On Thursday 21 November 2019, Greenhouse Fellow Dr. James L. Smith from Trinity College Dublin will be presenting a paper “Lough Derg and its Pilgrimage: Curating an Environmental Humanities Deep Map” at 13:00 in HG N-105.
Smith is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow based in the department of geography at Trinity College Dublin. He focuses on intellectual history, cultural and spiritual geography, ecocriticism, digital humanities, environmental humanities, spatial humanities and water history. His first monograph is Water in Medieval Intellectual Culture: Case-Studies from Twelfth-Century Monasticism (Brepols, 2018). James is the editor of The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits (punctum books, 2017), and co-editor of the Open Library of the Humanities collection New Approaches to Medieval Water Studies (2019).
He will be visiting the Greenhouse for two weeks (November 18-29) so everyone is highly encouraged to stop by the Greenhouse Library for a chat with him during his stay.
Abstract of the talk: This paper will explore examples from an Irish Research Council-funded postdoctoral project, a water history deep mapping of Lough Derg in Ireland’s County Donegal, site of pilgrimage and complex environmental history. The lake is a magnetic archive of place and experience that has been written about extensively—as history, culture, poetry and literature—and yet always has more spatio-temporal stories to tell. The presentation will explore the ingestion and management of a cloud of digital items within the collection management system Omeka and its plugins, the application of the deep mapping methodology for curation and research generation, and potential future uses and expansions. It will include a demonstration of the Digital Derg collection, as well as a discussion of the data curation and collection decisions made to date. The talk will then move towards the future application of deep mapping in publication for experimental, non-linear and multi-modal “deep books”.
