Reviewing colonial British American History with #APUSH students this week has led me back to this great resource on rice and the Carolina low country:
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/aeab27b36122483fb78843a2ca93c4e2
#TeachHistory #TeachWorldHistory #SpatialHistory

Today's topic in my undergrad spatial history module is "Other Spaces," reflecting on what historians might gain from an examination of some unique specific spaces such as gates, bridges, walls, and elevators. Some works we discussed include:

- The Strait Gate by Daniel Jütte
- Corridors: Passages of Modernity by Roger Luckhurst
- Of Bridges: A Poetic and Philosophical Account by Thomas Harrison
- Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator by Andreas Bernhard

#histodons #spatialhistory

Running a class today with masters students on “spatial imaginaries”. We tried to offer an introduction and via footnotes some readings on the concept (aka “mental maps”) in our Guide to Spatial History here: https://spatialhistory.net/guide/spatial-imaginaries.html

Said’s Orientalism is the most famous example but other examples we’ll talk about today: “the West”, “Eastern Europe” and Japanese imaginaries of “Southeast Asia”:

http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/crossroads/political-spaces/riccardo-bavaj-the-west-a-conceptual-exploration

http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/theories-and-methods/mental-maps/frithjof-benjamin-schenk-mental-maps-the-cognitive-mapping-of-the-continent-as-an-object-of-research-of-european-history

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429291739-17/regional-imaginaries-konrad-lawson?context=ubx&refId=e6fc684b-34d7-4658-b9f0-336d5a34d741

#histodons #spatialhistory

Spent some time revisiting medieval St Andrews and the amazing John Geddy map (c. 1580’s), and was lucky to have some unbelievably fitting views!

#Medieval #Mediaeval #MedievalHistory #ScottishHistory #Histodons #History #PhD #SpatialHistory

The most amazing views across the North Channel near Glenarm, Co. Antrim looking over to Scotland. The best sort of inspiration for writing about early medieval connectivity across this highly fragmented and intensely connected land-and-sea-scape.

#EarlyMedieval #Histodons #ArchaeologyIreland #Medieval #Landscape #LandscapeStudies #spatialhistory #archaeology #LandscapeArchaeology

I don't think Cameron is on Mastodon yet so I guess this is a manual RT for folk into teaching #SpatialHistory:

http://twitter.com/historying/status/1612094651531513858
Posting my #AHA23 slides with practical, low-tech ways to integrate geography, maps, and spatial narratives into history lesson plans: https://t.co/M55lucb2Ej

#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Xu Xiake 徐霞客 (1587–1641), pioneer #geographer who travelled late #Ming #明 #China and left an enormous oeuvre, comprising almost half a million characters #漢字 and compiled in the Travel Records of Xu Xiake 徐霞客游记.
#geography #spatialhistory

If you'll be at #AHA23, don't miss our two-part session on teaching #SpatialHistory. Find us at sessions #245 and #264: https://aha.confex.com/aha/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Session/23709

Not that anyone was asking but if you always show up ridiculously early for flights (thanks dad) or have long delays it is 0.7km walk end to end inside gate area of Edinburgh airport and 1.15km from A23 corner to C61 corner of London Heathrow Terminal 5 via -4 level super tunnel (avoiding moving walkways but need to hit a few escalators and an elevator).

Oh, and if you want a fun book to reflect on during your walk laps try “Corridors: Passages of Modernity” by Roger Luckhurst #spatialhistory

Been reading lots of fun work on history of coffeehouses, cabarets, alehouses and taverns of late, expanding some further reading materials offering contrasts and comparisons for spring teaching session on teahouses and social spaces in East and Southeast Asian history. This evening I started and been thoroughly enjoying

The Romantic Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution
by Ian Newman (CUP 2019)

#spatialhistory

From its “What is a Tavern?” section:

The Institute for Transnational & Spatial History at the University of St Andrews in Scotland is delighted to join the #fediverse and Mastodon. Find us online at:

https://spatialhistory.net/

and see our #OpenAccess "A Guide to Spatial History: Areas, Aspects, and Avenues of Research"
https://spatialhistory.net/guide/

and our recent Routledge volume

Doing Spatial History
https://www.routledge.com/Doing-Spatial-History/Bavaj-Lawson-Struck/p/book/9780367261566

You can see some of our events for this semester and over the past few years here, some of which we hold online:
spatialhistory.net/events/

#UnivStAndrewsHist #UnivStAndrews #histodons #SpatialHistory #TransnationalHistory

The Institute for Transnational & Spatial History at the University of St Andrews in Scotland is delighted to join the #fediverse and Mastodon. Find us online at:

https://spatialhistory.net/

and see our #OpenAccess "A Guide to Spatial History: Areas, Aspects, and Avenues of Research"
https://spatialhistory.net/guide/

and our recent Routledge volume

Doing Spatial History
https://www.routledge.com/Doing-Spatial-History/Bavaj-Lawson-Struck/p/book/9780367261566

You can see some of our events for this semester and over the past few years here, some of which we hold online:
spatialhistory.net/events/

#UnivStAndrewsHist #UnivStAndrews #histodons #SpatialHistory #TransnationalHistory

I also do #DigitalHumanities, in collaboration with Kate McDonald (History, UCSB) and a bunch of other neat people, including the development team at Scalar. I co-direct the project Bodies and Structures: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History 2.0 (http://bodiesandstructures.org), which recently completed an NEH DH Advancement Grant (Level II). #SpatialHistory #histodons

New self-intro (from new server) for #histodons and #Asianists. My work has explored the social history of modern Japan and its empire, particularly through a focus on transgression and marginality. I've moved increasingly into #SpatialHistory, as you can see in my last book Japan's Imperial Underworlds (2018). I'm currently working on maritime labor and infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific in the 1950s-60s, during the Cold War and Bandung eras.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/japan-s-imperial-underworlds-david-r-ambaras/12953220 1/2

Ok, introductions. I'm a historian of #medieval and #earlymodern #Ireland and research assistant professor of #digitalhumanities at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

History research: sources of authority and construction of identity in Gaelic lordships. Currently lots of #legalhistory & #environmentalhistory, with a healthy dose of #socialnetworkanalysis & #spatialhistory.

DH research: #digitalinfrastructure, #peerreview, & #collaboration.

You'll also see cats, dogs, & crafts here!