Virtual Lecture (Free): “Spatial Humanities & Deep Mapping: New Approaches to Understanding the Historical Geographies of the English Lake District”, Dr. Ian Gregory (03/04/24)
The Institute for Historical Studies in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin is hosting Dr. Ian Gregory for a lecture, "Spatial Humanities & Deep Mapping: New Approaches to Understanding the Historical Geographies of the English Lake District". Extracting geographical information from textual sources and using them to present new knowledge from these sources are major challenges within the spatial and digital humanities; Dr. Gregory will present a variety of approaches to doing this based on a corpus of writing about the English Lake District from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. The virtual lecture is scheduled for March 4, 2024 from 12:00 to 1:30 PM CST. This event is free to attend however registration is required.
The Institute for Historical Studies in the Department of History invites you to:
“Spatial Humanities & Deep Mapping: New Approaches to Understanding the Historical Geographies of the English Lake District”
A talk by Dr. Ian Gregory
Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of History; and Co-Director, Centre for Digital Humanities
Lancaster University
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/gregoryi/
Mon. March 4. 12-1:30pm CST.
GAR 4.100 & Zoom.
Info/Register: bit.ly/3T7tEFj
Extracting geographical information from textual sources and using them to present new knowledge from these sources are major challenges within the spatial and digital humanities. This paper will present a variety of approaches to doing this based on a corpus of writing about the English Lake District from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. The Lake District is an area with a rich tradition of landscape writing most famously by William Wordsworth and the other Lake Poets. This paper will present new methods on how these texts can be explored, represented and understood.
Ian Gregory is Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of History at Lancaster University where he also co-directs Lancaster’s Centre for Digital Humanities. His career started using quantitative sources to study the geographies of topics such as mortality and poverty in 19th century Britain, leading to the development of a field known as Historical GIS. More recently, his interests have moved into how textual sources can be analysed using geospatial technologies. The methods develop have been applied to a wide range of topics including, in particular, the study of writing about the English Lake District. This work has attracted funding from a wide range of sources including the European Research Council, the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council, and the Economic & Social Research Council (most recently for grant partnering with the US National Science Foundation), the Leverhulme Trust, and others. He has authored six books, most recently Deep mapping the Literary Lake District: a geographic text analysis (with Joanna Taylor), edited two volumes including the Routledge Companion to Spatial History (with Don DeBats and Don Lafreniere), and around 100 other publications.
The speaker will join virtually via Zoom for this talk and discussion. Guests may join virtually online by registering at the link below, or in-person in GAR 4.100 with RSVP.
In-person RSVP: cmeador@austin.utexas.edu. Venue: Garrison Hall 4.100. Light lunch provided.
Virtual attendance via Zoom: Please register to receive the access link at https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArf-CsqT4pGNBnBCrooRT4dDiiuv0e2lxA