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Feb 26 Wednesday Workshop: "Connecticut's Tobacco Valley: Imperialism, Migration, and Internal Colonization"12:15pm

Wednesday Workshop: "Connecticut's Tobacco Valley: Imperialism, Migration, and Internal Colonization"

Wednesday, February 26th, 2020

12:15 PM - 01:15 PM

Storrs Campus
Wood Hall Basement Lounge

The first History Department Wednesday Workshop of 2020 will feature Professor Jason Chang, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute.

Professor Chang will present on new research in a lecture titled "Connecticut's Tobacco Valley: Imperialism, Migration, and Internal Colonization".

Contact Information: Victor Zatsepine, victor.zatsepine@uconn.edu
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Feb 27 Frontiers in HIstorical GIS, the Geohumanities, and Narrative Visualization9:00am

Frontiers in HIstorical GIS, the Geohumanities, and Narrative Visualization

Thursday, February 27th, 2020

09:00 AM - 04:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Student Union and Babbidge Library

Frontiers in Historical GIS, the Geohumanities, and Narrative Visualization

An Interdisciplinary Connections Symposium sponsored by the UConn College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in collaboration with Urban and Community Studies, History, Geography, and American Studies

Thursday, 27 February 2020
Location: Student Union Building 304B, Storrs
9:00am - Welcome and Introductions

9:30am-11:30am - Presentations and roundtable discussion

Anne Kelly Knowles, Professor of History, University of Maine, Historical GIS & Beyond: GeoVisualiation for the Humanities
Spatial storytelling and deep mapping are generating much interest in the Humanities as scholars and students discover new methods for representing people in place. At the same time, humanists’ critiques of the limitations of Cartesian cartography demand solutions. This lecture will argue that points, lines, and polygons (aptly called “cartographic primitives”) are immensely useful for certain kinds of spatial analysis, but that they are also deeply problematic for analyzing and representing human experience. The extreme experiences of Holocaust victims challenged my research team to find new ways to visualize people and places, mobility and awareness, as phenomena in their own right and in relation to Nazi policies and actions. I will particularly focus on two of our ongoing experiments: inductive visualization and topological mapping.

LaDale Winling, Professor of History, Virginia Tech, Finding the Humanity in the Digital Humanities.

As digital technologies and data resources become increasingly sophisticated, digital humanities and historical GIS scholars hold both the promise and the peril of demonstrating the humanity in their projects. Winling will discuss his work on redlining and political elections in Mapping Inequality, Electing the House of Representatives, and the Chicago Elections Project and the challenges of incorporating and enabling narrative, of making argument, and of finding and representing individuals in a sea of data.

11:45sm to 12:45pm - Lunchtime roundtable discussion.

All welcome to participate. Lunch provided. Please RSVP (https://urban.uconn.edu/2020/01/29/gis-symposium-rsvp/) by February 19th or contact maria.winnick@uconn.edu.

1:00pm to 2:30pm - Race, Ethnicity and Community Succession in Post-War Hartford: Using Historical GIS to Explore the Racial Dynamics of Neighborhood Change

Professor Fiona Vernal, UConn History Department, Homer Babbidge Library, Visualization Studio, Room 1101

2:30pm - Coffee and Snack Break. All welcome.

3:00pm to 4:30pm - Frontiers in Historical GIS, the Geohumanities, and Narrative Visualization
A panel discussion with Anne Kelly Knowles, LaDale Winling, Fiona Vernal, Ken Foote (UConn Geography and Urban and Community Studies), Mark Healey (UConn History and el Instituto), Peter Chen (UConn Geography) and Chris Vials (UConn English and American Studies)

Contact Information: Maria.Winnick@uconn.edu
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Feb 28 Foreign Policy Seminar Series: Kelly Shannon4:30pm

Foreign Policy Seminar Series: Kelly Shannon

Friday, February 28th, 2020

04:30 PM - 06:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Wood Hall Basement Lounge

Please join us for a conversation with Professor Kelly Shannon, Associate Professor of History at the Florida Atlantic University.

Professor Shannon currently is writing a study of U.S. relations with Iran during the first half of the twentieth century, tentatively entitled "The Ties of Good Harmony: U.S.-Iran Relations, 1905-1953."

Reception at 4:30, talk at 5 pm.

This event is free and open to the public.

Contact Information: Frank Costigliola, frank.costigliola@uconn.edu
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