Two Lunchtime Seminars of Interest @ UWA

“Emotions3D: Digital Modelling for Cultural Heritage and Museums”, Dr Jane-Heloise Nancarrow (UWA)
ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions/CMEMS Lunchtime Seminar

Date: 29 April, 2016
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm
Venue: Philippa Maddern Seminar Room (1.33, First Floor, Arts Building), University of Western Australia
Register: No RSVP required

Join CHE Associate Investigator, Jane-Heloise Nancarrow, to hear about her latest research in 3D digital modelling and virtual reality in museums and cultural heritage. Jane-Heloise uses photogrammetry to create realistic, true-to-life 3D reproductions of historic artefacts which will be available online as part of a History of Emotions collection later in 2016. This array of objects, sourced from the Victoria and Albert Museum, Keats’ House, Stirling Smith Museum and St Barts’ Hospital Museum will be annotated with interactive history of emotions content to tell their unique material stories, and can be viewed using the Google Cardboard virtual reality headset. Learn how digital cultural heritage can be 3D printed for use in teaching and research, and hear how you can get involved with the project.

“The Rediscovery of a Viking Burial Site in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland”, Dr Shane McLeod (University of Tasmania)
CMEMS Lunchtime seminar

Date: 3 May, 2016
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: Philippa Maddern Seminar Room (1.33, First Floor, Arts Building), University of Western Australia
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This talk is on the joys and discoveries possible during field work, be it in an archive or during a site visit. In 2014 I visited the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, to try and locate the site of a Viking burial excavated by a Royal Navy commander in 1862, but whose whereabouts was subsequently considered to be uncertain. Fortunately, after consulting the antiquarian report, early Ordnance Survey maps, and Google Earth, field walking enabled me to find the site with a high degree of probability. This talk discusses the location of the site and details of the burial.