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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:39:14 -0600
From: Patrick Morris <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Popular Cartography
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Dear All,
Please take note of the following announcement. I would be grateful if you
would pass it on to any colleagues who might be interested. Many thanks.
Jim Akerman
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Popular Cartography and Society
An NEH Summer Institute at the Newberry Library
July 9 - August 10, 2001
The Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library
invites applications from college and university teachers in the United
States to an NEH summer institute on "Popular Cartography and Society,"
which will be offered at the Newberry July 9 - August 10, 2001. The
institute, organized by the Smith Center's director, Dr. James Akerman,
will be divided into three parts. During the first week of the institute
participants will gain a general orientation to the institute theme, the
library and its cartographic resources, and recent developments in
cartographic historiography and theory. Our excursion through recent
developments in the theory of the history of cartography will be guided by
Matthew Edney (University of Southern Maine). During the second week of
the institute we will turn our attention to an overview of the map trade
and map consumption since the Renaissance with the help of David Woodward
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Mary Pedley (William L. Clements
Library, University of Michigan). The program will move in the third and
fourth weeks to a series of sessions focused on particular forms of popular
cartography and their social and cultural contexts. Journalistic
cartography, pedagogic and historical cartography, transportation
cartography, county landownership atlases, and urban cartography will be
featured in these sessions, but participation by scholars interested in
other topics and genres is strongly encouraged. The faculty for this
portion of the institute will include John Long (The Newberry Library),
Mark Monmonier (Syracuse University), Jeffrey Patton (University of North
Carolina-Greensboro), James Akerman, Gerald Danzer (University of Illinois
at Chicago) and Michael Conzen (University of Chicago).
Applications from scholars from a broad range of humanities and social
science fields are welcome. Application forms and instructions and further
information about the institute content, schedule, and readings may be
obtained from the Newberry's website at
http://www.newberry.org/nl/smith/PopCartPub.html
or by contacting Susan Hanf, Smith Center, The Newberry Library, 60 W.
Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610; phone 312-255-3659. The application
deadline is March 1, 2001.
"Popular Cartography and Society" is supported in part by a grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency.
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Patrick Morris, Map Cataloger and Reference Librarian
The Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton, Chicago, IL 60610
http://www.newberry.org/nl/collections/mapoverview.html
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