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It is my pleasure to announce the 2021 annual conference of the SEAA 17-18 (French Society for Anglo-American Studies in the XVIIth-XVIIIth-centuries). The conference will be virtual and will cover maps and mapping in English-speaking countries in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Join us online via Zoom on Friday, January 15 and Saturday, January 16, 2021 for a series of talks taking place over four sessions presenting historical, literary and cultural perspectives, and a roundtable about Digital Mapping.
The full schedule of talks is outlined below. Please note that the schedule is Western European Standard Time Zone.
For the Zoom registration link, please contact [log in to unmask].
Looking forward to "seeing you" at the conference!
Maps and Mapping in English-speaking Countries in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Annual Conference of the SEAA 17-18
January 15, 2021
8:45-9:00AM (Paris): Welcome address by Pierre Lurbe (President of the SEAA 17-18), Carine Lounissi (Université de Rouen-Normandie), Emmanuelle Peraldo (Université Côte d’Azur) and Agnès Trouillet (Université Paris Nanterre).
Session 1 - 9:00-10:00: Maps in the Texts / Texts in the Maps
Chair: Lynn Meskill (Université de Paris)
9:00-9:20: Chloe Fairbanks (University of Oxford)
‘Of euery soyle within this kingdome’: Mapping the Nation on the Early Modern Stage
9:20- 9:40: Louise McCarthy, Ladan Niayesh (Université de Paris)
Cartography as Propagandist Design: From Company Maps to Prince Henry’s Virginian Masques (1613-14)
9:40-10:00: Julien Nègre (ENS de Lyon)
“Writing (on) the Line: Map and Text in William Byrd’s Histories of the Dividing Line (1728)”
10:00-10:20: Amélie Derome (Aix-Marseille Université)
Representation of imaginary lands in French translations of Gulliver’s Travels: Wiping Charts off the Map.
10:20-10:45: Discussion
10:45-11:00: coffee break
Session 2 - 11:00-12:25: The Production and Circulation of Maps
Chair: Katherine Parker (University of London)
11:00-11:20: Djoeke van Netten (University of Amsterdam)
Sea-Mirrors. How Seventeenth-Century English Pilot Guides Show what Maps were and how they were Used
11:20-11:40: Isabella Jean Alexander (University of Technology, Sydney)
Maps before Copyright
11:40-12:00: Benedicte Myamoto (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3)
Color-coded Manuscript Maps in the Military Enlightenment: The Circulation of Map-mindedness.
12:00-12:25: Discussion
12:25-2:00PM: lunch
Session 3 - 2:00-2:55PM (Paris) : Maps as Narratives
Chair: Ariane Fennetaux (Université de Paris)
2:00-2:20: Manon Turban (Université de Paris)
Monsters on Early Modern Maps
2:20-2:40: Alex Zukas (National University, San Diego)
Cartography and Narrative in the Maps of Herman Moll’s The World Described.
2:40-3:00: Bertie Mandelblatt (John Carter Brown Library - Providence, Rhode Island)
“Mapping Sovereignty with Open Borders: the Social Worlds of Adlum’s 1792 Pennsylvania Map”
3:00-3:20: Kimberly Sayre Alexander (University of New Hampshire)
Silk Roads: Mapping Post-Revolutionary Boston at Mrs. Rowson's (1762 –1824) Young Ladies Academy
3:20-3:55: Discussion
3:55-4:10: coffee break
4:10-5:30: Keynote Lecture: Max Edelson (University of Virginia)
“The Search for Cofitachequi: Imagining the Interior of Southeastern North America, 1500-1725”
Chair: Agnès Trouillet (Université Paris Nanterre)
January 16, 2021
9:00-11:30 AM (Paris) : Annual Meeting of the SEAA 17-18
11:30-11:45: coffee break
11:45-12:45: Plenary Lecture: Katherine Parker (University of London)
“The Ship, the Map, the Chart, and the Book: the Role of the Royal Navy in the Publication of Pacific Geographic Knowledge in the Long-Eighteenth Century”
Chair: Jim Bennett (Hakluyt Society)
12:45-2:00PM: Book Club Brunch
Session 4 - 2:00-3:55: Surveying the Empire
Chair: Stephen Hornsby (University of Maine)
2:00-2:20: Kristofer Ray (University of Hull)
Native Cartography and the Limits of European Empire in 18th Century North America
2:20-2:40: Michael Borsk (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario)
“Little Better than Sketches”: Surveyors and Cartography in the Great Lakes Borderland
2:40-3:00: Baijayanti Chatterjee (Seth Anandram Jaipuria College, Calcutta University)
Founding Empire: James Rennell and the Eighteenth-Century Survey of British Bengal
3:00-3:20: Catherine Porter (University of Limerick)
How Early Maps of Ireland were Made: an Exploration of the Bodley Maps of Ulster
3:20-3:55: Discussion
3:55-4:10: coffee break
4:10-5:30: Roundtable: Maps and Digital Mapping
Moderators: Robert Clark (University of East Anglia) and Agnès Delahaye (Université Lumière Lyon 2)
Giovanna Ceserani (Stanford University): Mapping the Republic of Letters: Travelers on the Grand Tour
Nick Gliserman (University of Southern California): Early Maps as Sources of Geohistorical Data: The Case of the 1760 Murray Atlas
Angel-Luke O’Donnell (King’s College London): Mapping Mortgages: Researching and Teaching Early American Industrialization
Sophie Vasset (Université de Paris): Mapping Spas in Eighteenth-century Britain
Rosemarie Zaggari (George Mason University): Mapping Early American Elections
Agnès Trouillet, Université Paris Nanterre