CGA created maps for the 2010 book: ”From Slavery to Freedom”. The map below depicts colonial territorial claims in North America, and was compiled from various modern and historical sources.
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For teaching purposes, a map of the solar analema for U.S. time zones was made from latitude, longitude coordinates.
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CGA’s annual spring conference was successfully concluded on March 13th.
The two-day conference featured 6 panels and 18 presentations by scholars from 13 universities and 4 countries, drawing 60 some attendees from Harvard and beyond. Over a dozen posters were on display in the Friday poster session. The presentations included the collection of large data sets, the nature of measurements, and the construction of interactive websites. Some presentations discussed the application of GIS to substantive research in different geographic regions of the world. Scholars also presented cutting-edge programs that they had developed giving the audience a glimpse of the ways in which information can be linked and collected.
Jeff Howry and Joseph Greene won the Outstanding Poster Award with their poster titled “Over the Horizon: Phoenician Navigation & Sacred Landscapes”. Some of the early feedbacks from the attendees characterized the event as “broad reaching”, “intellectually stimulating”, with “enormous amount” of information. The main purpose of the conference, to bring scholars from various disciplines to discuss their use of new technologies in their research on religion was achieved. Some speakers are suggesting a follow up conference to continue the discussion.
The presentation slides, video recording and poster files will be made available with authors’ permission on the CGA website.
View the schedule of speakers and abstracts of talks in the official Workshop Program.
2010 CGA Conference Presentations
March 12, 2010
Opening remarks by Rachel McCleary
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Panel I: Interactive Geospatial Databases
Moderator James Robson
“Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization”
by Michael McCormick and Guopoing Huang
Introduction Presentation PDF
“Regnum Francorum Online – Interactive maps and sources of early medieval Europe 614-918”
by Johan Åhlfeldt
Introduction Presentation PDF
“Mapping Religious Cyberscapes: Google and User Generated Religion”
by Matthew Zook
Introduction Presentation PDF
Panel II: Religion, Data and Technology
Moderator Peter Bol
“Religion in the Digital Age”
by Suzanne Preston Blier and Ben Lewis
Introduction Presentation PDF
“Words in Space: GIS, Data Mining, and the Visual Display of Religion”
by John Corrigan
Introduction Presentation PDF
“Investigating Idiosyncrasy: Toward a Comprehensive Methodology of Visual Exploration and Analysis for Humanities Scholarship”
by Chris Weaver
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Panel III: Christian Missions and Their Secular Consequenses
Moderator Suzanne Preston Blier
“Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Guatemala’s Religious Competition and Affiliation”
by Rachel McCleary
Introduction Presentation PDF
“Christians in Colonial Africa”
by Nathan Nunn
Introduction Presentation PDF
“Religion and Economic Change over a Century: Linking Diverse Historical Data to Understand the Roots of Long-term Change”
by Robert Woodberry and Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa
Introduction Presentation PDF
Panel IV: Mapping Religious Adherence
Moderator Rachel McCleary
“Re-imagining Religion:The Spatial Humaniti es as a Framework for New Scholarship”
by David Bodenhamer
Introduction Presentation PDF
“The Art and Science of Data Dissemination: An Overview of the Association of Religion Data Archives”
by Roger Finke
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“Impacting the World with Data: From a Million Data Points to Maps that Tell a Story”
by Brian Grim
Introduction Presentation PDF
March 13, 2010
Panel V: Religion in China
Moderator Lex Berman
“Historical GIS and Chinese Religion: An Example”
by Peter Bol
Introduction Presentation PDF
“Network Analysis of Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries and Leaders”
by Gray Tuttle
Introduction Presentation PDF
“GIS Network Analysis of Historical Socioeconomic Relations between Muslims and Buddhists in Northwest China”
by Karl Ryavec
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“Techincal Issues in the Study of Local Chinese Religion and the Necessity of Breaching Disciplinary Walls”
by James Robson
Introduction Presentation PDF
Panel VI: Religious Cultural Patterns across Geography
Moderator Sumeeta Srinivasan
“Irrigation, Cultural Individuation, and Global Networks: GIS Approaches to the History of Religion in the Alluvial Putian Plain of Southeast China”
by Kenneth Dean
Introduction Presentation PDF
“The Stars at Sunrise, A.D. 100: The Context of the Nabatean Zodiac at Khirbet et-Tannur, Jordan”
by Joseph A. Greene
Introduction Presentation PDF
“The Clash of Civilizations: A Cliometric Investigation”
by Murat Iyigun & Erin Fletcher
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Closing Remarks and Poster Award
Rachel McCleary and Peter Bo
2010 CGA Conference Posters
Islamopedia
Luella Strattner
A Historical GIS Analysis of the Landscape Compositions: A Case Study of Folding Screens “Rakuchu-Rakugai-zu”
Akihiro Tsukamoto
Spatial Intelligence for Religious Studies
Shuming Bao
Temporal-Spatial Analysis of Guatemala’s Religious Competition and Affiliation
Rachel M. McCleary, Jeff Blossom, and Jose Pesina
Mapping Religious Sites from Historical Textual Sources
Lex Berman
Geospatial Analysis of Medieval Churches in Iceland
John Wall, Dr. Margaret J. Cormack, and Dr. Norman S. Levine
Hewn Words: Deciphering the Tizoc Stone
Willem VanEssendelft
Over the Horizon: Phoenician Navigation and Sacred Landscapes, part 2, part 3
Jeff Howry & Joseph Greene
Baptist Networks in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century U.S.
Kathryn Tomasek
Bengali Intellectuals and Decolonization: Visualizing Oral Histories Using Digital Tools
Patrick Florence and David Grogan
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Great circle routes and distances were calculated from Boston to various cities.
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International border crossings per country were calculated using world highways and county boundary layers for a human trafficking study.
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This presentation shows ptractical way of analyzing hydrological and soils dta using Geostatistics and GIS-based approach at the different scales.
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This presentation shows ptractical way of analyzing hydrological and soils dta using Geostatistics and GIS-based approach at the different scales.
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Maps were created of Kibera, Kenya, and Gujarat, India for business case publications.
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Satellite imagery was acquired through the GeoEye Foundation to aid environmental research near Hue, Vietnam.
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CGA worked with Professor Geoffrey Jones and Carla Tishler of the Harvard Business School to provide mapping for a web-based system for visualizing global historical trade phenomena on a map. This project was undertaken to explore techniques for using GIS and animation technology to enhance classroom materials for a course at the Harvard Business School entitled Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism.
Web Map and Web Videos
Contact the CGA for access to the site.
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