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*The Seventeenth Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of
Cartography*
*Thursday-Saturday, November 4-6, 2010*
/*Mapping the Transition from Colony to Nation*/
*The Newberry Library, Chicago*
The Newberry Library’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of
Cartography will host the 17th Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the
History of Cartography, “Mapping the Transition from Colony to Nation,”
on November 4-6, 2010. The series of eight lectures will examine how
peoples and states around the world emerging from colonial status used
maps to define, defend, and administer their national territories, to
develop their national identities, and to establish their place in the
community of nations. Scholars in all fields, educators, and members of
the general public are cordially invited to attend.
The Nebenzahl Lectures are free. However, we do require that all persons
wishing to attend make a reservation. For reservations and further
information please contact the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the
History of Cartography, 60 W. Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610 USA;
e-mail smith...@newberry.org; phone 312-255-3659.
The lectures series, beginning on Thursday evening, November 4, 2010,
and running through Saturday morning, November 6 will feature Raymond
Craib (History, Cornell University), Magali Carrera (Art History,
University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth), Jordana Dym (History, Skidmore
College), Lina del Castillo (History, Iowa State University), Tom
Bassett (Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jamie
McGowan (Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Sumathi
Ramaswamy (History, Duke University), and Karen Culcasi (Geography, West
Virginia University). A full program schedule is available on The
Newberry Library’s website at
http://www.newberry.org/smith/nebenzahl/neb17.html.
The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography are
organized every two to three years by the Newberry Library’s Hermon
Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography with the generous
support of Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl. The Lectures address emerging themes
of broad interest within the history of cartography and beyond and are
usually published by the University of Chicago Press.
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