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<font size="2"><font size="3"><i>The Leverhulme Network</i><b><i> </i>‘<font color="#FF0000">Cartography between Europe and the
Islamic World</font>’</b>
aims
to promote comparative, cross-disciplinary scholarship on Islamic and
European
cartography by bringing together experts in these two fields for a
<b>two-day
<br />
symposium</b> to be held <b>at Queen Mary, University of London, <i>on <u>September
8th,
2014. </u></i></b>
<br />
<br />(See <i><b>Call for Paper</b></i> in pdf <a href="http://www.cartography.qmul.ac.uk/Documents/116625.pdf">here)</a>
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<br />Participants are invited to explore moments of contact
between
traditions (e.g. twelfth-century Spain; the court of Roger II of
Sicily;
fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italian cartography; Piri Reis
and
post-Columban cartography of the early sixteenth century) as well
as
differences and divergences. Reflections on the methodology of the
comparative
study of maps are also
welcome.
<br />
<br />
<font size="2">Papers may wish to address some of the following topics, but need not
be
restricted to
them:
<br />
• the contexts – material, political, spiritual, artistic – of
mapmaking
in
<br />
Europe and the Islamic
world
<br />
• audiences for maps; ‘cartographic
literacy’
<br />
• interactions between European and Islamic mapmaking: exchange,
influence,
<br />
borrowing
<br />
• reception of classical texts, e.g. Ptolemy’s
Geographia/Jugrafiya
<br />
•
patronage
<br />
• the cartography of
al-Idrisi
<br />
• nautical mapmaking in the
Mediterranean
<br />
• cartography in the Ottoman empire (up to c.
1600)
<br />
• comparative histories of
cartography
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Please send proposals consisting of an abstract of <b>c. 300 words
for
20-minute papers to Matthew Champion </b>(m.s.champion@qmul.ac.uk) <b>by February
21,
2014.</b>
<br />
<br />Proposals are encouraged from doctoral students, early-career
and
established scholars, and travel and accommodation for speakers will be
funded.
<br />
<br />
For further information, visit: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cartography.qmul.ac.uk/">http://www.cartography.qmul.ac.uk/</a>
<br />
<br />
On behalf of the conference
convenors:
<br />
<br />
<i><b>Alfred Hiatt
(a.hiatt@qmul.ac.uk)
<br />
Jerry Brotton
(j.r.brotton@qmul.ac.uk)
<br />
Yossi Rapoport
(y.rapoport@qmul.ac.uk).
<br />
</b></i>
<br />
<br />
--
<br />
Leverhulme Network
Facilitator
<br />
Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World,
1100
<br />
School of English and
Drama
<br />
Queen Mary, University of
London
<br />
Mile End
Rd
<br />
E14NS
<br />
United
Kingdom
<br />
<br />
m.s.champion@qmul.ac.uk
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