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This video shows an animated flythrough of the gardens and garden house at the Anne Spencer House, Lynchburg, Va.; 3D pointcloud data was collected with FARO Focus 3D laser scanners; data processed with FARO Scene v.2023.0.1; animation produced with Autodesk ReCap v.2024;
This video is from the final presentation of ARH5600 : 3D Cultural Heritage Informatics, Fall 2022. Students featured in this video include Junyi Wu, Yunong Li, Kelly O'Meara, Dustin Thomas and Elena Wrobel. Their final projects can be accessed at https://wordpress.its.virginia.edu/Cultural_Heritage_Data/arh5600-fall-2022.
This video is from the final presentation of ARH5600 : 3D Cultural Heritage Informatics, Fall 2021. Students featured in this video include Zhang Jie, Natalie Chavez, Matthew Schneider, Chris MacDonnell. Their final projects can be accessed at https://wordpress.its.virginia.edu/Cultural_Heritage_Data/pedagogy/cultural-heritage-informatics-internship/arh-5600-fall-2021/.
This video contains the 2023 Spring semester final presentation for ARH5600/5612 3D Cultural Heritage Informatics, a class taught by Will Rourk as a collaboration between the UVA Library and the Historic Preservation Program in Architectural History. The class is sponsored by Andy Johnston, director of the ARH Historic Preservation Program. Students featured in this video include ARH5600 students Ari Calos, Austin Riggins, Boyang Li, Thomas Wyatt, Yara Mortada and Yizhuo Chen and ARH5612 advanced students Kelly O'Meara and MaryCate Azelborn. Featured team projects include the Long Meadow Farm Barn, Upper Bremo Barn and the Palmyra Old Stone Jail. Student final projects can be accessed from https://wordpress.its.virginia.edu/Cultural_Heritage_Data/arh-5600-5612-spring-2023/.
Flythrough animation of 3D data collected at the Birdwood Mansion, east of Charlottesville; the data was collected with FARO Focus X130 3D lasers scanners; data was processed with FARO Scene v.2023.0.1 and edited with Autodesk ReCap 2024; the animation shows features uncovered in the basement during the renovation of the building including:
- a brick entry platform, original to the early 19th c. phase of Birdwood
- a masonry feature found in the late 19th c. coal room addition
- examples of hand riven lathe in the hallway of the original early 18th c. portion of the house
Invited speaker, John Hessler of the Library of Congress, discusses the use of artificial intelligence for the reconstruction of ceramics and inscriptions in archaeology for the Scholars' Lab speaker series, University of Virginia, Spring 2021. Recorded via Zoom web video communications interface in the presence of a live audience of 60+ attendees.
These are two recordings from 2022-09-07 made at the Bremo Enslaved Cemetery, Upper Bremo Farm, Fluvanna County, Virginia. The video includes two letters, one from Liberia to the former Bremo plantation written by Peyton Skipwith (1834) and the other coming from Lower Bremo former plantation to Liberia by Jack Creasy (1840). Both men were enslaved at the former Bremo plantations in the early 19th century. The Creasy letter is read by Horace Scruggs of the Fluvanna Historical Society and descendant of the Bremo enslaved. The Skipwith letter is read by Thomas Nynweph Gmawlue Jr, visiting student from Liberia participating in UVA Landscape Architecture class ALAR 8993 : Cultural Landscape Networks Across the Black Atlantic, lead by Professor Allison James. The readings were done as part of a collaborative field trip between ALAR 8993, ARH 5600 : 3D Cultural Heritage Informatics, lead Professor Will Rourk of the UVA Library and the Fluvanna Historical Society. Sources for the letter were provided by Tricia Johnson, executive director of the Fluvanna Historical Society. The source of the Creasy letter is from the Fluvanna Historical Society Bremo papers and the Skipwith letter is from UVA Library Special Collections.
This is a rendered flythrough animation of the 3D data collected and processed for the former Midloch Plantation enslaved dwelling. Produced from 3d data collected with FARO Focus 3D laser scanners on 2023-03-28 and rendered using Autodesk ReCap Pro v. 2023.
