Date: Thursday, December 19th, 2024
Location: The Newberry Library | 60 West Walton St | Chicago IL | Google Maps
Time: 5:30 pm CT (Social Time)
6:00 pm CT (Presentation)
Title: Annual Holiday Gala
Date: Thursday, January 16th, 2025
Location: The Newberry Library | 60 West Walton St | Chicago IL | Google Maps
Time: 5:30 pm CT (Social Time)
6:00 pm CT (Presentation)
Title: Maps & Permafrost
Speaker: Fritz Nelson
Date: Thursday, February 20th, 2025
Location: The Newberry Library | 60 West Walton St | Chicago IL | Google Maps
Time: 5:30 pm CT (Social Time)
6:00 pm CT (Presentation)
Title: Legal Maps & Maritime Space: The case of John Selden’s Mare clausum
Speaker: Hayley Cotter
Date: Thursday, March 20th, 2025
Location: The Newberry Library | 60 West Walton St | Chicago IL | Google Maps
Time: 5:30 pm CT (Social Time)
6:00 pm CT (Presentation)
Title: Ruth Taylor White’s Maps
Speaker: Emily Lyon
Date: Thursday, April 17th, 2024
Location: The Newberry Library | 60 West Walton St | Chicago IL | Google Maps
Time: 5:30 pm CT (Social Time)
6:00 pm CT (Presentation)
Title: Finding Food: How We Map and Talk About Food Access in Chicago and Beyond”
Speaker: Daniel Block
Speaker Bio: Daniel Block is a professor of geography at Chicago State University and the coordinator of the Fred Blum Neighborhood Assistance Center, as well as an adjunct professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University and the School of Urban Planning at UIC. He has completed many food access studies, including the Northeastern Illinois Community Food Security Assessment, a large-scale food access study of the six-county Chicago metro area. He is a past president of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society. In 2018, he was named a fellow of the American Association of Geographers and is the co-author of Chicago: A Food Biography, a history of Chicago told through its food system, published by Rowman and Littlefield.
Date: Thursday, May 15th, 2025
Location: The Newberry Library | 60 West Walton St | Chicago IL | Google Maps
Time: 5:30 pm CT (Social Time)
6:00 pm CT (Presentation)
Title: Maps, Biogeography, and Species Extinction
Speaker: Richard Condit