Aniket Alam

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#Historian of #Himalayas and #MountainSocieties. Interested in #State formation and #PoliticalEconomy of #Asian #highlands, I study how these are being integrated with the #NationStates of the riverine plains.

Am interested also in #HistoricalMethods, and in particular with the challenges and opportunities that computational tools (like #GIS, #BigData and #ML, and #NLP) provide the practice of the historian.

Side interests in #politics, #philosophy, #Marxism, #psychology, #journalism.

Aniket AlamMay 18, 2023
Joshua ByrdMay 17, 2023
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Aniket AlamMay 17, 2023
Aniket AlamMay 17, 2023

This promises to be a fabulous workshop (hybrid) at Vanderbilt University where historians and other social scientists showcase their work on maps and mapping, some using computational tools.

If you want to attend the sessions, please fill this Registration form: https://forms.gle/95eeYrsffY3R1J2S6

Scan the QR code in the poster to get full details of the papers, schedules, etc.

"Finding Ways: Stakes and Strategies in South Asian Cartography" Registration Link

The workshop will run from 8 AM - 12 AM CT (9 AM - 1PM ET/6:30 PM - 10:30 PM IST/2 PM - 6 PM GMT/3 PM - 7 PM CEST) from May 18th - May 20th. Please scroll down and add your name and affiliation. We will send you the Zoom link shortly before the workshop. Full Program (All times below are in local Nashville time (CT)) Thursday, 18th May 8-8:30 Introduction and welcome, Samira Sheikh 8:30-9:30 Maps and margins (Chair: Samira Sheikh) Debjani Bhattacharyya (University of Zurich) "Drawing Margins: Inscriptions, Sketches and Marginalia in Pattahs and Titles" Eric Gurevitch (Vanderbilt University) "Cosmograms, Centers of Calculation, and the Creation of the Many-Headed Knower: Maps in the Historiography of Science" Karen Pinto (University of Colorado, Boulder) “South Asian Connections with Islamicate Cartography 9:45-10:45 Access and heritage (Chair: Stacy Curry-Johnson) Afifa Khan, Rebecca Roberts, Cameron Petrie (University of Cambridge) “Introducing MAHSA: the Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia project” Rahul Chopra (FLAME University) "Towards an open access platform of maps of India" 11-12 Digital experiments (Chair: Stacy Curry-Johnson) Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University) "Going Global in Mughal India" Deborah Sutton (Lancaster University) "(M)apping Strategies for Digital Heritage: The Safarnama App Framework" Friday, 19th May 8-9 Fluid boundaries (Chair: Calynn Dowler) Bhavani Raman (University of Toronto) and colleagues "Drawing the Language of the Sea: How Fisher Science Unsettles Weather Maps" Ian Barrow (Middlebury College) "Finding Time in Colonial-Era Maps of South Asia: Possibilities for Teaching and Research" Eduardo Acosta (University of Chicago) "Fluvial Temporalities: Thinking Time through Early Colonial Maps" 9:15-10:15 Envisioning the land (Chair: Daniel Genkins) Mark Hauser (Northwestern University) "A Tale of Two Maps: Colonial Cartography, the Archaeological Record, and Agrarian Transition” Ashish Koul (Northwestern University) "Reimagining a geography of conflict" David Ludden (New York University)"Mapping South Asia as Mobile Historical Space" 10:30-11:30 Representing Delhi (Chair: Bhavani Raman) Yuthika Sharma (Northwestern University) "Manuscripts to Maps: Cartography as a model of artistic change in eighteenth-century Mughal South Asia" Iqtedar Alam (University of Cambridge) "GIS-based Modelling of Shahjahanabad’s Hydrological Landscape: Challenges in Interpretation of Pre-Colonial Maps of Delhi (1750-1850)" Abhishek Kaicker (University of California, Berkeley) "A first look at the Delhi Canal map" 11:30-12 Discussion Saturday, 20th May 8-9 Space and place (Chair: Eric Gurevitch) Dipti Khera (New York University) "Drawing Together Maps and Moods: Localizations of Knowledge, Power, and Emotions, Udaipur, c. 1700" Sumit Guha (University of Texas, Austin) "Symbolic Geography, Pragmatic Geography and Visual Representation" Caleb Simmons (University of Arizona) “Territorial Dominion/Cartographic Dominance: Colonial Mapping and the Work of Creating Space and Making Place” 9:15-10:15 Coloniality and beyond (Chair, Aniket Alam) Shailka Mishra (Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum, Hyderabad) "Maps and Mapping in the Courts of Rajasthan: Production, Collection and Consumption" Charlotte Evans (Lancaster University) "Using the digital humanities to map water histories in the Kaveri catchment: methodologies and considerations" Kapil Raj (EHESS, Paris) " Epistemic Divides and the Faculty of Translation: Rendering Space Intelligible in 19th-Century South Asia" 10:30-11:30 Himalayan ways (Chair: Samira Sheikh) Diana Lange (Humboldt University) "Tibetan Mapping and the Mapping of Tibet" Abeer Gupta (Achi Association) “Global-digital cultural construction, agency, and the formal-informal archives of knowledge” Aniket Alam (IIIT, Hyderabad) "Mapping the Himalayas through Historical Texts: An NLP and GIS Approach" 11:30-12 Closing Discussion

