1st Training Course – Introduction to Spatial Humanities

This included the partnership’s 1st face-to-face meeting

Venue: ILOS, UiO, Oslo

The organization of BILLIG’s 1st training course (3 days) aimed to introduce new digital ways of studying literature by visualizing it through maps. In this training course two experts from NOVA gave lectures about what is the spatial turn and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), where it could be applied, why it should be used and how this Spatial Humanities approach could help young researchers develop new research skills.

You can see the Report of this activity here

Day 1 – Introduction to GIS: From Historical-GIS to the Spatial Humanities 


Day 2 – Applying GIS in case studies