Spatial and digital history Call for Papers
Deadline: 15 April 2019
The Spatial & Digital History network welcomes papers on all aspects of the use of new technologies to study the past. These include:
- History and computing
- Digital history and digital humanities
- Historical GIS (geographic information systems)
- Spatial humanities
Themes of particular relevance include – but are not limited to – the following:
- Urban history
- Historical demography
- Textual analysis and other qualitative sources
- Network analysis
- European data infrastructure and integration
- Crowdsourcing historical data
- 3D modelling of history and heritage
- Histories of health and mortality
- Transport history
- Rural and environmental history
- Religious history
- The creation, curation and dissemination of humanities digital resources
- The future of digital history
- Big data and born-digital data
Please propose individual papers or panel sessions (up to four papers) at: https://esshc.socialhistory.org/propose-paper
Please note: The Spatial & Digital History network will not accept proposals for all-male panels. We encourage speakers from a diverse range of backgrounds.
Please contact the network chairs with any queries:
- Douglas Brown, Kingston University, UK: doug.brown@kingston.ac.uk
- Douwe Zeldenrust, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam: douwe.zeldenrust@meertens.knaw.nl
- Ivo Zandhuis, Ivo Zandhuis Research & Consultancy, Netherlands: ivo@zandhuis.nl
- Michał Gochna, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences: mgochna@wp.pl
We look forward to seeing you in Leiden.