Fluid Environments & Spatial Humanities

Join us for a one-day workshop in Lancaster on Fluid Environments & Spatial Humanities, an interdisciplinary gathering designed to spark new conversations across environmental history, landscape studies, archaeology, and the digital humanities.

Bringing together scholars from across the N8 network and beyond, this workshop day explores how environments shaped by water - rivers, shorelines, embankments, irrigation systems, wetlands, and other dynamic landscapes and atmospheres - can be studied, modelled, and interpreted through spatial and digital methods.

The workshop provides a forum to share work in progress, test emerging ideas, and build collaborations around shared methodological and thematic interests. With contributions from both established researchers and early-career scholars, the day offers an opportunity to think collectively about where Digital Spatial Humanities are heading, and how our research communities can shape that trajectory together.

We end the day with an optional mentoring session for ECR participants to match with a colleague for a discussion about professional development in Digital and Environmental Humanities. Please indicate your interest in the registration form, and we will do our best to make relevant matches.

9:00-9:30 Coffee

9:30- 11:00 Research Panel 1

Chair: Ian Gregory

• Luca Scholz
• Robert Suits
• Georgina Endfield

11:00-11:30 Coffee

11:30-1:00 Research Panel 2

Chair: Deborah Sutton

• Charlotte Evans
• Hanna Steyne Chamberlin
• Giovanni Pala

1:00-2:00 Lunch (catered)

2:00-3:00 Roundtable: Where Are the Digital Spatial Humanities Going?

Chair: TBA

• Guy Solomon
• Jo Taylor
• Katie McDonough

3:00-3:30 Coffee

3:30-4:30 Mentoring Session (Chair: Giulia Grisot)

About the Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar (EDHS)

The Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar (EDHS) brings together scholars who use digital methods to understand environments past, present, and future. EDHS is inclusive of urban, rural, suburban, and fluid environments, and supports research across global and local contexts.

EDHS is supported by the N8, the Lancaster Data Science Institute, the Digital Humanities Centre at Lancaster, the Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures, and Media at the University of Manchester, and the MCGIS research group at Manchester.

Organisers:
Giulia Grisot (Manchester), Katherine McDonough (Lancaster), Luca Scholz (Manchester), Joanna Taylor (Manchester)