Y2 - Technical Talk 2

Details: 

Date: Friday, 27th June 2025

Time: 7.00 pm IST

Topic: Contemporary technology and ancient landscapes: The Laboratory for Integrated Archaeological Visualization and Heritage (LIAVH) work at MohenjoDaro

  

Guest Speakers: Uzma Z. Rizvi and Sara Eichner  

 

Abstract

With remote sensing, GIS, and mobile phone applications, archaeological field work has transformed. In this talk, I will outline the various contemporary technologies we are using to document the ancient site of MohenjoDaro. 

About the Speakers

Uzma Z. Rizvi 

  

Uzma Z. Rizvi is an anthropological archaeologist. She received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Rizvi’s work intentionally interweaves archaeology with cultural criticism, philosophy, critical theory, art, and design. With two decades of work on decolonizing methodologies, intersectional and feminist strategies, and transdisciplinary approaches, her work has intentionally pushed disciplinary limits, and demanded ethical decolonial praxis at all levels of engagement, from teaching to research.

Rizvi is the Principal Investigator for the Laboratory for Integrated Archaeological Visualization and Heritage (LIAVH.org), an intentionally interdisciplinary, feminist, anticolonial, and antiracist space bringing together archaeological research with data management, visualization, and heritage practice. She is currently working with her team at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Mohenjo-Daro, Pakistan.

Sara Eichner  

Sara Eichner is a designer and cartographer working at the intersection of data analysis and design. She specializes in creative visualization strategies that help clarify the complexities within data. Sara collaborates with a range of organizations, contributing geospatial analysis and research while designing the platforms, tools, and systems needed to communicate this work effectively.

She holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a GIS certificate from Pratt Institute. Since 2023, Sara has led data visualization for LIAVH. As part of this work, she joined the field team at Mohenjo Daro in 2023, where she taught a GIS workshop for archaeologists and contributed to geospatial data collection and analysis on site.
Sara has taught Spatial Thinking, GIS, and Design at Pratt Institute’s School of Information, as well as User-Centered Design for GIS at Pratt’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.