"How to Lie with Maps" by Mick McCann
Thursday, May 8 4 to 5 p.m. in Hitchcock Auditorium
This presentation will discuss some subtle and not-so-subtle ways that maps have been used as tools of propaganda or means to persuade the map user to adopt the point of view of the map reader. Even when there are no overt biases on the part of the cartographer, there are issues of how to correctly depict and/or interpret spatial phenomenon, and mistakes occur. The purpose of this talk is to give students, community members and citizens the means to make more critical analyses of maps and to become critical map readers. In the end, hopefully attendees will think of “How have I been lied to with Maps?”