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Mattson-New York Times Lecture at Osher Map Library

April 28, 2004

Maps will be used to illustrate the changing nature of America's national identity in a lecture scheduled for 6:30 p.m., this Thursday, April 29, in USM's Glickman Family Library, Portland.

Professor John Rennie Short of Syracuse University will give the 7th Mattson-New York Times Lecture. Short will speak on "Cartographic Encounters in the West," from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. A reception will be held at 6 p.m. The program marks the first public event in the University Room for Special Events on the top floor of the Glickman Library. It is free and open to the public.

The program is sponsored by the Osher Library Associates and the USM Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education. For more information, call 780-4850.

Short is author and editor of numerous books and articles, most recently "Representing the Republic: Mapping the United States, 1600 - 1900" (Reaktion, 2001), "Alternative Geographies" (Prentice Hall, 2000), and "Globalization and the City" (Longman Higher Education, 1999).

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