[ISHMap-List] Calls for Papers for International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2015

[Chet Van Duzer]

My colleague Laura Whatley (Kendall College of Art and Design) and I
are organizing two panels about maps at the International Congress on
Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, which takes place May 14-17,
2015. Information about the congress is available at this address:
http://wmich.edu/medieval/congress/

I attach below the Calls for Papers for the two panels, and hope you
will consider proposing a paper if you have been working on these
subjects.

Best wishes,

Chet

Chet Van Duzer
Invited Research Scholar
John Carter Brown Library
Providence, Rhode Island
http://brown.academia.edu/ChetVanDuzer


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Rethinking Medieval Maps I: The Unmapped, Marginalized and Fictitious

This panel is devoted to the cartography of spaces that are far—either
geographically or conceptually—from the umbilicus terrae at Jerusalem
and seemingly well-known confines of Europe. Proposals are invited for
papers that explore the less privileged aspects of medieval maps: the
mapping of the unknown, negative space, and things omitted from maps;
the inhabitants of the margins, monsters, and marginalized peoples;
and the cartography of the fictitious or counterfactual. While we seek
papers that engage closely with the details of the maps themselves, we
welcome proposals that highlight new approaches to maps across time
and space.

Papers (of 20 minutes) are expected to be amply illustrated with
high-quality images of the maps discussed.

Please send your title and abstract (250 words), together with a short
CV focusing on your work in the history of cartography, to
chet.van.duzer at gmail.com and LauraWhatley at ferris.edu by September 15,
2014.


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Rethinking Medieval Maps II: Evidence for the Use and Re-Use of Maps

P.D.A. Harvey has written that “Medieval Europe was a society that
functioned largely without maps”—and we take this statement as a call
for a closer look at how medieval Europeans engaged with maps when
they did resort to them. What evidence do we have, either from maps
themselves, their contexts, or from textual sources, about how
medieval maps were used? What about cases in which maps were designed
for one purpose, but employed for another? What do these uses and
re-uses tell us about the place of maps in medieval society, and their
connection with broader developments in visual or material culture?

Papers (of 20 minutes) are expected to be amply illustrated with
high-quality images of the maps discussed.

Please send your title and abstract (250 words), together with a short
CV focusing on your work in the history of cartography, to
chet.van.duzer at gmail.com and LauraWhatley at ferris.edu by September 15,
2014.