Theses

  • 2024 - Denieul-Pinsky L. "Mapping Cadastral Records as Evidence of Colonial Land Theft: A Kanehsata'kehró:non-backed Investigation into the Archives of Quebec’s Sulpician Priests" (PhD Thesis)
  • 2024 - O'Rourke K. "Grave Matters: Mapping the Untold Stories of the Saint-Colomban Cemetery" (MSc Thesis)
  • 2024 - Parish A. "Mapping Montreal Flaneurs' Stories" (MSc thesis)
  • 2024 - Shahamati S. “Mapping the Invisible City: Revealing the Intangible Heritage of Parc-Extension through Narrative Cartography" (PhD Thesis)
  • 2024 - Brubacher C. “Emotional Cartography: A Geocritical Analysis of Montréal’s Mid-20th Century Novels” (Honors Thesis) (MSc Thesis)
  • 2024 - Bengle, S. “Dessiner l’écoute : cartographie d’entretiens autour de la vie et de l’œuvre de Jean-Paul Riopelle" (MSc Thesis)
  • 2022 - Alavez J. “If I die Far from You: Deep Mapping Grief and Loss in the Context of Migration”, (PhD thesis)
  • 2021 - Valcourt T. “Aerial Perspectives, Landscape, and Power: Politicized Images in Art and Visual Culture”, (PhD thesis in Humanities – Main Supervisor: J. Sloan)
  • 2020 - Parish A. "Mapping Montreal Flaneurs' Stories" (MSc thesis)
  • 2019 - Novkovic A. “Alley Atlas: from non-place to place in six maps” (MSc thesis)
  • 2018 - Honarmand, F. “Cinema and the Production of Spatial Memories: Fifty Years of Representing 1960s Montréal in Québécois Films” (MSc Thesis)
  • 2018 - McGurk, T. “Indigenous online Mapping in Canada - Decolonizing or recolonizing forms of spatial expressions?” (MSc Thesis)
  • 2017 - Shaw, E. 2017. “Parsing Perceptions of Place: Locative and Textual Representations of Place Émilie-Gamelin on Twitter” (MSc Thesis)
  • 2017 - Wang, M. “Following the Spread of Zika with Social Media: The Potential of Using Twitter to Track Epidemic Disease” (MSc Thesis)
  • 2017 - Markovsky N. “Mapping Services for Refugees in Montréal”, (Honors Thesis)
  • 2016 - Ng-Chan, T. “Detouring the Commute (the art and practice of everyday travel)”, (PhD Thesis)
  • 2015 - Yang, M. “The Route Towards The Shawshank Redemption: Mapping Set-jetting with Social Media” (MSc Thesis)
  • 2015 - Dimitrovas, S. “Putting Storytelling Back on the Map: A Comparative Analysis of Online Cartographic Applications to Map Life Stories” (Honors Thesis)
  • 2013 - Naud, D. “Les discours ruraux, urbains et périurbains du cinéma québécois”, (PhD Thesis)
  • 2013 - Plenzich, P. “# Protest: Geographic Data Mining of Twitter Content Based in Montreal, Quebec” (Honors Thesis)
  • 2012 - De Melo, A. “Living with Wind Farms: A Case Study in St. Ulric, Québec”, (Honors Thesis)
  • 2012 - Gregory, J. A. “Place and Displacement: Mapping Kouchibouguac” (Honors Thesis)

Exhibitions

  • 2024 - Amakarita Mbarankuru y’Urwibutso // Mapping Memory – Atlases of Rwandan Life Story, Genocide Memorial of Kigali, Gisozi, Rwanda, June 7 – 16, 2024 (co-organizers: S. Caquard, M-J Gicali, E. Kayiganwa, A. Kamanzi, É. Olmedo, S. Bengle, and many others)
  • 2023 - Cartographies de la mémoire - Atlas des récits de vie rwandais // Mapping Memory – Atlases of Rwandan Life Story, Centre d’Histoire Orale et de Récits Numérisés (COHDS-CHORN), Concordia University, April 28 – May 18, 2023 (co-organizers: S. Caquard, É. Olmedo, E. Kayiganwa, S. Bengle, M. Lavorel, S. Gasana, K. O’Rourke, M-J Gicali and many others)
  • Workshops & Events

