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HADES at University of Melbourne (Humanities and Diverse eResearch Scholars) unite around inclusive, diverse and ethical approaches to digital research in HASS fields, and the crucial link between teaching & research https://go.unimelb.edu.au/x4ip

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HADES @wearehades.bsky.social · Aug 25

While maps may appear as an objective narrative, the mapmaker is telling a story – using data, design & presentation. In this seminar we'll explore different maps made using the same data and question the stories maps tell – and what we can learn from them!
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Same data, different stories: How different maps can change the data narrative

A geographic map can be powerful data visualisation, used to explore concepts of place, location, and distance that are inherent in much humanities...

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HADES @wearehades.bsky.social · Aug 10

12 Aug: Claire Loughnan presents Against Erasure – a 3D model of the Manus Island Detention Centre. Preserving collective lived experience & knowledge, the project challenges us to confront state violence and the power of digital tools in education & research
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Against erasure: Digital witnessing of the Manus Island Detention Centre

The Against Erasure project developed a 3D digital reconstruction of the Manus Island Offshore Processing Centre, as a multidisciplinary teaching r...

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HADES @wearehades.bsky.social · Jun 5

We are so privileged to have Sebastien working with us as a visiting fellow @mdap-unimelb.bsky.social! Looking forward to learning more about his research and digital developments.

HADES @wearehades.bsky.social · Jun 5

For our June HADES seminar, Sebastien Plutnaik will share #archeofrag, software which analyses spatial relationships in archaeological sites, enhancing our understanding of artifacts, sites, and excavation!
10 June, Zoom
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Amanda Belton @datacreative.bsky.social · May 12

Enjoyed Jonathon Laskovsky's talk at @wearehades.bsky.social. Borders between states and borders between disciplines can be permeable while also being places of control. Rivers and seeds show the spaces and places that cross borders and challenge the authority of lines on a map.

Jonathon's talking head shows in bottom left while Fisk's 1944 colourful map of the Missippi floods showinf the different shapes of the river over the years is on the screen behind him.

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HADES @wearehades.bsky.social · May 30

Ahead of this next HADES seminar, explore archeofrag:

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HADES @wearehades.bsky.social · May 30

Location in archaeology: How certain are we this thing was there?
Sébastien Plutniak presents archeofrag, software to analyse spatial relationships in archaeological sites, enhancing our understanding of artifacts, sites, and excavation!
10 June, Zoom rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/locati...

Location in archaeology: How certain are we this thing was there?

The archaeological space is continuous. Archaeological investigation, as surveys and excavation, is about discretising this space, determining rele...

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HADES @wearehades.bsky.social · Apr 30

Next HADES seminar with Jonathan Laskovsky, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, sharing research on border sites beyond the cartographic and sociological, and data use in relation to border surveillance, resistance and transgression.
Mon 12 May, 2-3pm, online
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Between the space of borders

Dr Jonathan Laskovsky will focus on two different modalities of borders that intersect his research interests across both his professional and acad...

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HADES @wearehades.bsky.social · Apr 17

Join Jonathan Laskovsky, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, sharing research on border sites beyond the cartographic and sociological, and how data is used in relation to border surveillance, resistance and transgression.
Mon 12 May, 2-3pm, via Zoom
Register rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/betwee...

Between the space of borders

Dr Jonathan Laskovsky will focus on two different modalities of borders that intersect his research interests across both his professional and acad...

rduevents.unimelb.edu.au

HADES @wearehades.bsky.social · Apr 9

In 2025, HADES seminars focus on ‘Place’

Mapping places in digital research charts the prosaic and poetic in visual representations and the stories we tell from data. This data may not be physically located, yet the stories we tell are shaped by the place they occupy.

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HADES 2025 – A Place where Data Stories Come Alive In 2025, HADES is running a series of Seminars with the overarching theme of ‘Place’. Mapping places in

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HADES @wearehades.bsky.social · Apr 9

The next HADES seminar features Michael Falk, Heather Ford and Francesca Sidoti speaking about the wikihistories project (wikihistories.net), where they uncovered an anthropocentric and neo-colonial bias in English Wikipedia's coverage of Australia
14 Apr, 2-3pm, Zoom
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How Australian places are represented on Wikipedia

In 2024, the wikihistories team set out to understand how well Wikipedia represents Australian places and what kinds of editing practices drive tho...

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