Congress that aims at creating a space for dialogue between researchers and to address new challenges in the field of GIScience analysis and representation of historical data-sets.

 

Time in Space

Geohistorical Applications, Methods and Theories in GIScience

 

This event is organised by the Universtià di Pisa, Universidade de Brasilia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and the University of Lancaster is open to researchers interested in the field of GIS application in the humanities. Between June 26th to 28th 2019 we will discuss and examine new ways and methods to represent and analyse time in the GISciences. Scholars from any discipline are invited to join us to share their experiences and case studies with a wide multidisciplinary community of researchers engaged in the main topics of the conference. Speakers should submit an abstract to the scientific committee for evaluation. As the official language of the conference is English, submission and presentation should be of the same language. Conference proceedings will be published as a special volume by spring 2020.

 

Some of the most significant obstacles in GIScience are the description, explanation and visualization of time. Cartographic representation of transformation, evolution and historical changes have always been a challenging and stimulating task for cartographers, researchers and scientists.

However, in the last three decades, revolutionary possibilities have been introduced by innovative digital tools that have offered to a large group of scholars – from a vast disciplinary range – the opportunity to explore new empirical solutions and applications for the spatial analysis and cartographic representation of time. Although technological advances have transformed the way we think, talk, and the tools we use, there has been a lack of critical and epistemological debate on the techniques, methods and theories for the representation of time within the GISciences.

We feel that there is a need for an interdisciplinary exchange concerning the main issues related to GIS applications in the study of historical processes.

Our aim is to join the scattered experiences conducted on multiple scientific fields in a collective dialogue. The objective is to share ideas and insights amongst researchers involved in the analysis and representation of changes by means of new digital cartographic technologies. It is by means of exchange that we aim to promote a wider awareness of the significant role and impact that these issues have for us and our research.

 

 

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Programme:

 

26/06/2019 – Wednesday

08:30-09:00 | Registration

09:00-09:15 | Welcome, Department Director

09:15-10:15 – Keynote speech | Ian Gregory (Lancaster University, U.K.)

10:15-11:30 – Session 1

Reconceiving Space on Eighteenth Century Roads | Katherine McDonough, Turing Institute

Modelling historical accessibilities based on digitised historical networks | Raphaël Fuhrer, ETH Zürich

Mapping Sculpture in the Liminal Spaces of Early Modern Italy | Catherine Walsh, University of Montevallo

Transhumance space in historical transformations: processing textual and cartographic historical data of Grosseto district into a GIS framework | Michele de Silva; Cristoferi Davide; Giovanna Pizziolo; Mara Visonà; Andrea Zagli, Università degli Studi di Firenze

11:30-11:45 | Refreshments

11:45-13:00 – Session 2

Mapping time, mapping space: detecting and reconstructing the Madaba Mosaic Map s cultural and physical landscape through innovative technologies | Margherita Azzari; Carmelo Pappalardo; Anna Lena, Università degli Studi di Firenze

The Historical Atlas of Limousin: questions and methods for a contributory geo-historical data system | Juliette Morel; Anne Massoni; Rémi Crouzevialle, Université de Limoges

Quantifying the sound. The space of bells in medieval monasteries estates | Stefano Bertoldi, Università degli Studi di Siena

Medieval Time in Space. The Use of GIS for the Diachronic Study of the County of Barcelona (9th to 12th c.) | Maria Soler-Sala, University of Barcelona

13:00-14:30 | Lunch

14:30-15:45 – Session 3

Tor Marancia: digital tools for enjoyment and valorisation of a common | LuisaSpagnoli ; Arturo Gallia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea

The virtual reconstruction of disappeared landscapes: to make the invisible visible | Pauline Deguy ; Margherita Azzari, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Space and Time representation of a Copper Age funerary context: the Poggio di Spaccasasso (Grosseto, Italy) case study | Giovanna Pizziolo; Nicoletta Volante; Matteo Faraoni; Francesco Savarino; Gaia Mustone, Università degli Studi di Siena

