The International Seminar on Atlantic History Harvard University announces a Workshop on
- a workshop on the spatial dimensions of the Atlantic world in the thought of contemporaries, 1500-1800, and in the efforts of later scholars to grasp the spatial history of that era. The aim is to analyze work in several fields - literature, art, politics, and diplomacy as well as cartography and geography - that helps explain the meaning of space in early modern Atlantic history.
The Workshop will meet for presentations and discussion in three sessions:
SESSION I: Maps in the Study of History: The State of the Art
The First Discoveries of America: The Spatial Imagination
SESSION II:
The Natives' Sense of Space
The Development of Atlantic Cartography
SESSION III:
The Social Dimensions of Cartography
Spatial Conceptions in Literature
AT LUNCH: A Map of Cartographical Resources
Attendance at the Workshop and participation in the discussion are open to the academic community. Historians at the beginning of their career, including Ph.D. candidates, are especially encouraged to attend. Travel and accommodation expenses will be the responsibility of attendees; the Workshop will provide lunches and local lodging information. Pre-registration by April 10 is required.
For a registration form and additional information, please contact Pat Denault, Atlantic History Seminar, 408 Emerson Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; Phone: 617-496-3066; FAX: 617-496-8869; EMAIL: atlantic@fas.harvard.edu
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