    • 2024 - Mémorial cartographique à la mémoire des victimes du génocide contre les Tutsi du Rwanda, 27 avril 2024, Atelier de cartographie collaborative organisé en collaboration avec l’association Page-Rwanda, Cathédrale Marie Mère du Monde, Montréal, April 28, 2024 (Co-organizers: S. Caquard, M-J Gicali).
    • 2022 - Mapping Stories: Alternative Methods, Tools and Practices (a series of 4 workshops) COHDS, Montreal (co-organizers: J. Alavez, Y. Baumann, S. Bengle, S. Caquard, É. Olmedo, L. Pinsky-Denieul, K. Pinvidic, S. Shahamati, and E. Shaw)
    • 2022 - Mapping Oral History: How to Create a Free Online Story Atlas with Atlascine (1h30 online workshop) COHDS, Montreal (co-organizers: S. Caquard, E. Shaw & S. Shahamati)
    • 2021 - Mapping Indigenous Stories with Atlascine (a series of 3 virtual workshop sessions), Indigenous Mapping Workshop 2021, Turtle Island, on November 1st-5th, 2021 (co-organizers: Sébastien Caquard, Emory Shaw and Léa. Denieul)
    • 2021 - Series of conversations around Maps & Stories, Montreal (QC), Feb 3, Feb 25, March 23, April 8, and June 3, 2021 (co-organizers Sébastien Caquard, José Alavez, Léa Denieul, Élise Olmedo, Sepideh Shahamati, and Emory Shaw)
    • 2018 - MappingBack Designing Alternative Indigenous Maps (a series of 8 workshop sessions organized in the context of the Indigenous Mapping Workshop), Montreal (QC), Aug. 20-23, 2018 (co-organizers: Annita Lucchesi, Tom McGurk, Heather Elliott & Sébastien Caquard)
    • 2017- Indigenous Cartographies of Extractive Conflicts, Concordia University, Montreal, Oct. 14-16, 2017 (co-organizers: Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, Leah Temper, Tom McGurk & Sébastien Caquard)
    • 2017 - Maps and Emotions, The George Washington University, Washington DC, July 1-2, 2017 (co-organizers: Amy Griffin, Alex Kent & Sébastien Caquard)
    • 2017 - Mapping my own life story: A workshop series on artistic cartography, Concordia University, Montreal, May 18, May 25 and June 9, 2017 (co-organizers: Stefanie Dimitrovas, Emory Shaw, Jose Alavez & Sébastien Caquard)
    • 2016 - Arts & Craftographies, Concordia University, Montreal, Dec. 9, 2016 (organizer: Emory Shaw & GeoGrads)
    • 2015 - Community mapping Summit, Concordia University, Montreal, Nov. 25-27, 2015 (co-organizers: Peter Keller, Steven High, Maeve Lydon, Crystal Tremblay, Susan Eden & Sébastien Caquard)
    • 2015 - Mapping Ephemeralities / Ephemeral Cartographies, Rio de Janeiro, August 21-22, 2015 (co-organizers: Taien Ng-Chan, Laurene Vaughan, Chris Perkins, Jörn Seemann & Sébastien Caquard)
    • 2014 - Cartographier les récits : enjeux méthodologiques et technologiques, 82e congrès de l’ACFAS, Université Concordia, Montréal (QC) / 12-13 mai 2014 (Co-organizers: Thierry Joliveau & Sébastien Caquard)
    • 2013 - Maps and Games, Workshop, Dresden, Aug. 24th, 2013 (Co-organizers: Barbara Piatti, Chris Perkins & Sébastien Caquard)
    • 2012 - Cartography and Narratives, Workshop, ETH Zurich, June 11-13, 2012 (Co-organizers: Barbara Piatti, Anne-Kathrin Reuschel & Sébastien Caquard)
    • 2011 - Mapping Processes and Practices: Arts, Maps and Society, Workshop, Institut de Géographie, Paris, July 2nd, 2011 (Co-organizers: Chris Perkins & Sébastien Caquard)
    • 2010 - Mapping Environmental Issues in the City: Arts and Cartography Cross perspectives, Workshop Concordia University, Sept. 8-10, 2010 (Co-organizers: Vaughan L., Cartwright W. & Sébastien Caquard)

    Papers & Book Chapters/Reviews

      2024

    • Olmedo É., Kayiganwa E. and Caquard S. (2024) Co-Creative Mapping of Memory, The Handbook of Cartographic Humanities, T. Rossetto and L. Lo Presti (eds.): Routledge, 291-391.
    • 2023

