The Irish Research Council funded Networking the Digital Environmental Humanities (DEH) workshop and public lecture / book launch on June 18, 2015 in the Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin. Contact Charles Travis ([log in to unmask])
This event will convene international scholars from environmental, Irish, British and American history, literary and historical geography, computer science, philosophy, languages and education, visual cultural studies, literature and the digital humanities to discuss how digital practices, methodologies and mapping can facilitate a deeper study and engagement between the humanities and the environment.
One of the aims of the DEH event at TCD is address a call by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2015 “to facilitate and enhance further the consistent and coherent use of up to date digital technology for sharing and disseminating information.” The Trinity Long Room Hub event aims to go one step further by discussing how the DEH can be used as both a platform and methodology to not only enhance the study and communication of human-environmental relations, but to facilitate social transformation in regards to perception and agency in regards to global environmental change.
Professor David Bodenhamer Public Lecture (6 pm)
The public lecture “Beyond GIS: The Spatial Humanities, Deep Maps, and Spatial Narratives” features Professor David Bodenhamer, Head of the Polis Center at Indiana University Purdue. His talk draws inspiration in part from William Least Heat Moon’s PrairyErth (A Deep Map) (1991). Described as a vertical form of travel writing, “Deep Mapping” allows juxtapositions and interpenetrations of the environment with the human, historical with the present, the political with the poetic and the discursive with the sensual. “Deep Mapping” weaves oral testimony, anthology, memoir, biography, and natural history into a fusion of qualitative and quantitative data and focuses on both space and place by acknowledging the reality that space-time is multi-scalar and dynamic.
Book Launch (7 pm)
Following the lecture there will be a launch and reception for the following titles:
-Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives (Indiana University Press: 2015) edited by David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan and Trevor M. Harris.
-Abstract Machine: Humanities GIS (Esri Press: 2015) by Charles Travis.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE (12-5 pm)
Session 1 (12-1 pm) Digital Environmental Humanities Overview
12.00- 12.20: Professor Poul Holm (Trinity College Dublin) "Digital environmental humanities - What is it and why do we need it?" (Workshop Keynote)
12.20- 12. 40: Alexander von Lünen (University of Huddersfield) “We are reading time in space” Or: the end of history?
12.40-1.00 pm: Charles Travis (Trinity College Dublin) The digital environmental humanities and GIS: Discursive, Cultural and Social Media Integrations
Lunch 1.00-1.30 pm (Catered)
Session 2 (1.30-2. 30 pm) Deep Maps, Narratives and Heritage
1.30-1.50 pm: Professor David Bodenhamer (Polis Center, Indiana University Purdue) Connecting Material and Metaphorical Space: Deep Maps and Environmental History
1.50-2.10 pm: Mads Haar (Trinity College Dublin) Literary Play: Locative Game Mechanics and Narrative Techniques for Cultural Heritage
2.10.- 2.30 pm: Theresa O'Connor (Skellig Foundation) Joyce’s Brain Atlas: A Deep Map of the Anthropocene and a Roadmap for the Environmental Humanities
Session 3 (2.30-3.10 pm) Educational and Ethical Considerations
2.30- 2.50 pm: Annaleigh Margey (Dundalk Institute of Technology) Moving from Digital Creation to the Classroom: Utilising the 1641 Depositions as a Pedagogical Tool
2.50- 3.10 pm: Francesco De Pascale (Department of Languages and Educational Sciences University of Calabria) Geoethics and neogeographical education in an interdisciplinary study
3.10-3.30 BREAK
Session 4 (3.30- 4.30 pm) Ireland and the Digital Environmental Humanities
3.30-3.50 pm: Mary Kelly (Kingston University London): Mapping correspondence on famine and famine relief in Ireland, 1845-1846
3.50-4.10 pm: Rachel Murphy (University College Cork) Digital approaches to the study of landholding in Ireland
4.10-4.30 pm: Hannah Smyth (Trinity College Dublin) The Forgotten Majority: Mapping the Civilian Casualties of the 1916 Rising
4.30-5.00 pm Discussion / Wrap Up
Dr. Charles Travis
Research Fellow, Trinity Long Room Hub
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +353 (0) 1 896 8490
https://tcd.academia.edu/CharlesTravis
IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS GRANT "Networking the Digital Environmental Humanities" Workshop 18 June 2015
http://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/environmental-humanities/events/IRC_DEHindex.php
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES @ TCD
http://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/environmental-humanities/
ANDREW W. MELLON EUROPEAN OBSERVATORY OF THE NEW HUMAN CONDITION
http://hfe.wfu.edu/observatories/european-observatory/
DIGITAL ARTS AND HUMANITIES (DAH) PHD PROGRAM
http://dahphd.ie/
DIGITAL LITERARY ATLAS OF IRELAND, 1922-1949
http://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/digital-atlas
IMPACT-EV
http://impact-ev.eu/
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