There are three more days to submit session proposals for THATCamp CAA-NA. We have a good number so far, but not quite enough to keep the all of the participants, with their diverse array of backgrounds and interests, occupied for the whole day. If you’ve got problems, ideas, technologies, or projects you’ve been wrestling with, now’s the time to submit your session proposal!
The Schedule page has now been activated on the site. The page includes an embedded Google Spreadsheet with the session list, which will be modified Friday morning as participants vote on the the proposals they would like to attend as sessions. You’ll have the opportunity to write your name on the whiteboard Friday morning to deliver a Dork Short (two-minute lightning talk) during lunch.
Finally, whether you are a participant or interested observer, the Twitter hashtag for the event is #caana.
See you Friday!
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Garth Anderson
August 9, 2012 at 3:32 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I am not sure if another local has offered this, but as one of UVA’s historians I’d be happy to offer an overview of the Academical Village. If there is another local who can address “Canada” and the Kitty Foster homesite in our South Lawn (Canada was an area occupied by Free Blacks probably starting with the construction period of the University).
This tour could be organized for Friday, after the camp.
Mandy Ranslow
August 9, 2012 at 8:47 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
As a non-local, I think it’s a great idea!
Ethan Gruber
August 9, 2012 at 12:56 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
This is a great idea. Thanks for offering, Garth.
Abigail Holeman
August 10, 2012 at 12:30 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I’m probably too late, but I’ll put this up here anyway. Last night (hence the late post), a colleague and I were discussing the use of GIS in non-traditional ways, or creating new ways of representing nontraditional features. I use GIS to look at cosmology in Native American societies. My use of the technology itself is fairly straightforward and in fact rather traditional, but I am using it to ask questions I don’t usually see in connection with GIS. My colleague uses GIS to look at concepts of identity and cultural boundaries. In her work she has struggled with how to represent boundaries in more complex ways. Although the broader Digital Humanities uses different technologies to do this kind of thing, I’d love to hear how other people might be using GIS specifically in this way. I don’t have any thing specific in mind, just thought it would be great to hear other people’s thoughts on this.