Seminar: Multiscalar Spaces: Deep Mapping the Lake District with Literary GIS

Multiscalar Spaces: Deep Mapping the Lake District with Literary GIS

Speaker: Dr Joanna Taylor, University of Manchester

When: 1pm – 2pm, Thursday 28 November

Location: Digital Lab, Level 2 of the Digital Studio, West Wing of Arts West

For many scholars in literary studies, GIS continue to seem antithetical to the nuanced close reading of individual texts that characterises the discipline. Reporting on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities: A Deep Map of the English Lake District’ (2015-18), this seminar will explore how GIS might be used, to adapt Matthew Jockers’s term, for microanalysis. It will offer an overview of the challenges faced in using GIS for literary study, and explore how the ‘Geospatial Innovation’ project combated some of these issues. The seminar will suggest that a literary approach to mappable data might help uncover experiential meaning in digital projects in ways that situate humanists more centrally in a digital world. For more details or to register visit: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/2ddr