Thursday, November 7, 2019 – Saturday, November 9, 2019
The Newberry Library, Ruggles Hall Free and open to the public. Registration required. Center for the History of Cartography Programs Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lecture Series
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.
Please note that blocks of hotel rooms have not been reserved for out-of-town guests. A list of recommended hotels near the library may be found at: https://www.newberry.org/accommodations-and-dining.
For program and additional details, visit https://www.newberry.org/kenneth-nebenzahl-jr-lectures-history-cartography
The International Society for the History of the Map 