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> Dear All,
> For information.
> Nick Millea
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> Nick Millea
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> Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG, UK
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> *Mapping Medieval Geographies*
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> *Cartography and Geographical Thought in the Latin West and Beyond:
> 300-1600*
>
> /A CMRS Ahmanson Conference at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance
> Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
> Thursday May 28th - Saturday May 30th 2009/
>
> Geography as it was understood and practiced in the Middle Ages,
> within both eastern and western traditions, and as represented both
> graphically and textually, is a subject of renewed interest and
> importance among historians, philologists and geographers. This
> conference aims to promote an exchange between those of different
> disciplines working on geographical ideas and thinking from late
> Antiquity to the Renaissance on the themes of ‘Translation,
> transmission, transculturation’, and ‘Mapping, imagining, placing’.
>
> Key speakers are: Daniel Birkholz (Univ. Texas at Austin), Veronica
> della Dora (Univ. Bristol), Kathy Lavezzo (Univ. Iowa), Natalia
> Lozovsky (UC Berkeley), Andrew Merrills (Univ. Leicester), Meg Roland
> (Marylhurst Univ.), Emilie Savage-Smith (Univ. Oxford), and Alessandro
> Scafi (Warburg Institute, London).
>
> Paper contributions are invited which address the two conference
> themes, either (1) on the continuities in geographical knowledge from
> Antiquity into and through the Middle Ages; the complex
> transculturation of formal geographical and cartographic knowledge
> between Latin, Byzantine and Islamic scholars and travelers; and the
> copying and transmission of ‘key’ geographical texts and sources and
> their selection and adaptation, or (2) on questions of ‘scale, place
> and the geographical imagination’ looking at the changing
> distinctiveness, character and uses of ‘geography’ in medieval
> thought; the intertextual nature of ‘medieval geography’ between
> visual (cartographic) and textual descriptions, and connections
> between ‘thinking geographically’ (ie. spatial sensibility) and
> ‘geographical thinking’ (ie. writing and visualizing ‘geography’) in
> the Middle Ages.
>
> Please send a 150-word abstract of your suggested paper, including
> title and contact details to:
> Dr Keith D. Lilley, School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology,
> Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, BT7 1NN.
> Or email it to: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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> *Closing date for abstract submission: September 30 2008.*
>
> Limited funds are available to help support doctoral students present
> papers thanks to the Historical Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG.
>