Mapping New Media: Symposium at Bard this Month

The Bard Graduate Center will be holding a symposium on Mapping New Media on Friday, March 25, 2011 from 1:00 to 5:00pm.

Maps are a wonderful metaphor for the new media world. But even more, digital mapping has altered the way that we perceive and represent space. This symposium will offer presentations and discussions about these new forms of cartographic methods in the digital humanities. We will look at old maps and new ones, learn about historical data and geo-spatial techniques, and study New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

The afternoon will be devoted to two presentations along with a roundtable and reception.

1:30–3:30pm

Aligning Past and Present: New Tools for the study of Historical Geography

Matthew Knutzen, Geospatial Librarian, New York PublicLibrary Map Division

New Deal Visions, Post-War Plans? Visualization, Remapping, and the Politics of Urban Space

Janice Reiff, Associate Professor, Department of History, UCLA

3:45–4:45pm

Roundtable

Matthew Knutzen, Geospatial Librarian, New York PublicLibrary Map Division Janice Reiff, Associate Professor, Department of History, UCLA

Wendy Bellion, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Delaware

David Jaffee, Professor, BGC

All events take place at the BGC Lecture Hall in 38 West 86th Street, New York City between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West.

For general information, please contact academic-events@bgc.bard.edu

For RSVP click here or go to http://www.bgc.bard.edu/news/events/mapping-new-media.html