NACIS 2024

Meghan Kelly, Syracuse University; Jim Thatcher, Oregon State University; Bill Limpisathian, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Heather Rosenfeld, Smith College; Laura Kurtzberg, Florida International University; LaToya Gray-Sparks, Virginia Commonwealth University; Avery Everhart, University of British Columbia

What should cartographic curricula look like today? Our mapping tools, theoretical approaches and concepts, readings, assignments, and strategies for assessment are shifting. Also in flux are those who are recognized as doing mapping or teaching. Such changes call for reflection and updates. Here, we convene early-career educators who are devising new cartography curricula for new classes or are rethinking and revising existing curricula through critical cartographic and pedagogic lenses. Our panelists will share and discuss their experiences, insights, and new visions for cartographic curricula that reflect contemporary cartography and pedagogy in both theory and practice.

Nat Case, INCase, LLC; Aileen Buckley, Esri; Martin Gamache, National Geographic Society; Neil Allen, East View Companies; Tim Wallace, New York Times; Brooke Marston, U.S. State Department

What would a general code of ethics in cartography look like? Any code needs some sort of structure to back it up: companies, licensing professional groups, and some organizations have them, with varying degrees of enforcement. So as a field where practitioners are unlicensed, work for a wide range of employers and clients, and come from spectrum of educational and work backgrounds, is there a basis for a broader code? Do we as cartographers have a way of standing up to non-cartographers who ask us do things that are “wrong” as mapping? This panel discussion will start with short presentations by presenters about how codes of ethics work within their work context, and then we will discuss how these might be reflected into the wider field.