Past Nebenzahl Lecture Series

November 4-5

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

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

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

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

November 7-9

Mirela Altic, University of Zagreb, Drafting the State of the South Slavs: New Cartography for a New Order

Lindsay Frederick Braun, University of Oregon, Mapping a New African Empire: Britain and Tanganyika Between the Wars

Daniel Foliard, Paris Nanterre University, “More than one Palestine”: Nationalist Cartographies, the Middle East and the 1919 Peace Negotiations in Paris

Jason Hansen, Furman University, Cartographies of Victimhood: Envisioning the Nation after the Paris Peace Treaties of 1919-1920

Tze-ki Hon, City University of Hong Kong, From Connectivity to Geobody: The 1919 Moment and China’s Role in the World

Peter Nekola, Luther College, Science and Reasoning in the Delegation Maps of 1919: Humans’ Last and Greatest Attempt to Naturalize Borders, Nations, and Territories

William Rankin, Yale University, The Visual Epistemology of Territory and Population, 1919–1939

Steven Seegel, University of Northern Colorado, Skins, Lines, Borders: Geographic Expertise and the Mapping of Eastern Europe in 1919

Penny Sinanoglou, Wake Forest University, Lines of Control, Lines of Contestation: Cartography and British Imperial Politics in the Middle East Mandates, 1919-1948

October 27-29

Matthew H. Edney, University of Southern Maine, Of Maps, Libraries, and Lectures

Peter Barber, The British Library, George III as a Map Collector

Susan Schulten, University of Denver, How Did Old Maps Become Valuable

Richard Pegg, MacLean Collection, Collecting and Studying East Asian Maps in the United States and Europe

James R. Akerman, The Newberry Library, Maps, Marginalia, and Ephemera

Peter Nekola, The Newberry Library, The Atlas as a Way of Thinking

Imre Josef Demhardt, University of Texas at Arlington, From the War of 1812 to the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846-48: The Explorative Mapping by the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers

James R. Akerman, The Newberry Library, The War of 1812 and Cartographic Memory

October 24-26

Ann Durkin Keating, North Central College, Preparing for War: The May 1812 Hay Map of Northern Illinois

Martin Brückner, University of Delaware, Cartography in Crisis: War, Panic, and the Sine Qua Non Maps of John Melish

Scott Stevens, The Newberry Library, Bounded by History: Mapping Iroquoia in the War of 1812

John Cloud, National Oceanic and Aeronautic Administration, A Survey of the Surveys of the Coast at the Time of the War of 1812

Susan Schulten, University of Denver, Cartographic Innovation in the Early Republic

James R. Akerman, The Newberry Library, Rivers, Lakes, Travel: Cartography and the Frontier, 1800-1848

Imre Josef Demhardt, University of Texas at Arlington, From the War of 1812 to the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846-48: The Explorative Mapping by the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers

James R. Akerman, The Newberry Library, The War of 1812 and Cartographic Memory

November 4-6

Raymond Craib, Cornell University, Mapping Decolonization and Nation in the Twentieth Century

Magali Carrera, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Emerging Geographical and Cartographical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century New Spain

Lina Del Castillo, Iowa State University, Cartographies of Colombian Independence

Jordana Dym, Skidmore College, Democratizing Cartography: Between Imperial and National Mapping in Guatemala, 1821-1996

Tom Bassett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Signs of the Times: Commercial Road Mapping and National Identity in South Africa

Jamie McGowan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mapping Independence in Ghana: Scientific Standards and Political Possibilities

Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University, Lines of Power, Contours of Desire: The Partitioning of Lands and Lives in Our Times

Karen Culcasi, West Virginia University, Cartographic Constructions of the Modern Egyptian Nation-State

November 8-10

Alexander Jones, University of Toronto, Ptolemy’s Geography: Mapmaking and Scientific Enterprise

David O’Connor, New York University, From Topography to Cosmos: Ancient Egypt’s Multiple Maps

Georgia Irby-Massie, College of William and Mary, Mapping the World: Greek Initiatives

Michael Lews, Hull, United Kingdom, Greek and Roman Surveying and Surveying Instruments

Richard Talbert, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Urbs Roma to Orbis Romanus: Roman Mapping on a Grand Scale

Benet Salway, University College, London, Putting the World in Order: Mapping in Roman Texts

October 7-9

Matthew H. Edney, University of Southern Maine, The Irony of Imperial Mapping

Valerie Kivelson, University of Michigan, “Exalted and Glorified to the Ends of the Earth”: Christianity and Colonialism in Seventeenth-Century Russian Siberia

