Festivals & Maps

The city of Chicago is playing host to two festivals this month. First is the Festival of Maps - with an amazing array of exhibits and events related to the history of cartography. Of special note, to me, are European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750: Maps from the Collection of O.J. Sopranos, Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the American West, Ptolemy’s Geography and Renaissance Mapmakers, and An Atlas of Radical Cartography among many others. In conjunction, the Chicago Tribune has put up some maps from their collection as well. I am really keen on this one on the British Empire (sadly not at a decent resolution...).

The other festival is 18th Annual Chicago Humanities Festival which features a talk by noted world historian, William H. McNeill.