Program and Location

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Friday, March 29th, Special Pre-Conference Seminar (Open to Public)

Location: UMBC Performing Arts and Humanities Building 127

12:00PM (Noon) GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS DISTINGUISHED SEMINAR

  • Gillian Rose • Data Bodies, Smart Bodies and Sensible Bodies: Posthuman Corporeality in the Digitally Mediated City

Monday, April 1st, Day One

Location: Red Emma’s, 1225 Cathedral St., Baltimore, MD

9:30AM REGISTRATION AND LIGHT SNACKS

10:00AM INTRODUCTION, WELCOME, LOGISTICS (Dillon Mahmoudi)

10:15AM POSITION PAPERS SESSION #1

  • Nick Lally • What can a GIS do?
  • Leah Meisterlin • Title TBA
  • Taylor Shelton • Situated mapping: between the god trick and strategic positivism
  • Eli Pousson • Maps by Activists/Mapping Activism: An Introduction to the History of Protest and Place in Baltimore
  • Christine Hawn • The Citizen Science Gap: Maps/mapping that lack POC data

11:45AM LUNCH (provided by Red Emma’s)

1:00PM POSITION PAPERS SESSION #2

  • Meghan Kelly • Feminist Cartographies: Theory and Practice for Map Design
  • Juan Cruz • Challenges and Opportunties On The Ground with Casa de Maryland
  • Jack Gieseking • “Making Do” All Over Again: Strategies and Tactics of Mapping Everyday Queer Lives
  • Meleny Thomas and Nicole Fabricant • Title TBA

2:15PM BREAK

2:30PM POSITION PAPERS SESSION #3

  • Josh Akers • The Head, the Heart, the Tool: Doing and making for whom
  • Annita Lucchesi • Decolonizing Cartography: Revitalizing Indigenous Mapping Traditions and Mapping Against Settler Occupation
  • Michael Casiano • On the Verge: Mapping Conundrums in East Baltimore
  • Erin McElroy • The Ethics and Methods of Countermapping Dispossession: On the Work of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

3:45PM COFFEE BREAK

4:00PM PANEL (moderated by Dillon Mahmoudi)

  • Emily Billo
  • Agnieszka Leszczynski
  • Brandi Summers
  • Matt Wilson

5:00PM BREAK

Monday, April 1st, Keynote (Open to Public)

Location: Red Emma’s, 1225 Cathedral St., Baltimore, MD

6:30PM KEYNOTE

  • Sarah Elwood • Borrowing on the Authority of the Future: Doing Critical GIS Otherwise

Tuesday, April 2nd, Day Two

Location: Red Emma’s, 1225 Cathedral St., Baltimore, MD

9:00AM COFFEE AND LIGHT SNACKS

9:30AM WORKSHOP (moderated by Lawrence Brown and Nicole Fabricant)

Noon LUNCH (provided by Red Emma’s)

1:15PM WRAP-UP AND NEXT STEPS

2:30PM CONFERENCE END