UNC professor Richard Talbert will speak on “Rome and the Power of Creative Cartography, A.D. 300-1500” at 4 p.m. Oct. 18 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
UNC professor Richard Talbert will speak on “Rome and the Power of Creative Cartography, A.D. 300-1500” at 4 p.m. Oct. 18 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The free public talk by Talbert, Ph.D., distinguished professor of history and adjunct professor of classics, will be in the auditorium of the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building at 325 Pittsboro Street.
Talbert will discuss meaning and purpose in the lone surviving map of the Roman world. He will hold that maps are not only factual records, but also documents that create and shape meaning. Talbert identifies the map as a pivotal moment in Western cartography, with a long-term cultural impact that influenced Christian mapmaking until the Renaissance.
Talbert founded UNC’s Ancient World Mapping Center, based in the College of Arts and Sciences, which promotes cartography, historical geography and geographic information science through research, teaching and community outreach. He edited Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World.
Talbert’s talk will be this year’s E.M. Adams Lecture presented by the Program in the Humanities and Human Values, part of the College of Arts and Sciences. The late Adams, a chair of UNC’s philosophy department, helped create the program and chaired its advisory board for seven years. He wrote or edited 12 books and received the University’s Thomas Jefferson Award, which honors a Carolina faculty member judged to have exemplified the ideals and objectives of Thomas Jefferson.
For more information and to sign up for a reception and dinner honoring Talbert after the lecture, call (919) 962-1544.
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Program in the humanities and human values contact: Melissa Staples, (919) 843-9387, Melissa_staples@unc.edu