Online Talk | Karen Jensen on Cataloging Rare Maps
From the registration page:
Karen Jensen | An Introduction to Cataloging Rare Maps
Online, 30 April 2025, 3pm (Eastern Time)
The Bibliographic Standards Committee (BSC) of the ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) invites you to the webinar, “An Introduction to Cataloging Rare Maps.” The session will introduce rare map cataloging with the original RDA Toolkit; it will include discussion of DCRM(C)—Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Cartographic)— highlighting the distinctive aspects of cataloging pre-twentieth century maps. The aim is to assist those who rarely work with maps. Participants will become familiar with searching for cataloging records in WorldCat and selecting the best record for the map in hand. They will be able to decide when a new record is justified and be able to add an original cataloging record. The webinar will also briefly review map subject analysis and Library of Congress call numbers.
Karen Jensen is Head of Cataloguing and Collection Maintenance at Concordia University Library in Montreal.
Representing nearly 8,500 individuals and libraries, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the largest division of the American Library Association, develops programs, products, and services to help those working in academic and research libraries learn, innovate, and lead within the academic community. Founded in 1940, ACRL is committed to advancing learning, transforming scholarship, and creating diverse and inclusive communities.
New Book | Global Germany Circa 1800
From PSU Press (and for now, 30% off with discount code NR25) . . .
Todd Kontje, Global Germany Circa 1800: A Revisionist Literary History (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2025), 266 pages, ISBN: 978-0271099668, $60.
Global Germany Circa 1800 asks two interrelated questions: How did Germans participate in the European conquest of the world, and how were they different from other imperial powers? In other words, what is the relation between the German form of empire, the old Reich, and the modern European empires that emerged in the global age? Todd Kontje presents a revisionist literary and intellectual history, inviting readers to consider how we might understand ‘Germany’ at the turn of the nineteenth century if we remove the nation-state as the inevitable goal of cultural and political development. Focusing on the pivotal years around 1800, when many of the concepts that define the modern era first came into being, Kontje investigates how thinkers in and around Weimar―from Goethe, Schiller, and Kant to Georg Forster, Heinrich von Kleist, and Alexander von Humboldt―worked within existing political structures to make sense of the region’s place in the world. Ultimately, he reveals how Weimar, a remote artist hub long thought to exemplify the insularity of a soon-to-be-unified nation, was in fact utterly worldly, and in a manner very different from the political capitals of imperial nation-states like London and Paris. Accessible and entertaining, this literary history is essential reading for German studies students and scholars, and it will appeal to audiences in world history, empire studies, intellectual history, and comparative literature.
Todd Kontje is Distinguished Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of four books, including Georg Forster: German Cosmopolitan, winner of the 2023 DAAD/GSA Prize for the Best Book in Literature and Cultural Studies.
c o n t e n t s
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The World in Letters
2 The World in Motion
3 Goethe’s Journey to the Center of the Earth
4 Schiller and the Drama of Empire
5 Kleist and the Revolution
6 Alexander von Humboldt and the Anthropocene
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Call for Papers | Romantic Circulations
From ArtHist.net:
Romantic Circulations
Nordic Association of Romantic Studies Conference
University of Oslo, 10–12 September 2026
Organized by Ellen Rees with Tonje Haugland Sørensen
Proposals due by 1 October 2025
This three-day conference at the University of Oslo invites scholars engaged in the study of romanticism writ large from the expanded Nordic region to present new research on the circulation of romantic ideas and objects. The topic Romantic Circulations encompasses both romantic discourses that arose in the period most typically associated with romanticism, but also the afterlives of romantic ideas, people, objects, discourses, etc. Focusing on processes like dissemination, circulation, and transference, we aim to challenge traditional understandings of the relationship between center and periphery in the spread of romantic discourses and aesthetics. We also posit that the recent turn toward transnational and transdisciplinary aspects of romanticism in scholarship demands a reassessment of approaches, methodologies, and historiographic structures of the field. We therefore encourage meta-theoretical perspectives, as well as meta-critical reevaluations of entrenched narratives about romantic phenomena. We also welcome cultural interventions from various perspectives, including Indigenous, environmental, postcolonial, gender, and other marginalized groups.
With this conference, we aim to expand our understanding of romanticism and explore together how it manifests and adapts in different times, place, and artistic forms. We encourage contributions from a broad range of fields, including art history and visual culture, literary studies, musicology, history of ideas, philosophy, cultural studies and museology, and history.
Keynote Speakers
• Timothy Tangherlini (University of California, Berkeley)
• Stephanie O’Rourke (University of St. Andrews)
We welcome individual proposals as well as pre-constituted panels. Early career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply. Please send an abstract (of no more than 500 words) and a short biography (200 words) by 1 October 2025 to romanticcirculations@gmail.com. Note of acceptance will follow by 1 February 2026.
Organized by Ellen Rees (University of Oslo) in collaboration with Tonje Haugland Sørensen (NARS Executive Committee) and co-funded by the ERC project NORN.
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