Mapping Eastern Europe. Geo Information Systems and Georeferenced Maps as Digital Sources for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The spatial turn has increased the significance of maps as a source of research in the humanities and social sciences. New efforts have been made to developed digital infrastructures to highlight the spatial dimension of historical development. By geo-referencing old and new maps, and by integrating visual, textual, or statistical information on topographic layers, new information is that can be incorporated in different Geo-Information Services (GIS). These render new perspectives on the relationship and interaction between space and historical actors. Also in the social sciences, projects have projected social data on geographic or cartographic background information, in order to relate social relations with space. The papers of this panel will discuss recent efforts in the creation of digitized spatial sources and their integration into GIS. The aim of the panel is to identify perspectives for the future and to discuss the potential of trans-Atlantic cooperation for the establishment of joint electronic infrastructures for space-sensitive research.

Sub Unit

• Digital Humanities

Chair

• Gudrun Tatjana Wirtz, Bavarian State Library (Germany)

Papers

• Map Mining – Thematic Maps on East and Southeast Europe as Multimodal Data Sources - Hans Bauer, Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (Germany)

• Tracing Silence on Maps: Evaluating Historical Maps of Central Europe using Remote Sensing - Charlotte Gohr, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (Germany)

• The Geography of Starvation: The Maps of the Great Ukrainian Famine, 1932-1933 - Kostyantyn Bondarenko, Harvard U

Discussant

• Faith C. Hillis, U of Chicago