    • Alavez J. and Caquard S. (2023) Mapping-Ofrenda: Mapping as Mourning in the Context of Migration, Journal of Cultural Geography, 40:1, 21-46, https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2023.2187490
    • Denieul-Pinsky, L. (2023). (Re)purposing cadasters: When ecclesiastical archives advocate for Indigenous land rights. Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes,1–17 https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12883
    • Denieul-Pinsky, L. (2023, September 28.). Mapping unmarked graves: Why the Mohawk Mothers are fighting McGill University. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/mapping-unmarked-graves-why-the-mohawk-mothers-are-fighting-mcgill-university-214204
    • Denieul-Pinsky, L. (2023). Rights and responsibilities: Shifting Community Perspectives on Kalamos Island, Greece. Terralingua. https://terralingua.org/langscape_articles/rights-and-responsibilities-shifting-community-perspectives-on-kalamos-island-greece/
    • 2022

    • Olmedo É, and Caquard S. (2022) Mapping the Skin and the Guts of Stories: A Dialog Between Geolocated and Dislocated Cartographies, Cartographica 57:2, pp. 127-146, https://doi.org/10.3138/cart-2021-0006
    • Shahamati S., Denieul L. , Baumann Y. , Shaw E. and Caquard S. (2022). uMap: A Free Open-Source Alternative to Google My Maps. Cartographic Perspectives, (99). https://doi.org/10.14714/CP99.1729
    • 2021

    • Caquard S., Shaw E. and Alavez J. (2021) How Distant is Close Enough? Assessing the Geographic Distortions of a Distant Hearing Methodology for Mapping Life Stories, GeoHumanities-https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2021.1965898
    • Alavez J., Rachédi L., and Caquard S. (2021). (Deep) Mapping postmortem geographies in the context of migration, From the European South Journal 8: 29-46 (ISSN 2531-4130)-http://europeansouth.postcolonialitalia.it/8-journal-issue/26-8-2021-contents
    • Denieul L. (2021). Book review of « Radical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America» by Bjørn Sletto, Joe Bryan, Alfredo Wagner, and Charles Hale (2020), published in Antipode
    • 2020

    • Shahamati, S.(2020) Landscape Quality Assessment based on People’s Perception (Study on Two Green Spaces in Newcastle upon Tyne), European Journal of Environmental Sciences, 65-75.
    • Olmedo, E. (2020) Engager les subjectivités par la cartographie. Itinéraire d’une géographe. Poétique des mondes scientifiques: 133-142.
    • Olmedo, E. (2020) Dans le ventre des cartes, In Poisson M. Vastes parages, Châteauvert, Centre d’art contemporain: 38-41.
    • Olmedo, E. (2020) Cartographie sensible des luttes. Marseille vu par 3 habitants, Vacarme, 89.
    • Caquard, S., (2020). Atlases, Online. In: Kobayashi, A. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition. vol. 1, Elsevier, pp. 235–241.
    • Caquard S. (2020). Ces liens que tissent les cartes textiles / Textile maps’ ties that bind, In Vaughan K. You Are Here * Vous êtes ici, Montreal : Centre des arts visuels et Galerie McClure : 15-18.
    • McGurk T. and Caquard S. (2020) To what extent online mapping can be decolonial? A journey throughout Indigenous cartography in Canada, The Canadian Geographer: 1–16
    • Denieul L. (2020). Book review of « Power and progress on the prairie: governing people on Rosebud reservation » by Thomas Biolsi (2018), published in Social & Cultural Geography, Volume 21, Issue 6 Pages: 887-891 doi: 10.1080/14649365.2020.1764824
    • 2019

    • Alavez J., Rachédi L. and Caquard S. (2019) “Beyond the End: Mapping Postmortem Mobilities of Exiles in Quebec”, Quebec Heritage, Fall 2019.
    • Caquard S. and Griffin A. (2019) Mapping Emotional Cartography, Cartographic Perspectives 91: 4-16,
    • Caquard S., Shaw E., Alavez J., and Dimitrovas S. (2019) Mapping Memories of Exiles: Combining Conventional and Alternative Cartographic Approaches, in Sarah De Nardi, Hilary Orange, Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto, Danielle Drozdzewski and Steven High (eds.), Memoryscape Handbook, Routledge: 52-66.
    • Caquard S., Lucchesi A., Studnicki-Gizbert D., Temper L. and McGurk T. (2019). Using maps as a weapon to resist extractive industries on Indigenous territories, The Conversation, April 22, 2019.
    • Alavez, J. (2019). La élite del camino: una aproximación cartográfica para analizar las historias de vida de estudiantes mexicanos de posgrado. TECCOGS – Revista Digital de Tecnologias Cognitivas, n. 19, jan./jun. 2019, p. 53-73
    • Olmedo E. Christmann M. (2019). Perform the Map: Using Map-Score Experiences to Write and Reenact Places. Cartographic Perspectives, 91: 63–80.
    • Valcourt T. & Caquard S. (2019) From Earthrise to Google Earth: The Vanishing of the Vanishing Point, in Nancy Duxbury, W.F. Garrett-Petts, and Alys Longley (eds.), Artistic Approaches to Cultural Mapping: Activating Imaginaries and Means of Knowing, Routledge, 278-295.
    • Yang M. & Caquard S. (2019) Mapping The Shawshank Redemption: Film Tourism, Geography and Social Media, in Anton Escher, Chris Lukinbeal and Stefan Zimmermann (eds.), Media’s Mapping Impulse, Verlag: Stuttgard: 281-300.
    • 2018

