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31. Aspects of Mapping and GIS Service in Higher Education Library (44:42)

Date:: November 20, 2020
Main contributors:: Girmaye Misgna
Summary:: Based on experience at the Penn Libraries, my talk will explore the landscape of Mapping and GIS services at higher education institutions, and the role and core competency of the GIS librarian in ...

32. Geographies of Disruption: Mapping to Make Sense of 2020's Sociopolitical Upheaval (44:00)

Date:: November 10, 2020
Main contributors:: Christy Hyman, University of Nebraska Lincoln; Erik Nelson, Indiana University Bloomington; Arrianna Planey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Summary:: Experts explore the disenfranchisement and disruptions of 2020, and examine how mapping can help us make sense of crucial issues both during this historic year and beyond. Five guests across a rang...

33. The Cosmopolitans: Filipino Inter(national) Students and the American Empire in 1917 and 1921 (03:19)

Date:: April 22, 2022
Main contributors:: Spaeth, Elizabeth
Summary:: Current scholarship on international students is sparse and tends to focus on contemporary crises and possibilities, but that limited scope neglects the long chronological impact of international s...

34. Policing, Punishment, Property, Control: A Brief History of Policing and the Prison Industrial Co... (03:18)

Date:: April 22, 2022
Main contributors:: Heiderscheidt, Drew
Summary:: Since emerging in the 1970s, the prison industrial complex (PIC)—roughly defined as the constellation of governments, corporations, and others that employ policing, incarceration, surveillance, and...

35. Making Sense of the Archives: A Digital Exhibit on the Hemispheric Work of Delia, Manuel, and George (02:57)

Date:: April 22, 2022
Main contributors:: López López, Amelia
Summary:: How can the curation of a digital exhibit amplify the voices of underrepresented scholars? With my research I aim to unbury, understand, and amplify the voices of Afro-Colombian artists, activists,...

36. Automatically Dating Classical Chinese Texts: Preliminary Study on Biji and Buddhist Texts (03:32)

Date:: April 22, 2022
Main contributors:: Tian, Zuoyu
Summary:: In recent years, there has been an increasing amount of literature on using computational methods to study language change. These studies demonstrate good performance in automatically identifying t...

37. Monumentalizing Memory: Symbolic Struggles and Urban Landscapes in San Salvador (03:13)

Date:: April 22, 2022
Main contributors:: Suárez Morales, José Luis
Summary:: My project maps the monuments erected during the Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992) and especially after the peace process in San Salvador (1992-1993) related to this conflict. The Salvadoran Civil W...

38. Savored Memories and the Cuban Culinary Imaginary: Digital Archive & Analysis (02:44)

Date:: April 22, 2022
Main contributors:: Ferguson, Kane
Summary:: This project investigates the origins of the Cuban cuisine memorialized in the recent nostalgic writing of Cuban exiles. Playwright Eduardo Machado’s 2007 memoir, Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile’s Hunge...

39. Forming a Community: Heartbreak and Triumph in Making Black Chicago (03:07)

Date:: April 22, 2022
Main contributors:: Stokes, Brandon
Summary:: This project will examine the interviews conducted in my research on housing and the making of Black Chicago. Through oral interviews with former residents of different neighborhoods in Chicago, or...

40. Placing Environmental Lead Exposure on Notice (46:19)

Date:: November 16, 2020
Main contributors:: Erik Nelson
Summary:: Lead is a ubiquitous environmental contaminant that causes numerous adverse health effects in children, particularly neurological and neurobehavioral deficits, lower IQ, slowed growth, and anemia. ...