Overview

Spatial visualization and digital mapping rank among the key methodological interventions of the digital humanities. As Richard White has noted, mapping is not a mere illustration to a narrative, but “a means of doing research”—a methodology in itself. At this virtual event, Professor Jinah Kim will discuss new and ongoing research projects that place DH’s mapping capacity at the core of their agenda. Through discussions of two DH projects—the NEH-funded multidisciplinary project Mapping Color in History, and a new collaborative DH project tentatively titled Mapping Visual and Material Culture of Monsoon Asia—Professor Kim will situate the spatial turn enabled by DH methodologies amid the global and material turn in art history, and will consider why mapping matters for humanistic research in the age of climate crisis.

This event is co-sponsored by the Yale Graduate Digital Humanities Colloquium.

About the Speaker

Jinah Kim is the George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art in the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Harvard University, where she teaches courses on the art and architecture of South and Southeast Asia. Her research and teaching interests cover a broad range of topics, with special interests in the intertextuality of text-image relationships, art and politics, female representations and patronage, the reappropriation of sacred objects, and postcolonial discourse in the field of South and Southeast Asian Art.

Professor Kim received her B.A. in Archaeology and Art History from Seoul National University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been awarded numerous prestigious fellowships and grants, including an NEH-Digital Advancement Grant, a Getty-NEH postdoctoral fellowship, a Mellon Fellowship for Assistant Professors at the Institute of Advanced Study, a research grant from the Asian Cultural Council, and a Junior Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies.

Event Details

Date and Time:
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
1-2 p.m. EST

Location:
Online

Registration

This event is open to all, though registration is required. To sign up, please visit the Eventbrite page for the talk.

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