Flythrough animation of 3D dataset collected at the Old Stone Jail, Palmyra, Virginia during the Spring 2023 semester for ARH5600; data was collected by students of ARH5600 on 2023-02-08 (exterior), 2023-0210 (interior), and 2023-04-28 (attic); data was collected using FARO Focus 3D lasers scanners; data processed with FARO Scene v. 2023 and animation produced with Autodesk ReCap v. 2023;
This movie is an animated flythrough of the 3D point cloud data documentation of the Pine Grove Rosenwald School, Cumberland County, Virginia, ca. 1917. Data was collected by ARH 5600 Fall 2021 class students Zhang Jie, Natalie Chavez, Matthew Schneider, Chris MacDonnell. Equipment used included (2) X 130 and (1) S120 FARO Focus 3D laser scanners. Data was collected in support of community preservation efforts - more info at https://www.ammdpinegroveproject.com/.
Animation of the barn at River View Farm, Ivy Creek Natural Area, Charlottesville, VA; data collected with FARO Focus 3D laser scanners by students of ARH5600:3D Cultural Heritage Informatics during the Fall semester of 2022; Data was processed with FARO Scene v.2022; Animation was rendered with Autodesk ReCap v.2023;
This is an animation from the 3D data collected by University of Virginia ARH5600 during Fall semester 2023; data was collected using FARO Focus 3D laser scanners, processed with FARO Scene v. 2022 and edited and optimized with Autodesk ReCap v. 2023; the animation shows sections through the barn at River View Farm, Ivy Creek Natural Area, Charlottesville, Va;
This is an animation from the 3D data collected by University of Virginia ARH5600 during Fall semester 2023; data was collected using FARO Focus 3D laser scanners, processed with FARO Scene v. 2022 and edited and optimized with Autodesk ReCap v. 2023; the animation is a flythrough of the Carr-Greer farmhouse at River View Farm, Ivy Creek Natural Area, Charlottesville, Va;
This is a flythrough animation of the 3D data from laser scanner data collection at The Mews, Pavilion III, Academical Village, University of Virginia. Data was collected at different periods from 2016, 2023 and 2024. Data was collected with FARO Focus 3D laser scanners and processed with FARO Scene v.2023. Data was imported into Autodesk ReCap for editing and optimization and for the purpose of creating this animation video.
Animated flythrough of the 3D data collected at the Woolen Mills Chapel site in Charlottesville, Va, on 2024-03-22; data collected with FARO Focus 3D X130 and S70 laser scanners; data processed with FARO Scene v. 20223.0.1; data edited and optimized for animation output with Autodesk ReCap v.2024;
Will Rourk, Megan Page, Charity Revutin, Amelia Hughes, Adriana Giorgis
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This is a flythrough animation of the 3D data captured at the Villa Almerico Capra Valmaran, aka Villa la Rotonda, in March 2019. Data was captured by University of Virginia Architectural History students under the direction of Andy Johnston and Will Rourk in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities at the University of Virginia and the de Valmarana family. The animation was created in Autodesk ReCap v.2023 by Will Rourk.
UVA Architectural History ARH 5600 - 3D Cultural Heritage Informatics (Spring 2021) invited class speakers, Bryan Clark Green and Patrick Thompson, discuss the process of using 3D laser scan data collected by ARH 5600 students in the Fall 2020 semester to create a historcically accurate 3D architectural model of the Barboursville Plantation House ca. 1820s in Barboursville, VA. Recorded via Zoom web video communications interface in the presence of a live audience of 60+ attendees.
will rourk, wmr5a@virginia.edu, ORCID : 0000-0001-8622-5080
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Flythrough animation of 3D data collected on site at the Cabell Log House located in the Gospel Hill historic district of Staunton, Va, on 2024-03-21; in collaboration with the Historic Staunton Foundation (https://www.historicstaunton.org/) who own and manage this site; data collected with FARO Focus 3D lasers scanners, models X130, S70, S150; data processed with FARO Scene v. 2023.0.1;
An oral history interview with Dr. Anastasia Williams, conducted at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library on April 8, 2022. This interview is part of the Medical Alumni Stories Oral History Project, a joint effort of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the UVA Medical Alumni Association and Medical School Foundation.
Anastasia Longchamps Bayardelle Williams was born in New York and attended Cornell University, graduating with an undergraduate degree in Chemistry in 1991. She moved to Charlottesville with her husband in 1993 so that they could attend medical and law school, respectively, at the University of Virginia. Dr. Williams graduated from the UVA School of Medicine in 1998. After medical school Dr. Williams completed an internship in pediatrics at the Medical College of Georgia (1998-1999) and a residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD (1999-2001). She worked as a pediatrician in northern Virginia for 20 years, founding Olde Towne Pediatrics in Manassas and Gainesville, VA, and serving as the Medical Director of Pediatrics for Novant Health UVA Health System. Dr. Williams currently lives and practices in California.
