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<b><font size="4" color="#33CC99">(Re)Producing the North
<br />Space, Knowledge, and Maps</font>
<br /></b><i>Research project “Negotiating Space, Arranging the Land”
<br />Second Workshop, December 5-7, 2014, Berlin, Germany</i>
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<br /><font color="#FF0000"><b>Call for Papers</b></font>
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<br />This is the second workshop of the multidisciplinary, international network of
<br />researchers interested in the cultural and historical importance of mapping in the
<br />Nordic Countries. It continues the first meeting in Oslo, December 2012, now
<br />focusing on how maps were used to categorize space and nature, to represent
<br />topographies and landscapes, on interpreting maps as a social construction.
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<br />This time, we will ask how maps and cartographic practices (re)produced, challenged
<br />and changed the knowledge of Europe´s Northern periphery. How did term and
<br />concept of the North change along with the development of maps? Which effects had
<br />increasing knowledge on the design of maps? How did maps draw the line between
<br />knowledge and nescience – and, as may be the case, to what extent did the North
<br />symbolize unknown space? We welcome especially contributions on the North
<br />Calotte and the Arctic as regions that were latecomers in modern mapping and
<br />changed their design more substantially in the course of centuries than regions
<br />further south. There is no restriction to certain historical periods.
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<br />Maps and mapping should not be treated as mere illustrations or auxiliary means, but
<br />as sources of (alleged) knowledge and subsequent action. Moreover, this workshop
<br />is not so much interested in contributions based on a wide definition of maps as all
<br />kinds of spatio-geographic conceptions (as found in travel literature, political debates
<br />etc.), but rather in contributions on concrete hand drawn or printed maps and their
<br />respective interpretation. Beside the workshop`s specific questions described above,
<br />there will be time to discuss the methodological challenges, gains and limits of using
<br />maps as historical sources.
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<br />As the workshop is interdisciplinary, we invite papers from historians, geographers,
<br />cartographers, and other researchers interested in the historical, cultural and political
<br />importance of maps and mapping.
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<br />The papers should not exceed 20 minutes in speech. <b>Proposals should include
<br />name, affiliation, email address, title of the papers, and an abstract of no more than
<br />100 words. The deadline for proposals and abstracts is <u>August 31, 2014</u>.</b>
<br />Limited funds for reimbursement of travel expenses and accommodation are
<br />available.
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<br />Abstracts can be sent to Prof. Dr. Ralph Tuchtenhagen, Nordeuropa-Institut,
<br />Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin,
<br /><b>rtuchtenhagen@web.de</b>
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<br />Workshop Organisers:
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<br /><b>Professor Ralph Tuchtenhagen</b>, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
<br /><b>PhD fellow Marie-Theres Fojuth</b>, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
<br /><b>Professor Erling Sandmo</b>, University of Oslo
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<br />More information soon on the workshop's website at:
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<br /><b>http://www.ni.hu-berlin.de/konf/maps/workshop_html</b>
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