Narratives & Maps: Historical Studies in Cartographic Storytelling
Thirteenth Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr.
The Newberry Library, Chicago
October 28-30, 1999
The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of
Cartography is pleased to announce the thirteenth
series of its Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in
the History of Cartography, "Narratives and Maps:
Historical Studies in Cartographic Storytelling."
The lectures will be held from Thursday evening
through Saturday afternoon, October 28-30, 1999
at the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton Street,
Chicago. Eight scholars from the fields of
literature, history, and geography will present
lectures whose subjects range from early modern
travel narratives and fiction to the most recent
digital cartography. "Narratives and Maps" will
explore the connections between maps and language
at a point where the links are most apparent -
where maps have been historically employed in the
telling of stories, both fictional and
non-fictional. The lectures will include studies
of the use of maps in narratives of travel and
geographical discovery, in fiction that relies on
maps to tell their tales, in atlases, and in
mapping forms that clearly stand alone as
narratives.
As always, the lectures are free and open to the
public, but we do ask that anyone planning to
attend please register in advance by contacting
the the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of
Cartography at the address information below.
PROGRAM OF LECTURES
Thursday, October 28, 1999, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
James R. Akerman (The Newberry Library)
"Introduction: Cartography as a Narrative Form"
Theodore Cachey (University of Notre Dame)
"Print Culture and the Literature of Travel: The
Case of the Isolario"
Friday, October 29, 1999, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Mercedes Maroto Camino (University of Auckland)
"The City and the Book: Urban Representation from
Christine de Pizan to the Civitates Orbis Terrarum"
William Sherman (University of Maryland, College Park)
"Plotting Empire in English Renaissance Travel
Narratives"
Garrett Sullivan (Pennsylvania State University)
"The Atlas as a Literary Genre: Reading the
Inutility of John Ogliby's Britannia"
Jeffrey N. Peters (University of Kentucky)
"Allegorical Maps and the Writing of Space in
Seventeenth-Century France"
Saturday, October 30, 1999, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
James R. Akerman (The Newberry Library)
"Regional Identity and the Narrative Organization
of Space in Early Atlases"
Jeremy Black (University of Exeter)
"Historical Atlases as Narratives"
Mark Monmonier (Syracuse University)
"Cartographic Narratives, Openness, and the New
Technology"
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