Preliminary Programme

Showing: Spatial and Digital History (all days)
Wed 11 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 12 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.00 - 18.30

Fri 13 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 14 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 11 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
E-1 FAM13 European Censuses and NAPP Harmonization
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Networks: Family and Demography , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Per Axelsson
Organizer: Per Axelsson Discussant: Gunnar Thorvaldsen
Marianne Erikstad : Variability in Coding Occupation in Norwegian Censuses
Zengyi Huang, Peter Razzell, Chris Dibben & Paul Boyle : Linking Scottish Civil Registration Records into Individual and Family Histories: A Pilot Study
Francesco Scalone, Martin Dribe & David Hacker : Socioeconomic Status and Net Fertility during the Fertility Decline in Canada, Iceland, Sweden, Norway and USA: A Comparative Analysis Based on 1900 Censuses Data
Maria Wisselgren, Sören Edvinsson & Maria Larsson : Testing Methods of Record Linkage on Swedish Censuses



Thursday 12 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
P-6 SPA01 GIS and Literature
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Trevor Harris
Organizers: - Discussant: Trevor Harris
Daniel Alves, Ana Isabel Queiroz : Memories from Lisbon: An Integrative Approach to Study Urban Space and its Literary Representation
Ian Gregory : GIS and Texts: Exploring Lake District Literature using GIS
Anouk Lang : Geographies of Modernist Myth-making: Mapping Literary Paris in the Early Twentieth Century



Thursday 12 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
P-7 SPA02 GIS and Qualitative Data
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Ian Gregory
Organizers: - Discussant: Ian Gregory
Albina Moscicka : “GEOHeritage” as an Example of GIS-based Portal for Movable Heritage
Alexander Nakhimovsky : Timelines, Annotated Maps, and Visualization of History: Event Map Framework and Applications
Douwe Zeldenrust, Joris van Zundert & Anne Beaulieu & Alexander Witteveen & Karina van Dalen-Oskam & Kees Mandemakers & Arjen Versloot : Exploring New Ways of Integrating Heterogeneous Spatial Data and Annotations



Friday 13 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
P-9 SPA03 GIS and Social History
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: David Green
Organizers: - Discussant: David Green
Fiona Black, Jennifer Charney : Exploring the Spatial History of 19th Century Book Trades
Douglas Brown : The New Poor Law and the North-South Divide
Deryck Holdsworth, Susan Friedman & Christine Rosenfeld & Alexander Savelyev : Group Travel: Visualizing Spatio-temporal Guest Patterns in Historical Resort Hotels
David Jeevendrampillai, Ashley Dhanani, Sam Griffiths, Victor Buchli, Laura Vaughan & Mordechai (Muki) Hacklay : The Application of Space Syntax Methodologies in researching The Contemporary Urban Past: Embedding ‘Configurational Ethnography’ The Case of South Norwood


R-9 POL18 Experimental Spaces I: Governing the Social
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Corinna Unger
Organizer: Liesbeth van de Grift Discussant: Corinna Unger
David Kuchenbuch : "A laboratory of anarchy"? The Peckham Health Centre and the Experimentalisation of the Social in the 1930s
Timo Luks : Building the “House of Industry”. Social Engineering and the Industrial Workplace in Britain and Germany, c. 1920-1965
Geert Somsen : Planning for a Better World: British Scientists’ Wartime Discourse on a Postwar Planned Society
Liesbeth van de Grift : “A New Society” – The Dutch Wieringermeer Polder as an Experimental Garden of Social Planning (1918-1940)



Friday 13 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
R-10 POL19 Experimental Spaces II: Spatial and Infrastructural Governance
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Spatial and Digital History , Technology Chair: Sandrine Kott
Organizers: - Discussant: Vincent Lagendijk
Stefan Couperus : Beyond New Jerusalem: The Practice of Postwar (Re)construction Rotterdam and Coventry 1920-1960
Sébastien Gardon : Governing Urban Traffic: French Cities and the Automobile (1910-1970)
Frank Schipper : Transatlantic Tourism: American Visitors to Europe in the Long 20th Century
Anette Schlimm : What is a Transport Region? Transport Experts and their Attempts to Establish a New Socio-spatial Order, 1920s – 1950s



Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
N-11 SPA10 Soil Quality, Inequality and Changing Agricultural Practices in the 19th and 20th Century
Main Building: Senate
Networks: Rural , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Alistair Geddes
Organizers: - Discussant: Alistair Geddes
Paula Aucott, Humphrey Southall : Measuring Land Use Change in Britain since the 1930s
Brooks Kaiser, Louis P. Cain : Economics, the Environment, and the U.S. Congress: A Century of Spatial Decisions
Alice Kasakoff, Andrew B. Lawson : Longitudinal Analysis of Changing Farm Values in the US North, 1850 to 1870: The Role of Soil Quality
Kenneth Sylvester : Managing Native Grasslands after the Dust Bowl
Nigel Walford : The Extent and Impact of the 1940 and 1941 ‘Plough-up’ Campaigns on Farming across the South Downs, England


