Spatial Humanities

Spatial is special

— Proverb

Spatial Humanities…

…is the application of geospatial technologies and geospatial data to humanities research, i. e. the integration of spatial analysis methodologies like GIS based classification, thematic cartography, pattern detection – the use of location to integrate, visualise, and analyse information.

Following the “spatial turn” researchers from all humanities disciplines including (but not limited to) history (including fields from social science history such as historical demography and environmental history), archaeology, literary studies, classics, linguistics, art history, anthropology and religious studies, as well as from technical fields including geographic information science, digital humanities, computational linguistics and computer science create a new, interdisclipinary, and steadily growing field of research, exchanging approaches, tools, best practices, data and data sources, and results.

Conferences

Spatial Humanities 2026: September 23^th–25^th in Braga, Portugal.
Spatial Humanities 2024: September 25^th–27^th in Bamberg, Germany.
Spatial Humanities 2022: September 7^th–9^th in Ghent, Belgium.
Spatial Humanities 2020: September 15^th–17^th 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal.
(postponed due to covid)
Spatial Humanities 2018: September 20^th–21^th in Lancaster, UK.
Spatial Humanities 2016: September 15^th–16^th in Lancaster, UK.

About

The executive committee of the spatial humanities conference association will support the organisation of upcoming conferences.

This is the former homepage of the the 5^th Spatial Humanities conference we were happy to host in Bamberg.