<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; ">Below is a draft of a proposal for a special session </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">André </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Reyes Novaes </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">and I plan to submit to the conference planning committee on October 15th.</span></span></div></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">If you wish to be a commentator at the session, please let us know and we will attempt to get the papers to you in advance of the session.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">We also welcome your comments and suggestions.</span></span></div><div> All the best, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">André and </span></span>Ed</div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><o:p><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px; "><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><o:p><br></o:p></span></b></span></div></o:p></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><o:p><b>***** </b></o:p></span></span></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px; "><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Session proposal: "Theoretical Aspects of the History of Cartography: Twenty Years Later"</span></b></span></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; line-height: 150%; "><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Organizers: André Reyes Novaes and Ed Dahl</span></b></p></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">27th International Conference on the History of Cartography -- </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Belo Horizonte, 9-14 July 2017</span></b></span></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px;"><b><br></b></span><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><span style="line-height: 27px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">For the 16th International Conference on the History of Cartography, held in Vienna in 1995, Ed Dahl had invited three colleagues -- Matthew Edney, Christian Jacob, and Catherine Delano Smith -- to present papers in a special session focusing on theory in the history of cartography. He stated that "the theoretical aspect of our work in the history of cartography has remained an underemphasized and underdeveloped area” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Imago Mundi</i>, 1996:185). The three papers along with five selected comments were published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Imago Mundi</i> in 1996 and the debate continued to circulate in various academic venues. Its enthusiastic reception and its resonance suggest the need for further discussions on theory in the history of cartography.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; "><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white">Now, more than two decades after the 1995 session, we propose to revisit this matter at the 27th International Conference on the History of Cartography in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. What has happened in the intervening decades? What new issues and theories are important for a contemporary debate? What trends in history and social sciences could be part of new theoretical approaches to the history of cartography?</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;background:white"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; "><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white">As Matthew Edney pointed out in his paper, "theories lie at the root of all empirical study, whether or not they are acknowledged." Thus, the central question is not whether we should be more or less theoretical, but which theories we should examine. This special session intends to explore intellectual influences from different academic venues. Cognitive sciences, visual anthropology, anthropology of knowledge, history of art, more-than-representational theory, micro-history, and visual culture are just some of trends that we can identify today.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; line-height:150%;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;background:white"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; "><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white">The published proceedings of the session in Vienna may be unrepresentative of the sub-discipline as a whole because the participants were mainly English speakers. In future conferences, Dahl wrote, the debate "must be accessible to all who wish to participate, irrespective of language" (Dahl, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Imago Mundi</i> 1996:203). For the session in Belo Horizonte, we plan to explore ways to make the discussion more accessible to attendees whose first language is not English. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; "><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";background:white">Three speakers have already agreed to make presentations: Christian Jacob, Carla Lois, and André Reyes Novaes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">In this announcement, we would like to invite other colleagues to offer renewed reflections briefly as <b><i>commentators</i></b> at the session. We welcome your contribution, aware that the promotion and the internationalization of the history of cartography as a field of study requires new perspectives on old debates.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Please feel free to contact us by October 15th, but also later: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>André Reyes Novaes </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>< <a href="mailto:andrereyesnovaes@gmail.com">andrereyesnovaes@gmail.com</a> ></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ed Dahl < <a href="mailto:ed.dahl@sympatico.ca">ed.dahl@sympatico.ca</a> ><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt; line-height: 150%; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>*****</span></p></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br></body></html>