The Intersection of Maps and History
| Dates: | April 19 - May 24, 2024 |
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| Meets: | F from 12 N to 1:30 PM |
| Location: | Osher Online |
| Cost: | $75.00 |
Please note: This course program requires membership in a 2023-2024 OLLI at MSU Membership
Description
This program will not be recorded.
This six-week course in cartographic history and visual analysis features the extensive (and largely digitized) cartographic collections of the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the University of Southern Maine. Co-taught by the Osher Map Library's executive director, faculty scholar, and reference and teaching librarian, this visually rich online course will introduce participants to the history of cartography as a discipline and engage in deep visual analysis of maps and related ephemera. We invite participants to take a deep dive with us into topics at the intersection of maps and history, including:
- The History of Cartography project
- Schoolgirl maps of the early-19th century
- The history of mapping in color
- City, town, and county maps and genealogical research
- Mapping and World War I
- 20th Century pictorial maps and more
Each session will feature an engaging illustrated topical lecture and a lively Q&A session with the instructors. This class is for you if you want to know more about how historical maps can illuminate historical eras, events, and topics.
About the Osher Online Program
Experience shared online presentations with OLLI members from coast to coast! As part of the Osher Online program, OLLI at MSU members will enjoy national speakers and interact with fellow OLLI members nationwide.
Scholarships
| Fee: | $75.00 |
Osher Online
This is a real-time (live) online class that meets at the specified day(s)/time(s) listed.Libby Bischof
Dr. Libby Bischof is the executive director of the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education. She is also a professor of history and the University Historian at the University of Southern Maine. A visual and cultural historian of the 19th and 20th centuries, Bischof is interested in how friendship informs cultural production, especially in relation to landscape and place. A public historian, Bischof deeply believes in site-based, hands-on education and how teaching local and regional history can lead to deeper civic engagement. She frequently lectures to public audiences throughout New England, serves on the New England Historical Association board, and is president of the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium.Matthew Edney
Dr. Matthew Edney is Osher Professor for the History of Cartography, Osher Map Library Faculty Scholar, professor of geography at the University of Southern Maine, and director of the History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He edited, with Mary Pedley, "Cartography in the European Enlightenment" (2019), volume four of "The History of Cartography." He is broadly interested in early modern and modern mapping practices, especially in imperial contexts, and authored "Mapping an Empire" [1997]). He also studies the conceptual foundations of mapping and map history. His most recent book is "Cartography: The Ideal and Its History" (Chicago, 2019). He blogs at mappingasprocess.net.Louis Miller
Louis Miller is the Cartographic Reference and Teaching Librarian at the University of Southern Maine's Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education. Before his current role, he worked for five years at the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan, primarily with the manuscript, graphics, and map collections. He published his research article "'Honor For All'? Commemoration of the First World War in Kalamazoo," in volume 45, no. 2 of the Michigan Historical Review (Fall 2019) and continues to work on a larger project focusing on mourning and loss in the American Expeditionary Forces.| Date | Day | Time | Location |
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| 04/19/2024 | Friday | 12 N to 1:30 PM | Osher Online |
| 04/26/2024 | Friday | 12 N to 1:30 PM | Osher Online |
| 05/03/2024 | Friday | 12 N to 1:30 PM | Osher Online |
| 05/10/2024 | Friday | 12 N to 1:30 PM | Osher Online |
| 05/17/2024 | Friday | 12 N to 1:30 PM | Osher Online |
| 05/24/2024 | Friday | 12 N to 1:30 PM | Osher Online |