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This term, we will be running hybrid online and in-person sessions...

This term, we will be running hybrid online and in-person sessions. If you are on campus at Lancaster University, please join us in the Digital Scholarship Lab (Room A387), located in the Library (click here for a map). We strongly encourage those attending in-person to please wear face masks. For those attending online, we look forward to welcoming you as usual on Microsoft Teams.

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Our first DHangout of term will host the re-scheduled closing round-table of the Spatial Humanities 2021 Conference. We are looking forward to hearing about Spatial History and the Spatial Humanities with the following panel, chaired by Prof Ian Gregory (Lancaster University):

• Dr Katie McDonough (The Alan Turing Institute)
• Dr Jo Taylor (University of Manchester)
• Dr Luca Scholz (University of Manchester)

The abstract for this closing round-table is as follows: "In 2009, Richard White published “What is Spatial History?”, the Department of History at Stanford began offering a course on “Spatial History”, and the Spatial History Project became one of many institutional homes for digital spatial history. In this round table, three conveners will offer very brief introductory remarks, and then facilitate a conversation on how doing Spatial History has changed since 2009 around the world, in particular for historians working on non-US, and pre-19th century history. Questions we will ask include: What kinds of evidence and arguments are at play in spatial history? What is the relationship between history and geography in 2021? How have the motivations for thinking spatially as historians changed and why? How does this relate to the “spatial humanities”? In what ways is spatial thinking part of coursework and training in History programs around the world? What is the relationship now between spatial thinking and computational methods?"