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Ian Caine and UTSA historian Jerry Gonzalez presented a paper titled “Municipal annexation as a mechanism for suburban expansion in San Antonio, Texas 1939-2014.” The work, completed in collaboration with Dr. Rebecca Walter of the University of Washington, examines the political, cultural, and spatial implications of annexation. The conference session, titled “Bridging Cultures through Mapping Practices: Space and Power in Asia and America,” was led by Cécile Armand of the Spatial History Project at Stanford University. This marked the first time that the leading conference, organized by the Association of Digital Humanities Organizations, El Colegio de México, La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and La Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD), has met in Latin America.