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 funded with the generous support of these colleges, departments, academic units and donors.

 

William L. Clements Library

College of Literature, Science and the Arts

Department of English Language and Literature

Department of History

Department of the History of Art

Department of Romance Languages & Literatures

Department of Women's Studies

Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Institute for the Humanities

International Institute

Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Office of the Vice President for Research

Rackham Graduate School

University Library

University of Michigan Museum of Art

Robert Augustyn

Robert Gordon

Barry Lawrence Ruderman