Laura Hostetler, University of Illinois at Chicago, Contending Cartographic Claims: The Qing Empire in Manchu, Chinese, and European Maps

Neil Safier, University of Michigan, The Confines of the Captaincy: Boundary-Lines, Ethnographic Landscapes, and the Limits of Imperial Cartography in Eighteenth-Century Iberoamerica

D. Graham Burnett, Princeton University, “Empires of Science and Commerce”: Whalers, Wilkes, and U.S. Sea-Charting in the Age of Sail

Michael Heffernan, University of Nottingham, Maps for the Masses: Cartography, Empire, and the Newspaper Press in Britain and France, 1890-1930

October 11-13

Mary Pedley, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan

• Getting to Market: From Map to Print

• Giving Pleasure to the Public: Adding up the Cost

• Good Map/Bad Map: Telling the Difference

David Woodward, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Map Trade in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Peter van der Krogt, Universiteit Utrecht, Hondius-Janssonius vs. Blaeu: Competition in Amsterdam Map and Atlas Production

Markus Heinz, Staatsbibliothek Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Commercial Aspects of the Map Trade in Eighteenth-Century Germany

October 28-30

James R. Akerman, The Newberry Library, Cartography as Narrative Form

Jeremy Black, University of Exeter, Historical Atlases as Narratives

Theodore Cachey, University of Notre Dame, Print Culture and the Literature of Travel: The Case of the Isolario

Mercedes Maroto Camino, University of Auckland, The City and the Book: Urban Representation from Christine de Pizan to the Civitates Orbis Terrarum

William Sherman, University of Maryland, College Park, Plotting Empire in English Renaissance Travel Narratives

Garret Sullivan, Pennsylvania State University, The Atlas as a Literary Genre: Reading the Inutility of John Ogilby’s Brittania

Jeffrey N. Peters, University of Kentucky, Allegorical Maps and the Writing of Space in Seventeenth-Century France

James R. Akerman, The Newberry Library, Regional Identity and the Narrative Organization of Space in Early Atlases

Mark Monmonier, Syracuse University, Cartographic Narratives, Openness, and the New Technology

October 24-26

Catherine Delano Smith, University of London, Milieus of Mobility: Early Route, Road, and Itinerary Maps

Andrew Cook, The British Library, “A Considerable Mass of Information Judiciously Arranged and Digested”: The Growth of the British Admiralty Chart

James Vance, University of California, Berkeley, On the Move in the Modern World: An Overview

Jerry Musich, National Railway Museum, Mapping a Transcontinental Nation: Nineteenth-Century American Railroad Cartography

James R. Akerman, The Newberry Library, Directions and Destinations: Mapping and Making a National Motorized Space

Ralph Ehrenberg, Library of Congress, From Aero-Maps to Aeronautical Charts: The Emergence of Aviation Cartography in the United States

Michael Dobson, Rand McNally & Co, Automobile Navigation Systems: Where Did the Road Map Go?

June 25-26

G. Malcolm Lewis, North American and Inuit Maps: A Retrospective Review of Sources, Contexts, and Interpretations

Elizabeth Boone, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Mapping in Mesoamerica

Peter Nabokov, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Role of Mapping within Native Societies

Patricia Galloway, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Indian Maps and European Cartographers

G. Malcolm Lewis, North American and Inuit Interpretations and Future Contexts

November 7-9

Naomi Miller, Boston University, Mapping the City: Ptolemy’s Cosmography in the Renaissance

Nancy Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania, Mapping the Chinese City: The Image and the Reality

Richard Kagan, Johns Hopkins University, Imaging the City in Sixteenth-Century Spain

Martha Pollak, University of Illinois at Chicago, Military Architecture and Cartography in the Design of the Baroque City

David Buisseret, The Newberry Library, Modelling the City: The Collection of Plans-reliefs Formed by the Rulers of France

Gerald Danzer, University of Illinois at Chicago, The Plan of Chicago by Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett: Cartographic and Historical Perspectives

November 10-12

P.D.A. Harvey, University of Durham, The Origins and Early Development of the Estate Plan in England

Sarah Bendall, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Estate Plans of an English County: Cambridgeshire, 1600-1836

P.D.A. Harvey, University of Durham, The Historical Uses of English Estate Plans

Barry Higman, University of the West Indies, Jamaica Campus, Jamaican Estate Plans and Their Use to the Historian

David Buisseret, The Newberry Library, The Estate Plan in North America

Ann M. Graham, Texas State Historical Association, Mexican Estate Plans

November 7-9

David Buisseret, The Newberry Library, General introduction to the topic, and The Kings of 16th and 17th Century France

James Vann, Emory University, The Austian Habsburgs

Geoffrey Parker, University of Saint Andrews, The Spanish Habsburgs

Peter Barber, The British Library, The Monarchs of 16th Century England

Michael Mikós, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Monarchs & Magnates: Maps of Poland and the 16th and 18th Centuries

John Marino, University of California, San Diego and Martha Pollak, University of Illinois at Chicago, Princes and Republics of Italy

William Goetzmann, University of Texas at Austin, How Did the Fathers of the Republic Use Maps?

