At the Spokane ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in August 2007, a guest named Maurice brought in a large and weathered-looking atlas, which he explained to appraiser Stephen Massey had passed down to him from his ...

A famous one-paragraph story by Jorge Luis Borges describes an Empire’s cartography guild that made a map so accurate that it was as large as the Empire itself. This story illustrates both the ideal ...

Colonial explorers created elaborate maps to track where they were going and to pinpoint their finds as they moved into the “New World.” The maps also made for good propaganda. They showed exotic ...

Hari Har Jnawali receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to work on the project "Population Resettlements in Ethnic Territories of South Asia: Why and How ...

Last week, Harvard University Jewish studies professor Derek Penslar and Hebrew University sociology and anthropology professor and former human rights lawyer Yael Berda discussed “settler colonialism ...

"On classroom walls from Lagos to London", the standard map of the world depicts an "inflated Britain at the centre" and a dramatically "shrunken Africa", said The Times. But this could soon change.