The Geography MA speaker series at Brock University returns Oct. 9 with Associate Professor of Geography Phillip Gordon Mackintosh.

Phillip Gordon Mackintosh

In his talk Newspaper City: The difficulties of making historical cities from broadsheets, Mackintosh explores how the antagonisms between newspapers and journalism as fourth estate caretakers of public idealism and peddlers of salaciousness make the newspaper an ironic primary source.

In filling their pages with advertising from anyone willing to pay, while positioning their editorials to reflect ownership, from political, to economic, to religious ideologues, newspapers taint the information they pass – and we accept – as history.

Mackintosh, whose primary research interest is the role of bourgeois culture in the historical production of public space in the North American modern city, will speak from noon-2 p.m. in Room MC C405.