Richard White will give a talk entitled The Spatial Turn in History at 5:30pm on December 1st, in the Lownes Room, John Hay Library, followed by a reception in the lobby. This will be the second talk of the Digital Arts & Humanities 2011-2012 Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage and the Brown University Library. Richard White is the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University and the principal investigator for the Shaping the West project, a digital humanities initiative which explores the construction of space by transcontinental railroads in North America during the late nineteenth-century.