Photo Credit: The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Join Prof. Kimball Erdman (University of Arkansas – Fayetteville) and Angie Payne (Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies) for an exploration of the rich new digital resource “Rising Above in Arkansas: Japanese American Incarceration at Rohwer and Jerome during World War II.”
This event not only offers vital context for understanding an important and difficult chapter in Arkansas history, but also provides teachers with opportunities to engage digital archives, spatial technologies, and other STEM-based resources in their classroom. Arkansas teachers will learn concrete strategies for engaging these resources across multiple grade levels and aligned to Arkansas State Standards.
Event Details
Format: In-person
Audience: Grade 5 – 12 Teachers
When: March 4, 6-9pm
Where: University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR
Burdick Hall Room 205
Speakers
Prof. Kimball Erdman is a professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Arkansas – Fayetteville. His research examines the history of landscape architecture (covering public open space design, community planning, and garden design), historic and cultural landscape preservation, and the influence of culture on design. Since joining the Arkansas faculty in 2009, Erdman and his students have been involved in documentation projects for the Japanese American incarceration camps at Rohwer and Jerome, Arkansas; Buffalo National River, Arkansas; Pea Ridge National Military Park, Arkansas; Devil’s Den State Park, Arkansas; Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico; Cane River Creole National Historical Park, Louisiana; and many others historically significant sites.
Angie Payne has been with the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies since 2002 with her involvement in the Wetlands Mapping project as a Graduate Assistant in the Department of Anthropology. Upon completion of her Master’s project “Visualizing Rock Art in Northwest Arkansas,” she became a full-time staff member in 2004 and has been a part of the EAST Initiative, the 2004 CRATE project, and has directed numerous 3D scanning projects at CAST (including surveys at Tiwanaku, Bolivia and Machu Picchu, Peru). She is currently working on the Prairie Grove Civil War Battlefield Recreation and is also developing workflows and materials related to laser scanning for the NSF Funded CI-TRAIN project. She specializes in 3D laser scanning applications, 3D animation, video editing and archaeological/landscape visualization.
