CALL FOR PAPERS: VISUALIZING THE PAST
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The Social Science History Association will hold its 26th annual
conference, November 15-18, 2001 at the Palmer House in Chicago. The SSHA
is the leading interdisciplinary association for historical research. The
members of the association share a common interest in interdisciplinary and
systematic approaches to historical research. The organization's
long-standing interest in research methodology also makes SSHA meetings
fertile ground for exploring new solutions to historical problems. The SSHA
strongly encourages participation from graduate students and recent PhDs as
well as more established scholars.  In recent years, we have established a
strong presence for historical GIS at this meeting, involving many members
of this list.

The proposed session will cover all aspects of (re)presenting the past to a
wider audience using computers, and is not limited to GIS-based
approaches.  We would however expect some graphical element, and would
generally seek to exclude papers on traditional Computer Assisted
Learning.  We would hope that several papers would involve presenting
historical information on the web, but this is not essential -- if you have
the funding to develop something which only runs on a high-end workstation
we are happy to hear from you!  Given the success of past sessions at SSHA
meetings, we would hope to be able to organize more than one session (i.e.
3-4 papers) on this broad theme, and to be able to organise more focused
sessions such as electronic historical atlases.  We would obviously aim to
provide facilities for demonstrating on-line systems as well as talking
about them.

NB the SSHA is a very democratic organization, and at this stage we need
offers of papers to make the case for the session(s).  All we need for now
are titles, short abstracts and details of the author(s) -- including
titles, institutional affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax
numbers as well as e-mail addresses.  However, once the session is
approved, and before your paper can appear on the final program, you must
register for the meeting and, if not already a member of the SSHA, join it
(not expensive!); the necessary forms will be sent to you once you are on
the provisional programme.

As list members who were involved in the 1998 SSHA meeting will know,
Chicago is a great town and the Palmer House is a great venue for the
meeting.  If any list member has other proposals for sessions in historical
GIS, please contact [log in to unmask];  Ian took over as network
representative for Historical Geography at the Pittsburgh meeting in
October.  Proposals for the visualisation session should be sent to me.

Humphrey Southall (Director, Great Britain Historical GIS Project; List Owner)