Sébastien Caquard, PhD
Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Graduate Program Director (Master of Environmental Assessment), 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

Office: |
S-H 1255-31 Henry F. Hall Building, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. |
Phone: | (514) 848-2424 ext. 2052 |
Email: | sebastien.caquard@concordia.ca |

Research activities
Currently Funded Projects
- Enhancing Atlascine Mapping Platform, CANARIE Research Software Program (applicant) (2018-2022)
- MappingBack / Counter-Mapping Resource Conflicts on Indigenous Territories, SSHRC (Connection) CICADA (co-applicant) (2017-2020)
- “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)
- “Living Archives of Rwandan Exiles and Survivors in Canada”, SSHRC (Partnership) (PI:Steven High, Concordia University) (Co-applicant) (2016-2020)
- "Residential Schools Land Memory Mapping Project" funded by SSHRC (Co-Applicant) (PI: D.R.F. Taylor, Carleton University) (2015-2020)
- "Before the Movie Theatre: Local Showmanship Continental Networks, 1895-1907" funded by SSHRC (Co-Applicant (PI: P. Moore, Ryerson university) (2015-2020)
Teaching activities
Graduate Student Supervision (last 6 years)
- Olmedo E., Post-Doctoral Fellow (SSHRC Banting program) (started in 2019)
- Denieul L., “This land is your land; this land is my land”: Mapping the Resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline (PhD started in 2019)
- Shahamati S., Mapping the Intangible City (PhD started in 2018)
- Parish A., The Flaneur as an alternative geospatial urban database (MSc started in 2018)
- Alavez J., “If I die far from you: Deep mapping postmortem mobilities of exile in Quebec” (PhD started in 2016)
- Novkovic A., Alley Atlas: from non-place to place in six maps (MSc completed in 2019)
- Lavorel M., Post-Doctoral Fellow (Program Horizon from Concordia) (co-supervised with Steven High) (2018-19)
- Honarmand F., Cinema and the Production of Spatial Memories: Fifty Years of Representing1960s Montréal in Québécois Films (MSc completed in 2018)
- McGurk T., Indigenous online Mapping in Canada -Decolonizing or recolonizing forms of spatial expressions? (MSc completed in 2018)
- Gonzales R., Post-Doctoral Fellow (Program Horizon from Concordia) (co-supervised with Steven High) (2017)
- Shaw E. Parsing Perceptions of Place: Locative and Textual Representations of Place Émilie-Gamelin on Twitter (MSc completed in 2017)
- Wang M., Using Social Media to Track and Map Epidemic Disease (MSc completed in July 2017)
- Ng-Chan T., Detouring the Commute (the art and practice of everyday travel), PhD completed in 2016 (Co-supervised with Marielle Nitoslawska)
- Yang M., The Route Towards The Shawshank Redemption: Mapping Set-jetting with Social Media (MSc completed in 2015)
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)
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
- Caquard S., and Cartwright W. (Guest eds.) 2014. Special Issue on Cartography and Narratives, The Cartographic Journal 51(2)
Papers in Refereed Journals
- 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)
- 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)
- 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).
- 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).
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.
- 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).
Participation activities
Invited Talks
- 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 40: Methodological and Technological Aspects of Mapping Life Stoires of Exile, @nd Critical and Narrative Mapping Workshop, TRYSPACES, INRS, Montreal, March 19, 2019
- 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
- Narrative Cartography and the Geoweb: A workshop on online story mapping, Center for Oral history and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, Feb. 10, 2017
- Stories as Geographic Database: Methodological and Conceptual challenges in Mapping of Live Stories of Refugees, GIS day, McGill University, Montreal, Nov. 16, 2016
Organization of workshops & Seminars
- 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)
- Cartographier les récits : enjeux méthodologiques et technologiques, 82nd acfas conference, Montreal, May 12-13, 2014 (co-organized with Thierry Joliveau)