Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director (MENV), Geography, Planning and Environment

Biography    Teaching activities    Research activities    Selected publications (last 6 years)    Participation activities   

Sébastien Caquard is an associate professor in the department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University (Montréal) and the graduate program director of the Master of Environmental Assessment. His research lies at the intersection between mapping, technologies and the humanities. In his current research, he seeks to explore how maps can help to better understand the complex relationships that exist between places and narratives. This research involves the mapping of a range of fictional and real stories, which include cinematographic ones, as well as stories from refugees and from Indigenous people. As the director of the Geomedia lab, he has led the development of Atlascine, an online mapping application designed to map stories, and he is involved in a variety of exciting projects that require alternative ways of thinking cartographically. He is also a founding member of the MappingBack collective, a board member of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, and the former chair of the Commission on “Art and Cartography” of the International Cartographic Association (ICA).

Graduate Student Supervision (last 6 years)

The students and their projects are presented on the web site of the Geomedia Lab

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

Currently Funded Projects

1. Enhancing Atlascine Mapping Platform, CANARIE Research Software Program (applicant) (2018-2020)
2. MappingBack / Counter-Mapping Resource Conflicts on Indigenous Territories, SSHRC (Connection) CICADA (co-applicant) (2017-2020)
3. “Des récits à la carte: méthodologies, technologies et approches sensibles pour cartographier des récits de vie de réfugiés rwandais”, SSHRC (Savoir) (Principal investigator) (2016-2021)
4. “Living Archives of Rwandan Exiles and Survivors in Canada”, SSHRC (Partnership) (PI:Steven High, Concordia University) (Co-applicant) (2016-2020)
5. "Residential Schools Land Memory Mapping Project" funded by SSHRC (Co-Applicant) (PI: D.R.F. Taylor, Carleton University) (2015-2020)
6. "Before the Movie Theatre: Local Showmanship Continental Networks, 1895-1907" funded by SSHRC (Co-Applicant (PI: P. Moore, Ryerson university) (2015-2020)
   

Special Issues

1. Griffin A. and Caquard S. (Guest eds.) (2018) Maps and Emotions, Cartographic Perspectives 91
2. Caquard S. and Joliveau T. (Guest eds.) (2016/2017) La mise en carte des récits : outils, pratiques et réflexions, M@ppemonde, 118 & 121
3. Caquard S., and Cartwright W. (Guest eds.) 2014. Special Issue on Cartography and Narratives, The Cartographic Journal 51(2)
   

Papers in Refereed Journals

1. Caquard S and Griffin A. (2018) Mapping Emotional Cartography, Cartographic Perspectives 91: 4-16 https://doi.org/10.14714/CP91.1551
2. 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.
3. 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)
4. 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)
5. 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)
6. 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)
   
7. Caquard S. and Carwright 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) (Available here or on demand)
8. Caquard S.(2014) Cartography II: Collective Cartographies in the Social Media Era, Progress in Human Geography 38(1) 141–150 (doi: 10.1177/0309132513514005) (Available here or on demand).
9. 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) (Available here or on demand).
10. Caquard S. (2013). Cartography I: Mapping Narrative Cartography, Progress in Human Geography 37(1): 135-144 doi: 10.1177/0309132511423796 (Available here or on demand).
11. Caquard S., Naud D. and Rodriguez R. (2012). Esquisses géographiques des récits cinématographiques canadiens contemporains, The Canadian Geographer 56(4): 508-530 (Available here or on demand).

Book chapters

1. Caquard S. , Shaw E., Alavez J., and Dimitrovas S. (Forthcoming 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.
   
2. Valcourt T. & 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.
3. 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
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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 (Available here or on demand).
7. 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 (Available here or on demand).
8. 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.

Selected Presentations & Invited Talks

1. Caquard S. 2017. Les récits (de vie) comme bases de données géographiques, Atelier Transversal McMo, CNRS Laboratoire Passage, Université de Bordeaux, Nov. 13, 2017 (Invited talk)
   
2. Caquard S. and Gonzalés R. 2017. Stories MaPPer: Vers une plateforme de cartographie des récits (de vie), Centre National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), Paris, Sept. 21, 2017 (Invited talk)
3. Caquard S., Dimitrovas S., and Shaw E. 2017. Stories as Geographic Database; Turning (Life)Stories into Mappable Units, 28^th International Cartographic Conference, Washington D.C, July 6, 2017.
4. Caquard S. 2017. Mapping (Life / Moving) Stories, Workshop on Moving Stories, Luxembourg, June 17, 2017 (Invited Talk)
   
5. Caquard S. Mapping as an Interface for Places & Stories; Examples from the GeomediaLab, Canadian Cartographic Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, June 1,2017.
6. Caquard S. 2017. Cartographier les récits de vie : Aspects technologiques, méthodologiques et analytiques. Université de Montréal, Atelier Ethnolab,7 avril 2017 (Invited Talk)
   
