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Public Lecture by Professor Anne Knowles, (University of Maine), 2023/24 Global Fellow
Mapping Genocide - What numbers and location can, and cannot, tell us about the Holocaust
In this lecture, Professor Knowles, a leading practitioner of historical GIS, will contrast counting and mapping data about 1,142 Holocaust ghettos to the brutal specifics of genocide in Eastern Galicia and Lithuania, and to what one family experienced during eight mass atrocities in their hometown. She will argue that many scales, methods, and sources...
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Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive
An exploratory workshop
With more than 15,000 original texts, the Persepolis Fortification Archive is one of the largest surviving governmental archives from the ancient world. The surviving texts date from the 13th to the 28th regnal years of Darius I (509 to 493 BCE), with the majority falling between regnal years 21 and 24. The archive records...
