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Join the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts for the Reading at the Table on Tuesday, March 22, 11:30 AM – 1 PM at the University Club at IUPUI, 850 W. Michigan Street #200. Dr. David Bodenhamer, executive director of the Polis Center, presents his book “Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives.”
Deep maps are finely detailed, multimedia depictions of a place and the people, buildings, objects, flora, and fauna that exist within it and which are inseparable from the activities of everyday life. These depictions may encompass the beliefs, desires, hopes, and fears of residents and help show what ties one place to another. A deep map is a way to engage evidence within its spatio-temporal context and to provide a platform for a spatially-embedded argument.
The essays in this book investigate deep mapping and the spatial narratives that stem from it. The authors come from a variety of disciplines: history, religious studies, geography and geographic information science, and computer science. Each applies the concepts of space, time, and place to problems central to an understanding of society and culture, employing deep maps to reveal the confluence of actions and evidence and to trace paths of intellectual exploration by making use of a new creative space that is visual, structurally open, multimedia, and multilayered. (Coeditors of this volume are John Corrigan, the Lucius Moody Bristol Distinguished Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Florida State University; and Trevor M. Harris, Eberly Professor of Geography at West Virginia University.) Register here https://bit.ly/1XImMZZ!