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Subject: CONF: The Image of Maps/Maps of the Imagination, Oxford, UK
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:11:48 -0700
From: Sam Otterstrom <[log in to unmask]>
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From: Steven Stowell [[log in to unmask]]
Date sent: 25 Mar 2006
We are pleased to announce the programme for the conference 'The Image of Maps/Maps of the Imagination'.
We believe that this event promises to be a stimulating exchange of ideas about the use maps/mental maps in historical research. We hope that you consider attending the conference - registration forms can be found at the website http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ball2144/
Best wishes,
Steven Stowell & Tania Woloshyn
The Image of Maps/Maps of the Imagination
12-13 May 2006 Ashmolean Museum, The University of Oxford
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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Catherine Delano-Smith, Institute for Historical Research
From Diagram to Portrait: Recognising the Reader in the Map Image
Speakers:
Dr. Jan Blanc, University of Lausanne
The Picturing Impulse in Dutch Cartography : Paintings as Models for Maps in the Dutch Seventeenth-Century Art Theories and Practices
Dr. Laura Nenzi, Florida International University
Maps, Movements, and the Malleable Spaces of Early Modern Japan
Dr. Steve Wharton, University of Sussex
'Le Piante et i Ritratti..: Cipriano Piccolpasso's Plans and Portraits of the Towns and Lands of Sixteenth-Century Umbria '.
Anne MacLeod, University of Glasgow
'All this Part Barron Hills': Cultural Perceptions of the Scottish Highlands in Eighteenth Century Maps
Barton Keeton, Duke University
Making Scenes of Vancouver's Voyage: Producing the Enlightenment Cartographic Sublime
Dr. Max Moerman, Barnard College , Columbia University
Mapping India in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination
Dr. Richard J. Smith, Rice University , Texas
Maps, Myths and Multiple Realities: Images of the Other in Late Imperial China
Dr. Moya Carey
The Invisible Layer: Collating Classical and Arabian Uranometry in Ibn Al-Sufi's Poem on the Constellations (c. 1000AD)
Dr. Victoria Morse, Carleton College
Mapping the Spiritual Cosmos in the Manuscripts of Opicino de Canistris (1296-ca. 1354)
Asao Sarukawa, University of East Anglia
'Wandering Around While Sitting': The Pleasure of Reading and Imagining the Great Map of Edo
Jessica Maier, Columbia University
Mapping Past and Present: Renaissance Responses to the Challenge of Imaging Rome
To register please download a registration form from: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ball2144
Registration shall be £20.00 or £15.00 for students.
Please register by 1 May 2006 .
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