The Spatial Humanities Works-in-Progress Seminar is designed as a collaborative forum for sharing works-in-progress and offering constructive feedback and support for projects still in development. To share something you are working on or to express interest in participating in these discussions, please email ISHI@pitt.edu.
We invite faculty and graduate students from any discipline to workshop a draft of a current project that engages with spatial humanities or the history of space and place in some way. This might include projects that use maps or spatial data, analyze landscapes or regions, foreground place-based archives, or otherwise treat space and place as central to their questions. Each session will consist of an hour-long discussion which may include pre-circulated work in the form of a paper, outline, website, map, dataset, syllabus, or other creative work on which you would like feedback. Participants will also have the opportunity to explore how to articulate spatial questions more explicitly and how to incorporate appropriate spatial technologies into their work.
Spring 2026 Schedule
February 5, 2:30-3:45 - Stephanie Love (Anthropology) will share a chapter from the forthcoming book project Streets of a Million Martyrs: Everyday Poetics and Politics in Urban Algeria.
February 19, 2:30PM-3:45PM - Keila Grinberg (History, Center for Latin American Studies) will introduce a new version of her project, Passados Presentes, for group discussion.
March 26, 2:30PM-3:45PM - Liz Arkush (Anthropology) will present a book chapter-in-progress, tentatively titled “Those who most pursued their freedom”: Archaeological and ethnohistoric perspectives on Colla resistance to Inca rule.
April 9, 2:30PM - 3:45 PM - Matthew Burton (School of Computing and Information) will present his Watershed Consciousness Project.
April 16, 2:30PM - 3:45 PM - Kirk Savage (History of Art and Architecture) and Elizabeth Thomas (author) will present on a place-based project relating to the Cherokees in western North Carolina
To participate in these discussions, please email ISHI@pitt.edu.