Network Representatives:
The Historical Geography Network of SSHA invites requests for sponsorship of paper sessions, roundtable discussions and book sessions at the 35th Annual meeting. We also seek submission of individual papers. Both session proposals and individual paper submissions are now being accepted at the conference submission site, http://conference.ssha.org with a deadline of February 15, 2010.
Some themes for possible sessions mentioned at our last network meeting are listed here; two CFPs have followed, linked below:
Please contact either or both network co-chairs (
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) if you've got a session in mind and would like to add a CFP for it to this page.
CFP: Representing Contested Geographies / Multi-national Historical GIS
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We are seeking papers addressing any of these three linked themes:
- Representations of contested geographies in historical contexts. This includes but is not limited to disagreements about boundary lines. The disagreements can be between historical researchers, cartographers in the past, diplomats or armies. We are mainly thinking here about digital representations, but this is not necessarily limited to GIS; it could be a textual database of disputes, or a on-line map exhibition.
- Studies in cartographic history with the same general focus: the recording of conflict and the representation of alternative positions. We are particularly interested in map making where it was part of the actual process of dispute resolution. We are probably not much interested in property line disputes unless there was a political dimension, but this theme should not be interpreted as only about international boundaries. For example, mapping ethnicity or language domains can be highly political and hence contested.
- Multi-national historical GIS. We recognise that the notion of nation states is euro-centric so will interpret it flexibly, but we definitely want to focus on projects which span multiple polities, and have had to address such issues as contested boundaries, geographical entities named in multiple languages and, of course, wars. However, multi-national historical GIS projects of any kind are rare, and we would be happy to hear from any such project whether or not it addresses our other themes. This would include projects covering the whole world, but it would also include projects focussed on small areas on the border of two countries.
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CFP: Digital Cartography of History
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The digital historical atlas is an emerging genre of information system with significant promise, both as a venue for presenting results of historical scholarship and as socially authored repositories of historical knowledge. While there is no rigorous definition for the genre as yet, it seems fair to say they share qualities of both print historical atlases and historical GIS projects of various scales. Print historical atlases are static, with physical limitations in breadth and depth, but most are far more than a simple collections of maps; they include to varying extent prose, images, timelines and graphs. Their digital brethren are dynamic and can readily add interactive queries, multimedia content and animation.
We are seeking papers discussing either:
- particular applied digital historical map or atlas projects,
- novel technical or computational methods addressing challenges to representing historical knowledge in digital cartographic systems
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