Events

Past Event

Race, Power, and Cartography

November 16, 2023
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
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Online and In-Person: Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois

Event Description

This program will explore the relationship between maps and race in two different cartographic projects from the early modern period: a set of richly-detailed world maps created by the French mapmaker Nicolas de Fer in the 1690s; and a map of a region around the town of Tultepec made by an anonymous Indigenous inhabitant of colonial Mexico to support a legal case against a Spanish rancher.

Event Information

Free and open to the public; registration is required for online attendence. Please visit the event webpage for additional information. Hosted by the Newberry Library.