Mapping the Pandemic

Datum
26. Mai 2021 

Con­ver­sa­tion between four Ital­ian map-schol­ars start­ed as a response to the per­va­sive spread of both car­to­graph­ic mate­ri­als relat­ed to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and crit­i­cal com­men­taries about such mate­ri­als dur­ing the 2020 lock­down. Date: 26th May 2021, 18:00 – 20:00 (BST).

LIVINGMAPS PRESENTS –

Pan­dem­ic Car­togra­phies: A Con­ver­sa­tion on Map­pings, Imag­in­ings and Emotions

26th May 2021, 18:00 – 20:00 (BST)

TICKETS £3–5 dona­tions : https://pandemic-cartographies.eventbrite.co.uk/

This con­ver­sa­tion between four Ital­ian map-schol­ars start­ed as a response to the per­va­sive spread of both car­to­graph­ic mate­ri­als relat­ed to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and crit­i­cal com­men­taries about such mate­ri­als dur­ing the 2020 lock­down. This plu­ral­i­ty of car­to­graph­ic visu­als and map­ping prac­tices, which appeared soon after the coro­n­avirus out­break, requires expo­nen­tial research angles. Approach­ing the pan­dem­ic through and in the prox­im­i­ty of maps, map­ping prac­tices, map-like objects and cre­ative car­togra­phies, we aim to fore­ground the spec­u­la­tive, empir­i­cal and fast-mov­ing expres­sions of the pandemic’s car­to­graph­ic imagery. This con­ver­sa­tion aims to stim­u­late a col­lab­o­ra­tive exchange about how both sci­en­tif­ic and gov­ern­men­tal, as well as exis­ten­tial and affec­tive fea­tures of the pan­dem­ic have been informed by car­to­graph­ic imaginings.

Andrea Pase Motion and emo­tion in viral maps

Lau­ra Lo Presti Map­ping trans­ver­sal sol­i­dar­i­ties: flat­ten­ing the curve through sol­id car­to­graph­ic chains

Tania Ros­set­to Tak­ing care of the infect­ed geo­body: express­ing the nation through map-like images

Gia­da Peter­le Post­cards from urban quar­an­tines: draw­ing implic­it cartographies

This event will be chaired by Phil Cohen and Mike Dug­gan from Liv­ingmaps Network.

…Andrea Pase is Full Pro­fes­sor of His­tor­i­cal and Social Geog­ra­phy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Pad­ua. In his research path, his­tor­i­cal car­tog­ra­phy was the point of access to study the unfold­ing of mod­ern State …
… the gap between the declared (devel­op­ment) and the pur­sued (log­ic of dom­i­na­tion). On these issues, he has pub­lished in jour­nals such as Geo­fo­rum, Geo­graph­i­ca Hel­veti­ca and Riv­ista Geografi­ca Italiana.

…Lau­ra Lo Presti is Vis­it­ing Research Fel­low at the Gronin­gen Research Insti­tute for the Study of Cul­ture (ICOG). Her research focus­es on crit­i­cal and cul­tur­al car­tog­ra­phy, inves­ti­gat­ing polit­i­cal phenomena …
… in Polit­i­cal Geog­ra­phy, Mobil­i­ties, Acme and include two books, Car­tografie (In)esauste (Fran­coAn­geli, 2019) and Map­ping, Con­nec­tiv­i­ty and the Mak­ing of Euro­pean Empires (Row­man and Lit­tle­field, 2021).

…Tania Ros­set­to is Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Cul­tur­al Geog­ra­phy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Pad­ua and co-con­venor of the Cen­tre for Advanced Stud­ies in Mobil­i­ty & Human­i­ties (https://twitter.com/mohu_centre ). Her …
… and Plan­ning D. Her recent book, titled Object-Ori­ent­ed Car­tog­ra­phy: Maps as Things (Rout­ledge, 2019), estab­lish­es an unprece­dent­ed dia­logue between the field of map stud­ies and object-ori­ent­ed philosophy.

…Gia­da Peter­le is Lec­tur­er in Lit­er­ary Geog­ra­phy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Pado­va. Work­ing in the emerg­ing field of the geo­hu­man­i­ties, her research inter­ests lie in the inter­con­nec­tions between geog­ra­phy, literature,…
… and include the book Comics as a Research Prac­tice: Draw­ing Nar­ra­tive Geo­gra­phies Beyond the Frame (Rout­ledge, 2021). Her creative/research endeav­ours are avail­able at www.narrativegeographies.com .

TICKETS: https://pandemic-cartographies.eventbrite.co.uk/

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