Speaker: Mads Linnet Perner (University of Copenhagen), ‘Residential Segregation in early modern Copenhagen’.
Tag: Mapping
DH Forum
Speakers: Patricia Murrieta-Flores – Digging into Early Colonial Mexico: computational approaches to the geographic relations of New Spain David Gullick & Joseph Richardson – Eliciting Fuzzy Location Data from Social Media Posts with Natural Language Processing Alan Marsden – Big Data and Arts Research: using normalized compression distance to find ‘interesting’ paintings
Geospatial Innovation Seminar
Speaker: Duncan Hay (UCL), Survey of London Whitechapel: Writing East London’s Histories Online Abstract: Since its establishment in 1894, the Survey of London has viewed its purpose to bring authoritative histories of London’s built environment to non-specialist audiences. Each richly-illustrated volume seeks to provide a comprehensive account of what has been built, what has been lost, and to what purpose, in its area of study. Though all of the Survey’s research is available through the British History Online website, this talk introduces a new platform, launched in October 2016: Survey of London Whitechapel. This website represents the organisation’s first foray into using …
Geospatial Innovation Seminar
Speaker: Anthony Mandal (Cardiff University), ‘Breaking the Magic Circle: Gothic Literary Narrative and Immersive Play’.
Geospatial Innovation Seminar
Speaker: Ceri Morgan (Keele University), ‘Mapping Fictional Montreal’
Locating Pride and Prejudice
By Emily Butt (MA Student, Lancaster University) This semester, the new English Literature MA module Nineteenth Century Literature: Place – Space – Text asked students to complete a digital map for their formative assessment. Their brief was to select a nineteenth-century text and to use a digital mapping tool such as Google MyMaps or CartoDB to create a map of an element of their chosen text. That map should raise questions about the ways that we conceive of or understand place/space in the text. For more information about this task, please get in touch with the module tutor, Joanna Taylor. Here, Emily calculates …