Sensibility Mapping of Rwandan Life Stories by Élise Olmed
The Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) in collaboration with the Geomedia lab at Concordia University is organizing a series of conversations around maps and stories. These conversations will involve students, researchers, mapmakers, artists, and activists working at the intersection between maps and stories, and will aim to address two broad questions: What are the most pressing methodological, theoretical, technological, ethical and design challenges raised by the relationships between maps and stories? What might be the impacts of these relationships within the social, cultural and political spheres? This series of conversations will take place online and will be freely accessible.
List of conversations
Feb. 3, 2021 (12:00 to 13:30 Eastern) – Reflections on cartographic languages when collectively mapping possible worlds
- Séverin Halder – Activist, geographer & co-editor of “This Is Not an Atlas”
- Paul Schweizer – Geographer, popular educator & co-editor of “This Is Not an Atlas”
- Pablo Mansilla Quiñones – Associate Professor, Institute of Geography. Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso.
Feb. 25, 2021 (12:00 to 13:30 Eastern) – Listening
- Anne Knowles – Historical geographer & professor of history at University of Maine
- Margaret Pearce – Citizen Potawatomi Nation tribal member and cartographer
March 23, 2021 (14:30-16:00 Eastern) Weaving stories threads: An Indigenous Cartographic Engagement
- Annita Lucchesi – Cheyenne & PhD student at the University of Arizona
- Pualani Louis – Kanaka ʻŌiwi & Associate Researcher with UC Davis Native American Studies
April 8, 2021 (12:00 to 13:30 Eastern) – Mapping the Skin and the Guts of Exile’s Stories
- Élise Olmedo – Banting Postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University
- Sébastien Caquard – Associate Professor of Geography & co-director of the Center for Oral History and Digital storytelling (COHDS) at Concordia University
June 3, 2021 (12:00 to 13:30 Eastern) – Speaking (with) maps: A threefold map-talk on cartographic objects, narratives and migrancies
- Tania Rossetto – Associate Professor of Cultural Geography & Co-convenor of the Mobility & Humanities Centre, University of Padua
- Laura Lo Presti – Postdoc Researcher, University of Padua & ICOG Visiting Research Fellow, University of Groeningen
- Giada Peterle – Lecturer in Literary Geography, University of Padua
