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🎟️ Get Tickets: https://www.historycolorado.org/events-experiences#event=map-month-2024-colonialism-in-the-cartouche-imagery-and-power-in-early-modern-maps;instance=20240528173000?popup=1History Colorado and Rocky Mountain Map Society present Colonialism in the Cartouche: Imagery and Power in Early Modern Maps with Chet Van Duzer.
The role of maps as tools of colonial control is well known; the decorative cartouches on maps
are the places where the cartographer often signals to the viewer his or her interests or
prejudices, but the colonialist messages conveyed by cartouches are underexplored. This
lecture examines colonialist imagery in several cartouches from the end of the seventeenth to the
early nineteenth century both to show the visual vocabulary of this colonialist discourse, and to
stimulate further study of cartouches of this type.
This presentation will take place in the Lanny and Sharon Martin Family Foundation Room on the 4th floor of the History Colorado Center.
About the Speaker
Chet Van Duzer is a historian of cartography and a board member of the Lazarus Project at the
University of Rochester, which brings multispectral imaging (a technology for recovering
information from damaged manuscripts) to cultural institutions around the world. He has
published extensively on medieval and Renaissance maps; his recent books include Henricus
Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence, Martin
Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends, and
Frames that Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps. His current project is on self-portraits
by cartographers that appear on maps.
Date: May 28
Time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location: History Colorado Center
1200 North Broadway
Denver, Colorado United States
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1200 Broadway, Denver, CO, United States, Colorado 80203
