Historical Geography Network

Graphic scale from a 1595 map, from David Greenhood, Mapping (1951), p. 45.

2008 Conference:

The 2007 conference was held in Miami, Florida on the23-26th October, 2008. We had a total of 15 sessions sponsored by the Historical Geography network, 9.6% of the conference total.

2008 sessions :

• Spatial segregation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
• Resources for Historical GIS
• The temporalities of the Holocaust
• Politics, power and space in American politics
• Contributory GIS for historical research
• Layering the past: Towards a spatial-analytical approach to urban history
• Historical Ecology: David Foster's Thoreau's Country: Journey through a transformed landscape
• Religious geographies and Historical GIS
• Time Geography: The work of Mei-Po Kwan
• Radical unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950
• Is GIS changing historical scholarship? A book session on Placing History (Knowles & Hillier) and Historical GIS (Gregory & Ell)
• Roundtable: Humanities GIS 2.0: Surveying the past - Projecting the future
• The Census, cartography and slavery: Envisioning emancipation in the age of the Civil War
• Railways and political economy in Britain, France, and the United States, 1840-1950
• Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the fate of the American city
• Historical GIS and temporal narratives
• Rural markets linked over space and time
• Migration differentials: Places of origin and places of destination
• Investigating the development of transportation networks with Historical GIS

Note that this list includes co-sponsored sessions.

Historical Geography Network