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Opening Dinner with Keynote Address from Jeremy Crampton

The conference kicks off on Friday night with an opening dinner and keynote address by Jeremy Crampton, Associate Professor of Geography from the University of Kentucky.

Prof. Crampton will discuss his work on the political representation of space through mapping and GIS. [Insert more detailed abstract here]

In discussing his use of both historical and contemporary datasets for this work, Prof. Crampton's keynote will also serve as a lead-in to our IronBison Mapping Contest in which teams of up to 4 people will compete in creating short, hands-on GoogleEarth exercises that use a mash-up of historical + modern + predictive datasets to engage students in place-based thinking, spatial analysis and representation.

Keynote presenter bio:

Jeremy Crampton is Associate Professor of Geography at University of Kentucky, where he teaches cartography and political geography. He is the author of Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS (2010), The Political Mapping of Cyberspace (2003) and Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography (edited with Stuart Elden, 2007) and is the editor of the journal Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization. Prof. Crampton also runs the Open Geography blog.

We'll divide attendees into groups of up to 4 people. Each team will have a workstation with a large monitor and a GoogleEarth file with historical, modern & projected/predictive datasets [for the Susquehanna Valley Region? for the U.S.?].

You'll have one hour to collaborate with your teammates on developing a short, hands-on GoogleEarth exercise that uses a mash-up of the datasets to engage students in place-based thinking, spatial analysis and representation.

We'll have each group do a 2 minute presentation of their exercise... followed by a ballot to vote for winners in different categories... and then wrap everything up with a presentation of the IronBison awards.