Spatial Humanities 2022 Programme

 

Registrations for in person participation will remain open until 15th of August, registrations for online participation until 1st of September.

General information

  • All conference sessions will be held at Het Pand (Ghent, Belgium)

  • All mentioned times are Central European Summer Time (CEST)*

  • Authors can either present in-person or online
    • (*) = in person
    • (@) = online

* Do note that this is a provisional programme, changes will still be made.

 

Wednesday 7th September 2022

CEST
(GMT +2)


Main Room - August Vermeylen

Breakout 1 - Priorzaal

Breakout 2 - Oude Infirmerie

08:30


Check-in and registration (ongoing until 12:30)

09:00

 

[workshop: in-person only]

Max. attendants: 20
The book of -scapes: An articulated drawing of urban, slightly urban, rural and digital walk

Tânia Alexandra Cardoso (*)


[workshop: online only]
How to semantically annotate 3D models of non-textual cultural heritage?: A new FOSS toolchain for the Digital Humanities

Lozana Rossenova (@), Zoe Schubert, Richard Vock, Lucia Sohmen, Lukas Günther and Ina Blümel

12:00

 

Lunch

13:00


Opening Spatial Humanities

13:30


[Keynote]
Digitisation and Extinction

Prof. Dr. Tim Ingold (*)

   


Sessions (1.1)

14:15

Experience of Place

Chair: Daniel Alves

[long]
Mapping Black Heritage in Wellington County: An Exploration of Narrative, Settlement, and Space

Wencke Rudi (@)

__________________________

[long]
Digital Place Making: A Feminist Geocritical Reading of Marichjhapi Massacre (India) through Digital Cartography

Jyothi Justin (@) and Nirmala Menon
__________________________
[long]
Ghent Mapped: linking heritage to places and histories of Ghent

Fien Danniau (*), Vincent Ducatteeuw (*), Frederic Lamsens (*), Christophe Verbruggen (*)

 

 

 

 


Deep mapping

Chair: Isabelle Devos

[long]
Paris’ First Subterranean Map: Deep Mapping and the Paris Catacombs

Ian Boyd (*)

______________________________

[short]
Land administration in Bohemia in space and time through map applications

Tomáš Janata (*), Markéta Marková and Jiří Krejčí

_______________________________

[short]
Settlement in the Penedès (Catalonia) between the 10th and the 13th centuries

Marçal Díaz Ros (@)

______________________________

[short]
Shaping Feudal Landscapes: From Data Modelling to Spatial Queries at the Upper Arlanza Basin (Burgos, Spain)

Sonia Medina Gordo (@), Guillem Domingo Ribas and Karen Álvaro Rueda

Literary GIS

Chair: Sally Chambers

[long]
Mapping qualitative geographies: Tourist, traveller and inhabitant places in the literary Lake District

Ian Gregory (*), Robert Smail and Joanna Taylor

______________________________

[short]
Projecting Places in Narratives and Creating Literary Cartography through Affective Enaction

Kai Tan (*)

______________________________

[short]
Power Relations: World „Cultural Centres” in Romanian Novels

Alina Bako (@)

______________________________

[short]
Tell me where you are and I’ll tell you what you learn - GIS tools in evaluation of cultural content of language textbooks.

Paulina Wacławik (*)

 

15:30

Coffee Break

 


Sessions (1.2)

16:00

GIS technologies

Chair: Daniel Alves

[long]
Place Matters: Automated Processes for the Analysis and Visualisation of Geospatial Information in Qualitative Data

Martina Tenzer (*)

______________________________

[long]

Deep Mapping meets Public Participatory HGIS: The next generation of the Keweenaw Time Traveler

 

Don Lafreniere (*), Sarah Scarlett, Dan Trepal, Ryan Williams, James Juip, Robert Pastel and Karla Kitalong

______________________________

[short]
Finnish statistics on the map in R Shiny

Pyry Kantanen (*), Markus Kainu and Leo Lahti

 

 

 


Deep mapping

Chair: Christophe Verbruggen

[long]
Spatial mapping of the ottoman cities and administrative divisions in the early 16th century

Fatma Aladağ (@)

______________________________

[long]
Spatial History of the Czech-German Ethnic Border (1840–1940)

Jitka Močičková (*), Petra Jílková (*) and Stanislav Holubec (*)

