The British Council and the Russian State Library are delighted to invite you to an author meeting with Alastair Bonnett, Professor of Social Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University, UK, which will take place on 30 November 2017.
The event is also an opportunity to see a unique exhibition titled The Maps of the Lands of the Russian North: Reality and Myths, currently on display at the Russian State Library.
We look forward to seeing you at 18.00 on Thursday 30 November at Ivanovsky Hall, Russian State Library, Vozdvizhenka 3/5 bld.5 (entrance from Starovagankovsky side street).
This event will be held in English with simultaneous translation.
Admission is free, registration is required.
About the meeting
This is an exciting time for mapping our planet. New sources and volumes of data are making new views possible: world maps can now be produced of, for example, ant species and lightening bolts; twitter relationships and global warming. This talk introduces a new book of fifty world maps and discusses their relevance, importance and, in many cases, their beauty.
As part of the event, Alastair Bonnett will present his new book New Views: The World Mapped Like Never Before.
Alastair Bonnett is visiting Moscow as part of the UK-Russia Year of Science and Education 2017.
Alastair Bonnett
Alastair Bonnett has been Professor of Social Geography at Newcastle University for more than 20 years. His scientific interests vary from geopolitics, sociology, national and cultural identity to problems of globalisation, migration, self-identification, race conflicts and their solutions. He is the author of ten books and more than a hundred of social scientific publications.
In 1990 Alastair Bonnett founded Transgressions: A Journal of Urban Exploration magazine, dedicated to the research of sociocultural landscape of Newcastle and its surroundings.
Key work: The Idea of the West, 2004; What is Geography?, 2008; Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands And Our Search For New Utopias, 2014; New Views: The World Mapped Like Never Before, 2017.
