Lines on a Map Conference

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Lines on a Map: Crafting and Contesting Borders in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond, a two-day conference at the British Library

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For over a century, scholars have wrestled with how to imagine, explain, and convey geographical space. From Frederick Jackson Turner’s chronologically shifting frontier to Fernand Braudel’s integrated Mediterranean basin, from concepts of an ‘Atlantic’ world to arguments for an enduring ‘Red’ North American continent, scholars have offered various models for understanding the interrelationship between space and time, and people and their environments—whether on land-locked interiors, blue water empires, or the bays, estuaries, rivers, and coastlines that connect water and land.This conference asks participants to analyse their own assumptions about and models of early modern historical spaces by engaging with and interrogating how actors themselves described, drew, and defined geographic spaces—whether discrete urban vistas, vast colonial projects, regional chorographies, interiors unmapped (by Europeans), or ever-changing maritime and riverine waters. The ways in which actors defined scale, bounded their maps and descriptions, imagined the unknown, and projected their own understandings onto spaces provide a rich archive for examining how early modern actors defined and contested space, boundaries, and border-making.This conference is the last of three that Dr Rachel Herrmann is running with Dr Jessica Roney (Temple University) as part of an Arts and Humanities Research Council <a href="https://rachelbherrmann.com/geographies-of-power-on-land-and-water-space-people-and-borders/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">network</a>, and is hosted by the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library.This conference is free to attend. Refreshments, including lunch, will be provided on both days.PROGRAMMEVenues: Registration will take place in the Foyer of the British Library Knowledge Centre; the sessions will be in the Eliot room and catering will be served in the Bronte room on Friday and in the KC Foyer on Saturday.Day 1: Friday 13 December08:30-08:50	Registration08:50-09:00	Welcome09:00-10:15	Presentation/Roundtable: SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LINESChristian Koot, Edward Gray; FACILITATOR: Joshua Piker 10:15-10:30	Break10:30-12:15	Pre-circulated papers: INDIGENOUS MAPPINGCharles Prior, Michael Borsk; FACILITATOR: Nancy Shoemaker12:15-13:00	Lunch13:00-14:15	Presentations/Roundtable: THE SOCIAL LIFE OF MAPS IN INTIMATE SPACESPaul Musselwhite, Bertie Mandelblatt; FACILITATOR: April Hatfield14:15-14:30 	Break14:30-15:45	Paper presentations/roundtable format: NEW ENGLAND PEOPLE AND PLACESAlice King, John Morton; FACILITATOR: Travis Glasson15:45-16:00 	Break16:00-17:35	Paper presentations/roundtable format: MAPPERS AND COMPILERSAlex Zukas, Emily Mann, Marilia Moreira; FACILITATOR: Max Edelson17:35-17:45 	Break17:45-19:15	PLENARYMax Edelson, Al Zuercher Reichardt; FACILITATOR: Rachel Herrmann19:15		End of Day 1 Day 2: Saturday 14 December09:00-10:15	Pre-circulated paper: THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF MAP-MAKING: THE DIMENSION OF HEIGHTSantiago Muñoz, John Nelson; FACILITATOR: Kris Lane10:15-10:30	Break10:30-12:15	Paper presentations/roundtable format: VISUALIZING BORDERS AND THE AFTERMATH OF REVOLUTIONKaren Rann, Mark Peterson, Jess Roney; FACILITATOR: Lawrence Hatter12:15-13:15	Lunch13:15-14:45	WorkshopErling Sandmo, Djoeke Van Netten, Linda Rupert14:45-15:00 	Break15:00-16:45	BIG PICTURE - NORTH AND SOUTH Sam Truett, Harald Gropp; FACILITATORS: Rachel Herrmann and Jessica Roney16:45		Conference ends

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