_____________________________

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literary GIS

Chair: Ian Gregory

[long]
A Geospatial and Cartographic Analysis of the Galician Black Genre: the Map as a Tool for a Sociology of Space and for Literary Education

Maria Lopez-Sandez (*) and Xaquin Nuñez Sabaris (*)

______________________________

[long]
Imagined motion in Haifa: Digitally reading space and time in Ikhtayyi by Emile Habibi

Zef Segal (@)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17:15
-
19:00


Reception

 

Thursday, 8th September

CEST
(GMT +2)

Main Room - August Vermeylen

Breakout 1 - Priorzaal

08:30

Check-in and registration

 


Sessions (2.1)

09:00


Gazetteers

Chair: Sally Chambers

[long]
Making of a mid-nineteenth century gazetteer and examining Ottoman population geography

M. Erdem Kabadayı (@), Grigor Boykov, Piet Gerrits and Akın Sefer

______________________________

[long]
Identifying Street Name Evolution in Semantic, Temporal, and Geographic Spaces

Jina Kim (@), Min Namgung (@), Yao-Yi Chiang, Johannes H. Uhl (@), Keith Burghardt, Stefan Leyk and Kristina Lerman

______________________________

[long]

Foodscapes of bread in sixteenth-century New Spain using a historical gazetteer

Ricardo Aguilar-Gonzalez (@) and Godwin Yeboah (*)

Literature

Chair: Julie Birkholz

[long]
Towards a cartographic visualization of indian city narratives: mapping fictional Shillong in name, place, animal, thing (2020)

Lalithsriram SR (@) and Nirmala Menon

______________________________

[long]
Visualizing Italo Calvino’s literary geography

Virginia Giustetto (@)

_____________________________

[short]
Walking Through the Hebrew Berlin: A Spatial Analysis of the City’s Representations in Modern Hebrew Literature

Noam Krohn (*)

10:15

Coffee Break

 


Sessions (2.2)

10:45

Water & Blue Humanities

Chair: Sally Chambers

[long]
‘Expand All Layers’: Embedding worlds within a spatial analysis of the altepetl

Katherine Bellamy (@)

______________________________

[long]
Mapping Moving Makers: Mobility in the British Scientific Instrument Trade, 1700-1900

Duncan Hay, Alex Butterworth, Sarah Middle and Rebekah Higgitt

______________________________

[short]
Tracing History: Using GIS to Study Past and Present Waterscapes in South India

Charlotte Evans (@)

 

 


Cartography and mapping

Chair: Christophe Verbruggen

[long]
This Way Up: Cosmological orientation in medieval Islamic cartography

Leif Isaksen (*)

______________________________

[long]
The production of royal space and cartographic knowledge in late imperial China: Yangshi Lei Archives as a Knowledge Base

Zhaoyi Ma (@), Yu Zhao, Beijie He, Jie He (@) and Shufan Yang

______________________________

[long]
Mapping the Dawn of History: A Mixed Methods Approach to the Distribution and Composition of the Cuneiform Corpus (c. 3,400 BCE - 100 CE)

Rune Rattenborg (@), Carolin Johansson (@), Seraina Nett (@) and Gustav Ryberg Smidt (@)

 

 

 

12:00


Lunch

13:00


Poster & Demo Session

1

13:00

 physical

Karl Grossner (*), Ruth Mostern and Susan Grunewald

Connecting Places with Collections in World Historical Gazetteer

2

13:03

physical

Alessandro Laruffa (*)

Geospatial analysis of the Association of European Historians

3

13:09

physical

Vincent Ducatteeuw (*)

Building a historical gazetteer: extracting place information from city directories

4

13:12

physical

Josef Münzberger (*), Petra Jílková (*) and  Adriana Brezničanová

Dante's Inferno as an ArcGIS StoryMap

5

13:15

physical

Marta Kuźma (*) and Francis Harvey

Changes in old maps as matters of cartographic generalisation

6

13:18

online

Diana Ter-Ghazaryan (@), Milo Dupuis (@) & Elizabeth Scarbrough (@)

Everyday Monumentality: The Miami Monuments Survey

7

13:21

online

Lisa Teichmann (@)

Geomapping bibliographic data extracted from the German National Library Catalogue

8

13:24

online

Apsara Bala (@) and Nirmala Menon

Spatial Design of Protests: Exploring the Literary Lineage of Protest Sites

9

13:27

online

Bert Spaan (@)

