Uta Hinrichs will join us to talk about Trading Consequences on Monday afternoon about 16:30. Read more in her original posting here. As part of the session I will talk about two visualizations that we have built to explore how information visualization can be used to help environmental historians explore large collections of historic records along
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Updated abstract: Trade, Knowledge, and Fluid Spaces in Atlantic Empires, 1660-1720 Note: My abstract (text below) is based on my ongoing doctoral work, although it relates to just one part of my thesis. I have attached some data in a pdf file that I think could be used for a type of map (appendix one) The draft writing
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Abstract In a journal article titled The Shape of the History of Science Profession, 2038: A Prospective Retrospective, historian of science Lynn K. Nyhart makes a bold prediction that future boundaries between disciplines in universities will manifest themselves differently in 2038. One new field she lists among many is Complexity Studies. To further define this
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Trading Consequences: Utilizing Information Visualization to Facilitate Research Processes in Environmental History Uta Hinrichs ABSTRACT The digitisation of historic records has started to change the way in which historic research is being conducted and what kind of research questions can be asked. Traditional research approaches in history may involve an in-depth study (close reading) of
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Stefan Nygård, European university institute & University of Helsinki My current post-doctoral research, which is part of a collective project on “Asymmetries in the European intellectual space” (Academy of Finland), deals with the sociocultural history of intellectuals and intellectual spaces in the Northern European periphery, 1870-1940. I argue that intellectuals in geocultural and linguistic
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Visualising Transnational Networks: Connecting History and Space with VennMaker Martin Stark & Michael Kronenwett (University of Trier & Hamburg) The aim of this workshop is to demonstrate how a visual network research approach can support and enhance research in transnational, global and spatial history. The digital tool for this workshop will be the software VennMaker.
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Background John William Arthur who was, from 1907-1937, a missionary in the part of the world known today as ‘Kenya’, loved travel. Growing up in Glasgow he wanted to be a missionary in China or India. Eventually, like many other Scots, he followed in the footsteps of his hero David Livingstone and went to Africa.
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Dear Workshop Participants, Our upcoming workshop Mapping and Visualising Transnational (Hi)Stories at the University of St Andrews is now only a week away. Website Access The internal workshop page is now live: http://transnationalhistory.net/mvth/ It has been password protected. When you open the link above you will be prompted for a username and password which is: user: mvth
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Wahnfried’s Worldwide Webs: Digital Theatre History of the late 19th century- A case study The world-famous Bayreuth Theatre Festival has been a key institution in the history of late 19th century opera and theatre since its foundation in 1876. As a network that fundamentally relies on processes of international circulation, the construction of a specific
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Circulation and Site: Knowledge of Gundi Tobacco, 1850-1870 Alexander van Wickeren (University of Cologne) Around the middle of the 19. century an inner-European production of cigars emerged that urged experts to reformulate their opinions on tobacco cultivation. Especially tobacco species and sorts were now investigated and single species were depicted as particularly useful for the
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