Dr. Aaron Pattee will host a lecture titled "Maintaining the Realm: the Medieval Administrators of the Holy Roman Empire" on Thursday, March 6 at 5 p.m. in the Dudley Bailey Library. The talk will be free and open to the public.
Dr. Pattee’s expertise includes architecture, anthropology, and digital humanities, thought the focus of Thursday's talk will be primarily history. He will trace the proceedings of two medieval families through archived historical charters.
Dr. Pattee is currently an instructor of architectural history and theory at the UNL College of Architecture. He completed his post-doc at the Institute for Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany from 2021 to 2023. His research concerned the application of Artificial Intelligence for the development of a search engine to automatically identify architectural elements from 2D images and 3D models, using the baroque architecture of Dresden as a case study. He was also a part of a German-French collaboration cataloguing 17th/18th century ceiling paintings in a robust database for scholarly use. He completed his PhD at the Institute for European Art History and the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing at Heidelberg University from 2016 to 2021 on the topic of 12th/13th century ministerialis castles in the German Palatinate, with the application of 3D photogrammetric and laserscan models, GIS based spatial analyses, and a graph-database of over 700 medieval charters. Prior to his PhD in Heidelberg, he received his Master of Arts in Anthropology with a focus in Historical Archaeology and a certificate in Digital Humanities from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2016.
