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GRAINES Summer School, St Andrews, 7-10 June 2015

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Create your data! The value of relational databases for individual historical research

March 2, 2015 / / 0 Comments

 

As part of “Interconnected” Roberto Sala (Basel) will be offering a workshop, provisionally entitled ‘Create your data! The value of relational databases for individual historical research’.

Embodying the core of digital humanities, databases have been at the centre of discussion on historiography in the digital era. However, most debates concern applications within broad cooperative research projects with thousand of records.

Data (Presenter: Scott Schorr, St Andrews)

Data (Presenter: Scott Schorr, St Andrews)

As historians seldom use databases for their own individual research, they have no skills in developing content management. This workshop aims to provide participants with the basic skills necessary for creating relational databases. We will initially focus on the elementary features of complex databases, using Filemaker Pro Advanced. We will then analyse the structure of an existing database, the League of Nations Research Engine (www.lonsea.de). Finally, we will develop the structure of a database required for a fictional research project.

Workshop on Trans-Imperial Networks

February 25, 2015 / / 0 Comments

The programme keeps growing. We now have a confirmed contribution by Fabricio Prado (William & Mary, USA). Fabricio will run a session on his current research, provisionally entitled ‘Trans-Imperial Networks in the South Atlantic: the Rio de la Plata -Rio de Janeiro connection 1777-1808’.

It will be a pleasure to see Fabricio joining us for the summer school. He will be here in May for 10 days as the William & Mary Visiting Fellow in 2015. The fellowship is part of our teaching staff exchange between both universities that run a joint International MA undergraduate degree.

English, Spanish and French Shipping between 1750-1800

English, Spanish and French Shipping between 1750-1800

With his expertise and interests in social and commercial networks between different regions of the Atlantic, as for instance New England to Rio de la Plata in the last decades of colonial rule in Latin America, he will make a great contribution to the summer school.

Programme update

February 21, 2015 / / 0 Comments

The programme for Interconnected is growing and we will keep adding in the coming days and weeks.

We now have a workshop with Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen (both St Andrews) on ‘Network practice in the early modern news world’. Professor Pettegree has been running the University Short Title Catalogue project for many years at St Andrews. He has recently published his bestselling monograph ‘The Invention of News‘ (Yale 2014).

Philipp Ther (Vienna) will be leading a session on ‘The global 1989 – networks of neoliberalism’. His contribution will go back to his latest monograph on transformation of the old continent, i.e. Europe.

 

Welcome

February 15, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Welcome to the third GRAINES summer school. Following the 2013 summer school on Margins at Menton and the 2014 theme of Cities in Transformation in Vienna, this year’s theme is Networks.

The summer school will be hosted by the Institute for Transnational & Spatial History, St Andrews 7-10 June 2015. It is co-organised by the GRAINES network and generously supported by the School of History, the Institute for Intellectual History at St Andrews and the AHRC-funded project on Global Cities.

Screen_Shot_2014-08-20_at_11.25.13_AM.0GRAINES is a loose and informal network that brings scholars from a range of historical topics and periods together, it combines the universities of Basel, Cologne, SciencesPo Paris, Prague, St Andrews, and Vienna. We co-organise and co-host workshops and reading parties. Our mission is to support graduate schools and allow them to move between our institutions, depending on their needs and research interests. The summer school has been the key meeting over the past two years.

Over the past three years we have worked on broader themes that we think are relevant for scholars working in European and non-European history from the late medieval to the late modern period. In early June we would like to welcome you to discuss with us the theme of networks and the role of networks in transnational and global history.

The past summer schools have brought together some 30-35 scholars each year from GRAINES institutions and beyond. Participants are mainly PhD researchers and staff from GRAINES partners. A number of places are reserved for Masters / MLitt students.

The spirit of the summer schools is to share and collaborate for a few days, to discuss our research and work together. It is based on knowledge production and sharing rather than consumption.

GRAINES is not a formally funded organisation. The summer schools are subsidised by our home institutions, but we do rely on participants to be prepared to share costs. We try our best to keep costs low and the meeting affordable. The fees cover B&B accommodation and catering during the summer school.

The main St Andrews organisers this year are: Konrad Lawson, Giada Pizzoni & Bernhard Struck.

Mail: graines.interconnected@gmail.com

 

 

 

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