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Registration and Coffee (Blackwell Hall)

Welcome

Richard Ovenden, OBE
Head of Gardens, Libraries and Musems at Oxford University; Bodley's Librarian

Panel and Q&A: The art of cartography and new evidence

Speakers:

John Barrett-Material evidence of the surface of objects Lead

Photographer at ARCHIOX

Nick Millea - Spectacular! A digital exploration of the Gough Map Map

Curator at Bodleian Libraries

Yossef Rapoport - The Greatest Medieval Map-Maker: Al-Sharif al-Idrisi and Roger's Silver Disc

Professor of Islamic History at Queen Mary University, London

Dr. Sanne Frequin-A Ship's Globe in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht

Assistant Professor of Humanities and Art History, University of Utrecht

Chairperson: Judith Siefring Head of Digital Collections Discovery at Bodleian Libraries

Coffee Break (Blackwell Hall)

Bruce Mau- Nesting Globes: visualising the current global situation

Architect, designer, and educator

Lunch Break (Blackwell Hall)

During lunch, there will be an exhibition and demonstration of the Selen Photometric Stereo System with its designer, Jorge Cano.

Panel and Q&A - Mapping in a digital world

Speakers:

Dr. Katherine McDonough - Map Search: using Al to explore map content

Lecturer in Digital Humanities at Lancaster University; Senior Research Fellow and head of the Machines Reading Maps Project at The Alan Turing Institute

Sarah Kenderdine - Deep Mapping: from archives to the universe

Professor of Digital Humanities at École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; Director of the Laboratory of Experimental Museology.

Ed Parsons - "Is that the world in your pocket?"

Geospatial technologist and Google evangelist

Chairperson: Giovanni Pala economic historian of technology and information

Conclusions

Adam Lowe
Founder, Factum Foundation and Factum Arte