| HD-50228-07 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Trustees of Indiana University, Indianapolis | Conceptualizing Humanities GIS: An Expert Planning Workshop on Religion in the Atlantic World | 9/1/2007 - 9/30/2008 | $30,000.00 | David | J. | Bodenhamer | | | | Trustees of Indiana University, Indianapolis | Indianapolis | IN | 46202-3288 | USA | 2007 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Digital Humanities | 30000 | 0 | 30000 | 0 | A 3-day invitational workshop for 10 experts in historical Geographical Information Systems, religion in the Atlantic world, and cultural mapping, which will result in a book on the workshop topic.
This proposal for an expert planning conference on Humanities GIS imagines a future for the humanities arising from the cultivation of interfaces between the humanities and social sciences. A research project and book will stem from the workshop. The audience for this project includes both specialists and non-specialists, including teachers who must help their students understand the local and global context of events. |