Mr  Chris Perkins - Further information

At the University of Manchester

• Programme Director Geography with International Study
• Chair Geography Mitigating Circumstances Committee

Wider professional service

• Editorial Board member Cartographica 2010 -
• Reviews Editor Cartographica 2010 -
• Editorial Board member Cartographic Journal 2009 -
• Chair International Cartographic Association Maps and Society Research Commission 2007 -

2011: ‘Map Collecting Practices’: paper at the International Cartographic Association conference, Paris, 4-8th July.

2011: Co-organiser of a workshop around Mapping Practices in the Institut de Geographie Universite de Paris, 2nd July.

2011: ‘Plotting Performance and Participation: practices in OpenStreetmap’, Invited keynote presenter at the Centre for Cultural Research Mapping Ecologies of Place Meeting, University of Western Sydney, 16-17th June.

2011: ‘The Ethics of Collaborative Cartography: Mutability and Mapping Practices in OpenStreetMap’ paper at the 'Moving Maps' Symposium, Lausanne, Switzerland, 16-17th April.

2011: 'The Mutability of Mapping; Practices and Performance in OpenStreetMap': invited paper at the Mapping Maps: What's New about Neogreography workshop, University of Siegen, 21st January. 

2010: Local organiser for the Society of Cartographers Conference, Manchester, 8-10th September.

2010: ‘The mutability of Soviet mapping’: paper presented at the Society of Cartographers Conference, Manchester, 8th September.

2010: ‘The Exhibitionist Map’: paper at the Magnificent Maps Symposium, British Library, 14th June.

2010: ‘The Remediation of Soviet Mapping’: paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Conference, Washington DC, 14-18th April.

2010: Panelist on Author Meets Critics session discussing Denis Wood's 'Rethinking the Power of Maps' at the Association of American Geographers Conference, Washington DC, 14th-18th April.

2010: ‘Maps, Memories and Manchester: The Cartographic Imagination of the Hidden Networks of the Hydraulic City’: paper with Martin Dodge at the Mapping, Memory and the City: An International Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Liverpool, 25-26th February.

2009-10: ‘Mapping Manchester: cartographic stories of the city’: exhibition co-curated with Martin Dodge June 25th to March 30th, reading room of John Rylands Library Deansgate, Manchester.

2009: ‘How do we map the geographies of cartography’: paper presented to the International Cartographic Association conference, Santiago, Chile, 15-21st November.

2009: ‘Mapping Manchester: Cartographic Stories of the City’: paper presented at John Rylands Library Deansgate, September.

2009: Co-organiser of two sessions on 'Mapping Stories: Why do Geographers Make Maps' at the RGS/IBG Conference, Manchester 26-28th August.

2009: Panelist at two sessions on 'Mapping Stories: Why do Geographers Make Maps' at the RGS/IBG Conference, Manchester 26-28th August.