2025 “Maps and America” Lecture — “Processing Place: How Computers and Cartographers Redrew Our World”
April 24 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Emily Bowe, Assistant Director of the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library, and Ian Spangler, Assistant Curator of Digital & Participatory Geography at the Leventhal Center, present the 2025 “Maps & America”: Arthur Holzheimer Lecture on Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 6 p.m. in the American Geographical Society Library, located on the third floor of the UWM Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford Ave.
Their talk, “Processing Place: How Computers and Cartographers Redrew Our World,” explores the how the computer technologies developed in the twentieth century drove changes in land management, law and policy, national defense, and more. Taking a historical approach to digital mapping by comparing maps made with computers to those that came before, the talk will invite us to reevaluate the relationships between maps, technology, and society.
There is a reception at 5:30 p.m.
Registration is required for this in-person and virtual event.
This will be the 35th annual presentation in the Maps & America: Arthur Holzheimer Lecture series, organized by the American Geographical Society Library and supported by an endowment created by Arthur and Janet Holzheimer.
The lecture series was inaugurated by the noted cartographic historian Brian Harley in 1990. Over the years, the series has featured many of the leading figures in the field of map history and provided a multifaceted survey of this rapidly developing field.
