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Digitising Patterns of Power
Newsletter No.2 / June 2016
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear Colleagues,
Right before the summer the team of the project
"Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP): Peripherical
Mountains in the Medieval World" would like to inform you on interesting news, useful facts and
project-related data. We are looking forward to our participation at the International Medieval
Congress (IMC) 2016 in Leeds (UK) as well as at the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies in
Belgrade (Serbia).
A scholarly cooperation has been established with colleagues from the Department of Geography at the Justus Liebig University of Gießen (Germany).
A special highlight
of our project in autumn 2016 will be our first workshop held in Vienna and entitled "Digitising
Patterns of Power: Theory and Practice in Historical Geography and Digital Humanities".
As has been announced in our last DPP Neswletter No.1 (March 2016) our historian and software engineer Bernhard
Koschicek has relaunched our homepage (dpp.oeaw.ac.at)
in April 2016 with various new and fascinating features.
We wish you sunny days and a pleasant summer break!
Yours sincerely,
the DPP team
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DPP at the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies in Belgrade
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Two members of our project team will participate at the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies,
which will take place in the Serbian capital Belgrade from 22 August until 27 August 2016
(http://byz2016.rs/home/?lang=en).
Mihailo Popović is convener of a Round Table "Historical Geography" entitled "Historical Geography of
Byzantium in the 21st Century: New Methods and Theories" (Thursday, 25 August 2016; 11:00). Amongst others,
first results and future research questions of DPP will be presented to colleagues and the interested public.
Participants of this Round Table are internationally renowned experts on the historical geography of Byzantium,
namely:
- Olivier Delouis (Paris), "Mapping the French Surveys of Bithynia Online"
- Marcello Garzaniti (Florence) and A. Filipović (Belgrade), "The Space Construction in Medieval Serbia
in the Times of Saint Sava and Stefan the First-Crowned"
- Vujadin Ivanišević, Ivan Bugarski, Sonja Stamenković, Aleksandar Stamenković
(Belgrade), Digitizing the Historical Landscape of the Central Balkans
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- Andreas Külzer (Vienna), "50 years of Tabula Imperii Byzantini:
Retrospect and Current Status …"
- Mihailo Popović (Vienna), "The Tabula Imperii Byzantini:
… Chances in a Digital Age"
- Mustafa H. Sayar (Istanbul), "From Villages to Towns. Historical-Geography
of the Western Territory of Constantinople during the Late Antiquity and Early Byzantine Periods"
Moreover, Mihailo Popović and Johannes Preiser-Kapeller will participate at the Round Table "Food,
Environment and Landscape in Byzantium" convened by James Crow and Adam Izdebski (Wednesday, 24th
August 2016; 14:30) and give papers on "Grasping Byzantine Waterways in the Southern Balkans on the Basis
of Mediaeval Textual Evidence, Early Modern Cartography and Contemporary Surveying" and "Climate, Ecology
and Power in the Armenian Highlands, 7th-11th Cent." respectively.
Finally, Mihailo Popović will present the methods applied by DPP with a paper entitled “Bringing Byzantine Studies to the Public:
Web-Based Visualisations for the Dissemination of Scholarly Contents” in a Special Round Table “ Digital Humanities and Byzantine
Studies” on Tuesday, 23 August (18:00-20:00).
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News and Recent Project Results
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Mihailo Popović has published as co-editor a volume with the title "Städte im lateinischen Westen und im griechischen Osten zwischen Spätantike und Früher Neuzeit. Topographie – Recht – Religion" (http://www.boehlau-verlag.com/978-3-205-20288-2.html) and therein an article "Raumordnung und Stadtgestalt in den Städten auf der Balkanhalbinsel in der spätbyzantinischen Zeit", which is closely connected to the research question of DPP. Two case study assistants, Stefanie Juch, MA and Stefan Pucher-Pacher, BA, are elaborating an English glossary for the DPP OpenAtlas Database, which will form a consistent linguistic basis for the future input of data.
Finally, we are delighted to emphasise that DPP is mentioned in the Annual Report 2015 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
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Save the Date
1st International Workshop
"Digitising Patterns of Power:
Theory and Practice in Historical Geography and Digital Humanities"
in Vienna
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We are very much looking forward to our first International Workshop of DPP,
"Theory and Practice in Historical Geography and Digital Humanities",
which will take place on 28-29 September 2016 at the Institute for Medieval Research, Hollandstraße 11-13, 1020 Vienna, and we are really delighted to give you a preview on our preliminary program with renowned national and international speakers.
The first day of the workshop, 28 September, will be divided into two parts: The first part will be dedicated to "Power and Space", the second part of this day will deal with "Realisation: Technical Aspects and Similar Projects". On the second day, 29 September, our focus will be put on "Environmental Studies".
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In the course of the workshop there will also be three public lectures on the two crucial themes of the
meeting, "Power and Space" and "Environmental Studies", and at the end of the workshop we would like to
give you an overview about "Historical Geography" – 50 years Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences",
because the TIB celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2016. Moreover, the TIB was included into the exquisite scheme of Long-term-Projects at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2015, and in the same year the project was honoured by getting a membership of the Union Académique Internationale in Brussels.
Within the framework of this workshop we would like to present to you our project DPP, its case studies, database, software and its first results in greater detail and we anticipate a joint and fruitful discussion on methodological issues.
For further details on the workshop please cf. http://dpp.oeaw.ac.at/workshop/
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