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Maps & America: The Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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2026 Maps & America Lecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

April 30, 2026 \u2013<\/strong> Maps & America: The Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series will continue on Thursday, April 30, 2026, with speaker Dr. Julio Pedrassoli \u2013 associate professor at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo, adjunct professor at Western Michigan University, and MapBiomas Urban Area Mapping team coordinator \u2013 for his presentation \u201cMapping Brazil from Within: Remote Sensing, Collaboration, and Counter-Cartographic Perspectives.\u201d The event will open with a reception at 5:30 p.m., and the lecture will begin at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the speaker:<\/em>
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.

About the lecture:<\/em>
Dr. Pedrassoli will lecture about his work with MapBiomas, where he is the urban mapping specialist. MapBiomas is a Brazilian-founded initiative that uses cloud computing, machine learning, and decades of satellite imagery to produce large\u2011scale, time\u2011series environmental maps. Dr. Pedrassoli will also analyze the societal impacts of organizing mapping through a broad collaborative network of academics, NGOs, tech companies, and civil society. 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. 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. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Held in the spring of each year in the AGSL on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus, the Maps & America<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Holzheimer Maps and America Lectures 1990-2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

April 24, 2025<\/strong>
Ian Spangler<\/strong>, Assistant Curator of Digital and Participatory Geography, Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library
Emily Bowe<\/strong>, Assistant Director, Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library
Processing Place: How Computers and Cartographers Redrew our World<\/em>
Visit the companion exhibit to the lecture here: AGSL’s Pixelating Place<\/a>
The video presentation of the talk will be available soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 11, 2024<\/strong>
Tim Wallace<\/strong>, Senior Editor for Geography at The New York Times<\/em>
Newsroom Cartography<\/em>
Visit the companion exhibit to the lecture here: Maps in the News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n