A study day on digital and interactive cartography to explore local, European and world history is being organised on 28 January 2025 by Laura Talamante, holder of the EHESS/Iméra Chair in Transregional Studies for the year 2024-2025.
A historical walk in Marseille and a seminar on digital cartography
The day will begin with a historical walk guided by Nathalie Cazals through the old town of Marseille, following the interactive cartography proposed by Laura Talamante as part of her digital humanities project dedicated to the revolutionary experiences of women in Marseille.
The afternoon will bring together four researchers who are using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to analyse and disseminate their historical research via digital mapping. Participants in the afternoon conference will be invited to discuss the opportunities offered by digital cartography for engaging students and researchers, as well as the public.
Programme for the day
- From 9.30am: Historical walk around Marseille – invitation only
- 2pm to 4pm: Conference on the opportunities of digital cartography in the Conference Room of the Maison des Astronomes (entrance by 2 place Leverrier) – open to all ; it is possible to follow the conference remotely on Zoom.
Find out more about the conference speakers
Laura Talamante is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at California State University, Dominguez Hills. She holds the EHESS/Iméra Chair in Transregional Studies at Iméra (the Institute for Advanced Study at Aix Marseille Université) as part of their research programme, ‘Necessary Utopias’.
She received her PhD in History from UCLA, where her dissertation entitled ‘Les Citoyennes Marseillaises: Women and Political Change during the French Revolution’ won the Mary Wollstonecraft Dissertation Award. She has received numerous honours and awards, including residency grants at the Brown Foundation Maison Dora Maar in Ménerbes, France, and the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. She publishes mainly on women, politics and culture, the development of citizenship, revolutionary geopolitical and geosocial cartography, and proto-feminism in Enlightenment and Revolutionary Marseille.
She uses digital mapping to show the revolutionary experiences of women from diverse social backgrounds, while highlighting their use of family, social and economic networks to influence the development of revolutionary consciousness, politics and culture. Digital mapping allows readers to explore interactively how women transformed public spaces such as churches, markets, shops and streets into political spaces. Women also transformed private spaces into political spaces through the defence and use of revolutionary laws on marriage and divorce.
Discover the interactive cartographic material on women in Marseille during the Revolution in the following publications:
- « Mapping Women’s Everyday Lives in Revolutionary Marseille » in Life in Revolutionary France (2020)
- « Mapping Women’s Revolutionary Control of their Environment & Property in Marseille: A Digital Mapping Project » in The Journal of the Western Society for French History, v. 47 (2021)
Angelo Odore is project manager and geographic information system (GIS) analyst for ENI S.p.A. and Diagram S.p.A., where he is coordinating the creation of AgriHub in French-speaking West Africa.
Between 2022 and 2023, he worked as a research engineer at the University of Rennes 2, as a GIS specialist for the ANR PARCEDES project. Before that, he was a research engineer at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris.
Angelo Odore has extensive experience in the field of geographic information systems (GIS), and holds a doctorate in the History of Europe from the Middle Ages to the present day, from the University of Teramo and the EHESS in Marseille. He has also taught the Spatial Information Processing and Analysis seminar.
Over the course of his career, he has worked as a GIS specialist on international projects, including ANR VISMIN and PARCEDES, and is an associate member of the EHESS Geomatics Platform. He has taken part in numerous international conferences, received prestigious fellowships and published a number of academic articles. In 2023 he published Rivoluzionari in movimento. Ripensare la Rivoluzione francese a Marsiglia tramite la Spatial analysis.
Discover his interactive cartographic material on Marseille:
Anne Page is a professor of British history and civilisation at Aix Marseille Université, a member of the Laboratoire d’études et de recherche sur le monde anglophone which she headed until 2020, and an honorary member of the Institut universitaire de France.
She is currently director of the Maison de la Recherche federative structure. She works on religious minorities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her publications include L’Expérience puritaine. Vies et récits de dissidents (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle) (Paris, Editions du Cerf, 2017), Church Life: Pastors, Congregations, and the Experience of Dissent in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019), a volume co-edited with Joel Halcomb and Michael Davies and ‘’The Congregation was large and the meeting-house filled’: Dissenters and their places in the early eighteenth century’, Friends of Dr Williams’s Library Annual Lectures, no. 75 (London: Dr Williams’s Trust, 2023).
At the same time, with Sophie Vallas, she is coordinating a project on the history and epistemology of English studies in France, which has led to the publication of a Dictionary of English Studies. Her talk will focus on Mapping Multifaith London, a recent project mapping religious and diasporic minorities in eighteenth-century London.
Marc Calvini-Lefevbre is a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence, the London School of Economics and Political Science and Goldsmiths College, University of London. He was recruited in 2011 to the position of Senior Lecturer in nineteenth-century British history at the Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone (UR 853) at Aix Marseille Université (amU).
In addition to British studies, he teaches courses in feminist and gender studies. Since his recruitment, he has sought to contribute to the institutionalisation of gender studies in French academia both locally (GenderMed) and nationally (Institut du Genre, Paris). His main research interests are feminist ideas, the history of feminism and the mechanisms (or obstacles) to their transmission to the public. His research projects to date have focused on :
- the ideological challenge posed by the Great War to feminist thinking on the relationship between citizenship, gender, war and peace at the turn of the century in Britain.
- the epistemological challenge for the social sciences of understanding women’s resistance to feminism.
- the memorialisation of the women’s suffrage movement in places of remembrance, both literal and non-literal.
The last two projects were carried out in collaboration with his colleagues in the Women & the F-Word research team and received funding from the Aix-Marseille Initiative of Excellence (Amidex) (‘Pépinière d’Excellence’ initiative, 2018).
Nathalie Cazals, an anthropologist with the Traverses association and Agence N. expériences, l’expérience des patrimoines, specialises in promoting the city of Marseille’s heritage, in particular the creation of urban itineraries.
She has joined forces with Laura Talamante, Iméra fellow, to offer an urban walk on revolutionary women on 28 January 2025 as a form of feedback from this research work.
