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short of the threshold to advance to the funding
round. The multidisciplinary international team
has continued its work, with funding from
partner EU universities, in preparation for the
next H2020 call, expected in September 2017.
• David Bodenhamer made presentations on
topics related to spatial humanities at Academia
Sinica (Taiwan), Lancaster University (UK),
Vanderbilt University, West Virginia University,
Purdue University, and the National
Humanities Center.
Virtual Center for Spatial Humanities
Executive Committee (develops strategic
plans, sets agenda)
John Corrigan, Lucius Moody Bristol Distinguished
Professor of Religion and Professor of History,
Department of Religion, Florida State University
Trevor Harris, Professor of Geography,
Department of Geology and Geography, West
Virginia University
David Bodenhamer, Executive Director, Polis
Center at IUPUI
Lew Lancaster, Professor Emeritus, Department of
East Asian Languages and Cultures, University
of California-Berkeley, USA
Gary Lock, Emeritus Fellow, Professor of
Archaeology, Department for Continuing
Education, University of Oxford, UK
Barney Warf, Professor of Geography and
Atmospheric Science, Department of
Geography and Atmospheric Science, Kansas
University, USA
May Yuan, Ashbel Smith Professor of Geospatial
Information Sciences, Geospatial Information
Sciences, University of Texas-Dallas, USA
Spirit & Place
Advisory Board Members
Ed Ayers, Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the
Humanities, Department of History and
President Emeritus, University of
Richmond, USA
Peter Bol, Vice Provost for Advances in Learning
and Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian
Languages and Civilizations, Office of the
Provost, Harvard University, USA
Peter Doorn, Director, Dutch Archives and
Networking Service (DANS), Netherlands
I-chun Fan, Research Fellow, Institute of History
and Philology and Executive Director, Center
for Geographic Information Science, Academia
Sinica, Taiwan
Michael Goodchild, Emeritus Professor of
Geography, University of California-Santa
Barbara, USA
Yuzuru Isoda, Associate Professor, College of Asia
Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific
University, Japan
Kim Knott, Professor of Religious Studies,
University of Leeds, UK
Anne Knowles, Professor of History, University of
Maine; formerly Professor of Geography,
Middlebury College, USA
Andreas Kunz, Economic Historian and Sr.
Researcher, Institute of European History
(Mainz), Germany
Key Accomplishments
21st Annual Spirit & Place Festival
• Featured 40 events (73 occurrences) in
partnership with 167 cultural, faith-based,
and civic organizations and enjoyed by 27,230
people. This is a 33 percent increase in events,
an 88 percent increase in partner organizations,
and a 362 percent increase in attendance (a 22.8
percent increase, if removing the single event
that drew 20,000).
• Festival highlights:
>Four signature events with appeal to
diverse audiences.
>Spirit & Place’s first commissioned artwork,
featuring local spoken-word artist Tony Styxx.
>A new sliding scale fee and later application
deadline to increase accessibility for artists
and small organizations.
>A $1,000 Award of Awesomeness for an
exemplary festival event partner, won by
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