Emily Boak

MA student in #anthropology @UCalgary. Researching aerial views of Afghanistan, maps, satellites, & visual technologies of empire. 🗺

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My article on the value of remote survey for understanding the impact of military presence on cultural heritage in Afghanistan is fresh off the @JofConflictArch press! https://t.co/fi0VSHDet4

[Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan]

Terrific as usual from @melucene - how satellite imagery helps us better understand caravanserai and transport networks in early modern Afghanistan https://t.co/gyS4zETpCE

[Seamus Heaney @HeaneyDaily]

The books stood open and the gates unbarred.
The maps dreamt on like moondust. Nothing stirred.

The future was a verb in hibernation

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[Journal of Conflict Archaeology @JofConflictArch]

Here’s a piece from @EmilyBoak about the use of remote surveying in Afghanistan as a means of assessing the impact of conflict on cultural sites: https://t.co/tr1NDu9maC

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So many thanks to @melucene and the rest of the CAMEL lab for all the support as I put together my first article! 🐫

[Emily Boak @EmilyBoak]

My article on the value of remote survey for understanding the impact of military presence on cultural heritage in Afghanistan is fresh off the @JofConflictArch press! https://t.co/fi0VSHDet4

[Dr Munazza Ebtikar @mebtikar]

In this piece I ask, as students of Afghanistan, what has been neglected in the study of the country, why has it been neglected, and how can we create other ways of knowing and being? 'A Critique of Knowledge Production about Afghanistan' https://t.co/mJIcmgvKIz

[MIT Technology Review @techreview]

America’s longest war has turned Afghanistan into an unwilling testing ground for warfare technology. Here’s what it’s like on the ground as a civilian. https://t.co/kejL4hKCHo

[Emily Boak @EmilyBoak]

in the midst of reading up on James Wyld, geographer to the queen, (1812-1887), and delighting in these extra strange jokes peppered through Punch magazine. #staymappy

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@melucene @AnnMerkle this is so neat! and beautiful notes too!

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and in a brilliant bonus, Cinzia Tavernari's research on #caravanserais is used to bring medieval Syria alive

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finished #themapofsaltandstars by @ZeynJoukhadar months ago and still thinking about the achingly beautiful way they weave together a child's perspective of the refugee crisis in Syria with tales of traveling mapmakers and explorers among caravanserais and khans

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"Maps are mentioned on almost every page: not just making them but the decisions that making them involves, what lands they cover and what lands they leave out."

https://t.co/EeWauSuHA4

[Capture @capture2preserv]

Congrats to research group member Kelsey Pennanen, who successfully defended her MA thesis this week! #alberta #digitalheritage #laserscanning

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from #satellites to #simulations, looking forward to talking all things #visualization in our session “Seeing through New Eyes: Science, Truth and Technologies of Visualization” at #4S2019 conference this Saturday