Name
CS104-A Maps, Memories, and the Digital
Date & Time
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Description

This session brings together scholars and mapmakers and memory holders to discuss how spatial expressions such as maps are used to trigger, commemorate, preserve, circulate, visualize, and analyze memories. We will also examine how digital technologies, such as digital archiving, artificial intelligence, and online mapping, are reshaping individual and collective spatial memories.

  • 10:15 AM
    Mapping Memory and Identity: The Confluence of Oral Histories, Cemetery Mapping, and the Irish Diaspora in Saint-Colomban
    Kelly O'Rourke, Concordia University

    10:30 AM
    Mapping a Cartographic Memorial
    Sébastien Caquard, Concordia University

    10:45 AM
    Passing on Indigenous Memory. Mapping Practices, Processes and Land Retrocession in French Guiana
    Elise Olmedo, Passages Laboratory, CNRS – Center for National Scientific Research, Bordeaux, France

    11:00 AM
    Espaces de mémoire, espaces de lutte : cartographies culturelles et résistances dans la Petite-Bourgogne
    Caroline Flory-Célini, Institut National de Recherche Scientifique

    11:15 AM
    Mapping Memory and Power: The Cartographic Challenges of Mirabel’s Expropriation
    Flandrine Lusson, Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Location Name
Canal (CB) 2104
Session Type
Session
Speaker Name
Lea Denieul Pinsky
Speaker Organization
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS-CS)
Session Name
CS104-A Maps, Memories and the Digital