International Conference Cartographic Challenges

13 January 2009, 9:18am

International Conference on Cartographic Challenges: Movement, Participation, Risk
April 23/24, 2009
Bergamo (Italy)
Languages: English and Italian

Important Dates:

The scientific committee will grant the participation to a limited number of participants only, after careful selection, according to the following schedule:

February 15th – deadline for abstracts and a short CV for asking to participate in the
conference.

February 25th – publication on the conference web site of the final list of participants in the three parallel workshops.

Auditors can follow the conference work by sending their subscription by mail to the conference secretary by March the 30th.

Scope

The conference is an opportunity of encounter among researchers interested in sharing two levels of considerations about cartography: the epistemic one, concerning the communicative role it is playing actually; the empiric one, regarding the production of maps, able to face globalization challenges.

1. Movement Cartography

2. Participatory Mapping

3. Cartography of Risk

Programme and Schedule

The conference will be articulated in three different moments: the first organised in two plenary sessions (introduction and conclusions); the second in three parallel workshops dedicated to the three conference issues; the third presenting an exhibition session (multimedia products and posters) of the products already realised by the different institutions.

The promoters will open the event and point out the problematic nature of the three identified issues. Then, discussants’ presentations will follow, giving suggestions and making questions to which the three parallel workshops – with the participants’ interventions - will have to deal with.

The workshop will be managed by two coordinators in charge of orienting the discussion and choosing a reporter for the last plenary session. In this final session, discussants and reporters will take part in a round table, followed by the promoters’ conclusive notes.

The exhibition session will be freely managed by participants that will be provided with pc devices and a suitable space.

Publication

The scientific results of the conference, after a careful selection and a thematic re-assemblage, will be published on the on-line journals Espace-Temps and suitable content will be offered to be published in the CODATA Data Science Journal.

Furthermore, these papers will be collected in the first volume of the collection

“Autrement dit: le discours cartographique” published by L’Harmattan Paris.

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Conference Secretary:
Federica Burini - fburini@unibg.it
Alessandra Ghisalberti - aleghisa@unibg.it

Conference web site

Full announcement (PDF)

CODATA Data Science Journal

Geo: International