Dear Valued 2024 Lifetime or Sustaining Member: You are getting notice of our season-ending Lunch and “Show & Tell” before General members get our Thursday April 18 email. WHERE: Adam Kushner’s Greenwich Village townhouse: 16 Minetta Lane, NYC 10012. WHEN: 12:00 – 2:00 pm, Saturday, May 4.
Thursday, May 2, 3:00 pm New York (EDT) time, Montpelier Room, 6th Floor, Madison Building, Library of Congress.. Lecture 2: “Catawba Cartographies: Remapping the Indigenous Southeast, ca. 1670-1733” byS. Max Edelson, Professor of History, University of Virginia.
Thursday, May 2, 3:00 pm New York (EDT) time, Montpelier Room, 6th Floor, Madison Building, Library of Congress.. Lecture 1: “Extractive Place Naming Practices in Early Modern North America” by Lauren Beck, Canada Research Chair in Intercultural Encounter; Professor of Visual and Material Culture Studies, Mount Allison University, Canada.
Thursday, April 25, 1:00 pm New York (EDT) time, London, Hybrid: the Thirty-Third Series of “Maps and Society Lectures” in the history of cartography will feature Yvonne Lewis (Assistant National Curator) on “Marking the miles: some annotated maps in National Trust collections.”
Thursday, April 18, 7:00 pm New York (EDT) time, Chicago, Hybrid: the Chicago Map Society will host Karen-edis Barzman (Emeritus Professor of Art History) speaking on “Government Mapping in Early Modern Venice.” In 1460 the Venetian republic mandated something unprecedented – the systematic mapping of its territories, combining quantitative and qualitative data in “true pictures” to be archived and consulted in the inner chambers of government.