7. Caquard S., Dimitrovas S. and Shaw E. 2017. Narrative Cartography and the Geoweb: A workshop on online story mapping, Center for Oral history and Digital Storytelling, concordia University, Feb. 10th, 2017 (Invited Talk)
8. CaquardS., Dimitrovas S. and Shaw E. 2016. Stories as Geographic Database: Methodological and Conceptual challenges in Mapping of Live Stories of Refugees, GIS day, McGill University, Montreal, Nov. 16, 2016 (Invited Talk)
   
9. Caquard S. and Thom B. 2016. Indigenous Mapping, CICADA Meeting, Wendake, Quebec, Aug. 30, 2016.
10. Caquard S. 2016. Discussant for “Seeing indigenous landscapes: tools and approaches from community mapping” organized by C. Desbiens, Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, Mar. 31^st2016.
11. Caquard S., Dimitrovas E. and Shaw E. 2016. Turning Life Stories into Online Maps: Conceptual, Methodological and Technological Challenges, Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, Apr. 1^st2016.
12. Caquard S. 2016. Panelist for “Other cartographies, other geographies, other voices” organized by J. Speake, Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, Apr. 1^st 2016.
13. Caquard S. 2015. Panel member for the public talk “The Power of Community Mapping for Indigenous, Campus and Community Research and Partnerships”, Concordia University, Nov. 5^th, 2015
    
14. Caquard S. and Dimitrovas S. 2015. Online Mapping of Stories and Journeys, International Conference on Indigenizing Pilgrimage, Concordia University, May 9^th,2015.
15. Caquard S. and Dimitrovas S. 2015. Putting Life Stories onto (Online) Maps, Workshop for the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, Apr. 15^th, 2015.
16. Caquard S., 2015. Identifying and Mapping Cinematographic Spatial Units, Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Annual Conference, Montreal, March 25-29, 2015.
17. Caquard S., Ng-Chan T., Naud D. and Yang M. 2014. Mapping the Cinematographic City, 3^rd International EIDOLON Symposium, Quebec City, July 3-4, 2014.
18. Caquard S. 2014. Cartographier les récits sur Internet : outils, potentialités et limites 82^th congrès de l’ACFAS, Montreal, May 12-13, 2014.
19. Caquard S., and Joliveau T. 2014. Quelle cartographie pour quel récit? 82^th congrès de l’ACFAS, Montreal, May 12-13, 2014.
20. Caquard S. and McGurk T.* 2014. Indigenous cartography: tools and potentials for community-based mapping, INSTEAD meeting, Cree Nation Government,Montreal, June 9^th, 2014.
21. Caquard S., and Joliveau T. 2014. Quelle cartographie pour quel récit? 82^th congrès de l’ACFAS, Montreal, May 12-13, 2014.
22. Caquard S. 2014. A post-representational perspective on cognitive cartography. Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Tampa, Florida, Feb. 8-12, 2014.
23. Caquard S. 2014. How Can We Map Stories? A Cybercartographic Application for Narrative Cartography, Workshop given at the Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, Montreal, Jan. 24, 2014.

Organization of workshops & Seminars

1. 2018 - Co-organizer (with Annita Lucchesi, Tom McGurk & Heather Elliott), MappingBack: Designing Alternative Indigenous Maps, Indigenous Mapping Workshop 2018, Montreal, Aug. 20-23, 2018.
2. 2017 - Co-organizer (with Leah Temper, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, Tom McGurk), MappingBack: Indigenous Cartographies of Extractive Conflicts, Concordia University, Montréal, Oct 14-16, 2017.
   
3. 2017 - Co-organizer (with Amy Griffin and Alex Kent), Maps and Emotions, Washington DC, July 1-2, 2017. More details about the workshop here
4. 2017 - Co-organizer (with Stefanie Dimitrovas, Emory Shaw, José Alavez as well as three artists and four storytellers), Mapping my own life story, Concordia University, May 18, 25 and June 9, 2017
   
5. 2015 - Co-organizer (with T. Ng-Chan, L. Vaughan, C. Perkins & J. Seemann) Mapping Ephemeralities / Ephemeral cartographies, Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 21-22, 2015. See the workshop program
6. 2014 - Co-organizer (with Thierry Joliveau) of the colloquy entitled "Cartographier les récits : enjeux méthodologiques et technologiques", 82nd acfas conference, Montreal, May 12-13, 2014. See the colloquy program
7. 2013 - Co-organizer (with Chris Perkins and Barbara Piatti) of the workshop entitled "Maps and Games", Dresden, Aug. 24th, 2013. See the workshop program
8. 2012 - Co-organizer(with Barbara Piatti and Anne-Kathrin Weber-Reuschel) of the workshop entitled "Cartography & Narratives", Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich (june 11-13, 2012). See the workshop program