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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Call for Papers:<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Special Issue on
Jesuit Cartography, August 2018<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Journal of Jesuit Studies<span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Editor Robert
Batchelor<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Abstracts Due: Friday,
May 19, 2017<span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As witnessed by the recent exhibition of the world maps of Matteo
Ricci and Ferdinand Verbiest at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Jesuit
cartography still arouses public curiosity centuries after the maps were
made. While Jesuit science and
mathematics have been the subject of much study, especially in the context of
East Asia, the broader and more diverse practices of Jesuit cartography around
the world have proven more elusive. At
the same time, significant scholarly and public interest remains about both the
nature of Jesuit cartography and the longer-term influence it had on the
process of imagining localities, nations, empires and cosmologies. Is there coherence to the category “Jesuit
cartography”? If so, what created this
coherence aside from the Jesuit order itself? How did Jesuit cartography emerge in tandem
with indigenous mapping traditions? And
finally, why did Jesuit cartography have such important effects on both national and global
scales?<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The <i>Journal of Jesuit
Studies</i> seeks to publish an issue devoted to Jesuit Cartography that will
include an overview of the current state of the field of Jesuit cartography
along with six topical articles in August of 2018. Abstracts of proposed submissions should be
500 words or less, and are due by Friday, May 19, 2017. Full articles should be approximately 7000
words, including footnotes, and will be due by October 1, 2017. A summary article and bibliography by the issue
editor on the historiography of Jesuit cartography will be available to
contributors.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Contributions might focus on particular maps, cosmological
or geographical mapping, particular cartographers and groups of cartographers,
mapping and printing techniques, indirect influences of Jesuit mapping in
places like Korea, Russia or Japan or on cartographic techniques in places with
Jesuit schools like France, transcultural cooperation in creating and
disseminating maps, maps as establishing relations between fields of study
(cartography and mathematics, linguistics, natural history, aesthetics, or
religion), and institutional practices as observatories in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries among other topics.
Papers that combine novel archival work and a broader engagement with
conceptual or theoretical approaches to Jesuit cartography are especially welcome.
Geographic diversity and use of
comparative approaches to different regions will factor into considerations of
the issue as a whole. Potential contributors
should consult the comparative, historical and critical approaches pioneered in
J. B. Harley and David Woodward’s <i>The
History of Cartography </i>(1987+) as well as J. B. Harley’s seminal article “The
Map as Mission” (1991), more recent work on the sociology of knowledge and
science, and/or data- and simulation-driven digital humanities and historical
geography models as baselines for methodology.
All papers will be published in English, although help with translation can
be arranged.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Color and black and white images are possible and should be
tentatively proposed with the abstract as a list (separate from the word
count). Acquisition of publication-quality image files and rights to reproduce
are the responsibility of the author. A
permanent website resource separate from the journal will be available to
contributors who wish to publish extra reference images.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The<i> Journal of Jesuit Studies</i> is published
in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston
College. It has four issues per year,
three of which are thematic and one of which is open JJS is published by Brill
and is peer reviewed, fully open access and is part of Reuters Thomson Web of
Science Indexing (see </span><a href="http://www.brill.com/products/journal/journal-jesuit-studies)"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">http://www.brill.com/products/journal/journal-jesuit-studies)</span></a><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">.
Questions about the issue and abstract submissions should be addressed
to Robert Batchelor, <a href="mailto:batchelo@georgiasouthern.edu">batchelo@georgiasouthern.edu</a>.<span></span></span></p>
<div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Robert Batchelor<br>Professor of History and Director of Digital Humanities<br>Georgia Southern University<br>Forest Drive Building (Office 1211, 5539 FOREST DRIVE)<br>PO 8054<br>Statesboro, GA 30460<br>FAX: 912-478-0377</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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