Title
Opening Dinner with Keynote Address by Jeremy Crampton
Description
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.
Start Date
16-11-2012 6:00 PM
End Date
16-11-2012 7:30 PM
Location
Terrace Room, Elaine Langone Center
Opening Dinner with Keynote Address by Jeremy Crampton
Terrace Room, Elaine Langone Center
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.