Dr. Williams has served on the UVA Medical Alumni Association Board of Directors and the UVA School of Medicine Board of Trustees, as well as on the UVA Parents Committee, which she co-chaired with her husband, Sanford Williams. The Williams have three children, who are all alumni of UVA.
Oral history interview with Kenneth Williams, class of 1986, via Zoom, on March 11, 2024. Williams discussed his time as a member and president of UVA Law’s Gay and Lesbian Law Students Association, which later became UVA Law’s chapter of Lambda Law Alliance. He detailed events and activities during his tenure, including a successful campaign for the Law School to have an official sexual orientation nondiscrimination policy.
Libra is UVA's institutional repository for scholarship. Depositing your work in Libra makes it available to the world while providing safe and secure storage. In this session, Winston Barham, Open Access Librarian, will provide the foundations for getting started in Libra with an eye towards OER deposits of text and media. In addition, he will introduce you to ORCID, a unique researcher identifier that you may use to connect your scholarship throughout your professional life. You will leave the session with concrete knowledge of how both Libra and ORCID can impact the sharing of your OER scholarship.
Dr. Jennifer Wolch, Dean of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley speaks about the tensions of implementing urban nature projects. Wolch challenges us to think carefully about the many different and often marginalized interests (people and animals) that must be taken into account, and the potential “collisions” she sees in the movement.
Monét Johnson is a Norfolk resident and advocate working with New Virginia Majority, a nonprofit focused on economic and racial justice. She works as the Lead Organizer for Housing and Environment. Johnson was born in 1996 in Brockton, Massachusetts, and spent her summers as a child in Virginia before moving to Norfolk.
Track 1: In this oral history, Johnson discusses her experience growing up in a majority-Cape Verdean community in Massachusetts, her memories visiting her family in Virginia, and her organizing work during her college years at Framingham State University. Johnson describes her work at New Virginia Majority starting in 2020 fighting housing discrimination and combating environmental injustices, including rising sea levels and coal dust pollution in Norfolk.
Track 2: Johnson discusses the legal battle with the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority in 2021, where she was a plaintiff on behalf of residents of St Paul’s public housing. In 2020, New Virginia Majority sued the city for housing discrimination violating the federal Fair Housing Act on behalf of Black residents. The lawsuit alleged that the NRHA perpetuated systemic racism and segregation through redevelopment of St Paul’s and the resulting displacement of hundreds of Black residents. Johnson’s party, made up of the New Virginia Majority and several other civil right organizations, won the lawsuit on behalf of tenants. The interview also discusses Johnson’s experiences advocating with public housing residents for better flooding and facility management and safer accommodations for children and elders. Kim Sudderth is also present in this interview.
An oral history interview with Dr. Edward T. Wood, conducted by Dr. David S. Wilkes via Zoom on September 23, 2021. This interview is part of the Medical Alumni Stories Oral History Project, a joint effort of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the UVA Medical Alumni Association and Medical School Foundation.
Edward Thomas Wood was born in Lexington, VA, in 1932. He attended Armstrong High School in Richmond, VA, and was a pre-medical student at Dartmouth University, where he earned an A.B. in 1953. Wood and his classmate Edward Bertram Nash became the first two Black students to attend and graduate from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Matriculating in 1953, they graduated in the Class of 1957. After medical school, Wood completed several internships and residencies in New York. After choosing ophthalmology as a specialty, he opened his own practice in New York and spent the remainder of his career there. Wood had a long and productive career, working for 60 years until the age of 85, and then residing in Florida up until his death. He passed away on April 17, 2024.
David S. Wilkes graduated from Villanova University (B.S.) and earned an M.D. from Temple University. He served as Dean of the UVA School of Medicine from 2015-2021. Dr. Wilkes remains a member of the research faculty at the UVA School of Medicine.
Central Spokesperson for Palestinian people and author of This Side of Peace discusses the moral imperative for obtaining a central and recognized place for Palestinians. She focuses on her commitment to social justice and diplomacy in her home country.
Professor of criminal Law at Vanderbilt University discusses the significance of the verdict of OJ Simpson Trial; the larger cultural context of racial politics in the L.A. police department; and the lack of focus on domestic violence.
Anne Firor Scott, Professor at Duke University, writer, activist and pioneer in the history of women, discusses her work and the importance of the African-American women activists and their part in the expansion of the "Black Middle Class."
