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Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:45:10 -0500
From: Matthew Edney <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: call for papers: 20th International Conference on the History
of Cartography
Sender: Matthew Edney <[log in to unmask]>
20th International Conference on the History of
Cartography
15-20 June 2003
Harvard Map Collection, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (15-
17 June 2003)
Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
(18-20 June 2003)
www.ichc2003.org
Please circulate to colleagues and interested groups!
Call for Papers
The biennial international conferences on the history of
cartography (ICHC), held under the auspices of Imago Mundi,
Ltd., bring together a wide array of scholars who are interested in
all aspects of the production and consumption of maps: historians
of cartography, historians of science, art historians, geographers,
cartographers, literary scholars, librarians, archivists, other
historians, students in other cognate disciplines, map collectors,
and map dealers.
Previous conferences in the series were held in: London, 1964;
London, 1967; Brussels, 1969; Edinburgh, 1971; Warsaw, 1973;
Greenwich, 1975; Washington, DC, 1977; Berlin, 1979; Pisa,
Florence, and Rome, 1981; Dublin, 1983; Ottawa, 1985; Paris,
1987; Amsterdam, 1989; Uppsala and Stockholm, 1991; Chicago,
1993; Vienna, 1995; Lisbon, 1997; Athens, 1999; and Madrid,
2001.
ICHC 2003 will feature sessions structured around specific
themes (below). Each session will comprise three papers, each
twenty minutes long with five minutes of discussion. A separate
poster session will permit presentation of posters up to 4' x 8'
(1.2m x 2.4m) in size. A full complement of audio-visual
equipment will be available: overhead projectors, slide projectors,
and computer projectors (presenters will provide their own
computers).
ICHC 2003 will also include three workshops on issues relating to
the history of cartography, several associated cartographic
exhibitions, an extensive social program, and activities for
accompanying persons.
Full details of these activities, together with information about
conference fees, hotels and other accommodations, and the social
program, together with registration forms, will be found at
www.ichc2003.org (constantly updated as details are finalized).
Any questions about the conference as a whole should be
addressed to [log in to unmask]
It is hoped that, as with recent conferences, some travel grants
will be provided by the American Friends of the J. B. Harley
Research Fellowships, Inc. For more information, refer to the
conference website at www.ichc2003.org
The official languages of ICHC 2003 will be English and French.
There will be no simultaneous translation.
Conference Themes
Papers, posters, or entire sessions are solicited which address
issues pertinent to any of the following themes (which encompass
all historical periods and cultures):
(a) cartography, states, and empires
e.g., the production and use of maps by governments,
cartography and representations of nationalism, cadastral
mapping, military mapping, rise of thematic mapping, etc.
(b) cartographic literacy and culture
e.g., patterns of map consumption, cultural understandings
of the nature of maps, cosmographical and religious
mappings, intersections of graphic and non-graphic maps,
reception of new cartographic concepts, cartography and
mass literacy/popular culture, etc.
(c) cartography and commerce
e.g., conditions of the map trade, the marketing of maps,
geographical knowledge as a commodity, interrelations of
the map, print, and book trades, etc.
(d) mapping the Americas
e.g., the conceptualization of the New World, colonial
mapping projects, mapping frontiers of settlement and
exploitation, representing the independent republics, etc.
(e) any other topic in the history of cartography
Any questions about possible topics for papers, posters, or
sessions should be addressed to Prof. Matthew Edney, chair of
the ICHC 2003 program committee, at [log in to unmask] or
by mail at Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine,
Portland, ME 04104-9301, USA.
What to Submit
(a) paper
a single document containing presenter’s name, affiliation,
address (mail, email, telephone, fax), paper title, indication
of relevant conference theme, and 250-word abstract.
(b) session
a single document containing organizer’s name, affiliation,
address (mail, email, telephone, fax), session title,
indication of relevant conference theme, 250-word
abstract of the session, and a complete submission for
each of the three papers in the session.
(c) poster
a single document containing presenter’s name, affiliation,
address (mail, email, telephone, fax), poster title, and 250-
word abstract.
Please note that session organizers can, of course, present their
own papers in the sessions they organize. Participants will be
limited to only one paper presentation in the course of the
conference; participants will be able to present a poster as well as
a paper, should they wish to do so.
Where to Submit
Send submissions, as a single document in Word, WordPerfect, or
RTF format, either by email to [log in to unmask] or on disk to
ICHC 2003 Program Committee, c/o Osher Map Library,
University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME 04104-9301, USA.
Submissions can also be sent on paper to the same mailing
address. Please do not send submissions directly to Prof. Edney.
When to Submit
Submissions must be received by 15 October 2002. Notification of
acceptance or rejection will be made by 15 January 2003.
Review Process
The review of all submissions will be a “blind” process, without
any reference to the name and status of the author. Session
proposals will be evaluated first, according to the merits and
originality of their papers and to how well they constitute a whole.
Individual paper proposals will then be evaluated, according to
their merits, to their originality, and to how well they can be
assembled into sessions. Because of this review process, a
submission must make clear its originality and significance.
Please circulate to colleagues and interested groups!
Matthew Edney <[log in to unmask]>
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