15:45-17:00 – Session 4

Archaeology and regional planning in Veneto Region: the case of the Piano Paesaggistico Regionale – PPR | Alice Vacilotto; Alessandra Depieri; Chiara D’Incà, Università degli Studi di Padova

As it was, as it were: the role and potentiality of GIS in preserving and analysing ancient Venetian maps. A proposal | Arianna Lorenzon, Ca’ Foscari University

Marin Sanudo’s itinerary in mainland Venice: HGIS applied to a travel journal of the late Fifteenth Century | Alessandra Ferrighi, Università Iuav di Venezia

Spatial analysis to unravel the Greek-Roman settlement dynamics. An example from a coastal area landscape (Basilicata, southern Italy) | Maria Danese; Paola Di Leo; Giuseppe Corrado; Dario Gioia; Marcello Schiattarella, CNR-IMAA

17:00-17:15 | Refreshments

17:15-18:15 – Session 5

Abandoning children in Lisbon during the 19th century: continuities and changes | Joana Vieira Paulino, IHC – NOVA FCSH

Time and Space in the South Atlantic in times of the “Iberian Union”. The database “Brasilhis, Personal Networks and Circulation in Brazil during the Hispanic Monarchy (1580-1640) | José Manuel Santos, University of Salamanca

A Spatial Humanities approach to the study of hotel industry in Lisbon in the end of the nineteenth century | Daniel Alves, IHC – NOVA FCSH

18:30-19:15 – Keynote speech | Diego Jiménez-Badillo (INAH, Museo del Templo Mayor, MX)

 

27/06/2019 – Thursday

09:00-10:15 – Session 6

Always keep your feet dry. The importance of GIScience for facing present-day challenges through reconstructing (pre)historical-adaptive strategies | Rowin J. van Lanen; Menne C. Kosian, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands

Digital narrations: the historical gis for the management of territory and the environmental risk mitigation | Sara Carallo, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre

Natural assets and cultural heritage: Conflict management through GIScience | Armando Montanari; Barbara Staniscia, Sapienza Università di Roma

Strumenti GIS e archeologia: il caso di Baone | Maickol Quarena

10:15-11:30 – Session 7

The palimpsestical road networks of the colonial Route of the Silver of Potosí, through the prism of historical cartography (XVIII-XX centuries) | Thibault Saintenoy; Maria Florencia Malvarez; Laurent Costa, Institute of Heritage sciences

Applying GIS to analyze the economy of Portuguese Amazon during the 18th century | João Ramalho, Universidade Federal do Pará

Historical narrative with maps: GIS and indigenous people in the Amazon in the 18th century | Manoel Domingos Farias Rendeiro Neto, University of California, Davis

11:30-11:45
Refreshments

11:45-13:00 – Session 8

Changes in the administrative boundaries of Tuscany from 1750 to nowadays: a historical geodatabase | Anna Guarducci; Camillo Berti; Massimiliano Grava, Università di Siena

Globsearoutes (gsr) an historical geodatabase | Guido Abbattista; Andrea Favretto, Università di Trieste

AgriHistory Gis. High farming, latifundium and sharecropping in comparison. A geo-spatial study on the Agrarian Cadastre of 1929 between Lombardy, Tuscany and Puglia | Giacomo Zanibelli; Vito Ricci, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Pauliceia 2.0: A Spatiotemporal Platform for Digital Humanities | Luis Ferla; Karine Reis Ferreira; Cristiane Regina Miyasaka; Fernando Atique; Daniela Musa; Nandamudi Vijaykumar; Ana Barbour; Carlos Alberto Noronha; Orlando Guarnier; Rodrigo Mariano; Janaina Yamamoto Santos; Priscila Meireles; Wania Mazzarello; Cintia Rodrigues de Almeida; Denis Taveira de Lima; Ester Dantas Nunes; Gabriel Sansigolo; Luanna Nascimento; Monaliza Caetano dos Santos; Vitória Martins Fontes da Silva; Eduardo Goiabeira, Universidade Federal do Estado de São Paulo

