Speaker:   Mark A. Olinger, Director, Department of Planning & Development Review, City of Richmond

Location:  Conference Rooms, Library of Virginia  

Event Information:  Olinger will discuss the history of city planning in Richmond and how it relates to current efforts to improve the city. This talk coincides with the Library’s recent acquisition of a collection of fascinating historical planning charts and maps from the archives of City Hall. A few items from this collection will be on display during the program. 

For more information, including registration, contact Dawn Greggs at dawn.greggs@lva.virginia.gov or 804.692.3813.

Speaker:  Ian Fowler

Location:  Avenues HQ, 17th Floor Boardroom, 11 East 26th Street (between  
Madison and Fifth Avenues), New York, NY 10011. Bring Photo ID for entry.  Please RSVP to MapSocietyNY@gmail.com

Event Information:  Fowler will take us on an exploration of the history of the shifting populations of
Manhattan Island, from the Lenape, through the Dutch, and onto modern
times, using maps representing the land as interpreted by these groups and
also the way these groups have been represented in the cartographic
record.

1919 was a year of heightened map production around the world. ‎Among the many maps produced immediately after the First World War were new maps drawn to preserve the peace. These maps reflect the instability and the experimentation of a world attempting to solve the problems that had led to four years of devastating war. Some cartographers worked to preserve a lasting peace with their maps, while others redrew national boundaries, seeking what some maps had taught them was rightfully theirs. While much of this cartographic work took place at the peace negotiations in Paris in 1919, its global legacy reverberates today, a century later.

The Newberry Library’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography invites you to the its exploration of this topic on November 7-9, 2019. The 20th Nebenzahl Lectures, are being organized by Dr. Peter Nekola (Luther College). He has invited eight other scholars from around the world to discuss the ramifications of 1919 for the history of cartography in the twentieth century and the early twenty-first.

For more information, visit http://newberry.org/11072019-20th-nebenzahl-lectures-redrawing-world-1919-and-history-cartography.  

1919 was a year of heightened map production around the world. ‎Among the many maps produced immediately after the First World War were new maps drawn to preserve the peace. These maps reflect the instability and the experimentation of a world attempting to solve the problems that had led to four years of devastating war. Some cartographers worked to preserve a lasting peace with their maps, while others redrew national boundaries, seeking what some maps had taught them was rightfully theirs. While much of this cartographic work took place at the peace negotiations in Paris in 1919, its global legacy reverberates today, a century later.

The Newberry Library’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography invites you to the its exploration of this topic on November 7-9, 2019. The 20th Nebenzahl Lectures, are being organized by Dr. Peter Nekola (Luther College). He has invited eight other scholars from around the world to discuss the ramifications of 1919 for the history of cartography in the twentieth century and the early twenty-first.

For more information, visit http://newberry.org/11072019-20th-nebenzahl-lectures-redrawing-world-1919-and-history-cartography.  

Event Information:  The group will meet at the Connecticut Historical Society and then tour the exhibition War, Maps, Mystery: Dutch Mapmaker Bernard Romans and the American Revolution. 

Bernard Romans came to the American colonies in 1757 during the French and Indian War surveying for the British along the Atlantic seaboard. Romans became a supporter of American independence, joined the Continental Army, and eventually settled in Wethersfield, CT. Both the British and Americans used Romans’ maps during the American Revolution. In 1780, he was captured by the British and died in 1784, mysteriously, while a prisoner. Incredibly rare maps from the CHS collection, published by Romans and his contemporaries, as well as earlier maps from the 17th and 18th century, will be displayed. 

Please RSVP to ctpmapsociety@gmail.com