Call for papers

Deadline: 1 May 2017
The Spatial & Digital History network at the European Social Science History Conference welcomes papers on all aspects of the use of new technologies to study the past. These include:

• Historical GIS
• Spatial humanities
• History and computing
• Digital history

Themes of particular relevance include – but are not limited to – the following:

• Urban history
• Historical demography
• Textual analysis and other qualitative sources
• Social network analysis
• European data infrastructure and integration
• Crowdsourcing historical data
• 3D modelling of history and heritage
• Histories of health and mortality
• Transport history
• Rural and environmental history
• Religious history
• The creation, curation and dissemination of humanities digital resources
• The future of digital history
• Big data and born-digital data

Please propose individual papers or panel sessions (up to four papers) at: https://esshc.socialhistory.org/propose-paper

For more information on the ESSHC’s Spatial & Digital History network: http://esshc.socialhistory.org/networks/spatial-and-digital-history

For more information on the conference: https://esshc.socialhistory.org/esshc-belfast-2018

Please contact the network chairs with any queries:

• Ian Gregory, Lancaster University, UK: i.gregory@lancaster.ac.uk
• Sebastian Klüsener, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany: kluesener@demogr.mpg.de
• Douwe Zeldenrust, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam: douwe.zeldenrust@meertens.knaw.nl
• Douglas Brown, Kingston University, UK: doug.brown@kingston.ac.uk

We look forward to seeing you in Belfast.

Deadline: May 1, 2017