{"id":31897,"date":"2022-03-24T07:21:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T12:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/?page_id=31897"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:52:21","slug":"agsl-news-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/agsl\/agsl-news-events\/","title":{"rendered":"News &amp; Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row uwm-l-row--3\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-agsl-lectures\">AGSL Lectures<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\" id=\"h-maps-amp-america-the-arthur-holzheimer-lecture-series\">Maps &amp; America: The Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The AGSL hosts a number of lecture series, events, and exhibits throughout the year.&nbsp;To receive email updates about any of our&nbsp;lectures, send an email to <a href=\"mailto:agsl@uwm.edu\">agsl@uwm.edu<\/a> with the subject: lectures &amp; exhibits updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>April 30, 2026<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/agsl\/agsl-news-events\/maps-america\/\">Maps &amp; America: The Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Maps &amp; America: The Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series will continue with speaker Dr. Julio Pedrassoli, Associate Professor at University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP), Adjunct Professor &#8211;&nbsp;Western Michigan University (WMU), &amp; MapBiomas&nbsp;Urban Area Mapping Team Coordinator.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/agsl\/agsl-news-events\/maps-america\/maps-america-2026-registration\/\">Register for In-person Attendance<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsin-edu.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_loYe4a2YTqWEmch6lO-T0w\">Register for Virtual Attendance<\/a><br><br><em>About the speaker:<\/em><br>Julio Pedrassoli is a remote sensing scientist and geographer, holding a PhD in Human Geography from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP). His research focuses on mapping urban expansion and housing\u2013poverty dynamics in the Global South. He is an Associate Professor at USP and Adjunct Professor at Western Michigan University (WMU). In 2025, he was selected for the NASA Lifelines \u2013 Ready for Impact program, proposing a tropical-scale urban risk mapping system. A former Research Scholar at Columbia University\u2019s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, he develops advanced methods for mapping informal settlements. He serves on the Steering Committee of the IGU Urban Commission, is part of the coordination of the Network Association of European Researchers on Urbanisation in the South (N-AERUS) and leads urban mapping within the MapBiomas initiative.<br><br><em>About the lecture:<\/em><br>Dr.&nbsp;Pedrassoli&nbsp;will lecture about&nbsp;his work with&nbsp;MapBiomas,&nbsp;where he is&nbsp;the&nbsp;urban mapping specialist.&nbsp;MapBiomas&nbsp;is&nbsp;a Brazilian-founded&nbsp;initiative that uses cloud computing, machine learning, and decades of satellite imagery to produce large\u2011scale, time\u2011series environmental maps.&nbsp;Dr.&nbsp;Pedrassoli&nbsp;will also&nbsp;analyze the societal impacts of organizing mapping through a broad collaborative network of academics, NGOs, tech companies, and civil society.&nbsp;Through the lens of counter-cartography, the lecture examines how such an arrangement shapes data transparency, methodological openness, and the public circulation of territorial information, particularly in deforestation, land-use change, climate governance, and land conflicts.&nbsp;The Brazilian experience is finally situated as a reference model that has been replicated across South America and the tropical world as a source of institutional and methodological innovation in cartographic practice.&nbsp;<br><br>Held in the spring of each year in the AGSL on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus, the&nbsp;<em>Maps &amp; America<\/em>&nbsp;Lecture Series was inaugurated by the noted cartographic historian, Brian Harley, in 1990. Since its inception, the lecture series has been generously sponsored by Arthur and Janet Holzheimer of the Chicago area. Over the years, the series has featured many of the leading figures in the field of map history and provided a multifaceted survey of this rapidly developing field.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you would like to help support the AGSL\u2019s preservation efforts, you can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/36kkymb\/7tpirf1l\/bld632x\">donate here<\/a>. Just choose \u201cother funds\u201d under designations and search or scroll to find the AGSL.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-academic-adventurers-series\">Academic Adventurers Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Our 2025-2026 Academic Adventurer series has concluded. Thank you so much to our attendees! The series will return in the fall.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to help support the AGSL\u2019s preservation efforts, you can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/36kkymb\/7tpirf1l\/bld632x\">donate here<\/a>. Just choose \u201cother funds\u201d under designations and search or scroll to find the AGSL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-uwm-department-of-geography-lectures\">51ÁÔÆæ Department of Geography Lectures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-colloquy\">Colloquy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Each academic year the AGSL hosts the 51ÁÔÆæ Geography Department\u2019s colloquium from 3:00-4:00pm (fall) or 2:30-3:30 (spring) on Friday afternoons.&nbsp;For more information see the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/geography\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Geography\u2019s calendar of events.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-harold-and-florence-mayer-lecture-series\">Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture Series<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This lecture series is sponsored by the Department of Geography and held in the AGSL in the fall and spring. It is made possible by an endowment from Harold and Florence Mayer. Harold Mayer (1916 \u2013 1994) was a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and one of the leading scholars in the field of urban geography in the twentieth century. 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