Preliminary Programme

Showing: Spatial and Digital History (all days)
Wed 23 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 24 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 17.30

Fri 25 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 26 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 23 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
S-1 SPA01 Historical Geographies of Oppression, Conflict and International Relations
Hörsaal 45 second floor
Networks: Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Primavera Driessen Gruber
Organizers: - Discussant: Sebastian Klüsener
Alexandra Athanasopoulou : The Parliamentary Delegation as a Reflection of the European Parliament’s Geographies
Damir Josipovic : Piran Bay Dispute: from the Invention of Boundary to Border Conflict
Jean Luc Pinol : Mapping the Deportation of Jewish Children in France



Wednesday 23 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
S-2 SPA02 No Road is built to Nowhere? Roles of Transport and Communication Infrastructures in Space and Time
Hörsaal 45 second floor
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Ian Gregory
Organizers: - Discussant: Ian Gregory
Markus Breier : The Way is the Goal - a GIS Approach to Historical Road Modelling
Patricia Ferreira Lopes : Analysis of the Railroad Heritage of Andalucía through the Application of a Geographic Information System. Strategies for Management
Thomas Thevenin, RS Schwartz & Christophe Mimeur : Spatial Distortions of Transportation Infrastructures


U-2 FAM17 Revisiting Fertility Transition in Southern Europe based on Individual Data
Hörsaal 47 second floor
Networks: Family and Demography , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Diego Ramiro-Fariñas
Organizers: Lucia Pozzi, Diego Ramiro-Fariñas Discussant: Diego Ramiro-Fariñas
Daniel Devolder, Roser Nicolau Ros : Spatial Fertility Differentials in Spain Duration the Demographic Transition with a Focus on Childlessness
Alessio Fornasin, Marco Breschi, Matteo Manfredini & Massimo Esposito : Reproductive Change in Transitional Italy: Insights from the Italian Fertility Survey of 1961
Stanislao Mazzoni : The Interactions between Fertility and Child Mortality in the Sardinian Demographic Transition. New Micro-level Evidences for Alghero (1866-1935)
Elisabetta Petracci, Rosella Rettaroli, Alessandra Samoggia, Francesco Scalone : First hints of fertility transition in a Northern rural Italian area (1900-1940)



Wednesday 23 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
S-3 SPA09 Historical Explorations of the Domain Dark Archive
Hörsaal 45 second floor
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Jan Vermeiren
Organizer: Richard Deswarte Discussant: Tim Hitchcock
Richard Deswarte : Exploring and Uncovering British Euroscepticism in the Dark Archive
Martin Gorsky : Public Health in English Local Government, 2001-2012: using the AADDA to Explore Web Representations and Practices
Helen Taylor : Sentiment Analysis and the Reception of the Liverpool Poets


U-3 FAM19 Changing Northern Societies Mirrored in Pre-WWII Censuses
Hörsaal 47 second floor
Networks: Family and Demography , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Per Axelsson
Organizer: Gunnar Thorvaldsen Discussants: Hilde L. Sommerseth, Gunnar Thorvaldsen
Leonid Borodkin : Peasants' Migrations in Russia/USSR in the First Quarter of the 20th Century: Analysis of the 1926 Census Data Using GIS
Elena Bryukhanova, Vladimirov Vladimir & Dmitry Sarafanov : Professions and Occupations in Siberia in the Late 19th - Early 20th Centuries
Elena Glavatskaya : Family Forms among the Ethnic Groups on the Yamal Peninsula: Polygamy and Extended Kinships according to the 1926-7 Polar Census.
Lyudmila Mazur, Oleg Gorbachev : Family History in Census-like and Survey Type Source Materials from Soviet Time
Timur Valetov, Andrei Volodin : GIS Analysis of the Russian Imperial and Soviet Aggregate Censuses



Wednesday 23 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
S-4 SPA10 Digital Atlases of Historical Sources in Eastern and Central Europe - Methods and Practices (session I)
Hörsaal 45 second floor
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Michael Schmitt
Organizer: Michael Schmitt Discussant: Marek Slon
Guido Minini, Daniela Carrion, Federica Cengarle, Federica Migliaccio, Francesco Somaini, Francesca De Pinto, Simona Pizzuto : A Tax Registers Database for a GIS on the Geography of Southern Italy at the End of the Middle Ages
Markus Naser, Catarina Seeger : 200th Anniversary of Unterfranken being a part of Bavaria: A GIS-based atlas project
Bogumil Szady : Atlas of Sources and Materials for the History of Old Poland
Tomasz Zwiazek : The Digital Atlas of Early Modern Poland: the GIS Edition of the 16th Century Tax Registers



