Week 01

Geohumanities I

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January 20, 2026

What are the “geospatial humanities?” What are its constitutive objects, and why should you care about them?

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Geohumanities I

January 20, 2026

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Activity

Title Subtitle Date Assigned Date Due
Activity 01 Humanistic GIS and data in the humanities Jan 20, 2026 Jan 27, 2026
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Assignment

Title Subtitle Date Assigned Date Due
Assignment 01 Placing the humanities Jan 20, 2026 Feb 10, 2026
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Reading

You’ll read some of the following posts and articles as part of this week’s activity:

References

Miriam Posner. 2015. Humanities Data: A Necessary Contradiction. https://miriamposner.com/blog/humanities-data-a-necessary-contradiction/.
Zhao, Bo. 2022. “Humanistic GIS: Toward a Research Agenda.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 112 (6): 1576–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2021.2004875.