Alida C. Metcalf, "Water and Social Space: Using georeferenced maps and geocoded images to enrich the history of Rio de Janeiro’s fountains," e-Perimetron, 9:3 (2014): 123-145. [2015 Prize - Best Article, Brazil Section: XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico]
Alida C. Metcalf and Sean Morey Smith, “Mapping the Maracanã: Reconstructing the Route of Rio de Janeiro’s Second Major Aqueduct,” e-Perimetron, 13:1 (2018): 1-22.
Presentations
Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Alida C. Metcalf, "imagineRio e o mapeamento dos aquedutos do Rio de Janeiro," in lecture series, Department of History, May 18, 2018
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
Alida C. Metcalf, "imagineRio e o abastecimento de agua na cidade do Rio de Janeiro," in lecture series, Department of History, May 14, 2018
I Congresso Internacional em Humanidades Digitais, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Bruno Buccalon, Sergio Burgi, Rodrigo Bozzetti, Farès el-Dahdah, Alida Metcalf, “O georreferenciamento de fotografias do Instituto Moreira Salles na plataforma imagineRio," in I Congresso Internacional em Humanidades Digitais, Rio de Janeiro, April 12, 2018.
Instituto de Estudos Avançados, USP, São Paulo, Brazil
Farès el-Dahdah, "Imaginários Cronotópicos e as Humanidades Espaciais: Um Projeto," in lecture series, June 2, 2017.
12th ICA Conference on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage, Venice, Italy
Alida C. Metcalf, Sean Morey Smith, “The 1870 Cadastral Map of Rio de Janeiro and Finding the Maracanã Aqueduct," in 12th Conference of the ICA Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital, Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage, Venice, April 26-28, 2017.
Digital Frontiers 2016, Houston, TX
Farès el-Dahdah, Alida Metcalf, "imagineRio: A Diachronic Atlas of the Social and Architectural Evolution of Rio de Janeiro," in the 5th annual Digital Frontiers conference and THATCamp, September 22, 2016.
Instituto Moreira Salles and House of Switzerland Brazil 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Farès el-Dahdah, "Imaginários Cronotópicos e Sistemas geográficos de informação: a plataforma imagineRio da Universidade de Rice," in Fotografia e memória urbana: georreferenciamento de fotografias históricas, September 2, 2016.
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Alida C. Metcalf, "Ships and Water in Rio de Janeiro," in IV Seminário Rice-UNICAMP, June 1, 2016.
Rice University, Scientia Institute, Houston, TX
Farès el-Dahdah, "Elements of imagineRio" and Alida C. Metcalf, "The Next Step: Research and Teaching using imagineRio," in Modeling and Mapping Historic Sites and Events, April 9, 2016.
Brazilian Studies Association [BRASA] XIII Meeting, Providence, RI
Alida C. Metcalf, Sean Morey Smith, Sheridan Wright Kennedy, "'A mere gutter!' Seeing and Mapping the Carioca Aqueduct of Rio de Janeiro," in Brazilian Studies Association [BRASA] XIII Meeting, April 2, 2016.
Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
Farès el-Dahdah, "Platforms of Knowledge," in Curso de Especialização em Gestão e Políticas Culturais, February 26-27, 2016. [video]
Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology, Houston, TX
Farès el-Dahdah, "Platforms of Knowledge: Structures and their Semantic Supplements," in K2I Member Luncheon presentations series, Houston, TX, December 4, 2015.
Houston Philosophical Society, Houston, TX
Farès el-Dahdah, Alida C. Metcalf, "imagineRio: A Diachronic and Iconographic Atlas of Rio de Janeiro's Social and Architectural Evolution," in lecture series, November 19, 2015.
27th International Cartographic Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jean Aroom, Farès el-Dahdah, David Heyman, Alida C. Metcalf, "ImagineRio: A Diachronic Atlas of Rio de Janeiro's Social and Architectural Evolution," in 16th General Assembly, Centro de Convenções Sulamérica, Rio de Janeiro. August 28, 2015.
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
Jean Aroom, Wright Kennedy, "Reconciling 450 Years of Geospatial Data in Rio de Janiero," in Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, July 2015.
Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Pousadas, Argentina
Farès el-Dahdah, "Estudios territoriales a través de la cartografía, la iconografía y las técnicas digitales," in Workshop II: Territorio Guaraní, June 5, 2015.
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
S. Wright Kennedy, Amanda Li Chang, Sean Morey Smith, "imagineRio: Challenges of a GeoHumanities Mapping Project," in AAG Annual Meeting, April 23, 2015.
Second Rice-Unicamp Seminar, Rice University, Houston, TX
Alida C. Metcalf, "The ArcGIS Underwear of imagineRio," in Rice-Unicamp Seminar, March 2015.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
James Cuno, Farès el-Dahdah, "Art, Research and the Digital Revolution: A Conversation with James Cuno" in ICAA’s Ideas Council inaugural conference: Between Private Passions and Public Responsibility, March 8, 2015.
Escola da Cidade, São Paulo, Brazil
Farès el-Dahdah, "Humanidades Públicas e Computacionais: Lugar e Espaço," in Arquitetura, Educação e Sociedade, December 3, 2014. [video]
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
Farès el-Dahdah, "imagineRio (1502-2016): A Diachronic Atlas of Rio de Janeiro," in Territorio Guarani: Culture, infrastructure and natural resources in the longue durée, April 11, 2014.
8th International Workshop, Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage, Rome Italy
Alida C. Metcalf, "Water for a City: Using Geo-referenced Maps and Geo-located Images to Enrich the History of Rio de Janeiro’s Fountains," in 8th International Workshop, Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage, September 2013.
Centro Carioca de Design, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Verena Andreatta, Farès el-Dahdah, and Alida Metcalf, "imagineRio: A Diachonic Atlas of Rio de Janeiro's Social and Architectural Evolution," in New Cartographies: International Symposium, June 5, 2013
First Rice-Unicamp Seminar, Rice University, Houston, TX
Alida C. Metcalf, "Free and Unfree Labor at Fountains: Artists and their Depictions of Fountains in Europe and Brazil," in First Rice-UNICAMP Seminar, April 2013.
Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, NM
Alida C. Metcalf, "Public Spaces and their Fountains in Nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro: The Views of Visiting Artists," in Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies, April 2013.