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Free Public Lecture and Book Signing
William Rankin, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Yale University
For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable to governments’ understanding, management, and defense of territory, but by century’s end, a decisive transition occurred toward electronic navigation systems. William Rankin, author of After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century, argues that this shift radically changed our experience of geographic space, from the bird’s- eye view of the map to the embedded subjectivity of GPS. The adoption of radionavigation offers crucial insight into the history of twentieth-century territoriality and the broad geopolitical shift from internationalism to globalization.
Free event parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage.
Livestreaming
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A recording of this program will be available on our YouTube channel approximately three weeks after the lecture.
