Since the Spatial turn in the late 1980s, theorists and historians alike have championed the insights geospatial analysis can lend to historical research. The digital age produced a robust array of digital Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for just that purpose. And yet, the most significant obstacle most scholars interested in GIS face is knowing how to get started.
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Seventeenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria, September 13 - 15, 2024.
Essays in History (EiH) is currently soliciting submissions for its upcoming fifty-sixth volume. Previous readers and authors should also note that we have moved to a new domain at https://essaysinhistoryjournal.com.
MIT Libraries’ Department of Distinctive Collections (DDC) is seeking applicants for its 2023 Women@MIT Fellowship. We invite artists, activists, musicians, writers, and scholars who are engaged in the expansion and expression of knowledge to help inform the understanding of women in MIT’s history and the history of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
The Oral History Network of Ireland (OHNI) is pleased to announce its 2023 conference on the theme of ‘Oral History: Power and Resistance’. At every stage of the process, oral history projects may be impacted by and engage with issues of power and resistance. Oral histories offer unique insights into the operations of power and resistance in our societies in the past and present. This is not confined to issues of political power and resistance but can include everything from power dynamics within personal relationships, to understanding minority-majority group experiences.
Early registration rates for HASTAC 2023 – Critical Making & Social Justice are available through May 8, 2023. The conference will take place at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY from June 8–10 and feature a wide range of scholarly and creative work at the intersection of thinking, making, and social justice. Please see the conference schedule for details about each session.
Transnational_History_Lab:
Writing the History of Science and Technology Anew
International Winter School, February 5–10, 2024
The two-day workshop hosted by global dis:connect intends to explore the relationship between the global trajectories of illiberal regimes and their theatre cultures following the Cold War. The war in the Ukraine has accentuated the globalising propensities of states such as Russia, China and Iran. In the past year, we have seen Cold War alliances and networks resurface and soft-power strategies employed to receive support in international fora. There is a strong sense that alternative, illiberal, global interconnections are being (re)forged.
Vernon Press invites book chapters for an edited volume on the subject of “The Senses and Memory.”