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Dear MapHist and Lis-Maps, The conference details below may well be of interest. Merry Christmas, Nick _______________________________________________________ Nick Millea Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG Tel: 01865 287119 Fax: 01865 277139 Email: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/ Temporary move of Special Collections: More information at: www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/scmoves _______________________________________________________ Dear colleagues I am organizing a session on 'medieval geographies' at the 2010 annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society in London - below is a CFP. We would welcome contributions on the subject from those working in cognate disciplines beyond geography, including cartographic history. A link to further information about the conference is: http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+C onference/Call+for+Papers.htm Many thanks and Merry Christmas Keith Lilley _____________________________________________ Dr Keith D. Lilley Senior Lecturer in Human Geography School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology Queen's University Belfast Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK BT7 1NN 028 9097 3363 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/ www.qub.ac.uk/urban_mapping/<http://www.qub.ac.uk/urban_mapping/> CALL FOR PAPERS 'Terra incognita'? Making space for medieval geographies An HGRG-sponsored session of the RGS/IBG Annual Conference at the Royal Geographical Society, London, UK September 1-3 2010 Conveners: Keith Lilley (Queen's University Belfast) Veronica Della Dora (University of Bristol) Stuart Elden (University of Durham) Historical geographers appear to be increasingly occupied with the modern or post-Enlightenment world, with 'medieval geographies' becoming, for many in the field, a terra incognita. Yet over the past century, the Latin, Byzantine and Arabic worlds of the Middle Ages (c.500-1500CE) have been a key focus for geographical study. Whether in charting geography's medieval history and historiography, or in reconstructing spatial histories of medieval landscapes, territories and societies, geographers have thus recognized the importance of geographies before the modern age. However, during the past three decades, these geographies 'in' and 'of' the Middle Ages have noticeably shifted further to the margins of Anglophone historical geography, at a time when, paradoxically, the geographical and spatial are growing concerns among medievalists, for example in art and literary history, and in architecture and archaeology. In the context of these shifting disciplinary terrains, this session seeks to make space for medieval geographies by providing a forum for recent and ongoing studies that encompass both geographies in and of the Middle Ages. Papers of an empirical or theoretical nature are sought, particularly those engaging in critical ways with medieval geographies and which encourage further cross-disciplinary exchange with medievalists in cognate areas. Far from being a terra incognita, the session will expose some of the contemporary resonances of medieval geographies, and one of its intended outcomes is to entice historical geographers to consider the spatial and temporal continuities, discontinuities and connections that run between the 'medieval' and the 'modern'. Paper proposals and 200-word abstracts should be sent to Dr Keith Lilley ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) by January 31 2010. _______________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
