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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 22:20:24 -0500
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Subject: Nebenzahl Lectures at the Newberry Library
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PRESS RELEASE

"Narratives and Maps: Historical Studies in Cartographic Storytelling"
Thirteenth Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of
Cartography
The Newberry Library, Chicago
October 28-30, 1999

The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography is
pleased to announce the thirteenth series of its Kenneth Nebenzahl,
Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography, "Narratives and Maps:
Historical Studies in Cartographic Storytelling." The lectures
will be held from Thursday evening through Saturday afternoon,
October 28-30, 1999 at the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton Street,
Chicago.  Eight scholars from the fields of literature, history,
and geography will present lectures whose subjects range from
early modern travel narratives and fiction to the most recent
digital cartography.  "Narratives and Maps" will explore the
connections between maps and language at a point where the links
are most apparent - where maps have been historically employed
in the telling of stories, both fictional and non-fictional.
The lectures will include studies of the use of maps in
narratives of travel and geographical discovery, in fiction
that relies on maps to tell their tales, in atlases, and in
mapping forms that clearly stand alone as narratives.

As always, the lectures are free and open to the public, but we
do ask that anyone planning to attend please register in advance
by contacting the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of
Cartography, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street,
Chicago, IL 60610-3380.  Please phone Kristen Block at
312/255-3659, or contact us by e-mail at [log in to unmask]


PROGRAM OF LECTURES

Thursday, October 28, 1999, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

James R. Akerman (The Newberry Library)
"Introduction: Cartography as a Narrative Form"

Theodore Cachey (University of Notre Dame)
"Print Culture and the Literature of Travel: The Case of the Isolario"

Friday, October 29, 1999, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Mercedes Maroto Camino (University of Auckland)
"The City and the Book: Urban Representation from
Christine de Pizan to the Civitates Orbis Terrarum"

William Sherman (University of Maryland, College Park)
"Plotting Empire in English Renaissance Travel Narratives"

Garrett Sullivan (Pennsylvania State University)
"The Atlas as a Literary Genre: Reading the Inutility of John Ogliby's
Britannia"

Jeffrey N. Peters (University of Kentucky)
"Allegorical Maps and the Writing of Space in Seventeenth-Century
France"

Saturday, October 30, 1999, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

James R. Akerman (The Newberry Library)
"Regional Identity and the Narrative Organization of Space in Early
Atlases"

Jeremy Black (University of Exeter)
"Historical Atlases as Narratives"

Mark Monmonier (Syracuse University)
"Cartographic Narratives, Openness, and the New Technology"


The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography
The Newberry Library
60 W. Walton St.
Chicago, IL 60610-3380
(312) 255-3659 or (312) 255-3523
fax: (312) 255-3513
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