Talks & Presentations
- Debating the New York Subway Map
- Benjaman Kabak has a detailed report on the panel on the design of the New York subway map held last night at the Museum of the City of New York (previously). Via Mark Ovenden. Update, Dec. 11: Another report on…
- A Talk About Designing the New York Subway Map on Dec. 7
- Eddie Jabbour writes to let us know about an event at the Museum of the City of New York on December 7 about designing New York subway maps “for the riding public.” Featuring John Tauranac and Massimo Vignelli in addition…
- A Book Roundup
- 1. Author Reif Larsen (The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet) is speaking at Montana State University on March 8. Larsen will explore the narrative power of both cartography and literature, providing a behind-the-scenes peek into the creation of “The…
- The Fourth Part of the World
- I had thought that all the books about Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 map of the world — you know, the one that first named “America” — would have come and gone with the 2007 quincentennial of the map, but I’d…
- The Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail Map
- At the University of Maine’s Folger Library this Wednesday, cartographer Michael Hermann and Penobscot Nation Tribal Historian James Francis will give a presentation on the Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail Map. “‘The Process of Map Design: equal cartographic voice’ will be an…
- 2007 Sandars Lectures: Sarah Tyacke
- The 2007 Sandars Lectures, Conversations with Maps: World Views in Early Modern Europe, were given by Sarah Tyacke last March; the text of her three lectures, and accompanying slides, are now available online as PDF files. Via MapHist….
- Festival of Maps: Mapping Today
- “The flagship exhibit at the Field Museum has closed, but Chicago’s Festival of Maps continues. The Newberry Library’s two exhibits are up for two more weeks, and exhibits at several institutions continue through March,” writes Dennis McClendon. “If you’re more…
