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The Historical GIS Research Network

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The following conferences have a strong focus on the use of GIS to research the past:

The European Social Science History Conference:

The European Social Science History Conference has a Spatial & Digital History network which includes a large number of sessions devoted to HGIS. The conference is held every second year in the Spring.

The Social Science History Association:

The SSHA's Historical Geography Network has been increasingly influential as a venue for presenting work in historical GIS. Its annual conference is held in the United States usually in November with a CFP due in early February. Over the past few years there have typically been at least a dozen sessions focusing on a wide variety of aspects of historical GIS at this conference.

Other conferences that often host historical GIS sessions:

The Association of American Geographers

Digital Humanities

The Canadian Association of Geographers

The Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers

Previous Historical GIS conferences:

Virtual Cities/Digital Histories: A virtual symposium.

This 'meeting' took place in December 2010 and was organised entirely electronically. It brought together nine projects that exploring how GIS technologies can be used to better understand urban history. Recordings of all of the presentations are available from the website.

GIS in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2009

The inaugural GIS in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2009 International Conference, to be held at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan from 7 to 9 October 2009. This significant international Geographical Information Science event brought together an eclectic mix of humanists and social scientists who have used GIS in their work.

Historical GIS 2008

This conference took place at the University of Essex, 21-22nd August 2008.

 

(c) Ian Gregory, 2007
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