13:00-14:30 | Lunch

14:30-15:45 – Session 9

Geoprocessing applied to rural modules: “From the Freguesia do Caminho Novo” to “Santo Antônio do Paraibuna”, XVIII-XIX centuries | Rafael M. O. Laguardia, Universidade de Juiz de Fora – UFJF

Marseille during the French Revolution, 1789-1794. Historical mapping test from GIS | Angelo Odore; Davide Gherdevich; Daniele Di Bartolomeo, Università di Teramo

Brokering Distance in a Fragmented Empire: Legal Proxies in 18th-Century Colonial Brazil | Leonardo Barleta, Stanford University

15:45-17:00 – Session 10

Heatmap and geostatistic analysis: evaluation of the concentration of radon level in Lombardia | Filippo Gagliano, IS Lotto

Geographical perspectives of the 1912 Census. A quest for founding a Romanian National HGIS | Cezar Buterez; Theodor Cepraga; Andreea Popa; Marius-Andrei R Duc; A. Iulian Dochi; Oana Candit, Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest

Re-imagining places trough old maps and pictures: the Jewish ghetto of Trieste | Giovanni Mauro; Cristina Fenu, Università di Trieste

Spatial analysis of the Muslim population of Ufa based on the “religious census” of the NKVD in 1923 | Aislu Yunusova; Yulay Absalyamov, Russian Society of Historians and Archivists. Bashkir Branch

17:00-17:15 | Refreshments

17:15-18:30 – Session 11

Lines, when to straighten them? An inquiry in Historical Geography and Cartography | Vinicius Maluly, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Too Good to Be True. Geospatial Data Models and the Old Reich | Luca Scholz, Stanford University

Narrative Maps in History | Tiago Gil, Universidade de Brasília

Map this! Mapping without cartography and GISscience | Daniele Ietri, Libera Università di Bolzano

19:00 | Dinner (Poldino’s restaurant)

 

28/06/2019 – Friday

09:00-10:15 – Session 12

Recognition of Colonial Urban Structure in Brazil with Satellite Analysis and GIS Methods | Amanda do Couto, Universidade de Brasília

Re-mapping the first capital of colonial Brazil: Colonial representations, urban dynamics and individual mobility in Salvador da Bahia (1549-1700) | Irene Maria Vicente Martin, European University Institute

Mapping the ancient urban density, turning a map in dataset | Davide Pavia, Sapienza Università di Roma

The historical cartography and the Gis in the study of cities: the case of L’Aquila | Paola Tagliente; Daniele Di Bartolomeo, Università di Teramo

10:15-11:30 – Session 13

Mapping the past: new perspectives for the georeferencing process | Arianna Traviglia; Irene Sarcinelli, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia

From photos to GIS: comparing geo-referenced and vectorised historical ground photos and cartographies for an assessment of rural landscape changes. The case study of the Aveto Valley (Liguria, Italy) | Nicola Gabellieri; Carlo Alberto Gemignani, Università di Trento

Creating collections of entities with temporally attributed geometries in nodegoat | Pim van Bree; Geert Kessels, LAB1100

Time in Place for Historical Gazetteers | Karl Grossner, University of Pittsburgh

11:30-11:45 | Refreshments

11:45-13:00 – Session 14

Virgohamna and those expeditions to the Arctic | Gianluca Casagrande, GREAL – European University of Rome

Computational approaches to explore historical geographies: New Spain in the 16th century | Patricia Murrieta-Flores; Raquel Liceras-Garrido; Katherine Bellamy; Bruno Martins; Mariana Favila-Vázquez; Diego Jimenez-Badillo; Jacinto Estima; Ian Gregory, Digital Humanities Hub – Department of History, Lancaster University

Deconstructing voids, recreating colonial settlements: the Northern Brazilian “Sertões” and their territories | Esdras Arraes, Universidade de São Paulo – USP

Challenges in Combining Historical and Cartographical Sources in a Historical GIS Project | Peter Paul Marckhgott-Sanabria; Antonia Dückelmann; Anna Piechl; Peter Andorfer; Matthias Schlögl, ACDH-OEAW

