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The Project on GIS-based Global History from Asian Perspectives in collaboration
with the Asian Network of GIS-based Historical Studies (ANGIS) and the
University of the Philippines-Department of Geography as well as the Philippine
Geographical Society, Inc. (PGS) is pleased to announce the Call for Papers
for
The 3rd conference of the project
4-7 June 2015 at The University of Tokyo, Hongo campus
See this page for details.
Session at the third congress of AAWH in Singapore
The project had a session on "GIS for Historians: Case Studies in Asian Urban History at the Age of Globalization"at the third congress of The Asian Association of World Historians (AAWH) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore from 29th to 31st May 2015.
The session proposal is here.
The 2nd conference of the project
4-5 October, 2014 at The University of Tokyo, Hongo campus
The research project “GIS-based Global History from Asian Perspectives” had the second conference in Tokyo. The second conference focused on historical study with GIS in the Philippines, India, Egypt and Far East.We shared and discussed our research with all of you who interested in history, GIS and related topics.
★Program of the conference and handouts★(click here to see)
Important Notice: These researches are ongoing. These handouts cannot be cited for any other papers.
- 4th October
- Marco Stefan B. Lagman, Ma. Simeona M. Martinez and Jonathan M. Villasper (University of the Philippines-Diliman)
Some preliminary results in the attempt to profile the characteristics of local and migrant residents in the Manila districts of Dilao and Malate during the latter part of the 1800s - Ma. Simeona M. Martinez, Marco Stefan B. Lagman and Jonathan M. Villasper (University of the Philippines-Diliman)
Initial results in the attempt to assess the local economy and the physical environment of the Manila districts of Malate and Dilao, 1881-1893 -
Hiroshi Kato (Hitotsubashi University) and Erina Iwasaki (Sophia University)
Spatial Transformation of Cairo Viewed from Urban-rural Migration - Toshiyuki Miyata (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Development of Companies in "the Far East" in the early 20th Century: A Study of Directory and Chronicle Published in Hong Kong in 1941 - Tatsuki Sekino(Research Institute for Humanity and Nature)
Visualization and analysis of time series data with the time information system HuTime - 5th October
- Milap Punia (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Settlement Typologies of Towns in India: A Historical Perspective - Rajnish Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
An Enquiry into the Causes of Loss of Historical Importance of Towns in India - Amaresh Dubey (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Growth of Historical Towns into Metropolises in India: A Case Study of Varanasi - Takahiro Sato (Kobe University)
Human Capital and Real Wage Rates in India: Evidences from "Regional" Panel Data - Discussion and Comments by Prof. Aditya Mukherjee (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and Prof. Mridula Mukherjee (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
- Dismissed
The first conference of the project
29th- 31st March, 2014 at Hongo campus
The University of Tokyo
The first conference was held with original members and three invited guests from Sinica, Taiwan
★Program of the conference and handouts★(click here to see)
- Day 1 (3/29)
- Mizushima, Tsukasa (Univ. of Tokyo) GIS-based Global History from Asian Perspectives
- Shimada, Ryuto (Univ. of Tokyo) Java and Southeast Asia: Research plan for the GIS-based global hisory project
- kato, Hiroshi (Hitotsubashi Univ.) Reserch Plan on the Socio-economic History of Egypt
- Day 2 (3/30)
- Miyata, Toshiyuki (Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies) Devlopment of Companies in the Far East from the late 19th Century to 1941: A Study of Direcctories in Perspetive of Global History by Using GIS
- Kakizaki, Ichiro (Yokohama City University) Revealing Railway History in Asia by Using GIS
- Iijima, Wataru (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) Smallpox and Asiatic Cholera in Asia: Challenge by GIS approach
- Sekino, Tatsuki (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature) Integral of Historical Data based on Spatiotemporal Information
- Fan, I-Chun and Liao, Hsiung-Ming (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Network Analysis of Market Fairs of Huabei in the Late Qing China (1) (2)
- Lin, Shih (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Conversion of Chinese and Western Calendars
- Day 3 (3/31)
- Ueda, Makoto (Rikkyo Univ.) The Combining Studies of Historical Demography and Regional History by GIS－A Case Study on Zhuji（諸曁） Basin, Zhejiang China－
- Sato, Takahiro (Kobe Univ.) Indian Economy in the world