Online seminar re digital history and mapping
Alexis Tindall
Space, Data, Place: Digital Tools for Australia's Deep Past
Digital mapping is becoming an increasingly common tool for historical research in Australia, providing historians with new ways of visualising and representing the past. How can historians use the tools, methods, and outputs of digital humanities to gain new insights into the Australian past? How can these tools be used to tell accessible stories of space, place, and Country? What kinds of sources do historians require to produce these histories? What skills are required and how can historians learn them? And are there political or ethical considerations when mapping and representing the Australian past in this way?
In this seminar, Mike Jones (ANU), Fiannuala Morgan (ANU), Bill Pascoe (Melbourne), and Emma Thomas (UNSW) will reflect on the use of digital mapping in their work and discuss the promises and pitfalls of these methods. This is a rare opportunity to see how Australian historians are using the tools of digital humanities to investigate deep time, bushfires, 'blackbirding' in the Pacific, and frontier massacres, and to discuss the questions, research, technology, and skills that underlie these kinds of outputs.
Cheers,
Alexis