13:00-14:30 | Lunch

14:30-15:45 – Session 15

PAST IN USE. A Methodology for the recognition of identity values in historical cultural landscapes | Margherita Azzari; Camillo Berti; Paola Zamperlin, Università degli Studi di Firenze

The documentary heritage of the ex Institute of Geography of the University of Rome Sapienza: educational applications in GIS environment | Sandra Leonardi; Monica De Filpo; Epifania Grippo, Sapienza Università di Roma

Where I live? GIScience and historical sources for the knowledge of your neighbourhood: a teaching experience | Arturo Gallia, Università Roma Tre

The Observatory of Conflict Prevention | Adriana Erthal Abdenur; Robert Muggah; Giovanna Kuele; Carlos Coutinho, Igarapé Institute

15:45-17:00 – Session 16

Mapping the Middle Ages. From primary, lacunous, unstandardized, diverse sources to dynamic maps | Enrica Salvatori ; Paolo Mogorovich, Università di Pisa

Reconstructing a historical place: The digital map of the Western Hills of Athens | Stamatina Lampraki; Leda Costaki; Anna Maria Theocharaki, Dipylon Society for the Study of Ancient Topography, Athens, Greece

Assessing and representing land use/land cover changes along historical walls and rivers in Padova | Guglielmo Pristeri; Francesca Peroni; Salvatore Pappalardo; Daniele Codato; Massimo De Marchi, Università di Padova

Hidden waters. A methodology for the census of covered streams in urban areas | Margherita Azzari; Camillo Berti; Paola Zamperlin, Università degli Studi di Firenze

17:00-17:15 | Refreshments

17:15-18:30 – Session 17

Tracing Places and Dates in an Early Modern context | Arno Bosse, University of Oxford

Venetian Estimi as a source for landscape change in Modern period. A critical analysis of an historical GIS | Viviana Ferrario, Università Iuav di Venezia

Dynamic map of external Russian borders (1462-2018) | Alexey Frolov, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

Imperial Agents or Fomenters of Social Capital: Locating the Impact of Protestant Missionaries in Modern Turkey | Emre Amasyali, McGill University

18:30-19:30 – Session 18

Historical landscape of the Eastern Euganen Hills | Luca Caloi, Università di Padova

Land use and cover reconstruction via GIS techniques with heterogeneous sources of different periods. Change of a part of Pontine Region during two hundred years | Diego Gallinelli, Università degli studi Roma Tre

The Changing Landscapes in the Pisa South Picenum Survey Project II | Simonetta Menchelli; Eleonora Iacopini, Università di Pisa

 

Presentation Software

27/06/2019 – Thursday (Sala Seminterrata)

11:00-12:00 Paolo Cavallini (Faunalia)

12:00-13:00 Geert Kessels (Nodegoat)

 

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For any questions about the conference, please direct emails to: tis2019@cfs.unipi.it

 

🔗 Call for papers

 

🔗 Scientific Committee

 

🔗 Organising Committee

 

Best Congress Paper Award

 

The objective of the competition is to promote and disseminate excellence and to stimulate the willingness of congress participants to submit and present high quality talks. This award aims to celebrate inspiring and effective presentations and engage participants even further and encourage them to put as much effort as possible into raising the the standard of speeches. Presentations will be judged according to the following criteria:

clarity of expression and quality of presentation.
Originality: The paper is innovative and constructively confront with new or complex problems of GIS applications in the humanities.
Significance and relevance: The paper makes an important contribution to the current debate and the advancement of knowledge in GIScience.
Methodological rigour and excellence: The paper uses robust and appropriate methods to address the research question.
Potential impact: The paper has the potential to alter prevailing theory or practice in GISscience.

The winner will be elected by the conference participants. Contributions of the plenary and closing plenary session as well as invited talks are not eligible.

 

A lecture and workshop, with Ian Haywood, about British caricature in the 18th and 19th centuries.

