Name
CS165 Place-making and mapping: historical, literary and disputed
Date & Time
Thursday, May 22, 2025, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Description

This session explores the power of maps and mapping to shape how we understand place, identity, and history. From settler place-naming practices and their erasures, to the visual interrogation of historical fortifications and colonial geographies, these presentations combine digital tools and spatial thinking to reveal deeper narratives behind boundaries, landmarks, and literature. With perspectives from Canadian towns and literary texts to early colonial forts and interprovincial boundary disputes, this session demonstrates how cartography—past and present—helps reveal contested stories of place and belonging.

  • 10:00 AM
    Say the Names: An Inquiry into Nominal Place
    David Newland, Trent University

  • 10:15 AM
    Vauban at Beauséjour – Historical Perspectives Using GIS
    Christophe Lirette, Mount Allison University

  • 10:30 AM
    Mapping Ann-Marie MacDonald
    Emily Mills, Brock University

  • 10:45 AM
    Mapping the Literary City: Visualizing Literary Geographies with Digital Technologies
    Cameron Brubacher, Concordia University

Location Name
Canal (CB) 2104
Session Type
Session
Abstract ID
CS165
Session Name
CS165 Place-making and mapping: historical, literary and disputed