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…
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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…
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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…
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“This Day in Jewish History/ a refuge for persecuted Jews is founded- almost” David B. Green reminds us that September 15 was “Founders Day” the day when Mordecai Noah staged his Proclamation Ceremony to inaugurate Ararat- his Jewish Homeland. The Mapping Ararat Project is mentioned in Green’s article which is published in Haaretz- Israel’s leading…
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We are pleased to announce that Louis Kaplan’s essay entitled: Mapping Ararat: Augmented Reality, Virtual Tourism, and Grand Islands Jewish Ghosts was published in the fall 2013 issue of CR: The New Centennial Review. To read the introduction and the abstract please click here.
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Stephen Strauss- an award winning science writer has published his article “Reimagining the Jewish State that never was, in Grand Island New York” in the July/August 2013 issue of The Walrus, one of Canada’s leading magazines. Here is a short excerpt from his article: “In 2011, Melissa Shiff and Louis Kaplan, two academics at the University of…
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Jewish Art Now, an up and coming website, has written a lengthy post on our project which shows some images from our exhibition at the American Comparative Literature Association in April 2013. To read the post please visit this page at Jewish Art Now: Augmented Reality of a Lost Jewish Land: Mapping Ararat
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Mapping Ararat has been selected to be part of a fascinating website that curates creative mapping. Here is a description of the project: “The Imaginary Atlas collects maps and other images and information that describe the many places of the imagination: videogame maps, maps used in tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons, imaginary cities…
Continue Reading →Mapping Ararat is made possible through a generous grant from the Insight Development Grant program of the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
