Please join the Center for Digital Scholarship for our next DH Salon on Thursday, October 10, 2024 at noon EST via Zoom** or in person in the Digital Scholarship Lab (room 137) in the Rockefeller Library. Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.

Laurel Bestock, “U2 Aerial Photography of Egypt”

In 1959 the CIA flew two reconnaissance flights using high-altitude U2 spy planes over Egypt. The photographs taken on these flights have recently been declassified, and hold a wealth of information relevant to archaeologists, demographers, and other researchers. This presentation reports on the progress of a CDS-supported Brown/Toronto team that is digitizing the large-scale negatives from these flights and building a website to make the georeferenced images freely available.

Laurel Bestock is Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World and Egyptology and Assyriology, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Brown University.

Register here

 ** Zoom link is https://brown.zoom.us/j/98789975614 

* The DH Salon series is a regular, informal presentation series bringing together digital humanities work across the Brown campus. Join us either in the Digital Scholarship Lab (Room 137) on the first floor of the Rockefeller Library (w/ lunch!) or on Zoom: https://brown.zoom.us/j/98789975614). See attached or the library events calendar for a full list of the Fall 2024 DH Salons

We look forward to seeing you there.