[Info-area2] Lezioni prof. Herbert Maschner

[CAMPANA STEFANO]

Cari colleghi e cari studenti,
siete tutti invitati presso l’Aula Magna Storica del Rettorato alle 
lezioni del prof. Herbert Maschner (Professor of Anthropology and 
Professor of Geosciences, Executive Director of the Center for 
Virtualization and Applied Spatial Technologies (CVAST), University of 
South Florida (USF) attualmente visiting professor al dipartimento di 
Scienze Storiche e Beni Culturali della nostra università.

Le lezioni si terranno presso l’Aula Magna Storica del rettorato nei 
giorni 7, 12 e 15 maggio dalle 11.00 alle 13.30.

Di seguito trovate titoli ed abstract delle lezioni in programma.

Vi ringraziamo per l’attenzione,
Gabriella Piccinni e Stefano Campana

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7 maggio ore 11.00 alle 13.30 Aula Magna Storica del rettorato
Democratizing Science and Education: How 3D Technologies are Creating a 
Revolution in the Academy

Herbert Maschner

3D technologies are creating a revolution in nearly every academic 
discipline. From archaeology to ancient literature, paleontology to 
architecture, heritage to scientific visualization and computer science– 
all are being transformed by new approaches to on-line media and digital 
access to knowledge. The Democratization of Science Project is a global 
effort to create opportunities for anyone in the world to study, analyze 
and publish the results of research on the most scientifically important 
collections in the world.
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12 maggio ore 11.00 alle 13.30 Aula Magna Storica del rettorato
Endangered Peoples, Endangered Species: The Sanak Island Biocomplexity 
Project, Alaska

Herbert Maschner

Indigenous cultures in the arctic are endangered from globalization, 
climate change, loss of heritage, and pressures from external groups. 
Many species in the arctic are also endangered from many of the same 
problems. The Sanak Island Biocomplexity project was created to assist 
the Unangan people (Aleut) of the Aleutian Islands in their attempts to 
better understand their history, heritage, and ecology in relation to a 
changing global social, political, and natural environment. 
Biocomplexity is the integration of physical, natural, and social 
sciences, as well as the humanities, to better understand a changing 
world. This presentation with show how interdisciplinary approaches lead 
to answers for some of the world’s most pressing problems, and it will 
present a new method for investigating the inter-relationships between 
humans and the environment.

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15 maggio ore 11.00 alle 13.30 Aula Magna Storica del rettorato
Complex Systems, Traffic Jams, and the Origins of Social Inequality and 
Hierarchical Societies

Herbert Maschner

For the last 50 years, archaeologists, historians, and other social 
scientists have conducted projects around the world attempting to 
understand some of the most fundamental events in the history of 
humanity. One of the most important has been the original of social 
inequality and the development of social hierarchies. But despite 
hundreds of projects and millions of dollars /euros, we do not have the 
answer. Here I propose that the reason we have difficulty finding 
answers to some of these global problems is that we ask the wrong 
questions. Taking an interdisciplinary approach from complexity science, 
and using data from a GIS of hunter-gatherer societies in Asia, North 
America, and Greenland, I will show that the answer might be more a 
product of the nature of humanity itself, rather than an issue of 
culture or history.





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STEFANO CAMPANA Ph.D. FSA

UNIVERSITY of CAMBRIDGE
Advanced MC Research Fellow Faculty of Classics
Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Visiting Fellow of the Fitzwilliam College at the University of 
Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA UK

UNIVERSITY of SIENA
Ancient Topography, Landscape Archaeology & Remote Sensing LAB
Department of History and Cultural Heritage
Via Roma 56, 53100 Siena-Italy

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