Demo: Allmaps: georeferencing, warping and exploring for IIIF Maps

10

/

online

Arina Melkozernova (@) and Denise Bates

Coushatta basket weavers: mapping gift economy

 

14:00


Coffee Break

 


Sessions (2.3)

14:30


(De)constructing Maps

Chair: Isabelle Devos

[long]
Unmapped terrain and invisible communities: Analyzing topographic mapping disparities across settlements in the United States from 1885 to 2015

Johannes H. Uhl (@), Stefan Leyk, Dylan S. Connor, Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock

______________________________

[short]

Organizing disaster: Interpretating and categorizing thematic maps of war-damaged cities from the 1940s

 

Georg-Felix Sedlmeyer (*) , Klaus Stein (@) and Carmen M. Enss (*)

______________________________

[short]
From indicative to interpretative maps: understanding changes of the built urban fabric from Dubrovnik city councils’ deliberations 1400-1450

Ana Plosnić Škarić (@)

______________________________

[long]
Machines Reading Maps: unlocking historical maps with machine learning and Semantic Web technologies.

Yao-Yi Chiang, Deborah Holmes-Wong, Jina Kim (@), Zekun Li, Katherine McDonough (@), Rainer Simon and Valeria Vitale (@)

Maps and Mapping

Chair: Ian Gregory

[long]
Plotting film toponyms: A study in cultural geo-analytics

Andrea Ballatore (*), Stefano De Sabbata and Daniel Chavez Heras

______________________________

[short]
Integrated Geospatial Methods for Pre-Modern Battlefield Archaeology: Mapping the Battlefield of Waterloo

Duncan Williams (*), Philippe De Smedt, Kate Welham, Stuart Eve

______________________________

[short]
Mapping Violence in Early Modern Modena and Verona: A Historical GIS investigation of Violence, Space, and State Formation

Amanda Madden (*)

______________________________

[short]
BRASILHIS Database and the cartographic representation of circulation in Brazil the Spanish Monarchy (1580 - 1640)

José Manuel Santos (*)

 

 

16:00

[roundtable]
Spatial Humanities in Latin America

Katherine Bellamy (@) and Patricia Murrieta Flores (@)

 

18:30


Social Dinner

 

 

Friday, 9th September

CEST
(GMT +2)


Main Room - August Vermeylen

Breakout 1 - Priorzaal

08:30


Check-in and registration

09:00


[roundtable]
Exploring the spatiality of a non-modern narrative: mapping myth, tracing connections, linking data

Elton Barker (@), Greta Hawes (@), Flint Dibble, Anna Foka (@) and Brady Kiesling (@)

 

09:45


Coffee Break

 


Sessions (3.1)

10:15



Urban GIS

Chair: Julie Birkholz

[long]
Plague, Religion and Urban Space in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp

Léa Hermenault (*), Janna Coomans (*), Rogier van Kooten (*) and Claire Weeda (*)

______________________________

[short]
The 1866 cholera epidemic in Brussel: a spatio-temporal reconstruction

Isabelle Devos (*), Sven Vrielinck (*), Torsten Wiedemann (*), Wouter Ronsijn and Sophie Van Wambeke (*)

______________________________

[short]
The Urban and Social Fabric of Nuremberg from the 1940s onwards: a Spatio-temporal Analysis

Carol Ludwig (@) and Seraphim Alvanides (@)

 

 

Literature

Chair: Ian Gregory

[long]
"Points of entry" taken literally: Mapping arrivals and lodgings of the upper class in 18th Century Vienna.

Nina C. Rastinger (@), Thomas Kirchmair (@), Lydia Fytraki and Claudia Resch

______________________________

[long]
From the sweet quiet countryside to the City Crowd Machine. A corpus-based analysis of sentiment and emotions towards places in Polish prose of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries

Cezary Rosiński, Agnieszka Karlińska, Patryk Hubar (*), Wiktor Walentynowicz, Jan Kocoń and Jan Wieczorek

______________________________

[short]
Africans in Stuart England: mapping their individual and collective narratives.

Sophie Merrix (@)

11:30


[Keynote]
Mapping the Journey of Life

Veronica della Dora (@)

 

12:25


Closing Spatial Humanities - 2022

 

12:30
-
13:30


Lunch