The AAG Political Geography Specialty Group is pleased to announce that the 30th Annual Preconference will be held at Harvard University on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, hosted and supported by the Center for Geographic Analysis, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the Department of Government.

Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 [Please note that the AAG main conference begins on a Wednesday this year]

Time: Sessions will run from approximately 8 am – 5 pm

Location: CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 [see here]

Paper presenters: Paper titles and abstracts of 250 words or less are due February 1, 2017. Please submit them with PAPER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION in the subject line to: aag.pgsg@gmail.com

Poster presenters: For the first time, PGSG is welcoming poster proposals. Preconference participants may only present in one medium (paper or poster, but not both). Poster titles and abstracts of 250 words or less are due February 1, 2017. Please submit them with POSTER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION in the subject line to: aag.pgsg@gmail.com

Registration: As with our past pre-conferences, there will be a nominal $20 registration fee for faculty only. Faculty, please bring cash or checks on the day of the event.

Evening events: In addition to the annual group dinner after the preconference, PGSG will coordinate a social hour on Monday night for early arrivals. More details to follow.

Lodging & transportation: The Harvard campus is easily accessible from the AAG venues in Boston via the MBTA’s Red Line. We suggest preconference attendees choose the same lodging they would for the main conference, but for those who would like more information about housing in the Cambridge area, click here.

AAG scheduling: Should you have any concerns about the scheduling of your main conference presentation, coordinate with your session organizers and AAG administrators.

PSGG organizers: Natalie Koch (nkoch@maxwell.syr.edu), Kenneth Madsen (madsen.34@osu.edu)

Inquiries: Please do not contact local hosts. All inquiries should be directed to the PGSG organizers individually or at: aag.pgsg@gmail.com

Updates will be posted regularly on the PGSG website at: http://www.politicalgeography.org/pre-conference/

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a special event sponsored by the Center for Geographic Analysis

Presenters:

Karl Grossner  
Principal Investigator, Linked Places: Modeling Historical Movement
PhD Geography, UC Santa Barbara

Rainer Simon   – download:  PDF of Presentation
Senior Scientist at the Next-Generation Content Management Systems
AIT Austrian Inst of Technology

Lex Berman
Developer, Temporal Gazetteer  TGAZ
Web Services Manager, CGA

Date and Time:    Sep 20th, 2016    12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location: Room S153 (Asia Center), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street

This seminar will present ongoing research to develop a conceptual model and practical schema for “historical movement.”   Building upon, and funded by a resource commons grant from Pelagios, (the Linked Open Data platform for historical places and historical collections), the Linked Places project seeks to define the fundemental entities and relationships for historical routes, journeys, itineraries, and flows of goods.

In practical terms, the Linked Places model will be able to capture information about specific journeys, the stopping points along the journey, and enable both mapping, linking references, and more detailed types of geospatial or semantic analysis.

This project springs from earlier work on ORBIS, a geospatial network of the Roman World, with the new objective of creating a simplified, generic, and open resource for describing and linking historical movements through time and space.

The seminar will include brief working statements about Pelagios, the Linked Places model, and the Temporal Gazetteer, and hopes to engage the audience in discussion on use cases and how such a model can be applied to historical research.

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By Dr. Anne Kelly Knowles

Friday, October 7th, 11:30 - 1:00.  Robinson Hall (35 Quincy St. - Harvard Yard), Room 107. 

Audio Recording (.mp3  70MB)

Abstract: The Holocaust has become a new focus of spatial historical research in Europe and North America. The wealth of bureaucratic records and plans makes it relatively easy to map Nazi actions, camps and ghettos, and Nazi spatial visions for the Reich. It is much more difficult to map Holocaust spaces and places as victims experienced them. Survivor testimony provides rich information about spatial experience and movement, yet the information can be difficult to place in conventional cartographic terms for many reasons. The challenges multiply at scale. This paper presents the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative’s plan for grappling with the issues of mapping survivor testimonies and contextualizing them within the rapidly evolving universe of Nazi-controlled places and regional space. It will also discuss the crucial role that a multi-lingual regional gazetteer could play in facilitating representation of victims’ movements and bringing together victim and perpetrator perspectives.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Anne Kelly Knowles is a Professor of History at the University of Maine with interests in Historical GIS, Geovisualization, Digital Humanities, The Holocaust, Nineteenth-century United States, and Intersections of economy, technology, and culture and their expression in the landscape.  Dr. Knowles holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has held teaching positions at the University of Wales, Wellesley College, and Middlebury College, where she taught for thirteen years.  Dr. Knowles joined the Department of History at the University of Maine in August 2015.

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by Bernd Resch

Noon - 1:30 on Thursday 9/22.  Room S354, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA.

View a recording of the presentation.

Abstract: The potential of social media as a valuable data source for a variety of application areas like urban planning, emergency management or public health has been widely acknowledged by numerous disciplines. Particularly the scientific field of GIScience has played a key role in producing useful results from social media data in the form of maps for decision support on various levels. While traditional and well-known geospatial analysis methods have been widely used, more sophisticated and holistic approaches are still widely lacking. This talk presents the results of cutting-edge GIScience research on social media and other user-generated data. The method spectrum includes semi-supervised learning approaches, neural networks, and self-learning systems, amongst others. The talk will foster a discussion on the integration of these approaches into GIScience research.

Speaker bio:  Bernd Resch is an Assistant Professor at University of Salzburg’s Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University (USA).  Bernd Resch did his PhD in the area of “Live Geography” (real-time monitoring of environmental geo-processes) together with University of Salzburg and MIT.

Lunch will be served.

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50 technical workshops from the Esri UC 2016 have been posted in this YouTube playlist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FFWVXKGd_Q&list=PLaPDDLTCmy4bn62KhEV6s6NcbIfOjkoYw

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This workshop will introduce the concept and various uses of the Global Positioning System (GPS). Students will use mapping GPS devices in the field, and upload the mapped data into desktop and internet mapping applications. Intended for students researchers who plan to use GPS for their field work. Note: This workshop includes time outside, so dress accordingly. Bring your own GPS unit, if you have one.

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Note: This date may change due to weather and/or other circumstances.

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Learn about the easy new tools Esri has created that take advantage of all the powerful mapping capabilities. ArcGIS Online and Esri Maps for MS Office give you the power of GIS without the learning curve. Do drag-and-drop mapping, geocoding, routing and visualizations outside of ArcGIS Desktop. Create interactive web maps you can embed in your own blog, web page or PowerPoint slide. Learn about Esri’s ready-to-use content. Find data, create a web map, and share it - all in about five minutes.

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This workshop has rescheduled, the original date was Feb 24th

An introduction to Quantum GIS for beginners, this workshop will cover the basic methods for opening various data formats, dealing with projections, joining tabular data to vector GIS layers, symbolization, and exporting data. No previous knowledge of GIS or statistics is required.

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Brief introduction to GIS, and the CGA workshop training series, to help students determine workshops that are appropriate for their individual needs. Students will use online and desktop GIS software.

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