# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Radical Cartography: How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World/Author Event with William Rankin 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 19 Nov, 2025 at 02:00 pm
- **Event Description**: oin us for a presentation and moderated conversation with cartographer and historian William Rankin, to celebrate the release of his new book, Radical Cartography: How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World. 

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“This is it: the full download from a true genius of cartography. Radical Cartography will make you see maps, and, indeed, your place on the planet, with fresh eyes.”—Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire.

A stunning, thought-provoking exploration of how maps shape our understanding of the world—featuring over 150 full-color maps in a gorgeous package

Maps are ubiquitous in contemporary life­­—not just for navigation, but for making sense of our society, our environment, and even ourselves. In an instant, huge datasets can be plotted on command and we can explore faraway places in exacting detail. Yet the new ease and speed of data mapping can often lead to the same results as ever: over-simplified maps are used as tools for top-down control.

Cartographer and historian William Rankin argues that it’s time to reimagine what a map can be and how it can be used. Maps are not neutral visualizations of facts. They are innately political, defining how the world is divided, what becomes visible and what stays hidden, and whose voices are heard. What matters isn’t the topics or the data, but how maps make arguments about how the world works. And the consequences are enormous. A map’s visual argument can change how cities are designed and how rivers flow, how wars are fought and how land claims are settled, how children learn about race and how colonialism becomes a habit of mind. Maps don’t just show us information—they help construct our world.

Brimming with vibrant maps, including many “radical” maps created by Rankin himself and by other cutting-edge mapmakers, Radical Cartography exposes the consequences of how maps represent boundaries, layers, people, projections, color, scale, and time. Challenging the map as a tool of the status quo, Rankin empowers readers to embrace three unexpected values for the future of cartography: uncertainty, multiplicity, and subjectivity. Changing the tools—changing the maps—can change the questions we ask, the answers we accept, and the world we build.

William Rankin is a historian of science at Yale University, where he focuses on the history of mapping and the geographic sciences. Born and raised outside Chicago, he was originally trained as an architect before receiving a dual PhD in the history of science and architecture from Harvard. In addition to his work as a historian, he is also an award-winning cartographer, and his maps—available at www.radicalcartography.net—have appeared in numerous books, magazines, and exhibits around the world.

Please register so we can set the community room up with appropriate seating.

Books will be for sale at this event.
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Avon
- **state**: CT
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 281 Country Club Rd, Avon, CT, United States, Connecticut 06001
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