We have been invited to be part of an exciting panel at the College Art Association’s annual meeting which will take place in Washington D.C February 4th, 2016, 2:30-5pm, Room: Washington 1, Exhibition Level. Our presentation is called “Mapping Ararat and Beyond: Augmented Reality Walking Tours for Imagined Jewish Homelands,” This invitation comes from Professor Victoria…

Louis Kaplan gave the keynote lecture “Mapping Ararat: Augmented Reality and the Design of an Imaginary Jewish Homeland,”  at “Imagined Worlds,” York University Art History Graduate Student Symposium, York University, Toronto February 27, 2015.  

Mapping Ararat has been included in this prestigious volume on the current state of Jewish cultural studies. We are included in Laurence Roth’s chapter: Networks. We invite you to visit the webpage at the Routledge site.

We are honored that Mapping Ararat has been included in Professor Adam Rovner’s newly published book In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands Before Israel. The book devotes a full chapter to the Ararat plan of Mordecai Noah.

Professors Marianne Hirsch and Andreas Huyssen have invited us to lecture about Mapping Ararat at one of the most prestigious university seminars in North America: the Columbia University Seminar on Cultural Memory. The lecture will take place at the Faculty House on March 25, 2014 from 6-8pm and is open to the public. We will…

Mapping Ararat has been selected as one of four projects that will be featured at a workshop at The Center for Jewish History on January 29, 2014. The workshop explores case studies that transform visual and material culture drawn from the archive into public history and, in our case, into art as well. If you…

Session Participants: Moderator: Jeffrey Shandler, ( Rutgers University) Discussants: Jennifer Glaser (University of Cincinnati), Shelley Hornstein ( York University), Todd Presner ( University of California, Los Angeles), Gavriel Rosenfeld ( Fairfield University), Melissa Shiff ( University of Toronto), Louis Kaplan ( University of Toronto). Boston Mass, Sheraton Hotel, Mon Dec 16 2013, 4:30 to 6:30pm, Link to…

We conducted our first public tours with the two classes from the University at Buffalo at the invitation of the Humanities Institute and the Department of Visual Studies. It was a great day for our premier adventure and this is just the beginning! Everyones battery power held out and maps were distributed.  We’re looking forward…

Professor Melissa Shiff and Louis Kaplan will be part of a panel entitled “Ararat’s Augmented World: Screen Plays for a Mobile Homeland.”at HASTAC 2013.  The theme of the conference is “The Storm of Progress: New Horizons, New Narratives, New Codes. ”  York University Professors Shelley Hornstein (Architectural History and Visual Culture) and Janine Marchessault (Canada…