Changing Places: The Geographic Turn in the Digital Humanitites

A panel presentation featuring speakers whose work on path-breaking digital projects has propelled them into new areas of research. Eric Sanderson, Sr. Conservation Ecologist, Wildlife Conservation Society, New York City - "The Mannahatta Project: Integrating History, Geography and Natural Sciences to Explore the Place of Cities in Nature" Philip Ethington, Professor of History/Political Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles - "Deep Historical Regionalism: Los Angeles and the Institutional Ecology of a Global Metropolis" Kenneth Winkle, Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of History, UNL - "Civil War Washington: Interpreting a National Capital in Crisis and Transformation?