As the UK was rather more aware of Napoleon's advance on, and retreat from,
Moscow, and of Wellington's booting out of the French at Salamanca, there
was also movement 'across the pond'.
NB " The Nebenzahl Lectures are free. However, we do ask that all persons
wishing to attend make a reservation."
FH
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Subject: Nebenzahl Lectures in the History of Cartography, Oct. 2013
Nebenzahl Lectures in the History of Cartography, Oct. 2013
The War of 1812 and American Cartography
The Eighteenth Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of
Cartography The Newberry Library, Chicago October 24-26, 2013
The Newberry Library’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of
Cartography is pleased to announce “The War of 1812 and American
Cartography,” the 18th Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of
Cartography. The series, beginning on Thursday evening, October 24,
2013 and running through Saturday morning, October 26, will consider how the
evolving geopolitical ambitions of the United States that underpinned the
War of 1812 were linked to the emergence of an American national
cartography.
North Americans on both sides of the U.S. – Canada border are commemorating
the bicentennial of the War of 1812 in 2012-15. But while Canadians remember
the war as a formative national event, Americans remember it (if at all) as
a comparatively minor event in their history, overshadowed by the memory of
the Civil War, whose sesquicentennial is also currently being commemorated.
Similarly, the War of 1812 has barely raised a ripple in American
carto-historiography. Yet the decades immediately preceding and following
the war, roughly encompassing the years 1800-1830 embraced the first
exploratory expeditions organized by the federal government; expansive
mapping devoted to settlement, migration, and the improvement of
infrastructure; the beginnings of American pedagogic, historical, and
commercial cartography; and the formation and entrenchment of state and
federal agencies devoted to surveying and mapping. The seven invited
contributors to this eighteenth series of the Nebenzahl Lectures will
explore these and other themes, asking whether and in what ways the War of
1812 and its aftermath was a formative period in American cartography and
its representation of American geopolitical ambitions and identity.
The Nebenzahl Lectures are free. However, we do ask that all persons wishing
to attend make a reservation. For reservations and further information
please contact Kristin Emery, The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History
of Cartography, 60 W. Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610 USA; e-mail:
[log in to unmask]; phone 312-255-3657.
Contributing lecturers:
James Akerman, Curator of Maps and Director, the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center
for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library Martin Brückner, Associate
Professor, English Department and Center for Material Culture Studies,
University of Delaware John Cloud, Historian, NOAA Central Library Imre
Demhardt, Jenkins and Virginia Garret Chair in Southwestern Studies and the
History of Cartography, University of Texas at Arlington Ann Durkin Keating,
Dr. C. Frederick Toenniges Professor of History, North Central College Susan
Schulten, Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Denver
Scott Stevens, Director, D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and
Indigenous Studies, Newberry Library
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