Dr Patricia Murrieta-Flores (Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Hub at Lancaster University).

Collaborations between disciplines such as Geography and different fields in the Humanities are not new. However, the adoption of theories and methods from computational fields such as the Geographic Information Sciences in Humanities-based fields has taken place only in relatively recent times. While in the field of Archaeology tools such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been used for several decades, it has been only in the past few years that disciplines such as History and Literature have started to explore the possible uses of the technology. As a result, ‘Spatial Humanities’ is rapidly developing as one of the most exciting and innovative fields of research in Digital Humanities, exploring the analysis of space and place in different disciplines. This workshop will walk you through the world of spatial technologies, and the most cutting age research taking place in the Humanities combining Geographic Information Systems, Corpus Linguistics, Natural Language Processing techniques and Text Mining.

You will have the opportunity to get hands-on experience with GIS software.

This is aimed at a basic level so you don’t need any prior experience.

10-11am: The Spatial Humanities: Theory, methods and case studies

11.15-12pm: Basic Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

[12-1pm lunch break]

1-2pm: Let’s play with GIS: Hands-on lab session

Numbers for this event are limited so please sign up today! In the event of full capacity, preference will be given to PGR/PGT students.

Contact us: digitalhumanities@exeter.ac.uk