geography

CFP: "The Past's Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities"

Submitted by pdp on Jul 06, 2009, 11:01 AM

Call For Papers

The Past?s Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities

A Graduate Student Symposium at Yale University

Beyond "Flat Maps": GIS and the Humanities

Submitted by moacir on Jun 01, 2009, 09:07 PM
I was asked by our Humanities Computing department to put together a discussion about how I've started using a Geographic Information System in my analysis of US novels of the 1930s. The result was a powerpoint presentation / 26 minute podcast on the possiblities available when taking a sharp spatial turn in the humanities. Here i've included a few more sentences about the presentation as well as links to more information about it.

Duke U Press Publishes Study by Obama's Mama

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 04, 2009, 02:03 PM
It hasn't been very often, if ever, in American history that the mother of the President of the United States was a scholar and an academic.  Congratulations to Duke University Press for publishing Against the Odds:  Village Industry in Indonesia, by the late S. Ann Dunham.  Duke U Press Editorial Director Ken Wissoker notes:  ?It is a great privilege for Duke University Press to be publishing this remarkable work by Ann Dunham.  Her global perspective and obvious respect for other people?s intelligence and self-direction is a model we all can learn from. Her children clearly have!?

The First Panel at HASTAC III: Innovations in Participatory Learning, Social Change, and Digital Democracy

Submitted by Jentery Sayers on Apr 20, 2009, 05:07 PM

Today's first session,  "Innovations in Participatory Learning, Social Change, and Digital Democracy," at HASTAC III started the conference (which, per Cathy Davidson's introduction to the session, is the biggest HASTAC conference yet) with some brief introductions of, and examples from, four 2008 Digital Media and Learning competition winners.  Here, I just want

Tracing or traversing?

Submitted by matthew-w-wilson on Apr 13, 2009, 01:51 PM
In my dissertation research, I am interested in the mappings of Seattle neighborhoods, conducted by local residents, facilitated by a Seattle nonprofit organization, using mobile technology originally developed by a foundation in New York City.  More diffusely, I write about ?technologies? as both the material hardware and software that grew to prominence in the late 1990s alongside the development of social technologies: indicators that measure quality-of-life, broken windows theories of crime and urban decay, and the training of residents to view their streets in replicable ways.

Mapping the Digital Humanities

Submitted by Jentery Sayers on Jan 26, 2009, 01:01 PM
At the University of Washington, Seattle, together with Matt Wilson (and under the mentorship of Sarah Elwood (Geography) and Phillip Thurtle (Comparative History of Ideas)), I am currently planning a course and curriculum entitled, "Mapping the Digital Humanities." I will teach the course (with Matt's assistance) this coming spring quarter at the UW.

American Studies at the Digital Crossroads

Submitted by dkimmey on Oct 12, 2008, 03:47 PM
This week I'll be participating in a panel at the American Studies Association annual convention that will address digital scholarship, pedagogy, and publication ... and I'd love your input. Comment on my blog or take a quick survey to add your insights to our discussion on Friday, Oct 17.

 

Locating Technoscience reader

Submitted by matthew-w-wilson on Sep 17, 2008, 12:48 PM

A group of geographers have posted a reader on technoscience, called "Locating Technoscience".

From their 'cover':

"The aim of this reader is to introduce and contextua