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.  

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…

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…

Professors Melissa Shiff, Louis Kaplan, and John Craig Freeman have been invited to conduct augmented reality walking tours on the Mapping Ararat site on Thursday April 18, 2013.  The first tour will be for a digital art class taught by Professor Stephanie Rothenberg and the second tour will be for an art history class taught…

Mapping Ararat will be the featured exhibition at the American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting to be held at the University of Toronto April 4th to April 7th 2013.  There are expected to be 2,000 participants at this international conference.   The exhibition will be held in the Jackman Humanities Building Room 100B, 170 St. George Street….

Professor Louis Kaplan has been invited to present “Mapping Ararat: Augmented Reality and the Imagining of a Jewish Homeland”  as part of the workshop “Mining Imagination: Ethnographic Approaches Beyond Knowledge Production”  to be held at the Mahindra Humanites Center, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  The workshop will be held on April 6th and it is organized by…