Cameron Blevins, University of Colorado Denver
Amanda Madden, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
Rachel Midura, Virginia Tech
Session Abstract
Spatial history operates in a variety of ways: through studying the relationships between cultural, social, and political change, or how technology or changes to economies and policies create new spatial relationships. While sometimes understanding these changes means marshaling expertise in software, more often it means thinking about how historical documents can be transformed into datasets to help think about space in different ways. The results of such work are varied: from interactive storytelling through classroom exercises or community-academic partnerships, to the reconstruction of past landscapes though GIS maps, to more straightforwardly considering the role of space and place beyond cartography. The panel includes a variety of chronological, geographical, and digital approaches to spatial history, illustrating both the vibrancy of the field as well as its malleability for use in pedagogy, research, community engagement, and public history.
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