Event time:
Thursday, September 15, 2022 – 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (BRBL)
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description:
Jim Akerman is Director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography and Curator of Maps at the Newberry Library, Chicago, where he has worked for 37 years. He received his Ph.D. (Geography) from the Pennsylvania State University in 1991. His early research and publications concerned the history of the atlas. More recently his work has focused on forms of popular and commercial cartography, travel and transportation mapping in the United States, and more broadly the place of mapping in civic and political culture. In addition to his contributions on these subjects to academic journals, collections of essays, and three volumes of the History of Cartography, he has edited or co-edited six collections of scholarly essays, including Cartographies of Travel and Navigation (Chicago, 2006), The Imperial Map (Chicago, 2009), and most recently, Mapping Nature across the Americas (Chicago, 2021), with Kathleen A. Brosnan. Grants from private foundations and the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities have supported the creation of three major web resources and seventeen summer seminars and institutes for teachers, graduate students, and college and university faculty. His most recent exhibition at the Newberry Library, Crossings: Mapping American Journeys closed on 25 June of this year.
Following the lecture, all are invited to the exhibition opening reception from 5pm to 7pm
Open To:
General Public
Contact:
Beinecke Library
203-432-2977
See related:
- The World in Maps, 1400-1600 | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- Decolonizing the Map: Cartography from Colony to Nation (The Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography): James R. Akerman
- Historical Cartography in the Digital Age: Imaging Senegal – The Last 500 Years ~ New Technologies, New Questions, New Communities
Further material:
- Gregorio Dati
- Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville
- Raymond Clemens, “Medieval Maps In A Renaissance Context: Gregorio Dati And The Teaching Of Geography In Fifteenth-Century Florence, ” in Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, pp. 237–256. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004166639.i-300.23
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