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Aniket AlamMay 16, 2023

"All recorded history, is the history of library accumulation and eventual destruction"

(with apologies to Herr Marx and Segnoir Eco)

https://www.sbstatesman.com/2023/04/04/if-we-lose-the-internet-archive-were-screwed/

(h/t Srinivas Kodali for the link)

If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Statesman

#OPINION: If the Internet Archive's legal appeal fails, it will be a tragedy of historical proportions.

The Statesman
Aniket AlamFeb 5, 2023
Rick MonroFeb 4, 2023

Discovered during the week I was unable to access a Kindle book purchased in 2013. Reason? The order was “too old”, and refund issued to buy again. Which was pointless as the book is now more expensive than when I bought it.

Subsequently discovered 66(!!) other ebooks no longer available for download.

Currently 40 minutes in to a support chat with Amazon.

About to learn, I think, whether we purchase ebooks, or rent them…

[Edit: documenting progress in this thread https://mastodon.online/@monro/109812445178130161]

Rick Monro (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image The problem first appeared last week, when I attempted to open a book on my Kindle. The book cover appeared in my Library as normal. When I tapped on it, the following message appeared:

Mastodon
Aniket AlamFeb 5, 2023
Joshua WoodNov 8, 2022
If you see this toot (yeah this one right here), can you boost it for me? It will help my new server federate with the wider Mastodon network. 🚀 🙏
Aniket AlamJan 8, 2023
Show threadTed UnderwoodJan 7, 2023
@moultano the disciplines that were enthusiastic about “it is language itself that speaks” in the 20c are backpedaling *so* fast toward a concept of meaning grounded in authorial consciousness; it’s fascinating to watch
Aniket AlamDec 25, 2022
Aniket AlamDec 25, 2022

A really insightful, and dare I say hopeful, piece by Asim Ali on the role of the #media in contemporary #democracies, and the rise of a more grounded anti-establishment #publicsphere in #India.

"The political science scholarship of recent decades has convincingly demonstrated that more information does not necessarily lead to an enlightened citizenry; it can just as likely lead to greater partisanship and ignorance."

https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/a-special-collective-glimpses-of-a-counter-establishment-sphere/cid/1905586

A special collective

Glimpses Of A Counter-Establishment Sphere

Telegraph India
Aniket AlamDec 20, 2022
SHARPDec 19, 2022

Hello? Is this thing on?

SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing) is on Mastodon! Apologies for any hiccups as we work on getting used to the platform.

In the meantime, we'd appreciate getting the word out so we can stay /get connected with folks interested in book history.

Aniket AlamDec 19, 2022
TheTweetOfGodDec 19, 2022
Attention flock: Please let all your Mastodonian friends know that the deity formerly known as TheTweetOfGod has switched universes, moved here, and brought his wit, wisdom, and unceasing need for more followers with him.
Aniket AlamDec 19, 2022
Show threadGwen Snyder is uncivilDec 19, 2022

The only way to deal with a fascist is to drop the assumption of good faith.

You know what they want: to harm vulnerable people, one way or another.

So you don't give an inch.

You call their disingenuous little acts faking civility and reason out for the bullshit they are.