Conference to focus on spatial thinking

The American founders' conception of liberty, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and the idea for Land Grant universities like the University of Illinois didn't develop in isolation.

Lincoln talked with and wrote to people, for example, who communicated with other people in a set of linkages that made up what we think of today in terms of social networks and networking.

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