Thanks to our friends at Washington Map Society, we're pleased to offer this lecture!
Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception
Garrett Nelson,
Curator of Maps and Director of Geographic Education at the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library
Nelson will introduce BENDING LINES, a new initiative of the Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public
Library. BENDING LINES extends the category of “persuasive cartography” to interrogate a broader question of truth and belief as they are constructed through cartography and data visualization. Ranging from C16 attempts to reconcile Ptolemaic geography with
the European discovery of the Americas to present-day maps that take a critical approach to data and GIS, BENDING LINES explores how the reliability and accuracy of maps is always structured by social, political, and institutional context.
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