Thursday 24 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
S-5 SPA12 Geographical Networks and Relations
Hörsaal 45 second floor
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: David Bodenhamer
Organizers: - Discussant: David Bodenhamer
Douglas Brown : Supplying the Workhouse: the Geography of Poor-law Provisioning in England and Wales, 1834-c.1900
Deryck Holdsworth : The Americanization of the Bourse
Ryan Tucker Jones, John Larsen : Acting Locally, Thinking Oceanically: Creating Digital Databases, Gazetteers, and Pacific History from the Microfilm Records of the Russian American Company, 1817-1867
Reinout Klaarenbeek, Ellen Janssens and Hilde Greefs : From Guessing to GIS-ing: Mapping Dynamics of Socio-professional Inequalities in Time and Space (Antwerp, Late Eighteenth – Early Nineteenth Century)



Thursday 24 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
S-6 SPA11 Spatial Aspects of Information Flows and Social Networks in Historical Contexts
Hörsaal 45 second floor
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussant: George Vascik
Melodee Beals : Scissors and Paste, Edges and Nodes: Scottish News Networks, 1783-1840
Julia A. Lajus, Alexander Nakhimovsky : Social Network Analysis of International Scientific Collaboration: the Case of International Polar Years IPY1 and IPY2
Francesco Scalone, Martin Dribe, Sebastian Klüsener : Fertility Decline in Sweden: A Spatial Analysis using Micro-level Census Data 1880-1900
Ivo Zandhuis : Striking Communities: Social Influence between Neighbours during the Dutch Railway Strike of 1903



Thursday 24 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
S-7 SPA14 Big Data and its Management: Lessons from the Past
Hörsaal 45 second floor
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Keith Breckenridge
Organizers: - Discussant: Keith Breckenridge
Margaret Adams : Challenges to Laws and Access Traditions for Historical Digital Records in an Era of “Big Data"
Margo Anderson : Can there be a Data Breach of Aggregate Data?
Douwe Zeldenrust : The Exploration and Visualisation of Big Data in the Humanities, Comparing Data Representation of a Large-scale E-infrastructure (CLARIN) and a Dedicated Virtual Research Environment (Soundbites)



Friday 25 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
D-9 SPA03 Spatial History of Rural Communities and Landscapes
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Networks: Rural , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Robert Schwartz
Organizers: - Discussant: Robert Schwartz
Andrew Lowerre : Environmental Factors and Regional Variation in Historic Settlement Organisation in England
Jim Pimpernell : Researching the Evolution of a Large English 18th Century Agricultural Estate using GIS, a Database and Social Network Analysis Tools
Ad van Ooststroom : Reconstruction Landownership in 1400 in the Province of Utrecht
George Vascik : The Political Sociology of Northern German Moor and Fehn Communities
Anouk Vermeulen : Innovation Knows no Limites: Reconsidering Roman Centuriation in Tarragona and Arles



Friday 25 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
E-11 SPA15 Solving Methodological and Source-related Challenges in Historical Research and HGIS
Hörsaal 34 raised ground floor
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Richard Deswarte
Organizers: - Discussant: Richard Deswarte
Paul Ell : Place-Name Gazetteers - Key Infrastructure for Digital Humanities?
Bo Nissen Knudsen : Mapping Changes – from Changing Perspectives. Employing GIS in Historical Geography and Toponomy
Roman Ptak, Grzegorz Strauchold, Tomasz Kubik, Tomasz Babczynski : GIS as a Tool for the Analysis of Geopolitical Changes of Silesia



Friday 25 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
D-12 SPA07 How to Build it so that They Use it? User Requirements in Virtual Research Environments for Historians and Social Scientists
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Lorna Hughes
Organizers: - Discussant: Lorna Hughes
Agiatis Benardou : Assessing Researcher Needs in the Cloud and Ensuring Community Engagement: the Challenges of Europeana Cloud (e-Cloud)
Matt Munson : “VREs Are Dead! Long Live VREs!”: or How a Focus on User Requirements Can Make VREs a Scholarly Asset
Aleksandra Pawliczek, Anna Bohn : Connecting Research Practices and Research Communities across Borders: the First World War Domain within the Collaborative European Digital Archival Infrastructure (CENDARI)
Veerle Vanden Daelen : User Requirements and Data Integration in European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) – the Greek case.



Saturday 26 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
D-13 SPA05 Individual and Contextual Influences on Mortality in Space and Time
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Networks: Family and Demography , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Edward Higgs
Organizers: - Discussant: Edward Higgs
Lajos Balint : Suicide in the Hungarian Kingdom at the Beginning of 20th Century
Justin Colson : Plotting Practitioners: GIS and Spatial Patterns in Early Modern Medical Provision in England and Wales
Sebastian Klüsener, Siegfried Gruber, Peter Ekamper, Frans van Poppel, Ian Gregory, Jordi Marti-Henneberg, Luis Silveria and Arne Solli : Spatial Variation in Infant Mortality at an Early Stage of the Longevity Revolution: a Pan-European View in 1910
Grazyna Liczbinska : Mortality Patterns and Health Status among Catholics and Lutherans from Different Ecological and Cultural Centres of 19-century Poland
Robert Schwartz, Thomas Thevenin : Improving the Odds: Railways, Agrarian Change, and Infant Mortality in Victorian Britain
Nynke van den Boomen, Peter Ekamper : Region, Religion and Infant Death. Geographical Differentiation in Water- and Food borne Infectious Disease Mortality in the Netherlands, 1875-1899


