ODTmaps.com Author Presents Mapping the World: A Faith Perspective
Ward Kaiser presents a series of exciting and innovative events in Westerville, Ohio, February 21 – 22. Kaiser was the original English-language publisher of the Peters World Map. The map was featured on the West Wing Television show and created a firestorm of controversy within the cartographic establishment. The current series will explore how maps reflect our value systems and reshape and influence our values and faith.
Westerville, OH, February 06, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Ward Kaiser is widely recognized as a teacher and interpreter of maps. Kaiser will participate in a series of events at Otterbein College/Church of the Master, Westerville, Ohio, February 21 - 22, 2009. The theme of the programs will be Mapping the World: A Faith Perspective, which are part of the Amy Lectures at Church of the Master at Otterbein. Kaiser is an ODTmaps.com author and former pastor.
"Maps reflect our value systems," says Kaiser. "At the same time, they profoundly reshape and influence our values -- the faiths we live by," he points out. "They impact many of the decisions that affect us -- pocketbook issues, political issues, ethical issues, how we deal with pollution control and energy use -- even how we image our relationships with other nations and communities. Therefore maps take on an importance akin to that of speech: maps enable us to enter into a two-way conversation with a whole world of important realities and ideas."
Kaiser, former CEO of Friendship Press, New York, introduced the remarkable, and often controversial, Peters World Map to the English-speaking world. He then became the North American publisher of the Peters Map in 1983. His books include A New View of the World: A Handbook to the Peters World Map and Seeing through Maps: Many Ways to See the World, co-authored with Denis Wood and Bob Abramms. The current series takes the theme of "Maps as Speech," which Kaiser and his co-authors introduced in Seeing through Maps, and applies it in a faith-based context. Chapter One of Seeing through Maps is available on-line as a free download at http://www.odtmaps.com/free_maps/default.asp
Kaiser has lectured and led seminars at New York University, Princeton Theological Seminary, the Smithsonian, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the New Museum of Modern Art and has taught in the Continuing Education program for the New York City Federation of Teachers. He has been a guest on National Public Radio, NBC-TV and other media programs in Europe, Canada and the United States.
The Amy Lectures honor William and Floral Amy. Dr. Amy was Professor of World Religions at Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio for 28 years; he also served as Dean of the Faculty and Interim President of Monmouth College in Illinois. Lectures will be held at "the college church," adjacent to the main campus. For further information go to www.chmaster.org or call 614-882-2153. Sessions on Saturday Feb. 21 will be from 2 - 4 p.m. and 6 - 8:30 p.m. Kaiser will also speak at church services at 8:30 and 11 on Sunday morning at Church of the Master at Otterbein College, with the college station, WOBN-FM, broadcasting the service.
All events are open to the public. A dinner will be provided Saturday (meal reservations required by Wed. Feb. 18). Contact Michelle Beach at 614-882-2153 on or before Feb.18. Panelists participating are Dr. Kevin Svitana, chairperson of Environmental Studies at the College and a specialist in using modern mapping techniques in environmental planning, and Dr. Todd Anderson, senior minister of The Church of the Master United Methodist, who brings a special perspective on how maps affect the current conflict over Palestine and Israel.
For interviews with Kaiser: contact 800-736-1293
Ward Kaiser is featured on the DVD documentary – Arno Peters: Radical Map, Remarkable Man (30 minutes), which is available from odtstore@odt.org, ww.ODTmaps.com, or http://arnopeters.bravenewtheaters.com/
ODTmaps.com is a publisher of innovative and alternative world maps, including a series of equal-area maps and maps that show south at the top of the map. ODT’s Peters Map was featured on NBC TV’s The West Wing.
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"Maps reflect our value systems," says Kaiser. "At the same time, they profoundly reshape and influence our values -- the faiths we live by," he points out. "They impact many of the decisions that affect us -- pocketbook issues, political issues, ethical issues, how we deal with pollution control and energy use -- even how we image our relationships with other nations and communities. Therefore maps take on an importance akin to that of speech: maps enable us to enter into a two-way conversation with a whole world of important realities and ideas."
Kaiser, former CEO of Friendship Press, New York, introduced the remarkable, and often controversial, Peters World Map to the English-speaking world. He then became the North American publisher of the Peters Map in 1983. His books include A New View of the World: A Handbook to the Peters World Map and Seeing through Maps: Many Ways to See the World, co-authored with Denis Wood and Bob Abramms. The current series takes the theme of "Maps as Speech," which Kaiser and his co-authors introduced in Seeing through Maps, and applies it in a faith-based context. Chapter One of Seeing through Maps is available on-line as a free download at http://www.odtmaps.com/free_maps/default.asp
Kaiser has lectured and led seminars at New York University, Princeton Theological Seminary, the Smithsonian, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the New Museum of Modern Art and has taught in the Continuing Education program for the New York City Federation of Teachers. He has been a guest on National Public Radio, NBC-TV and other media programs in Europe, Canada and the United States.
The Amy Lectures honor William and Floral Amy. Dr. Amy was Professor of World Religions at Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio for 28 years; he also served as Dean of the Faculty and Interim President of Monmouth College in Illinois. Lectures will be held at "the college church," adjacent to the main campus. For further information go to www.chmaster.org or call 614-882-2153. Sessions on Saturday Feb. 21 will be from 2 - 4 p.m. and 6 - 8:30 p.m. Kaiser will also speak at church services at 8:30 and 11 on Sunday morning at Church of the Master at Otterbein College, with the college station, WOBN-FM, broadcasting the service.
All events are open to the public. A dinner will be provided Saturday (meal reservations required by Wed. Feb. 18). Contact Michelle Beach at 614-882-2153 on or before Feb.18. Panelists participating are Dr. Kevin Svitana, chairperson of Environmental Studies at the College and a specialist in using modern mapping techniques in environmental planning, and Dr. Todd Anderson, senior minister of The Church of the Master United Methodist, who brings a special perspective on how maps affect the current conflict over Palestine and Israel.
For interviews with Kaiser: contact 800-736-1293
Ward Kaiser is featured on the DVD documentary – Arno Peters: Radical Map, Remarkable Man (30 minutes), which is available from odtstore@odt.org, ww.ODTmaps.com, or http://arnopeters.bravenewtheaters.com/
ODTmaps.com is a publisher of innovative and alternative world maps, including a series of equal-area maps and maps that show south at the top of the map. ODT’s Peters Map was featured on NBC TV’s The West Wing.
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