{"id":351,"date":"2025-11-30T22:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T03:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cartographies\/?page_id=351"},"modified":"2026-01-04T19:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:41:43","slug":"courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cartographies\/courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Courses\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                                    \n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.carleton.ca\/search\/?search=GEOG+4023\">GEOG&nbsp;4023<\/a> (Winter 2026) &#8211; Seminar in Special Topics on the City: Cartographies of War<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Available in-person to Carleton University students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instructor: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/canadianstudies\/people\/jerzy-jurek-elzanowski\/\">Jerzy (Jurek) El\u017canowski<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Email: jerzy.elzanowski@carleton.ca<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays 14:35-15:55<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">Please email the instructor if you need a course override. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download DRAFT course outline <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cartographies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/140\/2026\/01\/Elzanowski_GEOG_4023_251231-PRINT.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Course Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have your news feeds ever showed heartbreaking disaster maps?&nbsp; Maybe this happened earlier in the year during the ongoing bombings of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/28\/mariupol-before-and-after-updated-google-maps-reveal-destruction-in-ukraine-city\">Ukrainian<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/graphics\/ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS\/MAPS\/movajdladpa\/\">Gazan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/longform\/2025\/4\/14\/animated-maps-show-two-years-of-war-in-sudan\">Sudanese<\/a> cities, or when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/01\/08\/weather\/los-angeles-fire-maps-california.html\">fires were consuming LA suburbs<\/a>? Have you seen recent maps of illegal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/10\/29\/us\/us-caribbean-pacific-boat-strikes.html\">US military boat attacks<\/a> in the Caribbean? The media world is filled with damage maps. We\u2019re used to seeing disasters and wars as cartographic visualizations of data and comparative before-and-after satellite images of buildings, but what about the living beings who suffer death, loss, and displacement?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this course you\u2019ll contribute to humanizing damage cartography by engaging in an <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">exciting new research project <\/strong>and scholarly network called <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Cartographies of Loss: The Afterlives of War<\/strong>. Course readings and assignments will be based around a recent network conference held at Carleton in September 2025. We\u2019ll take recordings of <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cartographies\/homepage\/program\/\">conference lectures<\/a> as well as texts authored by conference participants, pairing them with <a href=\"https:\/\/wardamageatlas.org\/index.html\">archival maps<\/a> and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2020\/02\/17\/the-terror-and-the-fascination-of-pompeii\">primary sources<\/a>, to make sense of fresh scholarship in the fields of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/urban-history\/article\/cartographies-of-catastrophe-mapping-world-war-ii-destruction-in-germany-and-poland\/1FA260C8F755005A1D4F8F3071A9F57E\">post-catastrophic urban history<\/a> and disaster studies. Historical work will focus on <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Central Europe and the Middle East<\/strong>, but students are welcome to research any region in the world. Join this course, and you\u2019ll get to co-create an online atlas of current and historical damage maps, <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">building awareness of the impacts of war on human and other than human collectivities<\/strong> around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions about registering, or if you\u2019d like to know more about the reading list, assignments, and evaluation, feel welcome to email me at any time for more information or just register and join us for the outline overview during the first class. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cartographies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/140\/2025\/12\/2-Screenshot-2025-11-28-at-11.09.33-PM.png\" alt=\"Cartographies of War\" class=\"wp-image-369\" style=\"width:826px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cartographies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/140\/2025\/12\/2-Screenshot-2025-11-28-at-11.09.33-PM.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cartographies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/140\/2025\/12\/2-Screenshot-2025-11-28-at-11.09.33-PM-512x381.png 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cartographies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/140\/2025\/12\/2-Screenshot-2025-11-28-at-11.09.33-PM-320x238.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course Description: Have your news feeds ever showed heartbreaking disaster maps?&nbsp; Maybe this happened earlier in the year during the ongoing bombings of Ukrainian, Gazan and Sudanese cities, or when fires were consuming LA suburbs? Have you seen recent maps of illegal US military boat attacks in the Caribbean? 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