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<font face="Verdana" size=2><b>Announcing a CMRS Ahmanson Conference<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2><b>“Mapping Medieval Geographies -
Cartography and Geographical Thought in the Latin West and Beyond:
300-1600”<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2><b>May 28 - 30, 2009, at UCLA<br><br>
</b>Download the complete program:<br>
- as a PDF (1.44 MB) at
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http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/map_med_geos_conf.pdf</a> <br>
- as a webpage at
<a href="http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/conference_mapmedgeos_program.html">
http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/conference_mapmedgeos_program.html</a>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>Geography as it was understood and practiced
in the Middle Ages, within both eastern and western traditions, and as
represented both graphically and textually, is a subject of renewed
interest and importance among historians, philologists and
geographers.<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>This conference aims to promote an exchange
between those of different disciplines working on geographical ideas and
thinking from late Antiquity to the Renaissance on two themes:<br>
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<dd>“Translation, transmission, transculturation” will focus on the
continuities in geographical knowledge from Antiquity into and through
the Middle Ages; the complex transculturation of formal geographical and
cartographic knowledge between Latin, Byzantine and Islamic scholars and
travelers; and the copying and transmission of key geographical texts and
sources, and their selection and adaptation. <br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>“Mapping, imagining, placing” will
consider questions of “scale, place, and the geographical imagination”
looking at the changing distinctiveness, character and uses of
“geography” in medieval thought; the intertextual nature of “medieval
geography” between visual (cartographic) and textual descriptions, and
connections between “thinking geographically” (i.e., spatial sensibility)
and “geographical thinking” (i.e., writing and visualizing “geography”)
in the Middle Ages.<br><br>
</dl>This conference was organized by Dr. Keith D. Lilley (School of
Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen’s University Belfast)
and the late Professor Denis Cosgrove (Geography, UCLA). Support has been
provided by a generous grant from The Ahmanson Foundation, with
additional funding from the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies, the UCLA Vice Chancellor for Research, the Humanities Division
of the UCLA College of Letters and Science, and the Historical
Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG.<br>
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<dd>Thursday, May 28, 2009<br>
<dd>Royce Hall 314<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>4:00 Registration and refreshments<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>4:45 Welcoming Remarks<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> Brian P. Copenhaver</b>
(UCLA)<br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> Director, Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>
David L. Rigby (UCLA)<br>
<dd> </b>Chair,
Department of Geography<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> Patrick Geary</b> (UCLA)<br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> Department of History<br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>5:00 Keith Lilley</b> (Queen’s University
Belfast)<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> “Mapping Medieval
Geographies”<br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>5:30 Veronica Della Dora </b>(University
Bristol)<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> “Denis E. Cosgrove and Mapping
Geography’s History”<br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>6:00 Reception<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>7:00 Alessandro Scafi </b>(The Warburg
Institute, University of London)<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font>“The Naked
Philosophers: India and the Medieval Geography of Religion”<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>Friday, May 29, 2009<br>
<dd>Royce Hall 314<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>8:30 Coffee, Tea, Pastries<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>Session 1. Geographical Traditions<br>
<dd>Chair: Keith Lilley (Queen’s University Belfast)<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>9:00 Natalia Lozovsky</b> (UC
Berkeley)</font><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF"> <br>
<dd> </font>“The Uses of Classical
History and Geography in Medieval St. Gall”<br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>9:45 Andrew Merrills</b> (University of
Leicester)<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> “Time, Space and the ‘Origines’ of
Isidore of Seville”<br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>10:30 Break<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>10:45 Jesse Simon</b> (University of
Oxford)<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> “Chorography Reconsidered: Roman
Mapping Traditions in Late Antiquity and Beyond”<br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>11:30 Angelo Cattaneo </b>(New University
of Lisbon)<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> “Venice and Castille, 1430-1457.
The Translation and Adaptation of Ptolemy’s Geography and Mid-Fifteenth
Century Mapping”<br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>12:15 Discussion<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>12:45 Lunch<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>Session 2. Geographical Imaginations<br>
<dd>Chair: Veronica Della Dora (University of Bristol)<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>1:45 Amanda Power</b> (University of
Sheffield)<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> “The Cosmographical Imagination of
Roger Bacon”<br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>2:30 Nessa Cronin</b> (National
University of Ireland, Galway)<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> “‘Blistered toes’ and the Eye of
History: Continuity and Change in the Cartographic Narratives of Giraldus
Cambrensis” <br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>3:15 Break<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>3:30 Marcia Kupfer</b> (Ohio State
University)<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> “‘Location, location, location!’:
New Light on the Hereford and Ebstorf Maps” <br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>4:15 Meg Roland</b> (Marylhurst
University)<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> “‘After Poyetes and Astronomyers’:
English Narrative Geography 1480-1600”<br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>5:00 Discussion<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>Saturday, May 30, 2009<br>
<dd>Royce Hall 314<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>8:30 Coffee, Tea, Pastries<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>Session 3. Embodied Geographies<br>
<dd>Chair: Matthew Fisher (UCLA)<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>9:00 Daniel Birkholz </b>(University of
Texas at Austin)<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> “Atlas of a Medieval Life:
Biography, Cartography, Roger de Breynton (c.1290-1351)”<br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>9:45 Melanie Caiazza</b> (University of
Kent)<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> “‘Next to John Holland’s Hedge’:
Late Medieval Experiences of Authority in a Small Island Landscape”<br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>10:30 Break<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>10:45 Kathy Lavezzo </b>(University of
Iowa)<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> “Geographies of Gender and Race in
Medieval Norwich”<br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>11:30 Sarah Gordon </b>(Utah State
University)<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> “Disability and Travel to Multiple
Pilgrimage Sites in Medieval Miracle Narratives”<br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>12:15 Discussion<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>12:45 Lunch<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>Session 4. Imagined Geographies<br>
<dd>Chair: Meg Roland (Marylhurst University)<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>1:45 Karen Pinto </b>(Gettysburg
College)<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> “Portraits of ‘the West’ in Arab
Maps and Poetry”<br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>2:30 Camille Serchuk </b>(Southern
Connecticut State University)<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> “Gaul Undivided: Cartography,
Geography and Identity in France at the Time of the Hundred Years
War”<br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>3:15 Break<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>3:30 Sara Torres </b>(UCLA)<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> “Purgatorial Voyages in
Anglo-Iberian Cultural Exchange”<br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>4:15 Covadonga Lamar Prieto
</b>(UCLA)<br>
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<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2 color="#0000FF">
</font> “The Origin of the Mexicans in
Juan Suarez de Peralta’s 'Tratado del descubrimiento'”<br>
<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>5:00 Discussion<br>
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<dd> <br>
<dd><font face="Verdana" size=2>5:30 Closing Discussion <br>
<dd> Chair: Keith Lilley (Queen’s
University Belfast)<br><br>
</dl>Advance registration is not required. No admission fee. Seating is
limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Campus parking
permits may be purchased for $9 each day from any UCLA Parking Services
kiosk.<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>For more information, please write the UCLA
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at
<a href="mailto:cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu">cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu</a> or call
310-825-1880.<br>
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