Join the Digital Humanities Initiative for a workshop with Musa Azimli!
This session explores how and why storytelling can be spatialized, highlighting the interpretive value of spatial thinking within the humanities. Following a brief theoretical introduction to spatial humanities, participants will be introduced to digital platforms used for spatial representation. The workshop includes a hands-on activity where participants will create their own storymaps using Knight Lab’s tools. By linking narrative structures to geographic contexts, the session demonstrates how spatialization can enhance humanities research through new modes of analysis and engagement.
By the end of the workshop, participants will be knowledgeable about the key concepts of spatial storytelling and the digital tools used in this field. They will also gain hands-on experience by creating their own storymaps using Knight Lab: https://storymap.knightlab.com/
PRIOR TO THE WORKSHOP, participants are encouraged to think about an individual outline of a story that they can spatialize during the workshop. Participants should create a free account with Knight Lab before attending: Knight Lab: https://storymap.knightlab.com/
Musa Azimli is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and is researching slavery and social history in the early modern and modern Middle East. His dissertation project explores the history of the Imperial Slave Market in Istanbul through multiple analytical layers, aligning with the interdisciplinary methods from spatial, legal, cultural, architectural, and digital history. This project is supported by the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship which was essential to complete innovative aspects of his research.
Lunch provided to registrants.