-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fw: CFP: Mapping and Locative Practices Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:12:49 -0500 From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] fyi, conference info--see below! - Alice - From: Hannah Feldman <[log in to unmask]> CALL FOR PAPERS "Mapping and Locative Practices" April 29, 2006 Department of Art History, Northwestern University On behalf of the department of Art History at Northwestern University, we are pleased to invite submissions for our 17th annual Graduate Student Symposium. This year's symposium will explore themes of mapping and locative practices. Since what the school of critical geography coined as the "spatial turn," mapping and its concomitant metaphors have proliferated in academic scholarship. In this vein, the conference hopes to take an expansive view of mapping as a physical artifact produced under historical conditions, and also as a mode of analyzing representations. We welcome papers that explore these spatial themes in the visual or built environment from any historical period in any medium. Examples of relevant topics include site-specificity, ephemerality, and performances, as well as the ways they may or may not engender thinking about the particularies of urban and/or rural space, navigation, and knowledge. Also of interest are papers exploring perspective and its implications, the imagination, and the wide array of optical techniques developed to secure and fix images throughout history, as seen, for instance, with the camera obscura and the Global Positioning System. In addition, we also welcome papers taking the map as a medium or technique onto itself. Here, questions of methodology, materiality, cartography, colonialism, urbanism, and the grid as both a theoretical and practical concept are all equally relevant. The keynote speaker for this year's conference is Stephen Melville, Professor of Art History at Ohio State University, currently Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University. Our other featured speaker is Joel Slayton, Professor of Digital Media at San Jose University, Director of CADRE Laboratory for New Media and chairperson of C5 Corporation. Interested applicants should send 250-word abstracts for 20-minute presentations and a Curriculum Vitae to conference co-chairs Nancy Lim and Zirwat Chowdhury at: [log in to unmask] or Attn: Art History Graduate Student Symposium Committee 1880 Campus Drive Kresge Centennial Hall, Room 3-400 Northwestern University Evanston IL 60208 Alice C. Hudson Chief, The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division The Humanities and Social Sciences Library The New York Public Library 5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117 New York, NY 10018-2788 [log in to unmask]; 212-930-0589; fax 212-930-0027 Open 1-7:30 Tu; 1-6 Wed-Sat. Closed Sun, Mon. See our exhibition, Treasured Maps, in Room 316, the Edna Barnes Salomon Room, from 10-7:30 Tu; 11-7:30 Wed; 10-6 Thur-Sat; 1-5 Sun. http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html