Sébastien Caquard, PhD
Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Lead Co-Director, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
Biography Research activities Teaching activities Selected publications (last 6 years) Participation activities

Phone: | (514) 848-2424 ext. 2052 |
Email: | sebastien.caquard@concordia.ca |
Research activities
Recently Funded Projects
- Enhancing Atlascine Mapping Platform, CANARIE Research Software Program (applicant) (2018-20 & 2020-23)
- MappingBack / Counter-Mapping Resource Conflicts on Indigenous Territories, SSHRC (Connection) CICADA (co-applicant) (2017-20)
- “Des récits à la carte: méthodologies, technologies et approches sensibles pour cartographier des récits de vie de réfugiés rwandais”, SSHRC (Savoir) (Principal investigator) (2016-21)
- “Living Archives of Rwandan Exiles and Survivors in Canada”, SSHRC (Partnership) (PI:Steven High, Concordia University) (Co-applicant) (2016-20)
- "Residential Schools Land Memory Mapping Project" funded by SSHRC (Co-Applicant) (PI: D.R.F. Taylor, Carleton University) (2015-20)
Teaching activities
Current Graduate Students
- Baumann Y. Montréal, villa abordable ? Évolution des marchés immobiliers et pressions résidentielles (co-supervision with Violaine Jolivet, Université de Montréal) (Funded by SSHRC) (PhD started in 2020)
- Olmedo E., Post-Doctoral Fellow (Funded by SSHRC Banting program) (started in 2019)
- Denieul L., What can mapping do for Indigenous land defenders in their political campaigns for land repatriation? (Funded by FRQSC) (PhD started in 2019)
- Shahamati S., Mapping the Intangible City (PhD started in 2018)
- Alavez J., If I die far from you: Deep mapping postmortem mobilities of exile in Quebec (Funded by FRQSC) (PhD started in 2016)
Courses taught
GEOG 466 - Geomedia and the Geoweb
HENV 615 / 805 - Research Proposal Seminar
ENVS 664 - Field course in EA
ENVS 653 - GIS for Environmental Impact Assessment
ENVS 601 - Environmental Impact Assessment
GEOG 363 / URBS 335 - Geographic Information Systems
Selected publications (last 6 years)
Software
- ATLASCINE: unique online cartographic application (open source) dedicated to reveal and study the geographies of stories. Used to produce different online atlases including The Atlas of Rwandan Life Stories.
Special Issues
- Griffin A. and Caquard S. (Guest eds.) (2018) Maps and Emotions, Cartographic Perspectives 91
- Caquard S. and Joliveau T. (Guest eds.) (2016/2017) La mise en carte des récits : outils, pratiques et réflexions, M@ppemonde, 118 & 121
Papers in Refereed Journals
- 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 Alaternative to Google My Maps, Cartographic Perspectives 99, https://doi.org/10.14714/CP99.1729
- 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 Post Mortem Geographies in the Context of Migration, From the European South Journal 8: 29-46, ISSN 2531-4130
- 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, https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12602
- Caquard S. and Griffin A. (2019) Mapping Emotional Cartography, Cartographic Perspectives 91: 4-16 (available here or on demand)
- 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.
- Caquard S. and Dimitrovas S. (2017) StoryMaps & Co. The state of the art of online narrative cartography, M@ppemonde 121, 1-31 (Available here or on demand)
- Caquard S. and Joliveau T. (2016) Penser et activer les relations entre cartes et récits, M@ppemonde 118, 1-7 (Available here or on demand)
- Caquard S. (2015) Cartography III: A post-representational perspective on cognitive cartography, Progress in Human Geography 39(2) 225-235 (doi: 10.1177/0309132514527039) (Available here or on demand)
- Marcotte D., Hung D.K., Caquard S. (2015) Mapping cumulative impacts on Hong Kong's pink dolphin population, Ocean & Coastal Management 109 (2015) 51-63 (doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2015.02.002) (Available Here or on demand)
Book chapters & other papers
- Caquard S. (2020) Ces liens que tissent les cartes textiles / Textile maps' ties that bind, in K. Vaughan, You Are Here * Vous êtes ici, Montreal: Centre des arts visuels et Galerie McClure, 15-18
- Caquard S. (2020) Atlases Online, In A. Kobayashi (Ed.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition, Elsevier, 235-241 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10599-2
- Caquard S., Shaw E., Alavez J., and Dimitrovas S. (2019) Mapping Memories of Exiles: Combining Conventional and Alternative Cartographic Approaches, in S. de Nardi, H. orange, E. Koskinen-Koivisto, D. Drozdzewski & S. High (eds.), Memoryscape Handbook, Routledge, 52-66
- Yang M and Caquard S. (2019) Mapping The Shawshank Redemption: Film Tourism, Geography and Social Media, in A. Escher, C. Lukinbeal and S. Zimmermann (eds), Media's Mapping Impulse, Verlag, 281-300
- Valcourt T. and Caquard S. (2019). From Earthrise to Google Earth: The Vanishing of the Vanishing Point, in N. Duxbury, W. F. Garrett-Petts and A. Longley (eds.) Artistic Approaches to Cultural Mapping: Activating Imaginaries and Means of Knowing, Routledge, 278-295.
