(Image of Dr. Lawrence T. Brown, in a bookstore, and a cover image of his book, The Black Butterfly, with a black outline map of the City of Baltimore).
Dear Colleagues and Friends (with apologies for cross-posting),
We are very pleased to invite you to the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education's Annual Mattson-New York Times Lecture, to be delivered (via Zoom Webinar) by Dr. Lawrence T. Brown, author of The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America (Johns Hopkins, 2021).
Dr. Brown's presentation, entitled: "Building the Abolition Democracy with GIS, Maps, Data, and Archival Materials," will be delivered, via Zoom Webinar, on February 10th, from 6pm-7:30pm, with time for a robust moderated Q and A following the presentation.
Please note: The webinar will also be live-captioned.
The webinar is free and open to the public. Please REGISTER HERE for the Zoom link.
As part of welcoming Dr. Brown and his work to campus (virtually this year),
we have purchased copies of The Black Butterfly to distribute in the USM community (staff, faculty, students, etc.). We have 75 books to distribute, first come, first served. If you are interested in receiving a book,
please fill out this brief request form.
We will host a series of hour-long lunchtime/late-afternoon book discussions in March, following Dr. Brown's virtual visit in February.
Lawrence T. Brown is the founder and director of the Black Butterfly Academy, a racial equity education and consulting firm. From 2013-2019, he served as an assistant and associate professor at Morgan State University in the School of Community Health and Policy, where he launched the #BmoreLEADfree initiative. In 2020, he directed the US COVID-19 Atlas work and response for the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps program in partnership with the University of Chicago Center for Spatial Data Science. His first book The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in January 2021.
We hope you can join us for both the Zoom lecture and Q and A, and the community read. Please invite a friend.
Warmly,
Libby
Libby Bischof, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education
Professor of History
Office: 113 Glickman Library, Portland Campus (inside the Osher Map Library)
Office Phone: 207-780-4281
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