The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab is pleased to invite you to a talk with Dr. Bill Pascoe (U Newcastle) on Mapping Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia.
When: Monday, September 16, 2:00-3:00
Where: McPherson Library 210, University of Victoria
Abstract: The Colonial Frontier Massacres web mapping project has had an extraordinary impact in Australia and gained attention throughout the world. With rigorous research, access to source material, and community involvement, this map has made clear the scale and extent of massacres of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, colonists, and others on the Australian colonial frontier, a highly controversial topic in Australian history. This map has become part of a national truth telling process, important to indigenous and non-indigenous people alike.
This talk is one of two that Dr. Pascoe will be offering as part of his Visiting Scholar week at the ETCL.
Dr. Pascoe is a Digital Humanities specialist with the Centre For 21st Century Humanities and the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing, University of Newcastle, Australia. With a background in English, philosophy, semiotics, and software development, he has been a leader and contributor on innovative and high impact DH and eResearch projects, including the Colonial Frontier Massacres project, the EMWRN archive, ELDTA endangered languages, IA stylometry software, Virtual Biobank 3D medical image processing and eWater. He is currently system architect on an Australian national infrastructure project for digital mapping in the humanities, Time Layered Cultural Map.