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Hello, Boston DH listserv-ers! Here to add another listserv email to your post Labor Day e-pile! We here at the Center for Public Humanities at Brown have put together an exciting conference that may be of interest! Our keynote speaker is the amazing *Shannon Mattern*, and we've got a great lineup of academics, artists, and radical cartographers who are interested in digital and non-digital mapping contexts! More details below and in the attached flier. Please circulate to anyone who may be interested! Hope some of you can make it! *Radical Cartography Now: Digital, Artistic and Social Justice Approaches to Mapping * *Friday, September 27, 2019 at Brown University * In the public humanities, counter-mapping and “radical cartography” are emerging as powerful tools to critique institutional authority and imagine alternative ways of thinking about place. *Radical Cartography Now *brings together historians, activists, social practice artists, digital humanists, and community members whose maps reveal new histories, new knowledge and new ways of co-creating artwork in and with communities. Some of this work is driven by innovations in Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping technologies and their increasing ease of use, while other radical cartography projects are created by hand, often with the participation of artists or designers working with local communities. In the process, radical cartographers are changing the nature of maps, chipping away at what Benedict Anderson called “the alignment of map and [colonial] power,” and democratizing maps and map-making. The conference is free, but registration is required. To see the program and a list of speakers, and to register, please visit brown.edu/go/mapping . Full program: https://blogs.brown.edu/maps/conference-program/ -Jim Jim McGrath, Ph.D Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Public Humanities John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage <http://www.brown.edu/academics/public-humanities/> Brown University Twitter: @JimMc_Grath <http://twitter.com/jimmc_grath> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BOSTONDH list, click the following link: https://listserv.neu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=BOSTONDH