Upcoming Events
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2/27
Frontiers in HIstorical GIS, the Geohumanities, and Narrative Visualization
Frontiers in HIstorical GIS, the Geohumanities, and Narrative Visualization
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
09:00 AM - 04:30 PM
Storrs Campus Student Union and Babbidge Library
Frontiers in Historical GIS, the Geohumanities, and Narrative Visualization
An Interdisciplinary Connections Symposium sponsored by the UConn College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in collaboration with Urban and Community Studies, History, Geography, and American Studies
Thursday, 27 February 2020
Location: Student Union Building 304B, Storrs
9:00am - Welcome and Introductions
9:30am-11:30am - Presentations and roundtable discussion
Anne Kelly Knowles, Professor of History, University of Maine, Historical GIS & Beyond: GeoVisualiation for the Humanities
Spatial storytelling and deep mapping are generating much interest in the Humanities as scholars and students discover new methods for representing people in place. At the same time, humanists’ critiques of the limitations of Cartesian cartography demand solutions. This lecture will argue that points, lines, and polygons (aptly called “cartographic primitives”) are immensely useful for certain kinds of spatial analysis, but that they are also deeply problematic for analyzing and representing human experience. The extreme experiences of Holocaust victims challenged my research team to find new ways to visualize people and places, mobility and awareness, as phenomena in their own right and in relation to Nazi policies and actions. I will particularly focus on two of our ongoing experiments: inductive visualization and topological mapping.
LaDale Winling, Professor of History, Virginia Tech, Finding the Humanity in the Digital Humanities.
As digital technologies and data resources become increasingly sophisticated, digital humanities and historical GIS scholars hold both the promise and the peril of demonstrating the humanity in their projects. Winling will discuss his work on redlining and political elections in Mapping Inequality, Electing the House of Representatives, and the Chicago Elections Project and the challenges of incorporating and enabling narrative, of making argument, and of finding and representing individuals in a sea of data.
11:45sm to 12:45pm - Lunchtime roundtable discussion.
All welcome to participate. Lunch provided. Please RSVP (https://urban.uconn.edu/2020/01/29/gis-symposium-rsvp/) by February 19th or contact maria.winnick@uconn.edu.
1:00pm to 2:30pm - Race, Ethnicity and Community Succession in Post-War Hartford: Using Historical GIS to Explore the Racial Dynamics of Neighborhood Change
Professor Fiona Vernal, UConn History Department, Homer Babbidge Library, Visualization Studio, Room 1101
2:30pm - Coffee and Snack Break. All welcome.
3:00pm to 4:30pm - Frontiers in Historical GIS, the Geohumanities, and Narrative Visualization
A panel discussion with Anne Kelly Knowles, LaDale Winling, Fiona Vernal, Ken Foote (UConn Geography and Urban and Community Studies), Mark Healey (UConn History and el Instituto), Peter Chen (UConn Geography) and Chris Vials (UConn English and American Studies) -
2/28
Geosciences Seminar Series: Jason Smerdon (Columbia University)
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3/13
Geography Colloquium - Deborah Martin
Geography Colloquium - Deborah Martin
Friday, March 13th, 2020
12:20 PM - 01:15 PM
Storrs Campus AUST 434
Dr. Martin is a Professor and the Director of the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. She is also the coordinator for the Urban Development and Social Change Program at Clark. -
3/27
Geosciences Seminar Series: Guangsheng Zhuang (Louisiana State University)
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4/10
Geosciences Seminar Series: Michael Kelley (NASA)
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4/17
Geography Colloquium - Zhe Zhu
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4/24
Geography Colloquium - Rupal Oza
Geography Colloquium - Rupal Oza
Friday, April 24th, 2020
12:20 PM - 01:15 PM
Storrs Campus AUST 434
Dr. Oza is an Associate Professor at Hunter College [CUNY] in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center and the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Hunter College.
