The Brown University Library is proud to be a co-sponsor of the Spacial Humanities Lecture Series, along with Spacial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) and the M. B. Mandeville Lectureship Fund.

On Friday, November 13, 2015 at 12 p.m. in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab in the Rockefeller Library, Erik Steiner will give a talk about the Spatial History Project at Stanford University.

This talk will be an open reflection on the experience of developing spatial/digital/geo humanities projects at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) at Stanford. Erik will elaborate on projects CESTA has undertaken, focusing on the practical details of how such projects operate. He will also discuss how (and whether) creative practices in data visualization and cartography are contributing substantively to collaborative research.

Erik helped found the CESTA Lab in 2007, serving as the first Lab Director until 2010. He now serves as the Creative Director of the Spatial History Project. Before coming to Stanford, Erik worked at the InfoGraphics Lab in the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon. Erik has fifteen years’ experience in leading the design and development of print and interactive information visualizations, including CD-ROMs, atlases, websites, and museum kiosks. He is also a former president of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). A designer at heart, Erik is passionate about building deep creative partnerships that cut across disciplines and expertise.

Upcoming lectures in the series:

March 25, 2016
Tom Elliott, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU

April 8, 2016
Bill Rankin, History of Science, Yale University

Date: Friday, November 13, 2015
Time: 12 p.m.
Location: Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect Street, Providence