Lecture Recordings

Session One: Mapping as Performance

  • Ernesto Capello, Macalester College, Triangulating Shuyu: Commemorating and Contesting French Geodesy in the Ecuadorian Andes
  • Imre Josef Demhardt, University of Texas-Arlington, Surveys in the Sand: Performing Colonial Mapping in Southwestern Africa
  • Clinton Terry, Mercer University and Dan Patterson (photographer), Reenacting Surveying in Early America

Session Two: Performing Space, Place, and History in Indigenous North America

  • Jennifer Saracino,University of Arizona, The Ayer Map of Teotihuacan as Embodied Action & Performance
  • George Ironstrack, Miami University, Ohio and Cameron Shriver, Miami University, Ohio, Aacimwahkionkonci: Stories from the Land

Session Three: Mapping Dance

  • Seth Stewart Williams, Barnard College of Columbia University, Choreography as Chorography in Early Modern England
  • Kate Elswit, University of London and Harmony Bench, Ohio State University, Mapping Movement on the Move, Ten Years On

Session Four: Travel, Mapping, and Performance

  • John Wyatt Greenlee, Cornell University, Mapping in Stages: Travel, Worldbuilding, and Memory in The Castle of Perseverance
  • Jordana Dym, Skidmore College, Retracing Travel: Mapping in Others’ Footsteps
  • Karen Lewis, Ohio State University, Enacting the Underground Railroad: Landscapes of Resistance and Ingenuity

Additional Resources

Event—Exhibition

Mapping Outside the Lines

Sep 11, 2025–Jan 03, 2026

Analyzing the visual language of maps.

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