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CIIS Minna Street Center

January 21 - January 21, 2012

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695 Minna Street Second Floor San Francisco, CA 94103
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Mapping the Social Geographies of Laramie, Wyoming Velocity, Ferocity and the Gem City
"A map of Jakarta or Quito is a map of a place you can imagine walking; and a map of home shows you where you are, where you’ve been, and who is there with you. Mostly maps show us what we expect, but that is just a convention: you might more often need to know where the highways are than the bird migration routes, but both are equally real." (Solnit) When Beth Loffreda, director of the University of Wyoming’s writing program asked Rebecca Solnit to propose a student project to complete while in residence at the school, Solnit proposed an atlas of Laramie. The students took up the challenge, working with artist/cartographers Shizue Seigel and Ben Pease to map the narratives of this small Western town, where salons are more numerous than saloons and where a warming planet intersects with a Cold War. Please join us for readings and discussion about Laramie, Wyoming, mapping human geographies, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Rebecca Solnit is joined by cartographer/designers Shizue Seigel and Ben Pease, and U. Wyo. MFA student, Kelly Herbinson. Refreshments will be served! The exhibition, Laramie: A Gem City Atlas, is on view in the Minna Street Center Gallery. This event is co-sponsored with the CIIS MFA program.