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Subject: New World Cartographies - a call for papers
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:42:57 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
From: Nick Millea <[log in to unmask]>
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Nick Millea
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CALL FOR PAPERS
New World Cartographies: Mapping America, 1500-1776
2-3 November 2007
The American Museum in Britain
Claverton Manor, Bath
The American Museum in Britain at Bath and the Rothermere American
Institute at the
University of Oxford welcome proposals for papers for a symposium "New
World
Cartographies: Mapping America, 1500-1776," to be held at Claverton
Manor, Bath,
Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd November, 2007.
This symposium, which will be held in conjunction with an exhibition of
maps of early
America at the Museum, will focus on cartographic representations (and
misrepresentations)
of America before the Declaration of Independence in 1776 which gave
rise to the present-day
United States. Issues to be considered may include: the significance of
imaginative
projections of America; the uses of science to map the new continent;
interrelations between
various conceptions of territory, colony, nation and continent in the
New World; Native American representations of space and place; the
iconographic idea of America; changing ideas about America between
the Renaissance and the Enlightenment eras; associations between maps
and politics. This symposium should be of interest to those
interested in the history of exploration and cartography, as well as
those involved with the study of early American history, geography
and culture. It is envisaged that a selection of papers from the
symposium will be published.
Please send titles of proposed papers, with a brief (250 words)
description and a short
CV, to the Assistant Director, Rothermere American Institute, 1A South
Parks Road,
Oxford, OX1 3TG (e mail: [log in to unmask]) by 15 May 2007.
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Nick Millea
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