UWP Lecturers "Mapping Medieval Geographies" -- UCLA CMRS Ahmanson Conference -- May 28, 29, & 30

[John Ganim]

Announcing a CMRS Ahmanson Conference

"Mapping Medieval Geographies - Cartography and Geographical Thought 
in the Latin West and Beyond: 300-1600"

May 28 - 30, 2009, at UCLA

Download the complete program:
- as a PDF (1.44 MB) at 
<http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/map_med_geos_conf.pdf>http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/map_med_geos_conf.pdf 

- as a webpage at 
<http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/conference_mapmedgeos_program.html>http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/conference_mapmedgeos_program.html


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.

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:
"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.

"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.

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.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Royce Hall 314

4:00 Registration and refreshments

4:45 Welcoming Remarks

        Brian P. Copenhaver (UCLA)
        Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

        David L. Rigby (UCLA)
          Chair, Department of Geography

        Patrick Geary (UCLA)
        Department of History

5:00 Keith Lilley (Queen's University Belfast)
        "Mapping Medieval Geographies"

5:30 Veronica Della Dora (University Bristol)
        "Denis E. Cosgrove and Mapping Geography's History"

6:00 Reception

7:00 Alessandro Scafi (The Warburg Institute, University of London)
         "The Naked Philosophers: India and the Medieval Geography of Religion"


Friday, May 29, 2009
Royce Hall 314

8:30  Coffee, Tea, Pastries

Session 1. Geographical Traditions
Chair: Keith Lilley (Queen's University Belfast)

9:00 Natalia Lozovsky (UC Berkeley)
        "The Uses of Classical History and Geography in Medieval St. Gall"

9:45 Andrew Merrills (University of Leicester)
        "Time, Space and the 'Origines' of Isidore of Seville"

10:30 Break

10:45 Jesse Simon (University of Oxford)
        "Chorography Reconsidered: Roman Mapping Traditions in Late 
Antiquity and Beyond"

11:30 Angelo Cattaneo (New University of Lisbon)
        "Venice and Castille, 1430-1457. The Translation and 
Adaptation of Ptolemy's Geography and Mid-Fifteenth Century Mapping"

12:15 Discussion

12:45 Lunch

Session 2. Geographical Imaginations
Chair: Veronica Della Dora (University of Bristol)

1:45 Amanda Power (University of Sheffield)
        "The Cosmographical Imagination of Roger Bacon"

2:30 Nessa Cronin (National University of Ireland, Galway)
        "'Blistered toes' and the Eye of History: Continuity and 
Change in the Cartographic Narratives of Giraldus Cambrensis"

3:15 Break

3:30 Marcia Kupfer (Ohio State University)
        "'Location, location, location!': New Light on the Hereford 
and Ebstorf Maps"

4:15 Meg Roland (Marylhurst University)
        "'After Poyetes and Astronomyers': English Narrative 
Geography 1480-1600"

5:00 Discussion


Saturday, May 30, 2009
Royce Hall 314

8:30  Coffee, Tea, Pastries

Session 3. Embodied Geographies
Chair: Matthew Fisher (UCLA)

9:00 Daniel Birkholz (University of Texas at Austin)
        "Atlas of a Medieval Life: Biography, Cartography, Roger de 
Breynton (c.1290-1351)"

9:45 Melanie Caiazza (University of Kent)
        "'Next to John Holland's Hedge': Late Medieval Experiences of 
Authority in a Small Island Landscape"

10:30 Break

10:45 Kathy Lavezzo (University of Iowa)
        "Geographies of Gender and Race in Medieval Norwich"

11:30 Sarah Gordon (Utah State University)
        "Disability and Travel to Multiple Pilgrimage Sites in 
Medieval Miracle Narratives"

12:15 Discussion

12:45 Lunch

Session 4. Imagined Geographies
Chair: Meg Roland (Marylhurst University)

1:45 Karen Pinto (Gettysburg College)
        "Portraits of 'the West' in Arab Maps and Poetry"

2:30 Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State University)
        "Gaul Undivided: Cartography, Geography and Identity in 
France at the Time of the Hundred Years War"

3:15 Break

3:30 Sara Torres (UCLA)
        "Purgatorial Voyages in Anglo-Iberian Cultural Exchange"

4:15 Covadonga Lamar Prieto (UCLA)
        "The Origin of the Mexicans in Juan Suarez de Peralta's 
'Tratado del descubrimiento'"

5:00 Discussion

5:30 Closing Discussion
        Chair: Keith Lilley (Queen's University Belfast)

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.

For more information, please write the UCLA Center for Medieval and 
Renaissance Studies at 
<mailto:cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu>cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu or call 310-825-1880.


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