The Uses of Cartography

April 24-25, 1999

Saturday, April 24

Introduction

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Session I

“Maps in the Study of History: The State of the Art”

David Woodward, University of Wisconsin

“The First Discoveries of America: The Spatial Imagination”

Matthew Edney, University of Southern Maine

Session II

“The Natives’ Sense of Space”

Barbara Mundy, Fordham University

“The Development of Atlantic Cartography”

David Buisseret, University of Texas, Arlington

Resources on the Web: Demonstration and Discussion

Sunday, April 25

Session III

“The Social Dimensions of Cartography”

James Akerman, The Newberry Library

“Spatial Conceptions in Literature”

Tom Conley, Harvard University

Session IV

“Cartography and Power in the Early Modern World”

Jeremy Black, University of Exeter