Thursday, October 25:
Palmer Commons: Forum Hall
9:00-9:15: Welcome: Valerie Traub, Karl Longstreth, Brian Dunnigan, Kevin Graffagnino
9:15-11:15 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”
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Technologies
Chair: Mary Pedley
Stephanie Leitch: “Us and Them: Vespucci’s Triangle and the Geometry of Difference”
Lydia Soo: “Early Modern Maps of London”
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:00 The History of Cartography Project: Mary Pedley and Matthew Edney
Chair: Karl Longstreth
2:00-3:30 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”
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-4:45 Ornamentation
Chair: Betsy Sears
Kathryn Will: “Mapping the Heraldic Field”
Ann Rosalind Jones: “Allegories of the Continents in Sixteenth-Century Costume Books”
Friday, October 26:
University of Michigan Museum of Art: Helmut Stern Auditorium
10:00-10:15 Welcome: Valerie Traub & Karl Longstreth
10:15-11:45 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”
11:45-12:00 Relocate to 1014 Tisch Hall for panel and lunch
12:00-2:00 Mapping the Americas (Eisenberg Institute panel and lunch)
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”
2:00-2:30 Relocate to Art Museum
2:30-4:30 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’”
