8:30
Registration Opens
Welcome
9:00
Welcoming Remarks
I. Framing Lecture: A History of Mapping
9:15
Denis Wood, geographer
"Mapping and Its Discontents"
9:50
Response: Michael Dear, UC Berkeley Department of City and Regional Planning
9:55
Q&A
10:10-10:25
Break
II. Maps and Landscapes
Moderator: Julia Bryan-Wilson
Art History, UC Berkeley
10:25
Robin Grossinger, San Francisco Estuary Institute
"Visualizing past landscapes, Imagining future ecosystems"
10:45
Laura Kurgan, Department of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Spatial Information Design Lab, Columbia University
"Data Mapping and Its Contents"
11:05
Response: Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Department of Urban Planning, UCLA
11:10
Q&A
Presentation of See-Through Map Competition Finalists
11:30
Greg Niemeyer
Director, Berkeley Center for New Media and Professor, Art Practice, UC Berkeley
Lunch 11:45-1:00
1:00
Announcement of First Prize, See-Through Map Competition
III. Maps and Humans
Moderator: Whitney Davis
Art History, UC Berkeley
1:05
Annette Kim, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, SLAB, MIT
“Mapping our way out of Blindness”
1:25
Response: Todd Presner, Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies, and HyperCities, UCLA
1:30
Q&A
1:45-2:00
Break
IV: Maps and Urban Form
Moderator: Alan Tansman
East Asian Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley
2:00
Zephyr Frank, History Department, Spatial History Project, Stanford
“Mapping Heterogeneity and Change in Urban Space: Rio de Janeiro, 1840s-1880s”
2:20
Eve Blau, Harvard Graduate School of Design
“Mapping Hybrid Urban Conditions in Postsocialist Europe”
2:40
Response: Diane Favro, Department of Architecture and Urban Design, UCLA
2:45
Q&A
3:00-3:15
Break
V. Maps as Narratives and as Art
Moderator: Shannon Jackson
Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
3:15
Katharine Harmon, Author and publisher
“Mapping the Invisible”
3:35
Rebecca Solnit, Author
"The Appetite for Maps: Cartographic Hungers and Feasts"
3:55
Response: Dana Cuff, UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, director cityLAB
4:00
Q&A
4:15-4:30
Break
VI: Concluding Panel
Moderator: Jon Christensen
Department of History, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
4:30
Reflections: Jon Christensen, Department of History, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
4:40
Panel discussion:
Eve Blau, Zephyr Frank, Robin Grossinger, Katharine Harmon, Annette Kim, Laura Kurgan, Rebecca Solnit & Denis Wood
5:10
Q&A
5:30
Concluding Remarks
Jennifer Wolch
Dean, College of Environmental Design, co-principal investigator, UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative and Dana Cuff, Principal Investigator, UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative