From Arthur Robinson’s (1975) “Mapmaking and Map Printing”
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Professor at Kentucky Geography, Associate at Harvard CGA, Editor at cultural geographies, Director at Mapshop
Sample questions from the geography section of state certification exams for Missouri public school teachers in 1907
Bollinger in latest book, *University: A Reckoning*: “It is worth emphasizing again that sometimes you don't know what you think or what you believe until you hear other people say it, perhaps via just a little difference in the way they express the idea.“ (2026: 45)
Edith Putnam Parker, in her 1955 address to the National Council of Geography Teachers: “All of us can keep sharpening our geography-teaching perspective by asking ourselves time after time, …
In the “course of study and list of text books” recorded in the minutes of the 9 July 1829 meeting of the BoT, the faculty of Transylvania University requested to include “Worcester’s Geography and Atlas” among the texts of the preparatory department. kdl.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
“List of books wanted by R H Bishop”, ca 1810, Transylvania University. Dr Bishop offered coursework in geography at TU before becoming the first president of Miami U of Ohio in 1824
Reading geography student final papers in the 1820s from Transylvania University.
The 2025 NACIS Annual Meeting will be in Louisville, KY, Oct 15-18! We invite you to submit abstract proposals for presentations in the Main Conference or Practical Cartography Day or to organize specialty themed sessions, discussion panels, workshops and field trips. Submissions due May 15, 2025.
thank you, @shannonmattern.bsky.social for the visit and for these kind words! @jswab.bsky.social and I have organized a @geographers.bsky.social session on "Minor Histories of GIS," feat. @wilsonism.bsky.social, @mapasurbanos.bsky.social, me on *Processing Place*, and others today, 2:30, rm 336!
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last yr.So glad I was able to catch this exhibition before it closes on the 23rd! Such a fantastic embodiment of how our information systems and media artifacts are a product of digital + analog tools, printing technologies, social networks, and inter-institutional collaborations!
Geographers attending AAG in Detroit: Please join @wilsonism.bsky.social and I on Monday afternoon in room 259 for our “Media Matter(s) in Geography” sessions! We will be joined by a fantastic set of presenters and panelists—more details in the flyer and link: jacographer.com/aag-cfp-25/
Someone noting Doreen Massey’s book, For Space, being published **two decades ago** took my breath away
a cat is sitting in front of a sony television and gasps in cat is written below it
ALT: a cat is sitting in front of a sony television and gasps in cat is written below it
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The TIGER/Line Shapefiles, too!? flowingdata.com/2025/02/04/g...
Geographic boundary data and microdata from Census Bureau is offline
As of this evening on February 4, 2025, the TIGER/Line shapefiles, which provide legal boundaries at various geographic levels, are currently unavailable on the Census website. The site is there, b…
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Grateful to join the Familiar Landscapes workshop at @knowltonosu.bsky.social with a little invited essay that thinks with Pumpkin Center, Missouri (and shout-out to the new book by @psimpy.bsky.social)
When the research for an essay overlaps with organizing a storage area of my parents’ house #familiarlandscapes
We have been so blessed to have Candida in leadership at the AAG throughout the years. 💛 @geographers.bsky.social www.aag.org/chief-operat...
Chief Operating Officer Candida Mannozzi Retires December 31 - AAG
AAG - Chief Operating Officer Candida Mannozzi Retires December 31 - All -
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Happy to share that my paper "On the individuation of complex computational models: Gilbert Simondon and the technicity of AI" is now available on AI & Society. Thanks to @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social for putting together this special issue! 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s001...
Always fun to host the GEO702 seminar students for brunch! Hard to believe another Fall semester is nearly over. Best wishes to all finishing the term!
@NOAA: November 2024 was the world's second-warmest November on record. It is almost certain that 2024 will be Earth's warmest year in NOAA's 175-year global record. Get the latest global #November2024 #climate report: bit.ly/3ZwbeQz #StateOfClimate
While doing course planning, typed “Internment in Geography” instead of “Internship”. 🪦 Well done, chair brain.
"Winterer’s 📕 tells the story of the gradual discovery, spanning the early 19th c., that the Earth was millions, and even billions, of years older than the Bible would suggest.... Once the idea of deep time fully sunk in..., it transformed the way 🇺🇸s perceived their country and their continent."
How Geology Shaped American Culture
The discovery of ‘deep time’ in 19th-century America.
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The Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia (UVA) invites applications for postdoctoral fellows who will be part of the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab- we will be hiring up to six postdoc fellows! jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Digital Technology for Democracy in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia
Apply for Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Digital Technology for Democracy job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at University of Virginia
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Thinking with my Grandpa Dean’s high school geography textbook (by RH Whitbeck, U of Wisc), which included annotation perhaps by him in the early 1940s: “Danger proceed at own risk.”
Working on a chapter on memorization, thinking with this sketch by Edward Ullman in 1934 of Chicago (in his early 20s), while he was a geography student at the University of Chicago. (And thanks to @jswab.bsky.social for finding Ullman’s sketchbook!)
Doing some reading this morning on efforts to move elementary geography education away from fact memorization in the interwar period. Excerpt from Marguerite Uttley in The Journal of Geography in 1940, chair of the Testing Committee, National Council of Geography Teachers.
GEOGRAPHERS for JUSTICE in PALESTINE -- a pre-AAG workshop, Sunday, March 23, 2025, Detroit, MI -- sign up / save the date / share widely docs.google.com/document/d/e...
SAVE THE DATE- GEOGRAPHERS for JUSTICE in PALESTINE
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