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From the conference website:

The Cultural History of Cartography
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 25-26 October 2012

This two-day interdisciplinary symposium on the cultural history of cartography intends to facilitate discussion among scholars of history, art history, literary criticism, area studies, and architecture and urban planning. To develop comparative modes of inquiry, each panel will address specific concerns across geographical spaces and temporal periods. Topics include the relations of mapmaking, map reception, and map use to perception, fantasy, temporality, indigeneity, travel, migration, the slave trade, colonialism, citizenship, costume books, and poetry and drama. The symposium is free and open to the public.

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T H U R S D A Y ,  2 5  O C T O B E R
Palmer Commons, Forum Hall

9:00  Welcome
Valerie Traub, Karl Longstreth, Brian Dunnigan, and Kevin Graffagnino

9:15  Travel, Commerce, Tourism
Chair:  Scotti Parrish
• Jordana Dym: “‘A Prick’d Line’: Route Maps and Travel Accounts, 1600-1930”
• Laura Williamson Ambrose: “Moved to Travel: Dislocation and Domestic Mobility in Anna Trapnel’s Report and Plea”
• Jyotsna Singh:“Cartographies of the Guinea Coast and the Early Modern Slave Trade”
• James Akerman: “Rivers, Roads, and Rails: Travelers and Maps in the Early United States”

11:15  Break

11:30  Technologies
Chair: Mary Pedley
• Stephanie Leitch: “Us and Them: Vespucci’s Triangle and the Geometry of Difference”
• Lydia Soo: “Early Modern Maps of London”

12:30  Lunch

1:30  The History of Cartography Project
Chair: Karl Longstreth
• Mary Pedley
• Matthew Edney

2:00  Difference, Similarity, Classification
Chair: Ellen Poteet
• Marjorie Rubright: “The Il-logic of Location: Getting Lost in Early Modern Atlases”
• Susan Schulten: “Mapping the Population in the Aftermath of the American Civil War”
• Martha Jones: “Race, Space, and Citizenship in Antebellum Detroit: Rethinking the Power of Maps”

3:30  Break

3:45  Ornamentation
Chair: Betsy Sears
• Kathryn Will: “Mapping the Heraldic Field”
• Ann Rosalind Jones: “Allegories of the Continents in Sixteenth-Century Costume Books”

F R I D A Y ,  2 6  O C T O B E R
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium

10:00  Welcome
Valerie Traub and Karl Longstreth

10:15  Maps, Theater, and the Literary
Chair: Valerie Traub
• Gavin Hollis: “‘Bed Work, Mappery, Closet War’: Shakespearean Anti-Cartography”
• Julia Carlson: “Poetry, Print Culture, and the Making of the ‘Lake-District’”
• Jonathan Zwicker: “Stage and Spectacle in an Age of Maps: Kabuki and the Cartographic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Japan”

11:45  Relocate to 1014 Tisch Hall for panel and lunch

12:00  Mapping the Americas
Chair:  Michael Witgen
• Neil Safier: “Fugitive Landscapes in Deep Time: Mapping Indigenous Migrations in Amazonia”
• Jon Parmenter: “The Spatial Reconnaissance of Iroquoia, 1600-1775: Who Knew What, and When Did they Know It?”
• Martin Brückner: “Cartography and the Gigantic: Wall Maps, Aesthetics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America”

2:00 Relocate to Art Museum

2:30  Perception, Fantasy, Time
Chair: Celeste Brusati
• Gottfried Hagen: “Time and Narrative in Ottoman Maps”
• Bronwen Wilson: “Insular Navigations”
• Tom Conley: “The Baroque Hydrographer”
• Anne Herrmann: “‘Naive Geography’:  Aleksandra Mir’s ‘Switzerland and Other Islands’”