The Imperiia Project 🇺🇦
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Maps. Archives. Spaces. Stories. A research project @dcres_harvard.
Joined October 2018
Every picture is worth 1,000 words, right? Come write with us this summer!.
Calling all storytellers! Our @ImperiiaProject has collected photos from across the Black Sea region and invites YOU to pick one and compose a story inspired by it. Learn more and submit by Aug. 31:
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Our data catalog just got bigger! The data behind the Sweet Things project is now freely available via Dataverse. Read about it, download it, and build beautiful things with it! #history #data #russianempire #chocolate #historicalGIS
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RT @Harvard: “No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit….
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No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
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This week's #BlackSea Frames selection takes us back in time to #Odesa in 2013, to a view that no longer exists. The Hotel Odesa was badly damaged in a deadly Russian airstrike in 2023. #ukrainewar
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Mapping 19th factories might not sound like fun. But what if the factories were #chocolate factories?.
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In 1900, an American ethnographer wrote “The ability to read a map – that is, to obtain from a study of it an adequate mental conception of the country depicted – is much more rare than is commonly supposed.” Maybe, 125 years later, it's time to change that. #maps #geography #GIS.
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In 1914, Baedeker released an English edition of its travel guide for Russia. Join historian Kelly O'Neill & our @ImperiiaProject to learn what the book said about Georgia (then part of the 🇷🇺 empire) & how it shaped ideas about the region. In person, 4/7:
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Photographer's note: "After hours on muddy mountain paths in the Kaçkars, we stopped for tea in a deserted valley with seasonal cottages. The owner of the cafe grabbed a large fishing net and I followed him out back to a small cement pool filled with trout. ".
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This is going to be fun!.
Are you an educator interested in using AI in the classroom? Our @ImperiiaProject is hosting a webinar on how to use AI-powered image generators to picture historical space & actors & how to critique AI images to generate productive questions. Online 4/3:
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RT @HarvardCMES: 3/29-30: the CMES Disaster Studies Initiative is pleased to present a conference. "Disasters in and of the Middle East: Ev….
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Historical data (i.e., notoriously incomplete data) is full of tantalizing untold stories. Who were you, Nikolai Ivanovich Sukhov? How did you come to own a factory in Kharkiv that produced 7,000 rubles worth of delicious confections in 1884?
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There are so many maps waiting in the wings to play a role in @YMonastyrskyi's Donbas history thread. Here's a detail of a coal mine map published in Kharkiv in 1890 that speaks to the story.
Promised 🧵 on the colonization of Donbas. "Donbas" comes from the mid-19th century industrial revolution. It is a type of "rust belt" economic region with a local identity tied to heavy industry. However, this does not imply that the region was lifeless in pre-modern times. 1/
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Important event tonight!.
Historians @SPlokhy of @HURI_Harvard & @YMonastyrskyi—our center affiliates—examine how studying the history of modern 🇺🇦, the Soviet Union & 🇷🇺n imperialism can give insights on 🇷🇺-🇺🇦 war. Hosted by @Harvard History Dept., Emerson Hall, Rm 210. 3/27 6pm
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Odesa was a hub of confection production in the late imperial period. For comparison's sake, here are the location maps for Odesa and Saint Petersburg. Check out our other maps to see just what they were busy making on the Black Sea coast.
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Who owned confection factories? Turns out men, women, peasants, merchants, Italians, Ottomans and plenty of others were in the business of producing gingerbread and candy. Learn more about economic life in the late imperial period by checking out our maps!
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Delicious history, at your fingertips. Check out our new maps! (Unless you aren't interested in sweets. Or factories. Or the 19th century. In that case, ignore our maps.) #chocolate #gingerbread #foodhistory #historicalGIS #maps .
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Because everyone should know where to find the gingerbread-bakers.
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This week our #BlackSea Frames selection, courtesy of historian Taylor Zajicek, brings us to the port city of Novorossiisk. To a stairway to nowhere. #Soviet #ruin #portcities.
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