#  Radionavigation and the Politics of Geographic Knowledge 

 



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 **May 2, 2018** 

 06:00PM - 08:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge**  



 

 



 

 **>>>>>THIS EVENT CANCELED DUE TO TRAVEL MISHAP<<<<<<<<<**

   ![The Map by William Rankin](/sites/g/files/omnuum6316/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/chsi/files/radionavigation_and_the_politics_of_geographic_knowledge_william_rankin.jpg?itok=2ZGVJG9i) 

 

 **>>>>>THIS EVENT CANCELED DUE TO TRAVEL MISHAP<<<<<<<<<**

 **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.

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 A recording of this program will be available on our [YouTube channel](https://hmnh.harvard.edu/hmnh.harvard.edu/www.youtube.com/user/HarvardMuseumNatHist) approximately three weeks after the lecture.



 

 



 

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