WHEN: Monday May 16, 11 AM (PDT)
10:30 -10:50 AM: Coffee and pastries in the rotunda of the Green Library
11 AM: Livestream presentation starts on the hour—please arrive 10 minutes early
WHERE: The David Rumsey Map Center (Green Library)
Admission: Free and Open to the Public. The event will be streamed live on Facebook—visit our page at 11 AM to catch the stream or like our page to receive a notification when the stream begins.
Sponsored by: Stanford University Press
Join Stanford University Press as we launch our first digital-only project, Enchanting the Desert by Nicholas Bauch, online on Facebook. We’ll be streaming live from the David Rumsey Map Center in the Green Library on campus. Author Nicholas Bauch will showcase this groundbreaking work that expands our collective understanding and appreciation of one of our greatest natural landmarks—the Grand Canyon.
Enchanting the Desert, the pilot project in SUP’s Mellon-funded digital publishing initiative, enriches Henry Peabody’s 1905 slideshow of the Grand Canyon by using complex GIS mapping overlays and virtual recreations of the Canyon’s topography. Peabody’s images were formative for today’s experience of the Canyon, as the views shown on his slides have become the vista points of today’s national park. Eighty essays accompany the historic slideshow, exploring the history and geography of the landmark.
Through his skillful interplay of subject matter and technical features, Bauch raises and answers questions only a digital-born project could make possible and reveals a hidden geography of a landmark that has come to define the American West.
Nicholas Bauch is Geographer-in-Residence at Stanford University.
Learn more about our digital project initiative at sup.org/digital
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