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 - 2017DHSIslideshow.pptx - parish-by-parish plague mortality in the first 14 weekly bills of 1666, made in the 2017 DHSI GIS class
 - 2017DHposter.pdf - project poster, presented at DH 2017 in Montreal
 - 2017-12_DHFacultyResearchGroupslideshow.pdf - slideshow of presentation given at Pittsburgh DH Faculty Research Group
+- 2018RSAslideshow.pptx - slideshow of presentation give at Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, 3-22-2018
 
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 - transcriptions of Bills of Mortality accessed by PI
 - parishes over time (and associated GIS shapefiles, network structures, when possible)
 - database structure, files, and code for constructing the Bills of Mortality database
-- materials associated with project presentation at 2018 RSA conference in New Orleans
 
 ## project personnel