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Welcome to The Imperiia Project: a digital research project at the Davis Center exploring maps, archives, spaces, and stories.
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Beyond our recurring publications, Imperiia explores the spatial histories of empire through maps, archival sources, and place-based storytelling.
Visit the project site:
imperiia.fas.harvard.edu
Featuring some fascinating insights on doing archival research from our incredible graduate students! Check it out below! 📚
Dig into the newest issue of our @ImperiiaProject’s digital research quarterly, DeCode, now about the strange & wonderful world of archives. How do you navigate them? What do they teach us about memory, propaganda, philology, deities? Come treasure hunt! flipsnack.com/A6E67D99E8C/sp…
New DeCode is out! "Manuscripts Unbound" looks inside Kazakhstan’s Manuscript Heritage project, a multi‑year effort to digitize rare Central Asian texts and rebuild access to languages that regimes have tried to erase. Find it here: flipsnack.com/A6E67D99E8C/sp…
Next Monday in DeCode: an in-depth interview with artist Farrah Karapetian on Pay Locals: her cyanotype and photo-based works born from time in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields, where memories of labor, scarcity, and shared small luxuries reshape how we see “the harvest.”
New DeCode drops Monday: tag along with grad students Alice Volfson and Leora Eisenberg as they confront the real logistics of doing research in Central Asian archives! Plus get a first look at a major manuscript digitization project and other unexpected findings from the field!
one year ago we asked: what does chocolate have to do with steam engines?
turns out a lot!
“Sweet Things” explores the confectionery industry of the Russian Empire: 162 factories, 22 provinces, 11,000+ tons of candy and chocolate a year!🎂
see more: scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imper…
in 1886, the Russian Empire counted 6,307 mosques across 34 provinces. they made a list. we made a map. 🕌🗺️
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this map dropped last week and you weren't there for it😔🗺️
the Imperiia Project sends a new historical map of the Russian Empire every week, Baltic to Pacific, Black Sea to Arctic.
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#TBT "History has always staged its most dramatic acts upon the margin of seas and oceans."
The Incremental Sea brought that to life: 51 writers, 5,000 miles of Black Sea coastline, and a mosaic map built from thousands of beautifully-crafted sentences: scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imper…
What happens when you study a region by what threatens it? REECA alum Julian Gonzales-Poirier ('25) reflects on the Black Sea Lab's approach to spatial history and why thinking expansively, from the Caspian to the Mediterranean, matters. New in Decode: flipsnack.com/A6E67D99E8C/wi…
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Whether you’re snowbound or in the tropics, melting polar ice concerns us all. What’s changed in 80 years? Our @ImperiiaProject’s map of the week can help you find out. Sign up today! mailchi.mp/fas/sign-up-form
A map is an argument. Dr. Gökçen Erkılıç's interactive map traces pipelines, contested EEZs, and energy chokepoints from the Caspian to the Mediterranean while asking: How fragmented is the Black Sea, really? New in Decode, our Research Quarterly: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/…
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