| HT-50047-11 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles | Digital Cultural Mapping: Transformative Scholarship and Teaching in the Geospatial Humanities | 10/1/2011 - 12/31/2013 | $248,184.00 | Todd | | Presner | | | | UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles | Los Angeles | CA | 90024-4201 | USA | 2011 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 248184 | 0 | 248176.97 | 0 | A three-week summer institute hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles to explore how geospatial technologies like Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be used for teaching, learning, and research in the humanities.
"Digital Cultural Mapping: Transformative Scholarship in the Geospatial Humanities" is a proposal for a three-week summer institute at UCLA for an interdisciplinary group of 12 humanities scholars and advanced graduate students to learn how to develop innovative publications and courses that harness the theoretical and practical approaches of the "geospatial humanities." Situated at the intersection of critical cartography and information visualization, the Institute will combine a survey of the state of the art in interoperable geospatial tools and publication models, with hands-on, studio-based training in how to integrate GIS data into humanities scholarship, develop robust spatial visualizations, and deploy a suite of mapping tools in the service of creating publication- ready research articles and short monographs. The Institute will culminate in an "impact and evaluation" seminar of these publications with representatives from major university presses and journals. |