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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dear Cartographical Colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting),</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Felicitas Schmieder,
FernUniversität in Hagen, and I invite you to submit talk proposals for one of
the three “Mappings” sessions we have organized for the 51st International
Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo (May
12-15, 2016). Along with your
talk’s title, and a 250-300-word abstract, please include a short <i><span style="font-variant:small-caps">cv</span></i>
detailing your work on medieval maps, and </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#564630">a completed</span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#564630"> </span><a href="http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#663300">Participant Information Form</span></a><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#564630">, which you’ll find at </span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><a href="http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html">http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html</a>. Please send these items to both of us (<span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="mailto:Felicitas.Schmieder@fernuni-hagen.de">Felicitas.Schmieder@fernuni-hagen.de</a>, <a href="mailto:terkla@iwu.edu">terkla@iwu.edu</a>)
no later than September 15. Our
Special Session descriptions follow below. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Please note the <b>publication possibility</b> at the bottom
of this message. Note, too, that
we again will submit proposals for “Mappings” sessions (and perhaps a round
table) for the 2016 International Medieval Congress in Leeds. Our goals are to raise the profile of
map studies by bringing together scholars from Europe and North America.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Session Descriptions</span><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS'">Mappings I: The Roman Heritage of Medieval
Maps<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Map
scholars have become more confident in thinking that a Roman heritage stands
behind medieval mapmaking, but have not fully articulated the components of
that legacy—if we can call it a legacy—or what affect it had on mapmakers in
the Middle Ages. Speakers in this
session will focus on vestiges of a Roman worldview and mapping concepts on
medieval maps to help us understand the extent of that presence and what it
tells us about the worldview and mapping concepts of medieval mapmakers.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS'">Mappings II: Mapping Space and Time <b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Many medieval maps represent space, but also time. Such maps have been rightly described
as painted world chronicles that, like verbal chronicles, emphasize the past,
present, and future of the world and Christianity. Indeed, most medieval world maps show paradise as the
earthly place where it all began, the place where events transpired that would
profoundly effect human history up to the endtime. By picturing, and often captioning, biblical places,
persons, and apocalyptic events, medieval maps were more compelling, more
convincing than verbal texts and, for some, pointed the way back to
paradise. Speakers in this session
will examine various ways in which this happens and so provide an overview of
medieval approaches to space and time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS'">Mappings III: Medieval Maps, their Makers, and
Uses<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">N</span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">o
artwork, and certainly no map, arises <i>sui
generis</i>. Without an
understanding of the web of personalities and circumstances behind a map’s
creation, theories about its commissioning, design, creation, placement, and
use rest on unstable ground.
Speakers in this session will lay different contextual foundations for
different types of medieval maps and suggest what these contexts tell us about
the maps’ makers and uses.</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;background:white">Dear Cartographical Colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting),</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;background:white"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;background:white">Felicitas Schmieder,
FernUniversität in Hagen, and I invite you to submit talk proposals for one of
the three “Mappings” sessions we have organized for the 51st International
Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo (May
12-15, 2016).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Along with your
talk’s title, and a 250-300-word abstract, please include a short <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant:small-caps">cv</span></i>
detailing your work on medieval maps, and </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#564630">a completed</span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#564630"> </span><a href="http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#663300">Participant Information Form</span></a><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#564630">, which you’ll find at </span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><a href="http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html">http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Please send these items to both of us (<span style="color:#222222;background:white"><a href="mailto:Felicitas.Schmieder@fernuni-hagen.de">Felicitas.Schmieder@fernuni-hagen.de</a>, <a href="mailto:terkla@iwu.edu">terkla@iwu.edu</a>)
no later than September 15.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Our
Special Session descriptions follow below.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#222222;background:white"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#222222;background:white">Please note the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">publication possibility</b> at the bottom
of this message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Note, too, that
we again will submit proposals for “Mappings” sessions (and perhaps a round
table) for the 2016 International Medieval Congress in Leeds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Our goals are to raise the profile of
map studies by bringing together scholars from Europe and North America.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#222222;background:white"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#222222;background:white">Session Descriptions</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;background:white"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Mappings I: The Roman Heritage of Medieval
Maps</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Map
scholars have become more confident in thinking that a Roman heritage stands
behind medieval mapmaking, but have not fully articulated the components of
that legacy—if we can call it a legacy—or what affect it had on mapmakers in
the Middle Ages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Speakers in this
session will focus on vestiges of a Roman worldview and mapping concepts on
medieval maps to help us understand the extent of that presence and what it
tells us about the worldview and mapping concepts of medieval mapmakers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Mappings II: Mapping Space and Time </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Many medieval maps represent space, but also time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Such maps have been rightly described
as painted world chronicles that, like verbal chronicles, emphasize the past,
present, and future of the world and Christianity.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Indeed, most medieval world maps show paradise as the
earthly place where it all began, the place where events transpired that would
profoundly effect human history up to the endtime.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>By picturing, and often captioning, biblical places,
persons, and apocalyptic events, medieval maps were more compelling, more
convincing than verbal texts and, for some, pointed the way back to
paradise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Speakers in this session
will examine various ways in which this happens and so provide an overview of
medieval approaches to space and time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Mappings III: Medieval Maps, their Makers, and
Uses</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">N</span><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">o
artwork, and certainly no map, arises <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">sui
generis</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Without an
understanding of the web of personalities and circumstances behind a map’s
creation, theories about its commissioning, design, creation, placement, and
use rest on unstable ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Speakers in this session will lay different contextual foundations for
different types of medieval maps and suggest what these contexts tell us about
the maps’ makers and uses.</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;background:white">Publication possibili</span></b><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;background:white">ty</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Dan and Asa Simon
Mittman, California State University, Chico, edit and publish extended,
peer-reviewed essays that grow from talks at the IMC in Leeds and now at the
ICMS in Kalamazoo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>These essays
constitute the special biannual “Mappings” issues of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>All of our speakers from Leeds 2015 and
Kalamazoo 2016 will be invited to submit manuscripts for the spring 2017 issue
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Peregrinations</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Dan and Asa Simon
Mittman, California State University, Chico, edit and publish extended,
peer-reviewed essays that grow from talks at the IMC in Leeds and now at the
ICMS in Kalamazoo. These essays
constitute the special biannual “Mappings” issues of <i>Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture</i>. All of our speakers from Leeds 2015 and
Kalamazoo 2016 will be invited to submit manuscripts for the spring 2017 issue
of <i>Peregrinations</i>.</span></p>
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