P-11 SPA09 Expanding the Range of HGIS
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Jan Reiff
Organizer: Don DeBats Discussant: Jan Reiff
Don DeBats : Space,Race, and Politics: Using GIS to Explore the Social Logic of Politcs in Urban and Rural Settings in Nineteenth Century America
Don Lafreniere, Jason Gilliland : Beyond the Narrative: Using H-GIS to Reveal Hidden Patterns and Processes of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century Cities
George Vascik : Pigs and Protest: The Crisis of Swine Husbandry and the Electoral Success of anti-Semitic Political Parties in Northwest Germany, 1924-1930


R-11 POL20 Experimental Spaces III: High Modernist Projects
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Spatial and Digital History , Technology Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussants: Leonid Borodkin, Ido de Haan
Marija Drėmaitė : Reading the Spatial Patterns of Soviet Modernization: Regional and Urban Planning in the Soviet Baltic Republics in the 1960s
Vincent Lagendijk : How the Model got its Mojo, or, How the TVA Became the Paradigm of Planning
Uwe Lübken : Rivers and Risk in the City: The Urban Floodplain as a Contested Space



Friday 13 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
P-12 SPA05 HGIS Methodological Issues
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Gethin Rees
Organizers: - Discussant: Gethin Rees
Malte Helfer : The Use of Temporal Data in the ArcGIS 10 Release – New Prospects for the Digital Historical Cartography, Presented using the Example of the Territorial Development in the Greater Region since the Congress of Vienna
Jean Luc Pinol, Guillaume Fantion : Historical Administrative Zoning and History : France XIXth-XXth Centuries (Methods and Results)
Humphrey Southall, Patrick Manning : Potentials for a Global Historical GIS
Pierre Vernus, Francesco Beretta & Claire Charlotte Butez : Managing Geo-historical Information in a Collective and Cumulative System. The Project SyMoGIH and its Gazetteer



Saturday 14 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
E-13 FAM26 Bursting with New Historical Data on Residence Patterns and Living Arrangements: First Results from the MOSAIC Project
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Networks: Family and Demography , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Kees Mandemakers
Organizers: Siegfried Gruber, Mikolaj Szoltysek Discussant: Michel Oris
Rolf Gehrmann : Does Urban Life Lead to Different Forms of Coresidence? Germany at the Eve of Industrial Revolution (1846)
Joshua R. Goldstein : Rationale of the MOSAIC Project
Dalia Leinarte : Lithuanian „Nuclear Family“: Consequence or Precondition of a Great Agrarian Change of 1860s?
Péter Öri, Levente Pakot : Patterns of Marriage and Household Structure in 19th Century Hungary


P-13 SPA04 GIS and Spatial Distribution
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Humphrey Southall
Organizers: - Discussant: Humphrey Southall
Ana Alcântara : Analysis of the Effect of Railway Accessibility on Population Settlements using Map Algebra Methodology. The Case of a Portuguese Inland Region (1878-1930)
Niall Cunningham : The Rule of ‘Vicarious Punishment’: Space, Religion and the Belfast ‘Troubles’ of 1920 – 22
Sebastian Klüsener : Long-term Trends in the Spatial Distribution of the Population in Germany 1820-today
Luis Silveira, Daniel Ribeiro Alves & Josep Puig : New Insights on the Evolution of Population Distribution in the Iberian Peninsula (1878-2001)



Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
R-14 SPA08 Re-imagining Religion
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Religion , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Andreas Kunz
Organizer: David Bodenhamer Discussant: Andreas Kunz
David Bodenhamer : One Place, Many Beliefs: Visualizing the Complexity of American Religion
John Corrigan : Space and the Interpretation of American Religious History
Trevor Harris : Objectively Mapping the Subjective or Subjectively Mapping the Objective: Conundrums in the Mapping of Religion
Gethin Rees : The Byzantine Economy and Jewish Communities: a Geographical Information Systems Approach



Saturday 14 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
P-15 SPA06 GIS and Urban History
JWS Room J361 (J7)
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Don DeBats
Organizers: - Discussant: Don DeBats
Eva Chodejovska, Jiri Krejci : The GIS Web Map Portal of Prague Historical Cartography
Florian Ploeckl : Space, Settlements, Towns: The Influence of Geography and Market Access on Settlement Distribution and Urbanization
Jan Reiff : New Deal Visions: Mapping Urban America’s Past, Present and Future
Carry van Lieshout : Access to Water in Eighteenth-century London
Gerben Zaagsma : Mapping Fascism and Anti-fascism in London in the 1930s



Saturday 14 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
J-16 SPA07 New Methods for Historical Demography
Main Building: G466
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Kees Mandemakers
Organizers: - Discussant: Kees Mandemakers
Trygve Andersen : Automatic Transcription of the Norwegian 1891 Census
Arnfinn Kjelland : Databases Constructed by the "Norwegian Extended Family Reconstitution Method" as Part of a National Population Register
Gunnar Thorvaldsen : Record Linkage in the Historical Population Register for Norway
Lee Williamson, Chris Dibben : Pilot Project Investigating the Feasibility of Transcribed Family Tree Data for Research


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