Student leaders discuss the history of Take Back the Night beginning in the 1970s, and the importance of protesting against general violence and reclaiming safe spaces.
Bella DePaulo, professor of social psychology, has focused on the field of study of day to day lies. In this episode she discusses Bill Clinton scandal and lying.
Doctor Bernice Sandler discusses her the issues underscored in her literature: The Chilly Classroom Climate: A Guide to Improve the Education of Women, with others and Sexual Harassment on Campus: A Guide for Administrators, Faculty, and Students. She focuses on the improvements made on overt practices of sex discrimination on campuses, and the subtle behaviors of the treatment of students.
Doctor Bernice Sandler, whose focus has been on the "chilly climate" of women in society discusses the gendered interactions in every day lives that lead to domestic violence.
Special Agent Candice DeLong, profiling coordinator at the San Francisco division of the FBI, discusses criminal profiling for investigations of violent and sex crimes.
Chinta Gaston, graduate of Virginia Law is discusses her role in the United States Attorney's Office, and her role in Kroll Law Firm with bringing justice in the lawsuits dealing with sex discrimination.
Derek Nystrom discusses his dissertation for the English department at the University of Virginia on men's involvement in feminism and class identity in American film in the 1970s.
Elisabeth Ladenson, professor of French and comparative literature at Columbia University, discusses her book Proust's Lesbianism that focuses on the metaphors and symbols in Marcel Proust's novels.
Ellen Contini Morava, program chair of linguistics and professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia, discusses the different feminist moral stands on the Clinton White House's controversy.
Ellen Contina Morava, program chair of Linguistics at the University of Virginia, discusses the origin, stigmas, and the importance of considering Ebonics as a valid form of communication.
Ellen Fuller discusses her doctoral research focusing on women working in an American corporation in Japan and how they are adapting to cultural changes as well as the different choices that are a result of this new hybrid of American and Japanese culture in the workplace.
Ellen Phipps is a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist and the Director of the Adult Day Care at Jefferson Area Board for Aging (JABA) in Charlottesville discusses how caring for an elderly adult is a women's issue in regards to assistance as well as care giving.
Erin Davis discusses her dissertation focusing on the lives of people living in a different a gender from the one assigned to them at birth, and further explains the newer term of transsexuality.
Doctor Eugene A. Foster discusses his role as the organizer of the chromosomal research on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings to determine the paternity of her children.
Farzaneh Milani, professor of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures at the University of Virginia, discusses her latest op-ed piece for The New York Times and the experience of women in a Islamic conservative Iran.
Franny Nudelman, professor at the department of English at the University of Virginia, discusses her book John Brown's Body focusing on masculinity and the representation of martyrdom during the Civil War.
Gene Brosok, music critic and program host of Listening of Women and Men for WOMR, discusses the exclusionary practices in the hiring of women and racial minorities in the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Gertrude Fraser author of African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogue of Birth, Race, and Memory discusses her ethnographical study on how older African-American women narrate their life course. She underscores the intergenerational relations of the experiences of these women, and their experiences as adolescents in retrospect.
Gertrude Fraser, professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, discusses the Holsinger Studio Collection - a collection of local Charlottesville studio portraits, including a significant collection of portraits of African-Americans - on exhibit at the Carter Woodson Institute.
Gertrude Fraser professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia discusses her focus on medicine as a cultural system. She shares her life course as being a compilation of migratory movements starting from Jamaica to New York City.
Grace Hale, assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia, discusses her book Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 that focuses on white racial identity and its meaning.
Gweneth West, associate professor in the drama department at the University of Virginia, discusses the practice of Costume Design and its connection to historical and cultural contexts.
Helena Lewis is a cultural historian of 20th Century France discusses the life of Jewish Russo-French "committed" writer Elsa Triolet. Her focus has been on surrealism and intellectuals from World War II.
Ingrid Sandole-Staroste, professor of Sociology at George Mason University, discusses her research of women in East Germany and how the unification affected their daily lives.
Janet Beizer, associate professor of French at the University of Virginia, discusses her book Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in 19th Century France and her research on cultural conceptions of gender in Paris.
Jenny Ganell, discusses her role in the Hetrick-Martin Institute in New York City, which hopes to create a safe space for gay, lesbian, and transgender students in their high school years.
Recent University of Virginia graduates, Jessie Blundell and Sarah Curtis-Fawley, discuss their long-term project regarding the widespread problem of sexual assault at the University of Virginia and myths surrounding sexual assault.
