Event Details

1-day workshop at Lancaster Castle featuring papers and a roundtable at the intersection of 'Fluid Environments & Spatial Humanities'.

About

Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar 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, geography, 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 particularly encourage students and ECRs to attend.

Program

9:00-9:30 Coffee

9:30- 11:00 Digital Approaches to Fluid Histories

Chair: Ian Gregory

• Luca Scholz (Manchester), "Mapping Anthropogenic Weather: A Spatial History of Weather Shooting"
• Robert Suits (UCL), Title TBA

11:00-11:30 Coffee

11:30-1:00 Early Career Digital Blue Humanities

Chair: Deborah Sutton

• Charlotte Evans (Manchester), "Past, Present, and Future of Irrigation Tanks in South India: A Spatial Humanities Approach"
• Hanna Steyne Chamberlin (Wessex Archaeology/Manchester), “Fluid Data, Boundaries, and Thoughts: Approaches to Investigating Landscape and Social Change at the Waterside. Case Study of the Chelsea Embankment, London 1851-1891”
• Giovanni Pala (Oxford), "Against the Flow: Modelling Dutch Historical Ship Hulls Performance, 1720-50"

1:00-2:00 Lunch (catered)

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

Chair: Luca Scholz

• Guy Solomon (Sheffield)
• Jo Taylor (Manchester)
• Katie McDonough (Lancaster)

3:00-3:30 Coffee

3:30-4:15 Mentoring Session

Chair: Giulia Grisot

We end the day with an optional mentoring session for ECR participants to match with a colleague for a discussion about research methods or professional development in Digital and Environmental Humanities.

4:15 - 4:30 Closing remarks

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)