- 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 (https://theconversation.com/using-maps-as-a-weapon-to-resist-extractive-industries-on-indigenous-territories-111472)
- Ribeiro D. M. and Caquard S. (2018). Cartography and Art. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge, J.P. Wilson (ed.) DOI: 10.22224/gistbok/2018.1.4
http://gistbok.ucgis.org/bok-topics/cartography-and-art - Caquard S. (2015). "Cinematic Cartography", in Mark Monmonier (ed.) Cartography in the Twentieth Century, Volume Six of The History of Cartography, The University of Chicago Press, 226-227.
- Caquard S. (2015). "Cartography & Narrative", in Mark Monmonier (ed.) Cartography in the Twentieth Century, Volume Six of The History of Cartography, The University of Chicago Press, 986-991.
Participation activities
Organization of workshops & Seminars
- Conversations around Maps & Stories, Series of 4 online public conversations with 10 invited speakers, Feb-June 2021, COHDS, Montreal (co-organized with S. Shahamati, L. Denieul, E. Olmedo, J. Alavez and E. Shaw)
- MappingBack: Designing Alternative Indigenous Maps, Indigenous Mapping Workshop 2018, Montreal, Aug. 20-23, 2018 (co-organized with Annita Lucchesi, Tom McGurk & Heather Elliott)
- MappingBack: Indigenous Cartographies of Extractive Conflicts, Concordia University, Montréal, Oct 14-16, 2017 (co-organized with Leah Temper, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, Tom McGurk)
- Maps and Emotions, Washington DC, July 1-2, 2017 (co-organized with Amy Griffin and Alex Kent)
- Mapping my own life story, Concordia University, May 18, 25 and June 9, 2017 (co-organized with Stefanie Dimitrovas, Emory Shaw, José Alavez as well as three artists and four storytellers)
- Community Mapping Summit, Concordia University, Nov. 25-27 (co-organized with Peter Keller, Steven High, Maeve Lydon, Crystal Tremblay and Susan Eden)
- Mapping Ephemeralities / Ephemeral cartographies, Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 21-22, 2015 (co-organizer with T. Ng-Chan, L. Vaughan, C. Perkins & J. Seemann)
Selected Talks
- Atlascine: voir et écouter le territoire en cartographiant des récits, Séminaire de cartographie autochtone, UQAT, Val d'Or, Québec, May 13, 2021
- You Are Here: Art and Place in the Anthropocene, (virtual) round table around the exhibition You Are Here * Vous êtes ici by Kathleen Vaughan, Montreal, Nov 17, 2020 (with Vaughan K, Olmedo É, Reid N, Sloan J and Denieul L.)
- L'atlas des récits de vie rwandais: cartographier les récits pour mieux les écouter, 4th Space, Concordia University, Dec 10, 2020 (with Olmedo E, Nyilinkwaya J-P & Ndejuru L.) (see the video)
- Mapping Life Stories of Rwandan Refugees in Canada: A Cartographic Reading of Exile, Seminar Series, Vassar College (NY), Nov. 13. 2019
- Distorting the Story of Distorting the Map? Research Seminar Morts en Contexte Migratoire (MECMI), UQAM, Montreal, May 2, 2019
- Atlascine 4: Methodological and Technological Aspects of Mapping Life Stories of Exile, Critical and Narrative Mapping Workshop, TRYSPACES, INRS, Montreal, March 19, 2019
- MappingBack: Indigenous Cartographies of Extractive Industries, Indigenous Mapping Workshop (IMW 2018), Montreal, Aug. 23, 2018 (with Lucchesi A., McGurk T., Studnicki-Gizbert D., Temper L., and Weber L.)
- Les récits (de vie) comme bases de données géographiques, Atelier Transversal McMo, CNRS Laboratoire Passage, Université de Bordeaux, Nov. 13, 2017
- Stories MaPPer: Vers une plateforme de cartographie des récits (de vie), Centre National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), Paris, Sept. 21, 2017
- Mapping (Life / Moving) Stories, Workshop on Moving Stories, Luxembourg, June 17, 2017
- Cartographier les récits de vie : Aspects technologiques, méthodologiques et analytiques. Université de Montréal, Atelier Ethnolab,7 avril 2017
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