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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 recently set up a new "Historical Computing and GIS" network and we are delighted with the interest that this has led to. The 2010 meeting will take place in Ghent, Belgium 13-16th April 2010 with around a dozen sessions with a Historical GIS component. A draft programme is available from the ESSHC website.

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. 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.

The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative:

ECAI is an international organisation hosted by the University of California, Berkeley that was set up to explore the use of GIS in the humanities with the particular aim of creating a cultural atlas. It holds two meetings a year.

Other conferences that often host historical GIS sessions:

The Association of American Geographers

The Association for History and Computing

The Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers

Previous Historical GIS conferences:

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.