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Geographer Jörn Seemann to speak at ATU’s celebration of 30 years of its Heritage programme
Event is open to the public (ATU Galway, 16 April, 1pm, Room 1032)
Renowned geographer Jörn Seemann will deliver a public lecture, titled “Telling (Hi)stories and Mapping People, Places, and Memories,” in Atlantic Technological University’s (ATU) Galway City campus on Thursday, 16 April, to mark the close of the year-long 30th anniversary celebrations of ATU’s Heritage programme. Hosted by ATU’s Department of Heritage and Tourism in partnership with the student Heritage Society, the event will take place at 1pm in Room 1032 on the Galway City campus.
Jörn Seemann is Associate Professor of Geography at the School of Earth, Atmosphere, and Sustainability, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA. He received his Master’s degree from Universität Hamburg (1994) and his PhD from Louisiana State University (2010). He taught cartography at two universities in Northeast Brazil from 1998 to 2015.
As a cultural-historical geographer, Professor Seemann is particularly interested in the relations between maps and society, history of geography, map histories, visual narratives, and ways of perceiving, thinking, and representing space and place.
Among his recent projects are topics such as maps, measurement and mobility in Alexander von Humboldt’s travels in South America, colours in historic maps, silences and secrecy in historic tourist maps of Rio de Janeiro, and the geographical imagination of Peace Corps volunteers in Latin America in the 1960s.
Professor Seemann was the Chair of the History of Geography Specialty Group at the American Association of Geographers from 2018 to 2024, joined the Steering Committee for the International Geographical Union Commission on the History of Geography in 2024, and is actively involved in Latin American research communities and networks.
Welcoming the announcement of Professor Seemann’s visit to Galway, Dr Mark McCarthy, Senior Lecturer and Programme Chair in Heritage at ATU said:
Jörn’s talk on mapping people, places, and memories will highlight various methodological questions that are relevant to the field of heritage and the study of interconnections between the past, present, and future.
Since its inception in the 1995–1996 academic year, ATU’s Heritage programme has nurtured a community of scholars and practitioners dedicated to applying historical insights to present-day and future contexts in the heritage sector. For further details on ATU’s BA (Hons) in Heritage, see: www.atu.ie/au625
Picture caption: Jörn Seemann, Associate Professor of Geography at Ball State University, Indiana, USA.
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