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Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education
University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine
GALA REOPENING, 16-18 October 2009
** see www.usm.maine.edu/maps for more details **
16 October 2009, 7:00pm
*Thoreau, His Maps, and His Image of Nature*
John W. Hessler, Senior Cartographic Librarian, Library of Congress
Hannaford Lecture Hall, Abromson Center (Free and open to the Public)
17 October 2009
New Directions in the Study of Early American Cartographies
Cohen Education Center, Osher Map Library
8:30 am Coffee and pastries
9:15 am *Introduction*. Matthew Edney (University of Southern Maine)
9:30 am *Acts, Artifacts, and Arguments: The Natures of American Indian
Cartographies*. William Gustav Gartner (University of Wisconsin–
Madison)
11:00 am *Mapping French Colonial Territory: Indians, Traders, Missionaries,
and géographes du roy*. Jean-François Palomino (Bibliothèque et
Archives Nationales du Québec)
12:00 pm Lunch and guided tours of the library’s new facilities and the
exhibition, *American Treasures*
2:00 pm *Boundaries and Settlements: Mapping Occupation in Colonial
British America*. Max Edelson (University of Virginia)
3:30 pm *Cartographies of Independence: Criollos Represent Gran Colombia
in a Changing Atlantic World, 1808-1845*. Lina Del Castillo (Iowa
State University)
NOTE:
Space is limited and registration is required. (First come, first
served.) USM
Students: FREE. Other students: $25. All others: $75.
To register, either call 207.780.5960 or use the secure online form,
available
via www.usm.maine.edu/maps.
A limited number of rooms at a reduced rate are available *until 15
September*
at the Eastland Hotel, Portland ($139/night, for 1-4 people). Please call
207.775.5411 and cite “Osher Map Conference” before 15 September.
18 October 2009, 2:30-5:00pm
Grand reopening and open house, facility tours, and formal opening of the
exhibition *American Treasures*.
We very much hope that you will be able to join us in beautiful Portland
to help us celebrate the reopening of the Osher Map Library and Smith
Center for Cartographic Education after its reconstruction and expansion.
Matthew Edney
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Matthew H. Edney
http://www.usm.maine.edu/~edney
Osher Chair in the History of Cartography
University of Southern Maine
http://www.usm.maine.edu/maps
Director, History of Cartography Project
University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/
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