2018 Annual Lecture

Event Flier: The Social Epistemology of Maps

The Social Epistemology of Maps

Speaker: Rebecca Kukla (Georgetown University)

Tuesday, May 1
Starts at 2:30 p.m.
Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library

Maps are physical entities shaped by the technological, social, economic, and political conditions in which they are generated. They are also potential tools of social power. I argue that there is no such thing as a neutral map; any map is structured by interest-ridden judgments about how to balance epistemic risks. I explore several ways in which values and interests are built into the production of maps and their epistemic function.

Flier (pdf)

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