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Digital mapping promises to transform the humanities. It offers scholars fresh tools to develop research questions, analyze data, and publish findings. For example, art historian Ellen Prokop has developed digital maps to evaluate the temporal and spatial distribution of sixteenth-century Spanish artist El Greco\u2019s work. The longstanding art-historical narrative relates that El Greco inspired developments in European modern art. Prokop\u2019s maps show the improbability of this story, prompting reassessment of El Greco\u2019s relationship to modernist artists in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Prokop 2015). Other humanists at the forefront of this innovative approach to the study of art and history employ maps to provide refreshed looks at photography, soundscapes, cities, and developments in the art market.<\/span><\/p>\n Cutting-edge projects featured in the series offer\u00a0the Emory community and people across Atlanta\u00a0an opportunity to consider a variety of approaches to the joining of geo-spatial analysis and humanistic inquiry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Inspired by the August 2014 Kress Summer Institute on Digital Mapping and Art History at Middlebury College<\/a> and the April 2015 Association of American Geographers annual meeting<\/a>, assistant professor of art history Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi conceived and designed\u00a0the initial series for the spring semester of 2016.\u00a0Southern Spaces<\/em> published Gagliardi’s essay, “MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis<\/a>” in June 2016. The journal has also published lectures from the MAP IT series.<\/p>\n Co-sponsors for the Spring 2025 lecture include (as of 8 January 2025): Co-sponsors for the Fall 2021 lecture include (as of 8 September 2021): Co-sponsors for the Spring 2020 lecture and Fall 2020 lecture include (as of 23 September 2020): Co-sponsors for the Spring 2019 series include (as of 14 January 2019): Co-sponsors for the Fall 2018 series include (as of 4 September 2018): Co-sponsors for the Spring 2018 series include (as of 4 January 2018): Co-sponsors for the Fall 2017 series include (as of 18 October 2017): Co-sponsors for the Spring 2016 series included (as of 15\u00a0December 2015): Henry G. Peabody, “Down Grand Canyon, From Zuni Point,” 1899<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n In Enchanting the Desert<\/a><\/em>, author Nicholas Bauch builds a digital cultural geography for this and 42 more of Peabody’s photographs that Peabody packaged and sold in a slideshow throughout the early twentieth century. Stanford University Press<\/a> published\u00a0Enchanting the Desert <\/em>in 2016. Image courtesy of the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.<\/span><\/p>\n Ellen Prokop, “A Modern Old Master? Using Historical GIS To Chart El Greco’s Influence on the French Avant-Garde,” 2015<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Many specialists have claimed that El Greco (1541\u20131614) served as an important source of inspiration for several seminal masters of French nineteenth-century painting, including Paul C\u00e9zanne (1839\u20131906). Yet there is little evidence that these avant-garde artists had the opportunity to study El Greco\u2019s work first-hand. Prokop outlines this scholarly debate and demonstrates how geospatial technologies and analytical techniques offer a compelling means to explore El Greco\u2019s contested legacy and discover new perspectives on the enduring issue of his influence. Image courtesy of Ellen Prokop.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Digital mapping promises to transform the humanities. It offers scholars fresh tools to develop research questions, analyze data, and publish findings. For example, art historian Ellen Prokop has developed digital maps to evaluate the temporal and spatial distribution of sixteenth-century Spanish artist El Greco\u2019s work. The longstanding art-historical narrative relates that El Greco inspired developments<\/p>\nSponsors<\/h2>\n
\nEmory’s Art History Department<\/a>, Center for Digital Scholarship<\/a>, Institute of African Studies<\/a>, and History Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nEmory\u2019s\u00a0Art History Department<\/a>,\u00a0Center for Digital Scholarship<\/a>, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry<\/a>, and Quantitative Theories and Methods Department<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nEmory\u2019s\u00a0Art History Department<\/a>,\u00a0Center for Digital Scholarship<\/a>,\u00a0Center for Faculty Development and Excellence<\/a>,\u00a0and Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry<\/a>, and Hightower Fund.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nEmory\u2019s Art History Department<\/a>,\u00a0Center for Digital Scholarship<\/a>, Center for Faculty Development and Excellence<\/a>, Confucius Institute<\/a>, East Asian Studies Program<\/a>, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry<\/a>, Hightower Fund, and Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nEmory\u2019s Art History Department<\/a>,\u00a0Center for Digital Scholarship<\/a>, Center for Faculty Development and Excellence<\/a>, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry<\/a>, Hightower Fund, and Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nEmory’s Art History Department<\/a>,\u00a0Center for Digital Scholarship<\/a>, Center for Faculty Development and Excellence<\/a>, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry<\/a>, Hightower Fund, and Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nEmory’s Anthropology Department<\/a>,\u00a0Art History Department<\/a>,\u00a0Center for Digital Scholarship<\/a>, Center for Faculty Development and Excellence<\/a>,\u00a0Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry<\/a>, and Institute of African Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nEmory Center for Digital Scholarship<\/a>, Center for Faculty Development and Excellence<\/a>,\u00a0Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry<\/a>;\u00a0the Art History<\/a>, Environmental Sciences<\/a>, French and Italian<\/a>, History<\/a>, Sociology<\/a>, and\u00a0Spanish and Portuguese<\/a> Departments; the Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods<\/a>;\u00a0Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program<\/a>; the Laney Graduate School New Thinkers\/New Leaders Fund<\/a>; and the Hightower Fund.<\/p>\nImage Credits<\/h2>\n