-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Fwd: Fwd: CFP: Geographical Publishing and Print Culture:
Historical Geographies, RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011: Deadline 7th Feb
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:34:50 -0500
From: Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
<[log in to unmask]>
Hello!
I am forwarding this information on to the list to possibly benefit some
folks here. One of my colleagues passed it to me this morning. In
addition, if any of you feel that there are other map-related lists that
should see this announcement please do send it on.
Thanks,
Paige
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: CFP: Geographical Publishing and Print Culture: Historical
Geographies, RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011: Deadline 7th Feb
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:46:06 -0000
From: Louise Henderson <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: SHARP-L Society for the History of Authorship, Reading &
Publishing <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
With Apologies for Cross-Postings:
Some listmembers may be interested in the following Call for Papers for
a session titled 'Geographical Publishing and Print Culture: Historical
Geographies' which will be taking place during the Annual Conference of
the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers)
in London later this year. More details about this conference can be
found atwww.rgs.org/AC2011. The CFP is as follows:
Call for Papers: Geographical Publishing and Print Culture: Historical
Geographies
RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011, London, 31 Aug - 2 Sept 2011.
Convenor: Louise Henderson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Sponsored by the Historical Geography Research Group (HGRG)
Recent scholarship by historians and geographers of science has pointed
to the importance of textual encounter in the production and circulation
of various forms of knowledge. This work has highlighted the role of
intermediaries such as publishers, editors, translators and other
technicians of print in shaping both the form and content of scientific
publications. Research into the reception of such works also suggests
that decisions taken in the publishing house often have an important
influence on readers’ responses. Until recently, surprisingly little
attention has been paid to the influence of publishers and the
publishing industry more widely in shaping different forms of knowledge.
This conference, with ‘the geographical imagination’ as its theme,
presents an opportunity to consider the role of publishing and print
culture in the production and dissemination of various geographical
forms of knowledge. Whilst geographers of the book have set out an
agenda for re-thinking the connections between space, text and
knowledge, there remains ample scope to apply such thinking to
geographical publishing and print culture in particular. This session
provides a forum for scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds
to consider the relationship between print culture, geography and
geographical imaginations in a range of historical and geographical
contexts.
Potential contributors are invited to submit abstracts for papers which
address any aspect of geographical publishing and print culture and its
relation to geographical imaginations although priority will be given to
those which consider one or more of the following themes:
a.. From Manuscript to Print: Authorship, Authority and Intermediaries
b.. ‘Popular Geographies’, Publishing and Print Culture
c.. Periodical Literature and the Geographical Imagination
d.. Historical Geographies of Reading and Reception
Those interested in participating in the session should send abstracts
to Louise Henderson ([log in to unmask]). The deadline for
submission of abstracts is February 7, 2011.
When submitting your paper please include the following information: 1)
name 2) institutional affiliation 3) contact email, 4) title of proposed
paper, 5) abstract (no more than 250 words) and 6) technical
requirements (i.e., video, data projector, sound).
Please get in touch with myself if you have any further queries and feel
free to forward beyond this list.
With best wishes,
Louise Henderson
PhD Candidate
Department of Geography
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey
TW20 0TB
http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/postgrads/Profiles/Henderson.html
|
