Global Urban Humanities/Future Histories Lab

Mapping and Its Discontents begins with a welcome from Anthony Cascardi, Dean of the Arts & Humanities Division of the College of Letters and Sciences at UC Berkeley, and remarks from Berit Ashla, Executive Director of the David Brower Center. Geographer Denis Wood gives the first presentation of the day, a provocative talk about the nature of maps entitled "Rethinking the Power of Maps." Wood discusses the relative youth of map-making--there were, he says, few maps before 1500--and the strong relationship between map-making, the rise of the nation state, and the expression of power. Michael Dear, UC Berkeley, responds to Wood's keynote.