We want to see you for trivia! · Thursday, May 26, 6pm ET

We’re excited that one of our most popular in-person events, geography trivia night, is returning again for the first time since winter 2020! Join us and the Charles River Conservancy on Thursday, May 26 at 6pm in the Newsfeed Café at the Central Library. Bring your friends and compete for some map-related prizes (and geographic bragging rights). We’ll have trivia rounds featuring a historical scavenger hunt with Atlascope, questions about the Charles River, and tests of your modern Charles River pop culture knowledge. Drinks and food will be available for purchase.

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Online Event: Urban Development and Community Resilience in Roxbury · May 24, 6pm

What can we learn from the legacies of movements to create community land trusts and how can these lessons help inspire sustainable development in Boston? Join us for the next event in our Continued Conversations exhibition series as we speak with the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) about organizing and community control in Roxbury. DSNI Executive Director John Smith and Director of Community Organizing René Mardones will explain the origins of DSNI and discuss current initiatives as we walk through the neighborhood’s history using maps from our collections.

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Take a long trip into the 18th Century Qing Dynasty

Our newest MacLean Collection Map Chat features a colossal map—nearly twenty feet long!—in an interactive story written by MacLean fellow Anne-Sophie Pratte. In this eighteenth century accordion folded book from the Qing Dynasty, you can explore the Qianlong Emperor’s travels. Scroll your window to navigate the hills and valleys of the imperial routes from Beijing to the Qing ancestral tombs in Manchuria.

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Summer 2022 Writing Group for Geography & History

Are you worried the lazy, hazy days of summer might leave you with writer’s block? Need a quiet space to focus that isn’t your kitchen table? We’re reserving our reading room on six Tuesday mornings this summer for a writer’s group open to anyone working on an academic project. If you’re a graduate student, early career scholar, or a writer with a project related to history and geography, join us for coffee and tea, a quiet workspace, and a space to share progress on your work.

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Last call: Exhibition Curatorial Fellow posting closes May 23

We’re almost at the end of our hiring call for the Exhibition Curatorial Fellow who will help us shape our 2023 exhibition, Building Up, focused on local-scale history in Greater Boston and the stories that can be discovered in our collection of fire insurance atlases. Applications are due May 23, so be sure to submit before Monday night if you’re looking to apply.

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