--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 22:53:54 -0600 From: Stroeve <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Chicago Map Society March Meeting Sender: Stroeve <[log in to unmask]> Place: The Newberry Library, Towner Felllows' Lounge 60 W. Walton, Chicago, IL 60610 Time: 5:30 - 7:00 PM, Thursday 16 March 2000 Program: Ray Brod "Mapping and Maps" More: 312-255-3689 and/or [log in to unmask] One of the great advances in the history of cartography in recent decades has been an expansion of our whole conception of the field. Once upon a time, a history of cartography was a narrative about collectible printed maps produced in western Europe from about 1500 to about 1800. Newer thinking takes into account maps and "maplike" images and constructs from a variety of cultures and time periods. Our March speaker feels that we all have our own unique ideas of what the world is really like. His presentation will help us stretch our concepts of mapping presenting a variety of such "personal cartographies". Ray Brod is the head of the Cartography Laboratory in the Anthropology Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a long-time member of the Chicago Map Society. non-member meeting fee $5 --- End Forwarded Message ---