Shu Jinghuan, professor of Education in Beijing currently in a Fulbright research fellowship at the University of Maryland, discusses the cultural revolution's effects on gender issues, women and education in China.
Johanna Drucker, the first Robertson Professor of the Media Studies Program at the University of Virginia, discusses how the new program will focus on history, criticisms and the deconstruction of media.
John Generri, research fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia, discusses the history of intellectual debates and cultural politics of Jazz from the early 1950s to mid 1960s.
Karen Holt, director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Virginia, discusses the program's goals and sexual harassment in the White House.
Karen Holt, director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Virginia, discusses the new Diversity Initiative and how the hopes to bring change to admissions and hiring practices at the University.
Karen Holt, director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Virginia, discusses Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education focusing on peer-to-peer sexual harassment.
Karen Holt, director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Virginia, discusses Affirmative Action and the consideration of race in admission decisions.
Karen Holt, director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Virginia, discusses sexual harassment and the recent Supreme Court decisions.
Kate Doyle, member of the National Security Archives, discusses the series, Human Rights Guatemala: A Nation Toward Peace, that focused on human right violations from 1960-1996.
Katherine Thorton, recruited by NASA, discusses her experiences as a woman astronaut. She was part of four different space missions, and obtained a PhD in physics from the University of Virginia.
Kathy Peiss, professor of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, discusses her latest book "Hope in a Jar: The Making of American Beauty Culture" that focuses on the historical context of the modern beauty industry.
Kim Roberts, founder of Young Women Leaders Program, discusses the purpose and logistics of the program and how it is being received by both the Charlottesville community as well as the students at the University who are involved.
Kyra Gaunt discusses the McIntire Arts Board sponsorship of the University of Virginia's Jazz Fest and the upcoming concerts where women are being represented.
Kyra Gaunt, doctorate from the University of Michigan, discusses her dissertation "The Games Black Girls Play" that focuses on how young black girls in urban settings learned social identities through music and play.
Leslie Nuchow, New York singer songwriter, discusses her offer from the label Phillip Morris: Women Thing Music and what led to her to anti tobacco industry activism.
Lisa Eorio, research scientist at the University of Virginia, discusses her experience as a person living with MS and the new grant that hopes to slow down the effects of MS in women through water aerobics fitness.
Lisa Eorio, research scientist at the University of Virginia, discusses the gender wage gaps and her dissertation focused on theory of Human Capital. Her research finds that women were obtaining less wage compensation, and concentrated in lower paying industries.
Lisa Lindquist Dorr, fellow at the Carter Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia, discusses her project concerning black on white rape in Virginia from 1900 to 1960s.
Author Luise White, discusses her book that focuses on the rumors of vampirism in Central Africa as well as the general phenomenon of rumors in our culture.
Dr. Margaret Mohrman, discusses the difference between herself and the male doctors in the ICU, and the importance of ethics in medicine in order to better serve the patients.
Martha Craven Nussbaum discusses her book "Love's Knowledge" and her work as an expert witness on Colorado's Amendment 2 dealing with sexual orientation and state laws.
Mary Gaston's has a great sensibility towards Jane Austen's literature. She discusses the morality and romanticism of Jane Austen's novels made into films (Emma, Sense and Sensibility).
Mary Hugues discusses her position as the Landscape Architect at the University of Virginia, and what landscape architecture entails. She focuses on the importance given to large scale public design projects in the work of landscape architects.
Mary Rorty, professor of philosophy and bioethics at the University of Virginia, discusses bio-medical ethics as a movement that began in the 1960s and its recent institutionalization.
Michelle Kisliuk, professor of Music at the University of Virginia, discusses the transgeneric culture process through music focusing on socio-aesthetic.
Miki Liszt, dancer and founder of the Miki Liszt Dance Company, discusses her latest modern dance performance based on the book Veils and Words as an avenue of self-exploration and the veil as an Iranian-born woman.
Ning de Coninck-Smith, Professor of Education at Odense University in Denmark, discusses the history of child laborers in the five Scandinavian countries and the concept of children as social agents.
Phillip Troutman, research fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia, discusses his dissertation focusing on family and market geography in the slave migration patterns in Antebellum Virginia.
Phyllis Lefller, director of the institute of public history at the University of Virginia, discusses the project of collecting the history of 9,500 women at the University of Virginia from 1920 to 1972.
Rae Blumberg, professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, discusses policy implications on economic development research carried out in 31 different countries in all continents.
