks. Survey work throughout the 2012-2014 has been carried out by the team members, including the project director Angus Graham, who oversees the work with the Egypt Exploration Society (EES; http://www.ees.ac.
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sotonDH Small Grants: Introducing ‘Mapping Libel Performance in Early Modern Devon’
Accounts of early modern libel survive in the Star Chamber records, from which I have transcribed the Devon cases; these libels, I argue, should be seen as public performances and analysed in light of this. Having received a SotonDH grant, work has begun on a digital mapping resource which aims to present instances of performance-based libel from the county of Devon alongside key features of the contemporary landscape in order to demonstrate their performance nature.
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