Cartography & Culture: Mapping the Early American South

Cartography & Culture

Mapping the Early American South

September 11-12, 2020

MESDA’s seminars provide a forum for collectors, curators, scholars, and conservators to explore topics related to a range of decorative arts media.  This year, “Mapping and Migration” will offer a multicultural perspective on how the use of maps in the early South influenced patterns of migration and established settlements of British, French, Spanish, African, and Native American peoples. 

From the earliest mapping of North America by European navigators to campaigns during the French & Indian War and the American Revolution to further exploration through westward expansion, join us as we delve into how different communities used maps as tools to establish unique visions of the American South.

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Cartography & Culture is generously sponsored by
Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Holcomb

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REGISTRATION

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February 4th – Registration opens to members of the Frank L. Horton Society
February 11th – General Registration opens

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*This program is anticipated to sell out.  Please note that members of the Frank L. Horton Society receive priority registration privileges, as well as a discount on their tickets.  To receive your Frank L. Horton Society discount, please be sure you register and/or sign in with your Old Salem Museums & Gardens username and password.  If you would like to join the Frank L. Horton Society, or if you would like to learn more, please click here.

PROGRAM
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FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Margaret Pritchard, moderator

Susan Schulten, Keynote: “Maps that Made the South”

Philip Burden, Mapping North America in the Age of Exploration

Daniel Crouch, Visconte Maggiolo’s 1527 Map of North America

Brent Lane, John White’s 1585 Map of the North Carolina Outer Banks

Lucie Stylianopoulos, “A Tale of Two Maps: Finding the Indigenous Perspective in Carolina”

Katie McKinney, William Gerard de Brahm’s 1757 Map of the Lowcountry

Johanna Brown, Conservation of Andreas Hoger’s 1754 Map of Wachovia

Bill Wooldridge, “America as Eden”

Matthew Edney, John Mitchell’s 1755 Map of North America

Mike McNamara, Lewis Evans’s 1755 Map of the Middle Colonies

Christian Koot, “A Biography of a Map: Augustine Herrman’s Virginia and Maryland (1673)”

Dale Loberger, Applying Technology in the Search of Colonial Roads

Richard Brown, Mapping Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution

Daniel Ackermann, Mapping the South’s Westward Expansion
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SCHEDULE:
subject to amendment

Friday, September 11

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Saturday, September 12

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