 

Rude Britannia: The golden age of British caricature

 

On the 26th of June, at 6PM, at the Bordalo Pinheiro Museum, in Lisbon, Professor Ian Haywood (University of Roehampton, London) will present the lecture “Rude Britannia: the golden age of British caricature“, where he will highlight the main authors and analyse the subjects and topics of British caricatures in the 18th and 19th centuries.

After the lecture, there will be a workshop abou the use of caricatures as historic sources — Working With Caricatures.

 

FREE ADMISSION

 

About the speaker:
Ian Haywood is the Director of the Centre for Research in Romanticism (University of Roehampton, London), President of the British Association for Romantic Studies and one of the coordinator of the Romantic Illustration Network. Among other books, he has authored Romanticism and Caricature (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The Rise of Victorian Caricature (to be published in 2020).

 

An international conference, hosted by the IHC, that aims to answer questions about the role of satire in defining national identities. Call is open until 15 November 2018 31 December 2018.

 

Representations of the Self and the Other in the Satiric Image:

From the French Revolution to Today

 

“Marianne” (in France), “John Bull” (in England) or “Zé Povinho” (in Portugal), just like “Uncle Sam” (in the United States) or “Juca Pato” (in Brazil) are popular graphic expressions that can be presented as clear examples of national type that are consistently identifiable from the beginning of the 18th century until today. The persistence, in collective memory of these kinds of iconographic projections shows the capacity that this type of imagery has to consolidate itself and further shows the overall poswer of visual culture.

Caricature and cartoon, as expressions of graphic satire, have gained in importance in the Western world ever along with the expanded reach of the press during the long nineteenth century. In this way, newspapers and magazines have both served and resorted to artists in order to transmit messages with political content throughout a period marked by the massive growth of information. The specialized illustrated satiric press saw the light of day and developed beginning in 1830, in France and Great Britain, or in the following decade, as was the case in Portugal. We can’t neglect the fact that caricature and the satiric image were the first and often the only contemporary records of events and they were presented as a responses to public reactions to political and social evolution. Their goal not so much to expose reality as to reflect and provide comment on the attitudes and values produced in their time by the whole of society. After all, illustrated discourse also served as an instrument of dissemination of ideological values.

However, the historiography of the theme of nationalism and of the era in which it took root has rarely valued the satirical image insofar as it might be a contributing instrument of the fashioning of identity in a given period. Some studies contradict conventional narratives (Gardes, 1990, Koch, 1990 et 1997, Hunt, 2003, Lustosa, 2011) and observe cultural stereotypes either by denial or by assimilation. This conference aims to bring together scholars devoted to study of the social and political impact of the satirical image according to a chronological arc that extends from the French Revolution and the “Golden Age” of British caricature up to our own time. The objective will be to analyse how pertinent this satirical, and certainly humorous genre can be for the study of the composition of national identities, in a long-term comparative perspective.

 

📎  Final PROGAMME (PDF)

📎  Book of Abstracts (PDF)

 

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Call for papers

 

The conference, organised by the Institute of Contemporary History at NOVA FCSH, seeks to answer the following questions:

1. Which common ideas, which targets and which attitudes expressed by the satirical press helped fashion the concept of nation?
2. Who were the “others” represented by the satirical image, in opposition to which “us”?
3. How were the visions and representations of the “other”, as opposed to the “self”, expressed by the satirical image helpful in defining national identities, in constructing the notion of community and in shaping national stereotypes?

Paper proposals of no more than 500 words should be sent to paulojorgefernandes@sapo.pt

 

📎  Call for papers in English
📎  Call for papers in French

 

Languages of the conference:

English and French

 

Important Dates:

a) Submission of paper proposals: 15 November 2018 31 December 2018
b) Responses: December 2018 January 2019
c) Notification of the final programme: 15 April 2019
d) Conference: 27 and 28 June 2019

 

Conference venue:

Institute of Contemporary History – NOVA FCSH (Lisbon)

 

Selections committee:

Paulo Jorge Fernandes (IHC – NOVA FCSH, Portugal)
Jean-Claude Gardes (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France)
Alain Deligne (Münster University, Germany)
Dominic Hardy (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
Isabel Lustosa (Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, Brazil)