Methods Workshop: Geospatial Digital Humanities Methods for Reading Against the Archives

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Jessica M. Parr, PhD (Simmons University and The Programming Historian)

We welcome Jessica Parr as a guest lecturer for this Methods Workshop, where we will discuss mapping techniques for scholars of the transatlantic slave trade. It will open with a discussion of addressing the Eurocentricity of geospatial techniques and the archives. We will then discuss strategies for reading against the archive to locate Black voices and strategies for determining geospatial coordinates from primary sources. Finally, the workshop will conclude with a demonstration of how to create maps in Tableau and some discussion of data ethics.

Please apply for a place if you would like to attend, on registration, you will be asked to complete and submit an information form (which will remain open until 10 am Monday, 14 February 2022), places are limited and selected on a rolling basis, we would suggest early completion.  We will confirm participation week commencing Monday, 21 February 2022.

This session is directed to researchers and staff at the University of Cambridge. It will be of particular interest to Early Modernists, Scholars of Slavery and Scholars of Indigeneity.

Participants will need to create a Tableau Public and Google Earth account and should install OpenRefine before the workshop. In addition, there will be a couple of short readings (provided via Moodle) to read in advance.

Number of sessions: 1