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From: Rocky Mountain Map Society <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2020 10:29 AM
To: Angela R Cope <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CORRECTION to registration: BENDING LINES: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception

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Thanks to our friends at Washington Map Society, we're pleased to offer this lecture! Apologies for resending - please see updated link below.

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.

Date/Time: Thursday, July 30, 2020 @ 5:00 PM MT (7:00 PM ET)

Speaker: Garrett Nelson is Curator of Maps and Director of Geographic Education at the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library. He is a historical geographer whose research focuses on the history of placemaking and planning in New England, with an emphasis on the role of maps in the creation of civic knowledge. He is also a cartographer and programmer with an extensive portfolio of projects that draws from fields like urban studies, historic preservation, and landscape architecture.

Registration Required:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvduqsqjgsG9DTpdkqFLcd7jn2N9LzhIo_
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Please indicate you're with Rocky Mountain Map Society when you register.

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UPCOMING WASHINGTON MAP SOCIETY PROGRAMS

Mapping the Classroom: Teaching Geography and History
in the 19th and 20th Century New England

Date/Time: Thursday, 27 August 2020 @ 7:00 PM/5:00 PM MT
Speaker: Libby Bischof, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education and Professor of History at the University of Southern Maine. A visual historian, Bischof curated Mapping the Classroom for the OML in 2019.
Virtual Exhibit: https://oshermaps.org/exhibitions/mapping-the-classroom
Registration Required: Registration information will be sent in a future email.

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