Welcome to Science: Laura Bliss, Author of The Quarantine Atlas
Author, Bloomberg CityLab journalist and MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow Laura Bliss presents The Quarantine Atlas: Mapping Global Life Under Covid-19 (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2022). Through 65 homemade maps and 8 original essays, the book offers a window into what individuals around the world were experiencing during the crisis and its resonant social consequences. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, co-creator of Nonstop Metropolis and author of Names of New York called it “an indelible account–often funny, sometimes sad, always revelatory–of how a microbe changed the ways that humans everywhere relate to place. A treasure.”
Copies of the book will be available for purchase on site; a book signing will follow the speaking portion of the event. This event is free and open to the public, and is co-sponsored by the MIT Press Bookstore and the MIT Welcome Center.
The Quarantine Atlas at the Boston Public Library
Writer and journalist Laura Bliss will discuss her recent book, The Quarantine Atlas: Mapping Global Life Under COVID-19, which explores reader-submitted maps of their lives during the coronavirus pandemic.
Sculptor and graphic designer Rajiv Raman will join the conversation, which will be moderated by Garnette Cadogan, who is the Tunney Lee Distinguished Lecturer in Urbanism at the School of Architecture and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Following the talk, there will be time for audience Q&A, and the program will conclude at 7 PM with an author signing facilitated by Porter Square Books.
The Quarantine Atlas at Smith College
Laura Bliss will present insights from her book The Quarantine Atlas: Mapping Global Life Under COVID-19. She is invited on campus as part of the Landscape Studies LSS 100 speakers program. The event is free and open to the public.
Open House New York presents The Quarantine Atlas
What stories can maps tell about our lives during the pandemic?
OHNY Board Member Saundra Thomas will moderate a conversation with editor Laura Bliss about The Quarantine Atlas and the largely invisible changes that COVID-19 made on our environment, documented through maps.