October 27-19

Sarah Tyacke, The British Library, English Overseas Chartmaking c. 1560-1640: The Chartmaker’s Sources

David Buisseret, The Newberry Library, The Sources and the Printed Maps of Cristophe Tassin

Jeffrey Stone, University of Aberdeen, Copper-Plate Engraving as an Influence of Map Content: The Evidence of the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland

Helen Hornbeck Tanner, The Newberry Library, The Indian Contribution to the Mapping of the Great Lakes

Theodore Foss, University of Illinois at Chicago, The Jesuit Cartographers: Their Education and Methods of Mapping in China

Anne Godlewska, Clark University, Sources for the Napoleonic Mapping of Egypt

Norman Thrower, University of California, Los Angeles, Mapping the American Southwest Borderlands: Upper Rio Grande to Lower Colorado River, 1846

October 30-November 1

George Kish, University of Michigan, Maps in the Decorative Arts: A Geographer’s View

Juergen Schulz, Brown University, Maps as Metaphors: Mural Map Cycles of the Italian Renaissance

Ulla Ehrensvärd, Royal Library, Stockholm, Color in Cartography: A Historical Survey

David Woodward, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Manuscript: Engraved and Typographic Traditions of Map Lettering

James A. Welu, Worcester Art Museum, The Sources and Development of Cartographic Ornamentation in the Netherlands

Svetlana Alpers, University of California-Berkeley, The Mapping Impulse in Dutch Art (Given at the Art Institute)

*Concluding remarks by Helen Wallis

August 11-13

Conrad Heidenreich, York University, The Early Period of Exploration: Champlain to Franquelin, 1603-1688

Jean-Marc Garant, Archives Nationales, Quebec, Franquelin to Bellin

G. Malcolm Lewis, University of Sheffield, Changing National Perspectives on the Great Lakes, 1755-1795

Hildegard Binder Johnson, Macalester College, Ideology and Reality: An Evaluation of the U.S. Land Survey in the Great Lakes Region

L.M. Sebert, Topographical Survey Directorate, Ottawa, The Canadian Land Survey, 1780-1850

R.W. Sandilands, Canadian Hydrographic Service, Hydrographic Surveying in the Great Lakes during the Nineteenth Century

Helen Hornbeck Tanner, The Newberry Library, Motives and Methods of Mapping the Great Lakes

November 11-14

J.B. Harley, University of Exeter

• American Military Maps: A European Culture
• Maps and Military Decision Making

Lawrence W. Towner, The Newberry Library, The Nineteenth-Century Mapping of the War

Barbara Bartz Petchenik, The Newberry Library, The Twentieth-Century Mapping of the War

November 2-4

Arthur H. Robinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Map Making and Map Printing: The Evolution of a Working Relationship

David Woodward, The Newberry Library, The Woodcut Technique

Coolie Verner, University of British Columbia, Copper Engraving

Walter W. Ristow, The Library of Congress, Lithography and Maps, 1796-1850

Elizabeth M. Harris, Smithsonian Institution, Miscellaneous Nineteenth Century Map Printing Processes

Ir. Cornelis Koeman, Geografisch Instituut der Rijksuniversiteit, Utrecht, The Application of Photography to Map Printing and the Transition to Offset Lithography

April 3, 10, and 17-18

William P. Cumming, Davidson College

• Friday, April 3: Mapping the Southern British Colonies: Expanding Knowledge of the Interior, and the Settlement of the South
• Friday, April 10: Mapping the Northern British Colonies: Expanding Knowledge of the Interior, and the Settlement of the North
• Friday, April 17: Charting the Coast: Simple Beginnings to Professional Accomplishment
• Saturday, April 18: Cartography of Conflict: Map-Making Related to the French and Indian War and the Revolution

October 27-28 and November 10-11

R.A. Skelton, Map Room, British Museum

• Thursday, October 27: An Introduction to Historical Cartography
• Friday, October 28: The Collecting and Preservation of Early Maps
• Thursday, November 10: The Historical Study of Early Maps: Past
• Friday, November 11: The Historical Study of Early Maps: Present and Future