Y-13 SOC17a Real Estate and Social Topography in Pre-modern Europe (1100-1800) - Part 1
UR3 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Social Inequality , Spatial and Digital History , Urban Chair: Brecht Dewilde
Organizers: Heidi Deneweth, Bram Vannieuwenhuyze Discussant: Maarten Prak
William C. Baer : Using Housing Rents to Track Changes in Housing Quality and the Standard of Living: Applysing Social Science and Urban Planning Techniques to Seventeenth-Century London
Heidi Deneweth : Moving Up or Down the Housing Market? Real Estate and Social Change in Bruges, 1550-1650
Boris Horemans : A Phoenix from the Ashes: Real Estate Developers, Entrepreneurs, Master Craftsmen and the Rebuilding of Brussels (1685-1704)



Saturday 26 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
D-14 SPA06 Life Times and Life Spaces: Placing People in Historical Context
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Robert Sweeny
Organizer: Sherry Olson Discussants: -
Stephen Boyd Davis, Florian Kräutli : Scholarly Chronographics: can a Timeline be Useful in Historiography?
Sherry Olson : Lifelines in Social Networks: an Irish Catholic Innkeeper in Montreal 1815-1849
Mihailo Popovic : Migrant Groups in an Urban and Spatial Context - The Evidence on London as Reflected in the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Daniel Rueck : Up-Close and Personal: Spatializing the Diaries of a German-Canadian Land Surveyor
Richard Sadler, Donald Lafreniere : The Long-Term Effects of Redlining and Segregation on Urban Form and the Spread of Abandonment


Y-14 SOC17b Real Estate and Social Topography in Pre-modern Europe (1100-1800) - Part 2
UR3 Germanistik second floor
Networks: Social Inequality , Spatial and Digital History , Urban Chair: Heidi Deneweth
Organizers: Heidi Deneweth, Bram Vannieuwenhuyze Discussant: Marjolein 't Hart
Ana Plosnic Škaric : Decline of Medieval Urban Symbols of Power: Tower Houses in Trogir (Croatia)
Miki Sugiura, Genki Takahashi : Maintaining Polycentric Small Cites under De-urbanization. Local Merchants’ Real Estate Strategy in Bolsward, Friesland.
Tineke Van de Walle, Peter Stabel : Living in Late Medieval Suburbia. Social Topography and Housing in Antwerp and Oudenaarde 15th-16th Century



Saturday 26 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
D-15 SPA04 Cities and Identities: New Methodological Approaches
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Networks: Spatial and Digital History , Urban Chair: Luis Silveira
Organizer: Luis Silveira Discussant: Richard Sadler
Daniel Alves, Ana Alcântara : Urban Growth, Retail Trade and Industry: Changes in Lisbon’s Social Space in the Late Nineteenth Century
Branimir Brgles : Using GIS to Visualize and Interpret Early Modern Zagreb’s Urban and Environmental History
Don DeBats : Constrasting Identities: The Tale of Two Nineteenth Century American Cities
Diego Ramiro-Fariñas, Isabel del Bosque González, Sara García Ferrero, Lourdes Martín-Forero, Rocío Gutierrez : Cartography and Historical Demography: the Historical SDI of the City of Madrid around 1900 (HISDI-MAD)


H-15 SPA16 Harmonization and Analysis of Historical Census and Vital Registration Sources
Hörsaal 27 first floor
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Sebastian Klüsener
Organizers: - Discussant: Siegfried Gruber
Ashkan Ashkpour, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Kees Mandemakers : CEDAR: Harmonization of Historical Dutch Census Data
Edward Higgs, Kevin Schurer : The Integrated Census Microdata (I-CeM) Project
Jana Vobecka : Czech Jewish Censuses from 18th Century: Rich Research Source on Family Structures and its Digitalisation
Lee Williamson : Methods for Coding c19th and c20th Cause of Death Descriptions from Historical Registers to Standard Classifications



Saturday 26 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
D-16 SPA08 Deep Mapping the Humanities
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Network: Spatial and Digital History Chair: Daniel Alves
Organizer: Trevor Harris Discussant: Daniel Alves
David Bodenhamer : The Mechanics and Meaning of Deep Mapping
John Corrigan : Space, Place, and Data
Ian Gregory : Using Digital Texts in Spatial History
Trevor Harris : Deep Geography-deep Mapping: Spatial Story telling and a Sense of Place


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