    • Christmann M., Olmedo E. & Poisson M. (2018) Promenades sensibles à performer, VertigO, 18, 3,
    • Joliveau T., Noucher M., Couderchet L., and Caquard S. (2018) Enseigner le géoweb à distance par la pratique et la critique, Ingénierie des Systèmes d'Information 5/2017 : 11-33.
    • 2017

    • Caquard S. and Dimitrovas S. * (2017) Story Maps & Co. The state of the art of online narrative cartography, M@ppemonde 121, 1-31
    • 2016

    • Caquard S. and Joliveau T. (2016) Penser et activer les relations entre cartes et récits, Introduction au numéro spécial « Cartes et récits » , M@ppemonde 118, 1-7
    • Mekdjian S. Olmedo E. (2016) Médier les récits de vie. Expérimentations de cartographies narratives et sensibles. M@ppemonde, Maison de la géographie.
    • 2015

    • Caquard S. (2015) Cartography III: A post-representational perspective on cognitive cartography, Progress in Human Geography 39(2): 225-235 doi: 10.1177/0309132514527039
    • Caquard S. (2015). Book review of « Imaginaire de l’espace dans le cinéma québécois » by Andrée Fortin (2015), published in to Cahiers de Géographie du Québec 59 (166), 142-143.
    • 2014

    • Caquard S. and Cartwright W. (2014) Narrative cartography: From mapping stories to the narrative of maps and mapping, The Cartographic Journal 51(2): 101-106 doi: 10.1179/0008704114Z.000000000130
    • Caquard S. (2014) Cartography II: Collective Cartographies in the Social Media Era, Progress in Human Geography 38(1) 141–150 doi: 10.1177/0309132513514005
    • Caquard S. and Fiset J.P. (2014). How Can We Map Stories? A Cybercartographic Application for Narrative Cartography, The Journal of Maps 10(1): 18-25 doi: 10.1080/17445647.2013.847387
    • Caquard S., and Naud D. (2014). A Spatial Typology of Cinematographic Narratives. In Taylor D.R.F. and Lauriault T.P. (eds.), Developments in the Theory and Practice of Cybercartography: Applications in Indigenous Mapping (2nd edition), Elsevier, 161-174.
    • 2013

    • Caquard S. (2013). Cartography 1: Mapping Narrative Cartography, Progress in Human Geography 37(1): 135-144 doi: 10.1177/0309132511423796
    • Caquard S., Naud D. and Wright B. (2013). Mapping Film Audiences in Multicultural Canada. In Hallam J. and Roberts L. (eds.), Locating the Moving Image: New Spatial Methodologies, Indiana Press University, 130-149.
    • 2012

    • Caquard S., Naud D. and Gonzalés R. (2012). Esquisses géographiques des récits cinématographiques canadiens contemporains, The Canadian Geographer 56(4): 508-530 doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2012.00443.x
    • Joliveau T. and Caquard S. (2012). Instrumenter et analyser les liens entre espace et fiction à l’ère numérique. In V. Maleval, M. Picker et F. Gabaude (eds.), Géographie poétique et cartographie littéraire, Limoges, édition des PULIM, 35-47.
    • 2011

    • Caquard S. (2011). Cartographies of Fictional Worlds: Conclusive Remarks, The Cartographic Journal 48(4): 1–2.
    • Caquard S. (2011). Book review of “The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography” by Katharine Harmon, published in The Canadian Geographer 55(2): 268-269.
    • Caquard S. (2011). Book review of “Journeys Beyond The Neatline—Expanding The Boundaries of Cartography”, by Coulis M. J., Rangel M. J. & Jones D. L, published in Cartographica 46(2): 139-140.